Referral traffic is drying up — but what’s more striking is how the industry is responding. Search engines, once reliable pipelines for traffic, now behave more like competitors than conduits stripping content for snippets that keep ... read more

This week’s Future of TV Briefing features a Q&A with YouTube creator Jonathan Katz-Moses and Slow Ventures’ Billy Parks on the investment market for creators operating standalone businesses. The rise of the CEO-creator NFL+ESPN, ... read more

Related Insights Member Exclusive Pitch deck: Why Google believes its latest AI Max product is a game changer for search campaigns Subscribe To Read Read More Google’s AI-powered ... read more

Whether you’re a large holding company agency or an industrious independent, if you’re not digging deep into the wells of possibility with generative AI, you’re likely to be out of business before too long. The ... read more

Related Insights Member Exclusive Ad Tech Briefing: Lines are being drawn in Amazon and Google’s evolving rivalry  Subscribe To Read Read More When The Trade Desk’s CEO Jeff ... read more

Just a few days after administrators announced that the “federal Judiciary is taking additional steps to strengthen protections for sensitive case documents in response to recent escalated cyberattacks,” the New ... read more

Google’s next Pixel launch event doesn’t happen until next week, but the company has already announced the Pixel 10 Pro Fold with a brief video teaser published on Tuesday. Based ... read more

Companies have violated Internet Archive policies and scraped data from the Wayback Machine, Reddit contends. ... read more

Riot Games is going to slowly introduce a WASD-based control scheme to League of Legends, which previously relied on point and click controls. “We believe that offering WASD controls will ... read more

Alongside automated detection and enforcement tools, Meta is giving advertisers more power to report brand misuse and violations via updates to its Brand Rights Protection system. ... read more

PubMatic faces serious challenges as supply-side platforms continue to evolve. As the lines blur between SSPs and DSPs, will each of these stand-alone businesses survive? ... read more

Krafton has fired another shot in its legal battle with former executives of Subnautica 2 studio Unknown Worlds, who filed a lawsuit last month, claiming the South Korean publisher undermined ... read more

An aerial photo taken on Aug. 8, 2025 shows a view of the nearly exhausted Baitings Reservoir in Yorkshire, Britain. Reservoir levels recently have continued to fall as increased water use met ... read more

Online dating service Match Group has agreed to pay $14 million to settle charges that it failed to offer consumers a simple way to cancel subscriptions, and duped subscribers by promising them a free six-month ... read more

Online dating service Match Group has agreed to pay $14 million to settle charges that it failed to offer consumers a simple way to cancel subscriptions, and duped subscribers by promising them a free six-month ... read more

The partnership will transform over 14,000 McDonald's restaurants in the U.S. into "interactive gateways" to "McDonaldland" - a whimsical virtual world available to explore via Meta's Horizon Worlds platform as well. ... read more

The AI coding wars are heating up. One of the main battlegrounds? "Context windows," or an AI model's working memory - the amount of text it can take into account ... read more

CANNES – Retail media networks are rapidly reshaping the way brands and agencies collaborate, according to experts from Albertsons, Google and Spark Foundry. As these networks harness invaluable shopper data, they offer new opportunities for ... read more

CANNES – Retail media has become one of the fastest-growing segments in advertising, but the category is facing a critical inflection point, according to Melanie Zimmermann, general manager of global retail media at Criteo. Speaking ... read more

AMENIA, NY — Does the world need another demand-side platform in 2025? Keith Gooberman, CEO and co-founder of DSP Pontiac Intelligence is ready to make that case. “The old DSPs are like a battleship. There ... read more

Perplexity on Tuesday made an unsolicited bid to purchase Google's Chrome browser for $34.5 billion, although one analyst firm estimates the price at about $100 billion. ... read more

This year’s Digiday Technology Awards celebrate companies that are embracing AI and automation tools to enhance personalized experiences, enable precise targeting and drive performance across platforms and channels. Winners are also integrating advanced e-commerce technologies ... read more

A reverence for "doing" can develop a toxic side when it becomes embedded in a society. ... read more

Meta Platforms is petitioning to set aside a finding that it violated a California wiretap law by collecting sensitive data about users of the menstrual tracking app Flo. ... read more

If you’re hosting a small get-together or hangout at the park, a small speaker like the UE Wonderboom 4 can provide the soundtrack. It’s the kind of gadget that fades ... read more

Issue You just want to search your archived photos, instead of interacting with an AI assistant. Quick fix Inside the app, tap the Google account button at top-right, then go ... read more

Perplexity has just offered to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion — a bid that’s far more than the AI search startup itself is valued at, according to reports from ... read more

Ever since the launch of ChatGPT, AI companies have been racing to gain a foothold in government in more ways than one. Most recently, that's meant luring government users with ... read more

Apple Cinemas, a theater chain not affiliated with Apple, has responded to Apple’s recent lawsuit over alleged trademark infringement, as reported by MacRumors. In its lawsuit, Apple alleged that Apple ... read more

The UP Phone’s core hardware hasn’t changed since its first iteration. | Image: Unplugged Unplugged, a company cofounded and backed by Erik Prince, who is also the founder of infamous ... read more

Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon has pleaded guilty to conspiracy and wire fraud three years after his collapsed cryptocurrency firm wiped out $40 billion in funds, according to a report ... read more

Pebblebee’s Alert safety feature is getting a subscription option with additional features. | Image: Pebblebee In July, Pebblebee announced a new safety feature for its Clip location tracker. Called Alert, ... read more

Google is making it easier to see news from your favorite outlets. A new feature, called “preferred sources,” will let you choose the outlets you want to see featured the ... read more

The MacBook Pro 14 (2025, M4) is currently on sale for $1,299.99 ($300 off) at Amazon and Best Buy. The MacBook Pro 14 with M4 is one of our top ... read more

Samsung’s first Micro RGB TV is initially only available in a 115-inch model. | Image: Samsung First teased at CES 2025, Samsung has finally launched a TV featuring the company’s ... read more

Hello there, world! Welcome to the first issue of Regulator, a newsletter about the collision between Big Tech and Washington. If you enjoy this, consider subscribing to get this newsletter ... read more

Sling TV has launched a new option that lets you watch live content without signing up for a streaming or cable subscription. Now, you can pay $4.99 for a “day ... read more

FX’s Alien: Earth — Pictured: Sydney Chandler as Wendy. CR: Patrick Brown/FX | FX While the monsters in each of the nine Alien movies have been a little bit different, ... read more

Nexstar is looking to strike a deal to buy Tegna with the value of the deal at around $2.5 billion, according to reports, as the FCC has begun to strip away certain federal rules around ... read more

The smart home can be scary. It seems like every other month, we hear about another smart home company going out of business, leaving you scrambling for a new way ... read more

IAB Tech Lab released mapping and implementation guidance for advertisers and publishers to understand how content is organized and ads are classified. ... read more

Don’t compare AI bunnies to phone camera processing, Sam. I'm annoyed, not for the first time, by something Sam Altman has said. But this time it's because I'm annoyed at ... read more

Television advertising has undergone a remarkable transformation in recent years, with connected TV (CTV) emerging as a powerful channel for marketers seeking the impact of traditional television with the precision of digital targeting. However, a ... read more

The special effects with which the world of 2120 has been created in "Alien: Earth" is breathtaking. ... read more

There’s a sore loser in this popularity contest. Elon Musk says that his artificial intelligence company xAI “will take immediate legal action” against Apple for allegedly manipulating its App Store ... read more

Microsoft is starting to roll out lightweight taskbar apps for Microsoft 365 users on Windows 11. These taskbar apps will automatically launch at startup and provide quick access to contacts, ... read more

Taylor Swift at NFL Game. Taylor Swift leaned into her love for symbolism with the announcement of her dozenth album, titled The Life of a Showgirl.  TS12 was introduced in a teaser — ... read more

On Monday, Ford introduced an innovative new manufacturing process that it says will help make its EVs more sustainable, more desirable, and more importantly, more affordable. The timing couldn't have ... read more

Rockstar Games is adding Nvidia’s DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation support to Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced today. Nvidia is also releasing a new Game Ready driver today that will ... read more

Publishers can no longer rely on steady search traffic thanks to zero-click AI chatbots and near-constant discovery algorithm changes made by Big Tech gatekeepers. So what comes next? That’s the billion-dollar question facing premium and ... read more

Epic Games has announced that it’s bringing Fortnite back to iOS in Australia, after the country’s federal court ruled that Apple and Google’s app marketplaces are anticompetitive. Epic CEO Tim ... read more

Walled garden platform advertisers may not know where their ads were served or who they targeted, and have no log files to boot, but they paid for those ads all the same. And they may ... read more

AI bots are hungry. They’re scraping information found on passports and credit cards and training on novels without authors’ consent. Even fanfiction has been used to train some (presumably quite nerdy) bots. But a bill ... read more

The TV/streaming deal includes 13 "marquee" events (formerly pay-per-view events) as well as 30 "UFC Fight Nights." The pay-per-view events will transition to airings on streaming Paramount+ at no additional cost to subscribers. ... read more

Sometimes, price can itself be promotional marketing; Reddit is no longer playing nice; and AI scrapers are reshaping the web in another way. The post Price And Promo; Reddit Ditches The Wayback Machine appeared first ... read more

This is the fifth installment in Digiday’s 2025 CMO Strategies series that analyzes key marketer strategies and challenges across leading marketing channels, such as retail media, display advertising, social media and ad-supported streaming. ... read more

If you’re reading this, you’ll likely have seen at least some of the latest financial results posted by the ad tech sector’s coterie of publicly listed companies, with AppLovin and The Trade Desk leading the ... read more

MSQ Partners has emerged as a potential suitor for Sir Martin Sorrell’s besieged S4 Capital.  The London-based agency group has begun negotiating to merge with the Monks owner, per a statement issued to the stock ... read more

As brands increase their spending on scalable creator ads, three marketers say YouTube is lagging behind rival platforms in its implementation of the paid ad format — but YouTube execs insist its slower rollout is designed ... read more

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Spotify The through lines between search and social are more blurred than ever, and perhaps no platform is more aware of that than Reddit, which has been pushing to become ... read more

Elon Musk is accusing Apple of an "antitrust violation" for allegedly favoring OpenAI in the App Store's AI rankings. ... read more

On Monday, Anthropic released a hotly anticipated memory function for its Claude chatbot. In a YouTube video, the company demonstrated a user asking what they had been chatting about with ... read more

"Anthropic wants immediate, 'meaningful appellate review,' skipping over the trial part altogether," the judge wrote in an order denying the artificial intelligence company's request to stay proceedings. ... read more

TikTok is trying to make it easier for creators to earn commission-based payouts and sponsored perks when promoting hotels, restaurants, local experiences and other services via a new in-app monetization program. ... read more

You can added canister vacs to the growing list of connected appliances. | Image: Miele Despite the convenience of cordless stick vacs, canister vacuums are still very much a thing ... read more

The "Deli is in my DNA" tour visits campuses with the food truck, along with nonprofit's on-site screenings for genetic diseases. ... read more

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has resigned and with his departure, Microsoft plans to move the company under CoreAI, its AI engineering team. ... read more

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has resigned and with his departure, Microsoft plans to move the company under Core AI, its AI engineering team. ... read more

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has resigned and, with his departure, Microsoft plans to move the company under Core AI, its AI engineering team. ... read more

Have you heard of Natalie the Nerd? She’s a pillar of the Nintendo Game Boy modding scene who taught herself to reverse engineer and design Game Boy circuit boards. ... read more

A Revel charging station in Brooklyn in 2022. Revel is shutting down its ridehail business, citing heightened competition from rideshare leaders like Uber and Lyft. The company, which began as ... read more

The OnePlus Watch 3 starts at $269.99 ($30 off) for the new 43mm model. | Image: The Verge / OnePlus OnePlus has kicked off its back-to-school sale, and the deals ... read more

CANNES – Retail media has gone from niche topic to industry obsession in just a few years, and Liz Roche, vice president of media and measurement at Albertsons Media Collective, says the reasons are clear. ... read more

CANNES – The evolving landscape of media buying is reshaping strategies in the healthcare space, particularly in pharmaceuticals, discussed in a Beet.TV panel titled “Breaking the Mold: Redefining Client, Agency, and DSP Partnerships” at the ... read more

While the advertising industry obsesses over artificial intelligence, one veteran executive suggests its primary function is not to invent the future, but to perfectly codify the past. In his view, AI is less the beginning ... read more

The Switch 2 can be enjoyed right out of the box, but it’s even better with the right accessories. Some of these add-ons are more crucial than others, especially if ... read more

A panel of the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a consumer's request to revive claims that GameStop.com violated website visitors' privacy by logging their activity. ... read more

Did Tesla remotely deactivate a Cybertruck in the middle of a highway because the owner featured it in an unauthorized music video? It’s highly unlikely. On Sunday, Instagram user ... read more

iRobot, maker of the iconic Roomba robot vacuum, announced its second-quarter earnings late last week, and the numbers keep going down. Despite launching an entirely new product line, its revenue ... read more

Conservative activist Robby Starbuck will serve as an advisor at Meta to address “ideological and political bias” within the company’s AI chatbot, according to a report from The Wall Street ... read more

Reddit says that it has caught AI companies scraping its data from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, so it’s going to start blocking the Internet Archive from indexing the vast ... read more

Ford just announced its new universal EV platform that is expected to rein in costs for the company's money losing EV business. Chief among those cost savings will be a ... read more

The bundle will be priced at $39.99 a month, starting October 2. Disney has already announced multiple ways for consumers to save on the expensive ESPN service, priced at $29.99/month. ... read more

It is the studio's seventh first-place opening this year and the sixth film in a row to open with more than $40 million in North American box-office revenues. ... read more

How your $7.50 latte became a casualty in a trade war you didn't choose. ... read more

Warning: Today's "TVBlog" contains sensitive content, which some people may find offensive or disturbing. It's about the fortuitous timing of the 27th season of "South Park." Click here if you want to read it. ... read more

ESPN and Fox both launch their live sports streaming services later this month, and now the two companies have announced that you can bundle them at a discount. Starting October ... read more

Microsoft is moving GitHub into its CoreAI team, following the resignation of GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke today. After nearly four years as CEO, Dohmke is leaving GitHub to “become a ... read more

Kuxiu’s magnetic charger can free up an iPad’s USB-C port for other accessories. | Image: Kuxiu Apple still hasn’t brought wireless charging to the iPad, but Kuxiu’s new charger brings ... read more

Let’s be honest, Gigabyte. Your marketing for the Aero X16 is giving Razer Blade, from the colors and font of the spec slides to the thin design of the space ... read more

The Trump administration has ordered Nvidia and AMD to pay the federal government a 15 percent cut of their AI chip sales revenue to China, according to reports from The ... read more

Ninja’s Swirl can make soft serve ice cream and frozen yogurt, and it’s $50 off at Amazon. Ninja’s Swirl ups the ante for ice cream machines by also allowing you ... read more

Ford says its finally cracked the code on cheap EVs. The automaker announced plans to build “a family” of low-cost electric vehicles at its Kentucky assembly planrt, starting with ... read more

The screenshot shows the pixel art painted over Maceió, Brazil. A new website that lets you paint over a world map with other users in real-time has taken the digital ... read more

Effective Sept. 30, AOL will discontinue its dial-up service 40 years after it began on-ramping Americans to the online service. ... read more

Hello, and welcome to Decoder! This is Casey Newton, founder and editor of Platformer and cohost of the Hard Fork podcast. This is the second episode of my productivity-focused Decoder ... read more

Most of us don’t realize how much control we’ve already given up. With industry red flag reports now published regularly, we’re forced to confront the hard truth that control and transparency are further away than ... read more

Compass Marketing sued Omnicom over allegations related to its 2023 acquisition of commerce agency Flywheel Digital. ... read more

Paramount has just snapped up the rights to the UFC, joining an industry-wide race to buy up remaining sports streaming rights. The $7.7 billion deal will bring 30 of the ... read more

This 30W charger is available now, but only in Europe. Repairable phone manufacturer Fairphone has announced a new range of USB cables and chargers. While they’re not user-repairable, the company ... read more