Amazon announced new versions of the Kindle Scribe today including the Kindle Scribe Colorsoft featuring a larger version of the customized E Ink screen technology that Amazon uses in its ... read more

At Amazon’s annual hardware event, it announced a fleet of new Fire TVs, including an Omni QLED model, as well as new 2 and 4-series televisions. The QLED features an ... read more

Amazon announced the new Fire TV Stick 4K Select streaming stick at its fall 2025 hardware event on Tuesday. The new streaming stick will cost $39.99.  Amazon last did a ... read more

Amazon is launching a trio of new Blink cameras today, headlined by a strange-looking device that sticks two cameras into a single body. The new Blink Arc looks like two ... read more

Amazon just announced some new Ring hardware at its 2025 fall event. The Ring Wired Doorbell and Indoor Cam Plus both feature 2K resolution featuring something called Ring Retinal Vision. ... read more

I've been hooked on SteelSeries gaming headsets ever since the Arctis Pro launched more than five years ago. The Nova range upped the quality with feature, fit, and software improvements, ... read more

Amazon will kick off its 2025 fall hardware event today, September 30th, at 10AM ET / 7AM PT, and the company has already teased a few new products we should ... read more

We’re at Amazon’s fall 2025 hardware event in New York City, where the company is set to announce a bunch of new gadgets ahead of the holidays. Amazon’s teaser image ... read more

Roku and AppsFlyer announced the launch of a new self-reporting network (SRN) integration between both companies, which will allow mobile app advertisers to more effectively measure their streaming video campaigns The post AppsFlyer and Roku’s ... read more

The update to AI Mode moves advertising and marketing into a more visual era of search and makes it easier to ask longer, more natural questions to explore visual content. ... read more

Google Drive for desktop is adding ransomware detection using an AI model trained on “millions of real-world ransomware samples” that will “look for signals that a file has been maliciously ... read more

AI Mode now supports searching by vibe. Google’s latest AI Mode update makes it easier for users to search through images using vague descriptions and references. The update provides a ... read more

Microsoft is launching a Security Store that will be full of security software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions and AI agents. It’s part of a broader effort to sell Microsoft’s Sentinel security platform ... read more

The vehicle of the future is electric. It's good for the environment. It has enough room for your stuff, as long as you're coming from the grocery and not the ... read more

Total viewer impressions from all TV partners grew year-over-year - up 13% to 12.3 billion (from 10.9 billion). National TV advertising was at $361.4 million, down 6 vs. a year ago, when it was $383.9 ... read more

NBC's new marketing competition show "On Brand" glosses over the real, hard work of actually putting together a national marketing campaign for an A-list brand. ... read more

For EVs, it's Zero Hour. When the clock strikes midnight on Oct. 1, the $7,500 federal tax credit on EVs will expire, potentially turning affordable electric carriages into showroom pumpkins. ... read more

Nothing’s Playground tool lets users design smartphone apps with AI. Nothing says it has just taken “the first step towards an AI-native operating system.” Not exactly. Playground, Nothing’s new app ... read more

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek has announced that he’s stepping down as CEO, two decades after founding the music streaming service. Ek will transition to an executive chairman role at the ... read more

A 3-inch touchscreen for swiping and zooming on roads and trails. Garmin’s $449.99 eTrex Touch is a rugged GPS navigator with preloaded maps for outdoor adventures. It features a 3-inch touchscreen for ... read more

Economists are famous for hedging their bets. Ask an economist a question, and they’ll usually respond with, “Well, it depends.” And when it comes to potential remedies in the Google ad tech antitrust case, fair ... read more

Prajwal Barthur, Verve Group SVP, said the question most asked by buyers is "how do I know the cohorts are accurate, and this is the problem we solve through Experian?" ... read more

Measurement and forecasting company Recast has made statistical experimentation accessible to all advertisers and marketers - creating a platform that simplifies the process. ... read more

A limited number of people will get to try out Opera’s AI browser, Neon, starting today for $19.90 per month.  The Norwegian software company first announced the “agentic browser” in ... read more

If you saw the leaks, you probably already know that haptics are the big, new thing in Logitech’s $119.99 MX Master 4 wireless mouse, coming in October. No, it’s not ... read more

If this industry has taught us anything, it’s that history repeats itself. We’re great at rebranding yesterday’s practices as tomorrow’s innovations.  So when principal-based buying started being pitched as the next big thing, I couldn’t ... read more

OpenAI wants to be social media now; retail marketers need to appease the bots; and yes, even Peloton is pivoting to AI. The post OpenAI Wants To Go ViralGPT; The Single-Site Shopper Agent appeared first ... read more

01 Introduction and methodology It’s nearing that time of year again — the holiday season is approaching, and brands and retailers are preparing their end-of-year sales plans. Digiday+ Research examined which ... read more

For content creators at the pinnacle, creating a media company is no longer the ultimate goal. In 2025, there’s a new endgame: the creator conglomerate.  As top creators became mainstream celebrities in the 2010s and ... read more

Ad creatives are becoming more forgiving about the use of generative AI outside the office walls.  Creative agencies used to maintain red lines over AI usage — limiting tools like ChatGPT, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion ... read more

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Spotify One thing to know about Eater editor-in-chief Stephanie Wu: She’s someone who achieves “Inbox Zero.” Regularly. To the point that Wu is almost nonchalant about the achievement. “The inbox ... read more

Related Insights Member Exclusive Ad Tech Briefing: The 2025 M&A rebound is back with a whimper, not a bang Subscribe To Read Read More Last week, Digiday noted ... read more

French agency holding company Havas and Horizon Media, the largest indie media shop in the U.S., are set to pool their media operations in the United States, through a joint venture set to command $20 ... read more

YouTube has settled a lawsuit President Donald Trump filed against the company in 2021, according to The Wall Street Journal. Trump filed sweeping lawsuits against Google-owned YouTube, Meta (then Facebook) ... read more

Senate Bill 53, the landmark AI transparency bill that has divided AI companies and made headlines for months, is now officially law in California.  On Monday, California governor Gavin Newsom ... read more

YouTube will pay $22 million to President Donald Trump to settle a lawsuit over his suspension from the service following the Jan. 6, 2021 riot in Washington, DC. ... read more

YouTube will pay $22 million to President Donald Trump to settle a lawsuit over his suspension from the service following the January 6, 2021 riot in Washington, D.C. The funds will be directed to the ... read more

Windows is coming back together. Microsoft is bringing its key Windows engineering teams under a single organization again, as part of a reorg being announced today. Windows chief Pavan Davuluri, ... read more

Security researchers are shining the spotlight on a serious security vulnerability that could enable stalkers to track victims using their own Tile tags, as well as other unwanted violations of ... read more

Electronic Arts just announced that it is going to be acquired and taken private in a massive $55 billion deal led by an investor group composed of Saudi Arabia's Public ... read more

PlayStation: The First 30 Years provides a rare look at what could have been. | Image: Read-Only Memory It’s been 30 years since the original PlayStation was released in North ... read more

Google is asking the Supreme Court to halt an "unprecedented" lower court injunction, arguing that it exposes Android users and app developers to "substantial new safety and security risks." ... read more

Google is asking the Supreme Court to halt an "unprecedented" lower court injunction, arguing it exposes Android users and app developers to "substantial new safety and security risks." ... read more

After 35 years as a publicly traded company, video game giant Electronic Arts will go private. It has agreed to a $55 billion joint-venture acquisition. This marks the largest-ever leveraged buyout, according to a report ... read more

The search engine will automatically recognize the type of query the person asks, and provide a response without switching modes to the Ask Brave feature, pulling answers from videos, web pages, and a variety of ... read more

The search engine will automatically recognize the type of query the person asks, and provide a response without switching modes to the Ask Brave feature, pulling answers from videos, web pages, and a variety of ... read more

The Echo Pop is $15 off. The Echo Pop and Echo Dot are Amazon’s entry-level smart speakers, and both are currently on sale ahead of Amazon’s October Prime Day (aka ... read more

Editor’s note: Amazon’s fall Prime Day event kicks off on October 7th; however, if you want to shop ahead of the two-day sale, we’ve rounded up the best early Prime ... read more

Weave through traffic by just moving your head from side to side. | Image: Apple Developer Ali Tanis has released the first game for iPhones and iPads that’s played using ... read more

"This suit is a naked attempt by X to win at the courthouse business it lost in the free market," the WFA and 10 advertisers argue to U.S. District Court Judge Jane Boyle in Wichita ... read more

Anthropic's latest AI model spent 30 hours running by itself to code a chat app akin to Slack or Teams. It spat out about 11,000 lines of code, according to ... read more

Retail stores represent untapped media channels that can deliver storytelling and emotional connection at the critical point of purchase decision, moving beyond traditional “buy now” messaging to create memorable brand experiences. “We see the opportunity ... read more

Dubbed Horizon Global, the venture will manage $20 billion in global billings and focus on "US-centric global client opportunities." ... read more

Cavanagh, who will ascend to the position in January, has been president of Comcast Corp. since 2022. Prior to that he was CFO since 2015, when he joined the company. ... read more

Brands are irrelevant. And they've never been more important. Just ask my boyish self. ... read more

Anker’s new power bank features two USB-C ports and a USB-A port. | Image: Anker Anker announced its new capacious Prime Power Bank (26k, 300W) at IFA 2025 as part ... read more

"No action, talk only is no longer an option," Ressa said, against a world where algorithm-driven feeds distort truth faster than it can be checked. ... read more

Jason Downie, global CRO of Making Science's RAISING division, described generative AI and agentic AI with the analogy of a baseball game. The industry isn't even in the first inning - it has not entered ... read more

The new UI on the Echo Show 21 is a big improvement, but Alexa Plus needs a deeper integration with its screen-based hardware. This week, Amazon will launch new Echo ... read more

Amazon’s Kindle Kids is currently on sale for $94.99 ($35 off). Amazon’s October Prime Day (officially called Prime Big Deal Days) starts on October 7th, but waiting a week won’t ... read more

Keychron is one of the biggest names in mechanical keyboards (but certainly far from the only maker worthy of your attention). If you’re interested in an upgrade for your desk, ... read more

OpenAI has rolled out some long-awaited parental controls for ChatGPT to all web users, with mobile coming “soon,” according to the company.  The controls, announced last month, allow for reducing ... read more

GameSir’s new smartphone controller features buttons and colors styled after the Game Boy’s. | Image: @yoshivesmovie / X Over the past weekend at the Tokyo Game Show, GameSir demonstrated a ... read more

Google had a difficult day Friday in its monopoly case, as the DOJ's witnesses - some focused on engineering - suggested it is feasible to carry out its structural remedies. ... read more

Hello, and welcome to Decoder! This is Nilay Patel’s show about big ideas and other problems. I am not Nilay Patel, though I have long wanted to be him.  I ... read more

Apple CarPlay Ultra, as featured in the Aston Martin DBX | Image: Apple The list of car companies looking askance at Apple’s newly release, all-encompassing version of CarPlay is growing ... read more

Google’s old logo (left) vs. its new one (right) | Image: Google Google is making the gradient “G” its new company-wide logo, according to an announcement on Monday. The new ... read more

You’ve probably heard of vibe coding — novices writing apps by creating a simple AI prompt — but now Microsoft wants to introduce a similar thing for its Office apps. ... read more

"NBCUniversal is asking us to pay more than what they charge consumers for the same content on Peacock, which would mean less flexibility and higher prices for our subscribers," a YouTube representative said in a ... read more

“Sand storm” is a hell of a name for beige. Just a few days after first teasing the upcoming launch of the OnePlus 15, the company is already showing off ... read more

Electronic Arts has announced it is being acquired and taken private in a $55 billion deal involving Silver Lake, Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, and Affinity Partners, which is founded ... read more

More than two years after launching Madison and Wall, long-time ad industry forecaster Brian Wieser has recruited Magna's Luke Stillman to the team. Both are former Wall Street analysts. ... read more

In his new role, Bornman, currently CEO of Publicis Media UK, will add Digitas, Epsilon, Lotame, Mars United Commerce and Influential to his responsibilities. ... read more

The AI moment in advertising is exiting the trough of disillusionment and entering the slope of enlightenment, but video is still a glaring blind spot. Video is where attention lives, yet most “AI for video” ... read more

In its 37th-season premiere Sunday night, "The Simpsons" demonstrated that it still has its finger on the pulse of our popular culture as it lampooned a current category of commercials. ... read more

The CMF Headphone Pro can be customized by swapping their ear cushions with alternate colors. | Image: Nothing CMF, the budget-focused sub-brand that Nothing plans to spin off into a ... read more

Since the Trump administration first threatened a 25% increase in import tariffs on Canadian goods in February, The Great White North’s sentiment towards its southern neighbor has been decidedly less neighborly. The post How ... read more

The number-one job of a marketer is to invest budget wisely to drive sales. That inherently requires accurately measuring the performance of that spending.  Yet most advertisers still rely on flawed measurement methods that systematically ... read more

Marketing films is one battle after another; AI gets stymied by the cloud; and bots are causing brand backlash. The post Movie Marketing Lost Its Magic; The Cloud Commanders appeared first on AdExchanger. ... read more

AI Mode isn’t just the name of Google’s newest search product. It also describes the present period of digital media — and the theme of this September’s Digiday Publishing Summit. AI is no longer the ... read more

Generative AI is taking over the discovery phase, thanks to shoppers starting their online search with AI platforms like ChatGPT, Google Gemini or AI Mode. But as is with all things AI, changes are moving ... read more

As AI bot traffic grows, content creators are taking steps to protect their intellectual property from being scraped against their will.  The publishing industry has spent the past year battling against the encroachment of AI ... read more

By now, the contours of the Department of Justice’s antitrust case against Google’s ad tech business are well covered – and deeply complex. Rather than rehash what’s already been parsed to death, here’s a definite ... read more

TV broadcasters and walled garden platforms are competing to lower the cost of ad creative. Amazon, Google, Comcast, ITV and Channel 4 are each hoping to capture their share of the long tail of ad ... read more

Robots.txt got some much-needed TLC last week, courtesy of Cloudflare’s latest update.  Cloudflare’s new Content Signals Policy effectively upgrades the decades-old honor system and adds a way for publishers to spell out how they do ... read more

To counter "fragmented" healthcare experiences, pharma firms are launching DTP programs like telehealth consultations. ... read more

The new Market is in Union Square in New York City. ... read more

The rapid pace of GAI's growth has alarmed consumers, with concerns over trust and transparency in protecting data. Eighty-two percent of GAI users surveyed worry that it could be misused - up from 74% in ... read more

Siri’s new logo. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman Apple is testing Siri’s upcoming revamp using an internal chatbot called Veritas. The company’s struggles as it tries to keep pace in ... read more

Connected television is rapidly becoming one of the most powerful precision tools for reaching healthcare audiences, said Kyle Avery, director of business development at adtech giant The Trade Desk. Speaking with Lisa Granatstein, editorial director ... read more

For most of his career Larry Ellison has been content to quietly let Oracle be the company, behind the company, behind the technology that makes headlines. Its biggest products being ... read more

Donald Trump sitting in the Oval Office. Donald Trump is no stranger to outlandish conspiracies or strange social media posts. But, by any measure, his post on Saturday night was ... read more

The last few months, I've felt like I'm living in a cyberpunk movie. Each night, when I get ready to wind down, I reach for the remote to turn on ... read more

Less elegant but much more scratch resistant. As the nation's foremost FineWoven hater, I have some great news about Apple's follow-up: it doesn't suck. I've been using a TechWoven case ... read more

Silksong resembles the original Hollow Knight in many ways, though right from the start, you can hear one key difference: Hornet. Hollow Knight's protagonist was silent, but just as Hornet ... read more

A still from the Critterz short film. This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the intersection of entertainment ... read more

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 99, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, happy pumpkin spice season, and also you ... read more

Wu-Tang’s Once Upon a Time in Shaolin Disgraced pharma bro, convicted felon, and perennial challenger for America’s Most Hateable Man, Martin Shkreli will have to face a lawsuit for making ... read more

Nintendo’s first-party Switch 2 Pro Controller can’t be beaten when it comes to its breadth of features and comfort. But at $89.99, let’s be real, it’s way too expensive for ... read more

It's not quite October yet, and there are still plenty of video games set to be released before the end of the year. Even still, I'm pretty convinced that Blippo ... read more