The smart button pusher is down to one of its best prices. You don’t necessarily have to buy a bunch of pricey new smart devices to enjoy the convenience of ... read more

NBCU says the increase in business was primarily driven by Peacock. Ad dollars for the year-ago Q3 period for the Olympics totaled $1.4 billion. ... read more

A photo from The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. This week, as part of its big layoffs, an Amazon exec said that the company is halting a ... read more

Affinity Designer, Photo, and Publisher are now an all-in-one platform. After acquiring Serif last year, Canva is now relaunching its Adobe-rivalling Affinity creative suite as a new all-in-one app for ... read more

In today’s digital advertising environment (which we all know is a crowded one), modern destination marketing is an untapped opportunity for brands. The opportunity referred to lies in the audiences marketers gain access to: These ... read more

The IAB has released guidelines on how conversion APIs (CAPI) can increase performance for CTV advertising as search advertisers recognize benefits from upper-funnel marketing that combines targeting with branding. ... read more

The Duane Arnold Energy Center in Iowa. Google announced plans to revive a nuclear power plant that shut down in 2020, as it looks to secure enough electricity for its ... read more

Is growing gambling's share of after-tax dollars of Americans a good thing for them, their families or our society? ... read more

The Neo 2 is still designed to protect its props during a collision, but those should happen less frequently. | Image: DJI DJI has announced a follow-up to the Neo ... read more

Nobody said it was going to be easy. But WPP’s latest set of results, released earlier today, reveal the full scale of the task facing former Microsoft exec Cindy Rose if she’s to turn the ... read more

Comcast has had a pretty rough go of it lately – but there’s still plenty of room for a turnaround. The post Peacock and Sports Are Still Shining Beacons For Comcast’s Advertising Business appeared ... read more

Move over Andy Sachs, Pinterest is launching an AI-enabled shopping assistant that aims to suggest your next look. Beginning on Thursday, and over the coming weeks and months, Pinterest users ... read more

Let's just get this out of the way: Liam Hemsworth actually makes for a pretty solid Geralt of Rivia. Hemsworth assumes the mantle in the fourth season of Netflix's The ... read more

Web browsers are getting awfully chatty. They got even chattier last week after OpenAI and Microsoft kicked the AI browser race into high gear with ChatGPT Atlas and a "Copilot ... read more

Threads will now give you more control over which post replies are made public. | Image: Meta Threads is launching two new tools today designed to give users more control ... read more

When President Donald Trump revealed the physical model of the sprawling ballroom that will replace the now-demolished East Wing of the White House, something just seemed off. The model, small ... read more

Samsung is bringing its mobile web browser to bigger screens. It’s launching a beta version of its Samsung Internet on PC with support for cross-device syncing, which should make it ... read more

This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. The YouTube app on your ... read more

Alphabet felt the painful comeuppance of years of antitrust penalties, publisher enmity and customer blowback as it reported a serious blow to revenue … Lol. Can you imagine? Alphabet reported on Wednesday that its total ... read more

This deal is also valid on the white model. | Image: The Verge If your wrist or forearm aches every time you use your computer, the chances are good that ... read more

Iconic ad agencies like McCann, BBDO, DDB and more are being evaluated and their future as go-to-market brands isn't guaranteed. ... read more

Nintendo is updating Animal Crossing: New Horizons with new features for the Switch 2. The upgraded game will arrive on January 15th, 2026, offering 4K visuals on TV, mouse controls, ... read more

Hello, and welcome to Decoder. This is Sarah Jeong, features editor at The Verge. I’m standing in for Nilay for one final Thursday episode here as he settles back into ... read more

Weavy, now known as Figma Weave, lets you control AI tools in a mind map-like canvas interface. Figma has acquired Weavy, a creative platform that allows users to link AI ... read more

Ariana Grande is one of Universal Music Group’s most popular artists. Universal Music Group says it has made “industry-first strategic agreements” to “settle copyright infringement litigation” with AI startup Udio ... read more

The human eye has a resolution limit - there are only so many pixels the eye can see. ... read more

We live in an age where it has become infinitely easier for people to lead lives that are wholly divorced from any semblance of reality. Conspiracy theories run rampant, science ... read more

Say hello to passkey backup encryption. WhatsApp is introducing a passwordless way to instantly secure your chat backups. The messaging platform is launching passkey-encrypted backups for iOS and Android, allowing ... read more

Sora can turn almost anything into a reusable AI video character. OpenAI’s Sora app will now let you turn almost anything into a reusable avatar for its AI-generated videos. These ... read more

The firm downgraded its full-year organic revenue decline estimate after reporting a Q3 shortfall of 5.9%. WPP shares fell 14% on the news. ... read more

Artificial intelligence has become marketing’s favorite headline. Every platform, publisher and technology partner now promises “AI-powered” solutions that will make campaigns smarter, faster and cheaper. But as the noise grows louder, one truth remains: AI ... read more

A new sitcom coming this weekend to HBO Max is the second one this year that comes across as "Friends" with a hard R-rating. ... read more

The Nobel committee will love this. | Image: Getty President Donald Trump says he has instructed the Pentagon to immediately start testing nuclear weapons, citing a need to match “other ... read more

Meta's plan to target ads based on chatbot conversations "will normalize a level of surveillance that is qualitatively more intrusive than traditional behavioral tracking," privacy groups tell the FTC. ... read more

Ursa’s classic spherical profile and centered legends dress up any Topre keyboard. Your Happy Hacking Keyboard can finally get fresh caps. While regular keyboards have an embarrassment of keycap ... read more

When you buy the $799 Meta Ray-Ban Display, you aren’t just getting a pair of smart glasses: you’re also getting Meta’s Neural Band, a small wristband that you use to ... read more

Hey Readers! Welcome back. This is James Hercher, AdExchanger senior editor. And an actual person. I say that because AI agents have infiltrated retail media. At least, that’s how it felt to big Wall Street ... read more

Tylenol maker Kenvue navigates pushing back against the Trump administration's claims; viewers of Nobody Wants This are tired of product placement; and US Census data might become less privacy-safe. The post Tylenol’s Marketing Team Feels ... read more

Between the AI arms race, political and economic headwinds, the ad industry finds itself at an inflection point, reshaping how organizations invest in and talk about talent. Most notably, advertisers are grappling with the pullback ... read more

This story was first published by Digiday sibling Modern Retail. Walmart plans to launch several AI tools for Scintilla, its first-party data platform for suppliers and merchants (previously known as Walmart Luminate before rebranding this year). ... read more

AI platforms like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude account for a single-digit percentage of Forbes’ monthly referral traffic. That’s nowhere near enough traffic to offset the 40% year-over-year decline in search referral traffic Forbes has ... read more

This week’s Media Briefing looks at what publishers attending the Digiday Publishing Summit Europe had to say about the existential threat of site traffic losses and AI search tools encroaching on their businesses. Publishers ... read more

AI agents are the current focal point for agencies, marketers and publishers hoping to deploy the potential of generative AI to practical effect. Examples range from Coca-Cola’s Fizzion project, an agent embedded into the Adobe ... read more

AI slop, which we used to simply be called spam, now includes impressive but overwhelming content, muddying the definition as both a technical marvel and a source of digital pollution. While advanced tools like Open ... read more

Meta's Q3 earnings saw increased growth in its ad business and continued the conversation on superintelligence. The post Meta’s Q3 Was A Net Win Disguised As A Loss appeared first on AdExchanger. ... read more

Rode’s Wireless Micro Camera Kit includes a charging case to extend the battery life of its receivers and mics. | Image: Rode Last November, Rode launched its Wireless Micro microphone ... read more

At a Senate hearing Wednesday on government censorship of tech platforms, a Meta executive expressed regret to Republican lawmakers for failing to speak out more against the Biden administration's requests ... read more

Kat Abughazaleh, who has announced a campaign for Illinois' 9th Congressional District, carries yard signs into her campaign office Kat Abughazaleh, a 26-year-old Palestinian American and Democratic candidate for Congress ... read more

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is getting ready to dump even more AI-generated posts into your social feeds. During an earnings call on Wednesday, Zuckerberg said the company will “add yet ... read more

Alphabet crossed a milestone with Q3 revenue of $102.35 billion - its first quarterly revenue over $100 billion and a 16% annual increase. ... read more

Alphabet crossed a milestone with Q3 revenue of $102.35 billion - its first quarterly revenue over $100 billion and a 16% annual increase. ... read more

Xbox sales have been tanking for a while now — and the story hasn’t gotten any brighter. Microsoft just released its Q1 2026 earnings and Xbox hardware revenue was down 29 ... read more

A popular ski resort town in Colorado is adopting a new AI Smart City Solution from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to help it better detect wildfires, as well as update ... read more

The BlockRank ranking model, designed to improve content retrieval, hints at how Google's AI-based ranking may change. ... read more

AOL will soon have a new owner. Bending Spoons, the Italian software company that has bought up a range of other digital businesses like Evernote, MeetUp, WeTransfer, and soon Vimeo, ... read more

Procter & Gamble’s Chief Brand Officer Marc Pritchard says enduring brands aren’t built on fleeting trends but on a deep understanding of consumers and a clear sense of purpose. Speaking with Beet.TV contributor David Kaplan ... read more

Consumers spend approximately 11 minutes deciding what to watch when they turn on their televisions, creating a premium opportunity for native advertising placements that influence content selection and brand messaging before streaming begins. “The first ... read more

Meta will update its Marketing API to allow advertisers to utilize more ad types while gaining more campaign visibility across Meta's platforms, including Facebook and Instagram. ... read more

Processed on a MCP server, the test is being done with the AdCP initiative with a goal of generating creative as part of a unified agentic media buy. ... read more

Rembrand, an AI content-creation platform founded by Omar Tawakol, plans to test a model context protocol (MCP) server that will interact with AI agents to generate ads. The MCP is part of the AdCP initiative. ... read more

A model context protocol (MCP) server that will interact with AI agents to generate ads will be tested next week by Rembrand, an AI content-creation platform founded by Omar Tawakol. The MCP is part of ... read more

Authors can proceed with claims that OpenAI's "outputs" -- including summaries of published books -- infringed copyright, a federal judge ruled this week. ... read more

Abxylute’s M4 Snap-On phone controller trades clamps for magnets. | Image: Abxylute Abxylute, a company known for its Android-based handhelds, has announced a new compact mobile controller for smartphones. Unlike ... read more

Americans spent nearly four hours a day listening to audio in the third quarter of 2025, with traditional radio and podcasts together accounting for more than 80% of all ad-supported listening, according to Nielsen’s latest ... read more

The western front of the ad-tech war is between Amazon and The Trade Desk, which came to a head with the leak of Amazon's DSP deck. ... read more

Almost immediately in The Outer Worlds 2, the player receives news of a corporate shake-up: Auntie Cleo and Spacer's Choice, two of the in-game retail brands, have merged to form ... read more

Finally cut down on that rat’s nest of cables. | Image: The Verge The thing about carrying multiple devices is you usually end up hauling a nest of cables along ... read more

Microsoft Azure, the company’s cloud computing service, is experiencing an outage. The issues appear to be impacting Microsoft’s services that run on Azure, including Microsoft 365 and Xbox.  Microsoft confirmed ... read more

Today’s digital media are the most measurable ever. But does a focus on short-term, addressable media metrics skew the advertising industry, neglecting the important work of brand building? This balancing act between brand and performance, ... read more

A screenshot from Halo: Campaign Evolved. Halo coming to PlayStation is one of those events that, five years ago, would have been the tell that "something is not right here" ... read more

The high-end OLED TV is 41 percent off. | Image: LG If you want one of the best home theater experiences LG can provide, the 65-inch LG G5 OLED is ... read more

You’re going to start seeing more warnings in Chrome when accessing insecure sites. Starting next October, Chrome will soon warn users when they visit a public website without an encrypted ... read more

Tesla’s Cybercab isn’t scheduled to go into production until 2026, but when it does, it may end up stuck with a vestige of the automotive past: a steering wheel. To ... read more

Bitterman was CMO at The Weather Channel and earlier was North American chief strategy officer at WPP's Mindshare and senior vice president-media, social, content at Publicis Groupe's Digitas. ... read more

Google introduced support for the ultra-wideband (UWB) wireless protocol with the Pixel 6 Pro in 2021. But if you’ve been struggling to get your Pixel phone to precisely locate one ... read more

Meta wants marketers to trust the machine. Advantage+ Shopping Campaigns (ASC), Meta’s automated ad product, promises to take care of everything – budgeting, creative, targeting, optimization. Just hand over the keys. But here’s a plot twist: ... read more

Nvidia has become the world’s first $5 trillion company. Shares soared by up to 5 percent to over $211 around 9:30AM ET on Wednesday morning, according to Bloomberg, marking the ... read more

Google smart home users in the US can now get an early taste of the new Gemini for Home assistant, which began rolling out in early access on Tuesday. It’s ... read more

Symmetric camera lovers, look away now. After Nothing’s recent flagship Phone 3 ditched its trademark Glyph Lights in favor of a dot matrix display, the new Phone 3A Lite brings ... read more

The redesign and smaller size of the Echo Studio allows it to fit better in more situations. The majority of Amazon smart speakers lean more into the "smart" than the ... read more

The Echo Dot Max smart speaker packs a lot of punch into a small space. I love the Echo Dot Max. It's an excellent speaker, a good listener, and comes ... read more

Smart Split uses AI to edit down a longer video into smaller shorter clips with captions. | Image: TikTok TikTok announced three new features at its US Creator Summit yesterday. ... read more

The iPad Mini is reportedly the next device to get an OLED upgrade. Apple is planning to incorporate OLED displays across more of its devices, including the MacBook Air, iPad ... read more

OpenAI is ending October with a new for-profit structure, a new deal with Microsoft, and an entirely new level of pressure to achieve artificial general intelligence. The generally accepted ... read more

AI writing aid Grammarly is now part of Superhuman, alongside Coda, Superhuman Mail, and a new AI assistant called Superhuman Go. The new Superhuman suite, including all those tools, will ... read more

One might suggest Comcast CEO Brian Roberts' donation could be part of the plan - especially now that Comcast is spinning off its cable TV networks. ... read more

Character.AI is gradually shutting down chats for people under 18 and rolling out new ways to figure out if users are adults. The company announced Wednesday that under-18 users will ... read more

Creators can avoid YouTube remastering their old, low-resolution videos. YouTube has announced several new features that aim to improve the viewing experience on TV screens, including an instant shopping tool ... read more

Uber has picked the first city for the launch of its new robotaxi service with Lucid and Nuro. No surprise, it’s San Francisco. The companies have already begun on-road ... read more

On Monday, a new online “encyclopedia” sputtered to life. Grokipedia is the brainchild of Elon Musk and his startup xAI, and the billionaire is promoting it as a supposedly less ... read more

Cameo is requesting a court order to block OpenAI from using the term “cameo.” | Image by Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via Getty Images Cameo is suing OpenAI over Sora 2’s “cameo” ... read more

Bill Gates at a Bloomberg Philanthropies meeting at the Plaza Hotel on September 23, 2025 in New York City. | Photo: Getty Images Bill Gates wants us all to be ... read more

The new Vision Pro with M5 offers some improvements over the original. Apple's Vision Pro remains the best VR headset by a mile, and there are many moments when it ... read more

It's been nearly two weeks since Microsoft, a multi-trillion dollar company, shipped a $600 handheld "Xbox" that can't be relied on to sleep, wake, or hold a charge while asleep ... read more

Publisher monetization choices are among the most covered and critiqued aspects of our industry. I’m as guilty as anyone; it has been the throughline of everything I’ve written about since 2023. If you’d prefer to ... read more

Prebid changes its mind on universal TIDs; streaming media takes advantage of live events; and short-form video clips are (still) all the rage. The post Never Mind About The Whole TID Thing; Live Sports Still ... read more

While publishers worry about the impact of AI search on web traffic, brand marketers are seeing a different picture altogether. Takeup of AI search tools is on the rise, disrupting user behaviors and the performance ... read more

This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at a spate of recent studies that illustrate the out-of-whack supply-demand dynamics in the streaming ad market. In Graphic Detail WBD’s other suitor, Paramount’s WBD plans and ... read more

This story was first published by Digiday sibling WorkLife HR leaders know that perception shapes reality in the workplace. But what happens when half your workforce experiences the organization fundamentally counter to the other half? ... read more

British tabloid newspaper The Sun is building an AI agent for its programmatic advertising business, as it looks to prepare for when demand-side partners push agentic media buying at scale. The Sun’s evp and publisher ... read more