The grocery chain Albertson’s is trying to reduce the time and number of clicks it takes to add an item to an online shopping cart. It’s new click-to-cart product should help. On Monday, Albertson’s Media ... read more

Merriam-Webster has settled on a word that represents 2025 - and that word is "slop." The dictionary-maker defines "slop" as "digital content of low quality that is produced usually in ... read more

If you’re looking for a last-minute gift for a gamer, you’re in luck. Both Best Buy and Target are offering the 128GB Meta Quest 3S VR headset for around $249 ... read more

Today, I’m talking with Prashanth Chandrasekar, who is the CEO of Stack Overflow. I last had Prashanth on the show in 2022, one month before ChatGPT launched. While the generative ... read more

The remit includes retail media and organic management on Amazon, utilizing Amazon Marketing Cloud data to expand on the marketplace. Acadia will provide customer data insights to launch a national media campaign. ... read more

If you’re on a budget, you could do a lot worse than this 5K monitor, which has 217 PPI. Most people know at least two things about 5K monitors: they ... read more

Samsung Ads built a new integration with Amazon Publisher Cloud (APC), which is a clean room solution within the larger Amazon Publisher Suite (APS), the companies announced on Monday. The post It’s Getting A Bit ... read more

Some analysts believe it was a good idea to settle with one of the major players starting up AI tech that are desperate to access approved, fully copyrighted products to avoid seemingly nonstop legal hassles. ... read more

William Basinski says the current system is “a mess.” | Image: Getty Images for Prada "Not ideal." "Completely unacceptable." "Shameless." "Predatory." "Some bullshit." "Total bullshit." This is how musicians, producers, ... read more

Which company is the "real" TV company - Netflix or Paramount? ... read more

The tool avoids spoilers by drawing answers from the pages you’ve read so far. Amazon has launched a new AI feature in the Kindle app that gives spoiler-free answers to ... read more

When he was 19 years old, Brendan Foody started Mercor with two of his high school friends as a way for his other friends, who also had startups, to hire ... read more

Starlink satellites with solar arrays deployed. | Image: SpaceX A collision in space was narrowly avoided last week when a newly deployed Chinese satellite came within a few hundred meters ... read more

The 3i S10 Ultra is the flagship robot vacuum from Picea, the company that will own iRobot. iRobot, the owner of the Roomba robot vacuum, has filed for Chapter 11 ... read more

After 35 years, the maker of the Roomba robot vacuum filed for bankruptcy protection late Sunday night. Following issuing warnings earlier this year that it was fast running out of ... read more

For the past three decades, most of digital advertising has revolved around one obsession: performance. Marketers leaned on channels that could prove conversions: search ads, programmatic retargeting and affiliate links. A purchase trackable to a ... read more

Auctions aren’t just for programmatic ads anymore; fashion influencers are turning to Substack; and AI-generated recaps continue to get the facts wrong. The post Will Shopper Auctions Try Ad Auctions?; I Thought Instagram Wants ... read more

AI agents have become a focal point for media agencies and brands hoping to move AI tech past potential and into practical benefit.  Agencies across the industry, from giants like WPP to indie shop Mediassociates ... read more

“Transparency” is one of those terms that often gets bandied about when talking about CTV ad buying. Specifically programmatic CTV ad buying. But what does it actually mean? Well, at the recent Digiday Programmatic Marketing ... read more

This story was first published by Digiday sibling Modern Retail. It wasn’t just shoppers with strapped budgets that boosted buy-now, pay-later services to a record-setting $1 billion in transactions on Cyber Monday. It was also ... read more

Next year, tracking AI search visibility may get a little easier for publishers. Thanks to the rise of AI search, publishers’ usual tracking tools won’t cut it. They need a full arsenal of analytics and ... read more

As industries change — and which industry isn’t undergoing massive transformational change right now? — so must their industry associations.  Look no further than MMA, which started out as the Mobile Marketing Association during the ... read more

My introduction to Sudan Archives was the song "Nont for Sale" from her first EP Sink in 2018. I've been a die-hard fan ever since. With each album, she finds ... read more

Grok's track record is spotty at best. But even by the very low standards of xAI, its failure in the aftermath of the tragic mass shooting at Bondi Beach in ... read more

Abynth 6’s very pretty, but questionably useful preset explorer. Absynth is something of a cult classic in the soft synth world. It was originally released in 2000, and quickly found ... read more

WPP Media takes a comprehensive approach to video, said Adam Arnegger, executive director and head of investment, in this interview with Beet.TV Editorial Director Lisa Granatstein. When it comes to planning and implementing strategies for ... read more

Not long ago, the promise of streaming was an escape from the old world of television ads. But in a landscape now crowded with services and battling for subscribers, a new bargain has been struck. ... read more

LONDON – As the advertising industry grapples with tighter privacy rules and the fading usefulness of identifiable user data, contextual intelligence is emerging as one of the most important tools for reaching audiences, said Marko ... read more

RANCHO PALOS VERDES, CA — Roku and Amazon are integrating their connected TV operating systems to reach more than 80% of the U.S. market, promising to create even more massive scale for marketers. “By combining ... read more

By 2010, the iPhone era was in full swing. Smartphones were still a new and unfinished idea - the iPhone had only just gotten copy and paste! - but it was clear that these big ... read more

Here's a thought: what if the next-generation Siri is awesome? Not just awesome for setting timers and dictating text messages (though that would be nice), but so awesome and fun ... read more

An Xbox Ally in front of an Xbox Ally X. I still wouldn't buy an Xbox Ally, and I still don't think the tweaked version of Windows that shipped with ... read more

Real ones will know that Mount Rainier looks too big in this image, but the re-creation of a Washington State ferry in this AI image is uncanny. This is The ... read more

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 109, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, hope you're staying warm, and also you ... read more

Uber Intelligence turns data about rideshare trips and takeout orders into actionable insights for marketers. ... read more

It's a small sample size, likely driven by Black Friday discounts and temporary virality, but the Nex Playground has gone from little-known console curiosity to best-seller. It's now on track ... read more

Music making is always better with hardware. Native Instruments and Ableton have had incredible success with their custom MIDI controllers that integrate with their DAWs (digital audio workstations), Maschine and ... read more

The Posha robot chef can autonomously cook a meal from scratch. As I'm sitting in my office writing this review, delicious, cheesy, garlicky scents are wafting up the stairs. I ... read more

The Nex Playground is a compact, cube-shaped console that’s currently on sale for $50 off. | Image: The Verge The Nex Playground is apparently one of the hottest consoles this ... read more

A keyboard perfect for barside writing. As a writer, I take the tools of my trade relatively seriously. I’m not crazy enough to drop $3,600 on a keyboard, but I ... read more

Sektori is an old-school twin-stick shooter. Created by a former developer at Returnal studio Housemarque, it puts you in the role of a little ship that blasts through swarms of ... read more

Amazon Prime members may be eligible for free same-day delivery. | Photo: Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Let’s face it, the same thing happens year after year. Things get busy ... read more

"Roblox aggressively markets to young children, but fails to protect them from sexual predators," Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said. ... read more

"Roblox aggressively markets to young children, but fails to protect them from sexual predators," Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said. ... read more

A group of more than 150 parents sent a letter on Friday to New York governor Kathy Hochul, urging her to sign the Responsible AI Safety and Education (RAISE) Act, ... read more

Domino's transformed its ad into a remote-controlled trivia game, asking viewers a pizza-themed question before serving a 10-second promo for its Ultimate Gunpowder Chicken pizza. ... read more

The long take, the unbroken tracking shot, "the oner" - whatever you want to call it, filmmakers agree that it's one of the most difficult technical achievements in cinema. It's ... read more

Google’s Pixel Buds 2A come in several colors, but purple is the way to go. Let's face it, it's easy to fixate on the big gifts that crowd around the ... read more

To help advertisers and agencies better identify worthwhile UGC content, Meta will launch a "Facebook Partnership Ads API," offering creator evaluations and content access. ... read more

House lawmakers advanced a version of the Kids Online Safety Act that would require platforms to establish "reasonable" policies addressing specific harms to minors -- including threats of violence, sex abuse, drug use and financial ... read more

Today, Apple officially released iOS 26.2 for iPhone 11 and newer devices, which includes new Lock Screen customizations for you to adjust the opacity level, as well as the ability ... read more

Eat at your own risk. | Image: Ikea After announcing new Matter-compatible smart home devices and stylish wireless speakers over the past few months, Ikea continues to expand its consumer ... read more

We've let programmatic algorithms prioritize cheap impressions over real connections, forgetting there's a person on the other side. ... read more

Hollywood director Carl Erik Rinsch was convicted of scamming $11 million from Netflix to spend on luxury items, including five Rolls-Royces and a Ferrari, as reported earlier by Deadline. A ... read more

For me, the marketing term of the year was "AI slop." ... read more

Google Translate's latest update brings live speech translations, originally available only on the Pixel Buds, to any headphones you want, with support for over 70 languages. It's rolling out today ... read more

Hisense’s S7N CanvasTV is nearly $600 off. Samsung’s Frame TV is one of the coolest-looking TVs you can buy, doubling as wall art when you’re not watching —  but it’s ... read more

When Bryan Fuller set out to make his first feature film, his goal was to make the kind of family-friendly scares that he loved as a kid. Think Gremlins or ... read more

HBO Max is launching curated channels, a new feature that will allow you to quickly jump into a continuous feed of a popular series or tune into a specific genre. ... read more

TCL has been a solid competitor in the midrange TV market for years, going head-to-head with Hisense. Not only are TVs from both manufacturers competitive on features, they even use ... read more

The direct-to-consumer cookware company HexClad was founded in 2016, and celebrity chef, Gordon Ramsay, joined as investor-ambassador in 2021. HexClad surfed a huge wave of new business 2020 and 2021, as many people began cooking ... read more

Amazon is continuing to celebrate The Game Awards, which took place on December 11th, with a big sale on titles that were nominated in their respective categories. The deals include ... read more

Total national TV ad spend is up 7% to $3.17 billion, according to estimates from EDO Ad EnGage. ... read more

Every week at The Verge, we’re tracking what’s happening with Trump Mobile’s promised and yet undelivered Android phone. Why? Because we cover phones. We also cover vaporware, which the T1 ... read more

The problem for many employees, according to a new Harris Poll, is the pressure they feel to give a gift, with 46% saying they feel pressured to spend a certain amount on gifts. ... read more

AI sure does use a lot of words to say very little. This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and ... read more

You may not even know it, but you've almost certainly encountered songs made mostly or even entirely with AI. If you've scrolled on TikTok the last few weeks, you've probably ... read more

Separate deals announced by WPP and Horizon within 24 hours of each other tell a story about not just the directions they're heading in, but where the entire industry is going. ... read more

This assumes CNN would also not be spun off under any WBD plan. ... read more

In recent years, several independent companies have vied to be the go-to performance CTV platform. Companies like MNTN, Vibe, and tvScientific look to bring the same type of performance advertising, focusing on outcomes, that’s long ... read more

Next-gen wireless technology for dummies. Where's the Trump Phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump Phone's whereabouts. ... read more

Netflix sent a note of triumph to subscribers after the company sealed a deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, but now Paramount has sent a letter to WBD shareholders promoting its own deal and trashing ... read more

The Tetris: My Play Watch may look like an Apple Watch, but it eschews most of the functionality you'll typically find on a smartwatch to focus on two things: playing ... read more

If you’re not already seeing it, this is how the redesigned watch page is laid out. The YouTube watch screen has been given a new look on TVs. The redesign ... read more

Carlos-Manuel Vesga as Manousos. The theme of this week is isolation. That's always been a part of what makes Pluribus so unsettling, of course; in the show there are only ... read more

Native Union’s Weighter managing one of up to three cables. | Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge Warning: I'm going to make an attempt to justify a $40 paperweight ... read more

Netflix could acquire Warner Bros., unless Paramount swoops in or regulators intervene. How rearranging the streaming leaders could affect the CTV ad business. The post Warner Bros., Netflix, Paramount: The CTV Chessboard appeared first on ... read more

Enjoy this weekly comic strip from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem …  The post Comic: Festival Of Flights appeared first on AdExchanger. ... read more

Traffic! At The Disco Tired: Google possibly divesting its Chrome browser. Wired: Google launching a new browser entirely. The Google Chrome team has built a generative AI-infused browser called Disco, The Verge reports. Disco takes ... read more

Amazon is positioning Twitch as a defining asset in its CTV ambitions, folding the platform’s hard-to-reach audience and live-video inventory into the same pitch it uses to sell Prime Video and Fire TV.  That marks ... read more

This story was first published by Digiday sibling Modern Retail About two years ago, Trademark Property Co. CEO Terry Montesi heard from a national real estate broker that there was a big, secret tenant interested ... read more

Though the Christmas party season is just around the corner, CMOs and agency partners are hard at work plotting out budgets and media plans for 2026.  Ammunition for next year’s best laid plans can be ... read more

Interested in sharing your perspectives on the media and marketing industries? Join the Digiday research panel. Big names in the publisher world are investing in vertical video: Time, CNN, The New York Times. Meanwhile, a ... read more

It’s been another busy week for big news but I wanted to use this week’s briefing to write about something that’s been sitting with me since the Digiday Programmatic Marketing Summit last week: AI is ... read more

While Geoff Keighley had already announced that Tomb Raider would be making a Game Awards appearance, the surprise was that instead of one game announcement there's two. Crystal Dynamics and ... read more

Shortly after appeals court judges ruled against Apple's contempt appeal in a years-long antitrust dispute against the makers of Fortnite, I got to talk to Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney ... read more

Remedy Entertainment is finally showing off the much-anticipated sequel to Control. The new game, dubbed Control Resonant, expands on the original with a new action-RPG framework. It takes place seven ... read more

The next Star Wars game is coming from the director of Mass Effect and Knights of the Old Republic. Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic was revealed during ... read more

President Donald Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick look on as White House artificial intelligence (AI) and crypto czar David Sacks speaks On Thursday evening, with White House AI and ... read more

The Game Awards are back once again to showcase a metric ton of commercials, provide the gaming public with their monthly dose of Muppets, and validate gamers’ opinions on which ... read more

Entertainment has quietly expanded its share of the consumer wallet for the past three years. ... read more

Disney and OpenAI's new $1 billion partnership feels emblematic of the terrible times we're living through. In exchange for access to the generative AI firm's APIs and tools like ChatGPT, ... read more

It’s hard to buy a bad pair of wireless earbuds these days, and with constant discounts and deals wherever you look, now is as good a time as any to ... read more

Built-in Gemini AI features in Chrome are now becoming more widely available on the iOS version of Google's browser, as reported by 9to5Google and Engadget. They're popping up several months ... read more

At a congressional meeting to vote on the future of kids online safety, the most spirited debate of the day was about a bill that wasn't even on the agenda ... read more

Amazon Prime Video has pulled its AI-powered video recap of Fallout after viewers noticed that it got key parts of the story wrong. The streaming service began testing Video Recaps ... read more

Apple has lost its appeal of a massive district court ruling in its ongoing antitrust dispute with Epic Games. That April ruling from Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said that Apple ... read more

Pinterest's data will let tvScientific's CTV advertising clients track sales outcomes and shopping conversions. ... read more

Artificial intelligence is now "supercharging" surveillance pricing, Senator Ruben Gallego stated in a summary of the bill. ... read more

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a bill Thursday that will require advertisers to identify if an ad includes AI-generated people. Hochul's announcement said the bill, S.8420-A/A.8887-B, was the first ... read more