"Now, once technology and federal law permits, you can clone Ozzy and enjoy him for hundreds of years into the future," the brand claims. ... read more

A photo taken by Project Indigo. | Image: Adobe Adobe has a new computational photography camera app for iPhones – and one of its creators, Marc Levoy, helped make the ... read more

NetChoice failed to establish that a Tennessee law requiring parental consent for social media would cause "irreparable injury" to Meta, Snap or other platforms, a judge ruled. ... read more

President Trump has extended the selloff/ban of TikTok for the third time since the Supreme Court unanimously upheld the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act in January. ... read more

We’ve been waiting for Spotify’s lossless streaming for more than four years, but there are some new and promising hints that the feature might finally arrive sometime soon. The X ... read more

Now that warmer weather is here, spring cleaning duties are likely falling by the wayside. But the good news is you can enjoy the outdoors and clean your home with zero effort by ... read more

The bosses in Elden Ring Nightreign are already pretty tough. But if you’ve gotten good and need a harder challenge, you’ll be able to take on “Everdark Sovereigns,” which are ... read more

Google faces a setback that could cost the company billions of dollars. An advisor to Europe's top court agreed with Brussels regulators that the tech giant had used its Android mobile phone operating system to ... read more

Do CEOs see themselves as answering to shareholders based in the Districts, and CMOs as living in a caricature-driven world like The Capitol? ... read more

HMN originally won Wolverine's media AOR business in September 2023, following a review consolidating its roster of multiple media shops representing 13 brands, including its largest -- Merrell -- which was handled by Dentsu's iProspect. ... read more

As Pope Leo XIV laid out his priorities this week, he called AI an "existential threat" as ad execs at Cannes discussed how it will affect their world. ... read more

S4 Capital Executive Chairman Martin Sorrell led a discussion at Cannes Thursday about advances in AI video creation and the implications for brands and agencies. ... read more

Conservative video platform Rumble on Wednesday appealed an order dismissing its claims that Google violated antitrust law by allegedly promoting YouTube in the search results, and installing YouTube on Android devices. ... read more

Midjourney has released the first version of its video generation model to the public. For now, the tool can generate short videos based on images uploaded or created on the ... read more

CANNES – Television advertising is no longer just a vehicle for brand awareness. It’s now a measurable, performance-driven tool that delivers results across the entire marketing funnel, said Dawn Williamson, chief revenue officer of Comcast ... read more

Beyond the selfies between Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and the friendly conversations between the pair on stage, all is not well with Microsoft's $13 billion ... read more

The Department of Justice reported yesterday that it filed a civil complaint to seize roughly $225.3 million in cryptocurrency linked to crypto investment scams. In a press release, the DOJ ... read more

Sluggish Wi-Fi is one of my least favorite tech problems to deal with because it messes with everything: my work, my smart lightbulbs, my online sessions of Mario Kart World. ... read more

The Buss family sold its stake to Mark Walter, CEO of TWG Global, an investment holding company focused on AI and technology as well as sports, media and entertainment. ... read more

YouTube CEO Neal Mohan believes today's creators are the startups of Hollywood and at Cannes Lions said Google will integrate an AI video generator into the platform. Execs will keynote VidCon this week - the ... read more

With FBC: Firebreak, Remedy Entertainment has entered the world of the first-person co-op shooter. Set in its Control universe - specifically the site of the first game, the brutalist nightmare ... read more

Valve is introducing accessibility features for players with disabilities in its latest beta for Steam Big Picture Mode and SteamOS. The features — listed in full and explained here — include options ... read more

At a recent exhibition in Copenhagen, visitors stepped into a dark room and were met by an unusual host: a jaguar that watched the crowd, selected individuals, and began to ... read more

Netflix struck what many defined as a U.S.-like "carriage" deal allowing the streamer to deliver "live" broadcasts of much of the TFI content, as well as on-demand content. ... read more

For Eric Dane, the diagnosis was a bolt from the blue: ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. ... read more

Summer Game Fest 2025 was definitely a weird one, but even with everything going on outside, the games on display were still immaculate. My favorites, the ones that I live for, are small, unique, and ... read more

CANNES — The ability to reach consumers at the precise moment they’re engaged in a specific activity is the holy grail for advertisers. For one rapidly growing commerce media platform, that moment happens millions of ... read more

The mobility revolution has created more than just a convenient way to get from A to B. It’s generated vast oceans of data about consumer behavior, location, and intent – and now those signals are ... read more

Late Wednesday night at about 11PM CT, SpaceX was about to perform a static fire test of Ship 36, ahead of a planned 10th flight test for its Starship, when ... read more

To receive this daily Cannes briefing over email, please subscribe here. At Cannes, AI is the loudest topic no one wants to talk about publicly. Everyone has an opinion. Few want their names attached to ... read more

There’s one major way in which Google’s AI-powered search feature AI Mode differs from its traditional search engine — a complex technique used to answer a user’s question called “query fan-out.” AI Mode started rolling out ... read more

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Spotify We’ve reached the halfway point of this year’s Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity and Rachel Lindsay has already lost her voice — not from inhaling sand kicked up along ... read more

Mere months away from closing the ultimate partnership in an acquisition of Interpublic Group (so long as the deal isn’t derailed), holding company Omnicom instead this week at Cannes Lions rolled out a series of ... read more

2017 called. It wants its keyword blocklists back. Ask a publisher a few weeks ago what kept them up at night, and it wasn’t (just) AI-powered search eroding their traffic or ad tariffs squeezing margins ... read more

Snapchat is betting that AI-powered ad tech might finally help it shrink the distance between itself and the platforms that have long outpaced it. Last month, the mobile messaging app launched its first major iteration ... read more

A survey the company did last year found that 1 in 3 women feel pressured to alter their appearance in real life due to online beauty standards. ... read more

IAS announced the launch of AI-powered contextual category reporting across Facebook and Instagram Feeds and Reels, providing new measurement opportunities for advertisers' brand suitability and performance goals. ... read more

A federal judge on Wednesday blocked Mississippi from enforcing its parental-consent law against Dreamwidth, Meta Platforms, Nextdoor, Pinterest, Reddit, Snapchat, X, and YouTube. ... read more

Chris Feo, Chief Business Officer, Experian Marketing Services Marketers are under more pressure than ever to deliver personalized, high-performing ad campaigns — all while navigating tighter budgets, shifting privacy expectations and fragmented technology stacks.  Despite ... read more

Pinterest is releasing a limited-edition coffee blend with Chamberlain Coffee -- a company founded by popular Gen Z creator Emma Chamberlain. ... read more

After watching writer / director Eliza McNitt's new short film Ancestra, I can see why a number of Hollywood studios are interested in generative AI. A number of the shots ... read more

YouTube is bringing its Veo 3 AI video generation model, which my colleague Allison Johnson recently called “a slop monger’s dream,” to YouTube Shorts later this summer, according to a ... read more

Rumble "fails to allege facts plausibly showing an agreement" to boycott the platform, the WFA and others argue in papers filed Tuesday with a federal judge in Wichita Falls. ... read more

The strange world of Death Stranding just keeps on expanding. As Deadline reports, Hideo Kojima’s ghostly, post-apocalyptic video game is getting a spinoff in the form of an animated film. ... read more

The experimental feature, integrated into Search Live, allows users to ask complex, multipart questions, and have a voice conversation with the search engine, but what happens when ads start talking, too. ... read more

Facebook is adding support for passkeys on its mobile app. That means you’ll be able to log into the platform using your device’s authentication method, like your fingerprint, face scan, or ... read more

Yahoo is co-creating features with brands for Yahoo Creative, which helps advertisers build and optimize campaigns. Between 10% and 15% of new features for Yahoo Creative are co-developed with brands that use it. ... read more

Yahoo is co-creating features with brands for Yahoo Creative, which helps advertisers build and optimize campaigns. Between 10% and 15% of new features for Yahoo Creative are co-developed with brands that use it. ... read more

AI tools are flooding the culture ecosystem — and no corner of the arts space is immune. In this series, we’re looking at the ways artists are embracing AI, pushing back ... read more

Tap-to-pay wont actually require a tap soon thanks to extended NFC range capabilities. | Image: Leonie Asendorpf/picture alliance via Getty Images The next version of the Near Field Communication (NFC) standard aims ... read more

The game’s updated artwork was made by illustrator Henning Ludvigsen. | Image: Evil Trout Inc. Robin Ward was recovering from a broken arm when he fell in love with The Roottrees are ... read more

A Waymo vehicle waits on a street on May 14, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. | Photo: Getty Images Waymo announced today that it intends to launch a fully autonomous robotaxi service ... read more

Tapping the sparkle button beneath the search bar will open Search Live. Google is building Search Live into AI Mode, allowing you to have a back-and-forth voice conversation with the company’s AI ... read more

I don’t know about you, but I’ve gotten back into Animal Crossing: New Horizons in a pretty big way since the Switch 2 arrived. I’ve started a new island (the game ... read more

Compared to last year, the tone and tenor of the conversations about AI at Cannes have changed. ... read more

Choosing a budget Android phone typically means wading through a ton of product pages and doing spec comparisons. Of course, a simpler way through the noise is to use The Verge’s ... read more

The accreditations, which are important ad industry stamps of approval, follow Meta's brand safety recertification for the sixth consecutive year from the Trustworthy Accountability Group. ... read more

With RGB color changing and tunable white light, this smart lamp / Bluetooth speaker can party all weekend and serve as a task light the rest of the week.  The most surprising ... read more

There isn’t another laptop as fun or as cute as this. Framework finally made a touchscreen laptop, and the convertible 2-in-1 is one of the coolest-looking computers ever made. It doesn't have ... read more

Honda’s reusable rocket takes off and lands using four retractable legs. | Image: Honda Honda successfully conducted a “launch and landing test of an experimental reusable rocket” developed by its research and ... read more

I love going to Summer Game Fest. It's a rare opportunity to connect with my colleagues and friends in person, as well as listen to developers talk about why they make ... read more

There is always something new and improved in advertising and marketing, but only rarely do these fads and inventions go to the heart of a brand's value proposition. ... read more

If you work in comms, this isn't a distant trend. It's already reshaping how your clients, your company and your stories are being discovered. Some of the professionals I met at both conferences are only ... read more

Last November, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that, as secretary of health and human services, he would not "take away anybody's vaccines." If you believed him, you were duped. The longtime ... read more

Klarna, the buy-now-pay-later service, is launching a mobile phone service. The $40 per month phone plan is launching in the US in the “coming weeks,” offering unlimited 5G data, calls, and ... read more

Mount it on a wall or take it with you between rooms. Eufy is launching its first portable smart display, designed to allow multiple users to control and monitor security devices from ... read more

Wyze’s new VerifiedView feature adds an additional layer of security by matching a user’s ID embedded in the footage with that of the account requesting access. In an effort to restore trust ... read more

A leaked image of the new Raleigh e-bike developed with VanMoof’s co-founders. Ties and Taco Carlier, who founded VanMoof as an alternative to Big Bike, are working for Accell Group, the Dutch ... read more

Leica has announced the first 35mm film produced under its own name, Monopan 50. It’s an ultra-fine grain black-and-white film, and will cost $10 per 36-exposure roll when it goes on ... read more

For about a year, Tyler Johnston has been collecting public information about the inner workings of OpenAI, and for the past month, he’s been working on a report to help the ... read more

Switch 2 owners will soon have another big Nintendo game to play. During its latest Direct presentation, the company showed off plenty more of Donkey Kong Bananza, a 3D platformer that ... read more

"I can't wait for the Sonic episode, because we unlocked something that they have on the menu," "On Brand" host Jimmy Fallon disclosed to attendees here this morning. ... read more

The Cannes Lions Creative Champion Of The Year discussed with Publicis CEO Arthur Sadoun how big ideas transformed the company and the industry. ... read more

CANNES — After TV viewing pivoted to on-demand, “live” content may be coming back — with a twist. Younger audiences are increasingly associating live experiences with social platforms and streaming rather than traditional broadcast events, ... read more

Blame Ryan Reynolds. With a new wireless brand from the hosts of SmartLess emerging last week, and the debut of Trump Mobile this week, it sure seems like there's a ... read more

About 41% of those who don't "generally" watch TV on an average day are under 30 - while 27% are 31-49 and 20% are over 50, a study by Attest found. ... read more

If you stumbled across Terence Broad's AI-generated artwork (un)stable equilibrium on YouTube, you might assume he'd trained a model on the works of the painter Mark Rothko - the earlier, ... read more

Starting in summer 2026, Netflix subscribers in France will be able to watch commercially broadcast TV content “without ever having to leave the service.” The streaming giant has announced a ... read more

The news that streaming passed broadcast and cable TV in total TV usage for the first time in May comes down to a matter of streaming tonnage. ... read more

Garmin’s Index Sleep Monitor is worn on the upper arm, not the wrist. | Image: Garmin Garmin has announced a new sleep-tracking band that can be strapped to your upper arm, which ... read more

CANNES — With so many retail media networks now taking off, how are ad buyers ever going to measure them all? Retail media networks’ varying measurement approaches create significant complexity for marketers trying to evaluate ... read more

To receive this daily Cannes briefing over email, please subscribe here. When Chris Hassell’s agency Ralph last made the trip to Cannes several years ago, building a business around branded entertainment felt like a creative ... read more

As publishers face shrinking open web opportunities, The Guardian is unifying its programmatic advertising operations to capitalize on curation and offer global buyers scale with simplicity. The publisher announced last week that it has unified ... read more

This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at the question of how TV and streaming audiences watching in a bar or other public places should be counted — and, more importantly, charged for — compared ... read more

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Spotify A few years ago, Twitter Beach was one of the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity places to be. Before it became X, the platform brought marketers from the ... read more

Having decided that the value of live — be it live sports, live shopping, live-streaming, live events or live conversations — is of essential importance to its clients, Omnicom is partnering with several major platforms ... read more

Linear TV still commands a sizable share lead vs. streaming - 55.1% vs. 41.1% - for viewers age two and up, TVB says, when looking at Nielsen's total day viewing results from its "Gauge" measure ... read more

Amazon uses generative AI in nearly every business it supports - from advertising to shopping and product forecasting. On Tuesday Amazon CEO Andy Jassy told employees that GAI is the future, so they must get ... read more

In a 68-30 vote on Tuesday evening, the Senate overwhelmingly passed the GENIUS Act with bipartisan support. Eighteen Democrats joined the majority of Republicans in passing the bill, which is the ... read more

In a purported attempt to limit Israel's ability to wage cyberwarfare, Iran has begun throttling its civilians' access to the internet and plans to disconnect entirely from the global internet by ... read more

The product represented the first major overhaul in film and TV captioning in 50 years. Winners were also announced in seven other categories that make up the Entertainment and Craft awards tracks. ... read more

For the third time, President Donald Trump will extend the deadline for TikTok to spin out from its Chinese parent company or face a US ban. White House Press Secretary Karoline ... read more

The Senate confirmed Republican Olivia Trusty to serve on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Tuesday, installing another nominee by President Donald Trump and ending the brief lack of quorum at ... read more

Meta is making a change to how sharing videos works on Facebook. Right now, you can share videos as a video from the post composer or as a reel, and both ... read more

In Meta continues to build out its own decentralized social media network, Threads is further integrating into the fediverse - a hub of federated social networks hosted on the ActivityPub protocol. ... read more

In Meta continues to build out its own decentralized social media network, Threads is further integrating into the fediverse - a hub of federated social networks hosted on the ActivityPub protocol. ... read more

This week, WhatsApp did something its founders said it would never do: it's putting advertisements inside the app. It ends WhatsApp's decade-plus run of offering an ad-free messaging and calling experience. ... read more

Trusty's confirmation will give the FCC a 2-1 Republican majority, positioning it to enact policies favored by Trump. ... read more

LinkedIn is pressing a judge to dismiss a class-action complaint by a subscriber who claims the company shared her personally identifiable video viewing history with Meta Platforms. ... read more

Some Switch 2 owners have received the error code 2134-4508, which results in their consoles being permanently banned from accessing any of its online services, as spotted by IGN. It’s not ... read more