One SEO change from Google has cost a coupon site publisher "tens of millions of dollars per year," News/Media Alliance CEO/President Danielle Coffey told MediaPost. ... read more

Analysts typically look to Q1 and Q2 market activity for insights on where the upfront TV ad marketplace is trending for the following season - including near-term deal-making in the "scatter" market where brands buy ... read more

Analysts typically look to Q1 and Q2 market activity for insights on where the upfront TV ad marketplace is trending for the following season - including near-term deal-making in the "scatter" market where brands buy ... read more

A Microsoft employee has managed to circumvent a block instituted earlier this week that limited mentions of "Palestine," "Gaza," and "Genocide" in email subject lines or in the body of a ... read more

The Vestaboard Note uses 45 split-flap modules compared to the larger version that has 132. | Image: Vestaboard The original Vestaboard revived and modernized the split-flap mechanical displays that were once a ... read more

The circus moves on. Elon Musk isn't as publicly, obviously involved in Washington as he used to be, that much is clear. But celebrations of his political exile are premature. Sure, it's ... read more

That's according to a new business report from COMvergence. Local Planet is a global consortium of independent agencies including Horizon Media which won the $857 million Charter/Spectrum business in March. ... read more

The GP-VPT3 is $20 more expensive than its predecessor, but also more functional. | Image: Sony Sony announced a new version of its multi-function shooting grip and compact tripod that puts its ... read more

Google DeepMind this week announced VEO 3 AI Video Generation, which allows creators to develop 8-second HD videos and realistic audio. It synchronizes dialogue, ambient sounds, and music. ... read more

The total streaming cost from seven major platforms, Guggenheim Securities says, would be $94.93 - compared to a legacy pay TV provider-based package at $99.97. ... read more

Here's what we know: it's probably not smart glasses. Beyond that, we don't know much about what Jony Ive and OpenAI are building through their newly combined company io, except that ... read more

Glitch, the coding platform where developers can share and remix projects, will soon no longer offer its core feature: hosting apps on the web. In an update on Thursday, Glitch CEO ... read more

For Wendy McMahon, president of CBS News, and Bill Owens, executive producer of "60 Minutes," resigning must have been tough to do. ... read more

President Donald Trump has threatened Apple with a tariff of “at least 25 percent” just for its iPhones unless it moves production to the United States. “I have long ago informed ... read more

After a six year absence, Nike will soon begin selling products directly on Amazon, having previously stopped in 2019 to go it alone. At the same time, the company is reportedly ... read more

Discord has become the place for gaming communities on the internet. The company just celebrated its 10th anniversary, and its impact is now big enough that it's available directly on PlayStation ... read more

Food and beverage brands are introducing new products that aim to address the questions raised by consumer usage of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs like Mounjaro and Wegovy. At the same time, they’re beginning to borrow from ... read more

This story was originally published on sister site, Glossy. TJX, parent company to off-price leaders like TJ Maxx and Marshalls, reported 3% sales growth during its Q1 fiscal 2026 meeting on Wednesday. “The availability of ... read more

Interested in sharing your perspectives on the media and marketing industries? Join the Digiday research panel. There are a lot of questions in this year’s upfront market negotiations: Will ad prices come down after last ... read more

Paul Woolmington certainly looks the part of an ad agency creative. But in actuality he’s one of the senior media-side executives with decades of experience under his belt, including at holding companies including IPG, WPP, ... read more

Marvel Studios has pushed back the release dates of Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Doomsday is being delayed from May 1st, 2026, to December 18th, ... read more

Elden Ring will soon be more than just a hit video game. On Thursday, Bandai Namco and A24 announced a live-action Elden Ring film directed by Alex Garland. Japanese developer FromSoftware ... read more

As YouTube prepares to air an exclusive NFL opening week game for free on September 5th, it’s hiring former Disney exec Justin Connolly. He’d most recently been running the streaming services ... read more

Tech company CEOs aren’t just making their companies AI-first: this week, they’re using AI avatars to replace themselves in earnings calls. Buy now, pay later company Klarna featured the AI version ... read more

In a pretty barebones press release accompanied by a couple of pictures and detailed specs, Ricoh surprise announced that its long-awaited GR IV camera will launch this fall. The GR IV ... read more

Valve has been building up to this for months, first in preview, then beta, and now finally in a full stable release: a new version of SteamOS that brings brand new ... read more

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has officially dropped its case against Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard. The FTC filed an order to dismiss its complaint on Thursday, just days after it ... read more

The New York-based media agency has quietly picked up a handful of recent accounts including AOR assignments for TrueCar, Chobani and home appliance maker Midea America. ... read more

The Xiaomi YU7 matches the Tesla Model Y in size and acceleration, but demolishes it in range. | Image: Xiaomi Xiaomi unveiled its hotly anticipated YU7 electric SUV in China today, in ... read more

The Xiaomi PU7 matches the Tesla Model Y in size and acceleration, but demolishes it in range. | Image: Xiaomi Xiaomi unveiled its hotly anticipated PU7 electric SUV in China today, in ... read more

Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun – Words of Vengeance is a new typing game based on Warhammer 40,000 and it’s available now for free on PC via Steam. The dark sci-fi spin on ... read more

The mystery is the point, but it’s also indicative of where AI hardware is. The last 48 hours have been a wild rollercoaster ride for AI hardware. On Tuesday, Google ended its ... read more

A source tells Bloomberg that Apple’s glasses will be similar to Meta’s but “better made.” Apple is planning to debut its first pair of smart glasses next year, according to a report ... read more

Independent media agency pioneer Holt is at it again, rolling up USIM and a portfolio of other agencies into a holding company built for rapidly evolving client needs. ... read more

The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” that House Republicans narrowly passed early Thursday would strip state legislatures of AI oversight and scale back consumer protection and climate initiatives while funding border ... read more

Meta has announced its most expansive hardware push to date - now offering the Ray-Ban device in Mexico, the UAE and India. ... read more

The US Senate voted today to strip California of its authority to enact state limits on tailpipe pollution that are tougher than national standards. Opponents called it an illegal move by ... read more

Once Donald Trump won office for a second time, the writing was on the wall. Trump ran on many messages, most of them confusing and contradictory, but one of his ... read more

Notepad’s new Write feature uses generative AI to create content for you based on a prompt. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft is now testing a new feature in Notepad that can generate text ... read more

House Republicans advanced a sweeping spending package that would roll back Biden-era tax credits for renewable energy projects. If the bill passes the Senate and makes it to President Donald Trump’s ... read more

TikTok says its new Seller Assistant will provide guidance to TikTok Shop merchants via "personalized, context-aware recommendations" in response to real-time questions about performance. ... read more

A Microsoft company spokesperson acknowledged the protest and email to MediaPost, but stopped short of saying emails have been blocked that include terms related to Palestine and Gaza. ... read more

If you've been following distributed networks, this GAI story became really interesting around March, when Infinite Reality acquired Napster and changed its name. ... read more

Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, the handy bookmarking tool used to save articles and webpages for later. The organization announced that Pocket will stop working on July 8th, 2025, as Mozilla ... read more

At $479.99, the AirPods Max are now at their second-best price to date. From savings on big-ticket items like LG’s C4 OLED TVs to smaller ones like the Garmin Forerunner 265, there ... read more

What Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One lacked in narrative cohesion, it made up for by leaning into the reality that larger-than-life spectacle and Tom Cruise's enthusiasm for doing his ... read more

Meta is beginning to test showing 3D photos on Instagram if you’re looking at your feed on a Meta Quest VR headset. “Thanks to our AI view synthesis algorithms, we can ... read more

Nvidia has gone too far. This week, the company reportedly attempted to delay, derail, and manipulate reviews of its $299 GeForce RTX 5060 graphics card, which would normally be its bestselling ... read more

On the bright side, at least this isn’t called Bard. Google executives took the stage this week at I/O to unveil their latest AI technology: Deep Think. Or was it Deep Search? ... read more

You don’t need to use the Rode Wireless Micro’s wireless receiver any more, if you’re ok with the limitations of Bluetooth. | Image: Rode Rode has announced a firmware update for its ... read more

CTV ad spend now amounts to more than 31% of all ad spend on TV, a 3X gap between spend and viewing share. ... read more

Blue Prince’s planned 1.10 update, which will add things like a color assist mode, controls remapping, and more, will be the “final major update” and the “definitive version” of the game, ... read more

Say hello to Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4. Anthropic has introduced Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, its latest generation of hybrid-reasoning AI models optimized for coding tasks and ... read more

Travelers, particularly those swayed by social content, are turning loyalty programs into a strategic game. ... read more

If you’ve ever wondered how the Internet Archive uploads all the physical documents on its site, now you can get a behind-the-scenes look at the process. The Internet Archive launched a ... read more

With access to Gemini-powered features on Nest Cams like this one, app developers could tap into more advanced automations. Google is bringing Gemini intelligence to its Home APIs, allowing smart home developers ... read more

When Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella ran into Meta's former engineering chief, Jay Parikh, at a conference last summer, he had the future of AI top of mind. The pair have known ... read more

NBCU would be taking over the package owned by ESPN. The network has aired a Sunday night baseball game since 1990. ... read more

Honor has announced the 400 and 400 Pro, two midrange phones that launch today in the UK and Europe. They’re capable-looking handsets in plenty of respects, but stand out mostly for ... read more

The Game Boy Color is $100 off. Whether you’re hunting for a last-minute graduation gift or an early Father’s Day present, Grid Studio’s deconstructed gadgets are worth a look. The company transforms ... read more

Globally, media prices are forecast to rise only 3.9% this year, continuing a deceleration of inflation since 2022, according to the latest edition of ECI's Media Inflation Report. ... read more

Globally, media prices are forecast to rise only 3.9% this year, continuing a deceleration of inflation since 2022, according to the latest edition of ECI's Media Inflation Report. ... read more

Verizon has asked the Federal Communications Commission to get rid of the rule requiring it to unlock phones after 60 days. In a letter to the FCC spotted by LightReading, Verizon ... read more

Xiaomi has unveiled its first in-house flagship chipset, the Xring O1, and it’s got enough power to go head-to-head with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite. The company also unveiled a 15S Pro ... read more

Today, I’m talking with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi. We recorded this conversation the day Uber announced a big set of product updates, including new options for shared rides and some features ... read more

If you’ve been wanting to grab a subscription to Nvidia’s GeForce Now cloud game streaming service, now’s a good time to commit. That’s because six-month subs to its mid-tier Performance subscription ... read more

Humane’s AI Pin. | Photo by Amelia Holoway Krales / The Verge More details are trickling out about Jony Ive and Sam Altman’s new AI device. In a post on Thursday, Apple ... read more

Tamagotchi Paradise introduces a new dial control letting you zoom in on characters to the cellular level. | Screenshot: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgWn6l16bjY">YouTube</a> There are still plenty of Tamagotchi devices that have you focusing ... read more

It was hard to believe how ill-conceived and poorly managed OceanGate Expeditions’ plan to send its people down to the Titanic wreckage was as reports first broke of the company’s TItan ... read more

B2B advertisers remain hesitant to use CTV because of three common misconceptions: that it's too expensive, it's too broad to effectively reach niche audiences, and it isn't measurable. ... read more

Video game consultants like Laura Kate Dale came into 2023 with a lot of hope. Since 2020, accessibility in games had become a mainstream discussion, bolstered by high-profile releases like The ... read more

SwitchBot’s new keypad has built-in facial recognition. It works with its new retrofit smart lock, the SwitchBot Lock Ultra. | Image: SwitchBot Smart home company SwitchBot has announced a new version of ... read more

When you select “hear the highlights,” a playback bar will appear at the bottom of the screen. | Image: Amazon Amazon is testing new AI-generated audio summaries that will let you listen ... read more

"The Residence" on Netflix is one of streaming's biggest hits because it goes where so many other shows never go - to a land called Entertainment. ... read more

The ESPN tour will go to a different state each day for 50 consecutive days throughout the summer, to coincide with the launch of the full-fledged ESPN streamer as a streaming platform in the fall. ... read more

At last month's rapturously received Slate debut, it took an executive's quip that "Slate" and "Tesla" use the same 5 letters to shift my brain into high gear. I've covered the ... read more

Apple hasn’t announced when the Mr. Scorsese series will be released. After directing dozens of documentaries over his 60-year career, legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese will now have his own life chronicled for ... read more

We still don’t know for sure what Ive and Altman are building together, but it isn’t glasses or a phone. The mysterious device that OpenAI is cooking up with former Apple designer ... read more

It’s like a shrunken, stripped-down X100. Fujifilm has a new pint-size addition to its X-series cameras coming in late June: the X Half. It’s an 18-megapixel “half-frame” camera with a portrait-oriented sensor ... read more

ChatGPT is sending more of its traffic to publishers’ sites.  Of the traffic OpenAI’s generative AI platforms send to external websites, 83% went to news and media sites in April, up from 64% in January, ... read more

Related Insights Google on Trial Assessing the fallout of Google’s ad tech antitrust trial Read More Participants in the Google antitrust trial are entering the final furlong, with ... read more

AI may be fueling a fresh chapter in ad tech fraud — and not in ways the industry is ready for. Generative AI content farms are stealing publishers’ ads.txt files to hijack ad revenue, according ... read more

This week’s Media Briefing looks at what AI Mode, the latest generative AI search experience Google has rolled out, means for publishers’ search referral traffic. Users’ queries in AI Mode are two to three ... read more

Dyson’s new skinny PencilVac looks like a broom. | Image: Dyson Dyson has announced what it’s claiming is the “world’s slimmest vacuum cleaner.” At first glance, its new PencilVac looks like a ... read more

Microsoft employees have discovered that any emails they send with the terms "Palestine" or "Gaza" are getting temporarily blocked from being sent to recipients inside and outside the company. The No ... read more

The initial deal was struck in 2021 and since then WPP has managed end-to-end creative, media, data and marketing technology, across the company's entire portfolio. ... read more

A lawsuit against Google and companion chatbot service Character AI — which is accused of contributing to the death of a teenager — can move forward, ruled a Florida judge. In ... read more

Signal is taking proactive steps to ensure Microsoft’s Recall feature can’t screen capture your secured chats, by rolling out a new version of the Signal for Windows 11 client that enables ... read more

Spotify says the changes will make for more seamless buying opportunities that could benefit creators, who can now direct customers to discounted billing options. ... read more

Spotify says the changes will make for more seamless buying opportunities that could benefit creators, who can now direct customers to discounted billing options. ... read more

The trade association backing some of the biggest news publishers in the US slammed Google’s newly expanded AI Mode, which trades traditional search results for an AI chatbot-like interface. In a ... read more

Publishers have long chased growth through social platforms and short-term traffic spikes. These tactics often prioritize volume over value, inflating reach without building meaningful relationships or translating into lasting engagement or revenue. Without meaningful data ... read more

Microsoft has announced that a new “Retro Classics” collection is now available to Game Pass subscribers. Reminiscent of the Nintendo Switch Online classic games library, the collection includes Pitfall, Grand Prix, ... read more

The Chevy Silverado EV Trail Boss is being positioned as the ultimate off-roader. | Image: Chevy The 2026 Chevy Silverado EV is going off road — way off road — with the addition ... read more

Artist and musician Brian Eno — who also composed the iconic Windows 95 operating system startup chime — called on Microsoft today to “suspend all services that support any operations that ... read more

Google announced a new SynthID Detector tool at Google I/O that lets you check if content has been made with the assistance of Google’s AI tools. In a blog post, Google ... read more

Toyota is redesigning and “electrifying” its Rav4 lineup for 2026 with models that aren’t quite EVs, but could masquerade as one. The mega popular SUV will come standard with hybrid powertrains, ... read more

While announcing a reportedly $6.5 billion team-up on AI hardware between his startup, io, and OpenAI, Jony Ive spoke to Bloomberg and commented on last year’s attempts at making AI hardware ... read more

Audyns (pronounced audience) launches with deals to aggregate buys across TelevisaUnivision, Great American Media and Reelz reaching more than 30% of national linear impressions. ... read more

Audyns (pronounced audience) launches with deals to aggregate buys across TelevisaUnivision, Great American Media and Reelz reaching more than 30% of national linear impressions. ... read more