On Thursday, Comcast Advertising announced that the cable provider’s linear TV inventory will now be available on a targetable, biddable basis for advertisers that want to transact programmatically. The post Comcast Intros Biddable And Programmatic ... read more

You can use Wyze’s new doorbell cam on battery power alone or hardwire it to a power source to access more functionality. | Image: Wyze Wyze has announced a new ... read more

Clean and simple? Yes. Weird and jarring? Also yes. Leica is announcing a new type of M-mount camera, its first that’s not actually a rangefinder. The new M EV1 is ... read more

This week, OpenAI debuted its long-rumored AI browser that aims to put its AI chatbot at the center of the internet. The browser, called ChatGPT Atlas, is entering a space ... read more

Amazon Web Services on Thursday introduced a fully managed service built for real-time bidding ad workloads that supports demand-side platforms and supply-side platforms and other companies including those that focus on fraud detection and brand ... read more

Hightouch's new ID Express solution aims to simplify the process of converting email addresses and phone numbers into UID2s. The post CDP Hightouch Has A Shortcut For Making UIDs appeared first on AdExchanger. ... read more

So much is going on in the rapidly changing world of Big Media right now that it takes one's breath away. ... read more

Roku's share of the market dipped 3% in Q3 vs. Q2 this year (36% vs. 37%). Apple TV, now in second place, witnessed a sharp 27% gain (to a 15% share). ... read more

Mac wallpaper optional, but encouraged. Ledger’s fifth Nano crypto wallet marks a moment of reinvention: it’s not nearly so “nano” anymore, and Ledger would prefer you didn’t call it a ... read more

The base is the hub of the ADT Plus system. My front door unlocks automatically as I walk up to it, and the home security system disarms itself - no ... read more

If people using platforms that harvest their data were apple trees and the platforms were farms, would the apples belong to the trees or the farm that harvested them? ... read more

Less than two days ago, OpenAI came out swinging in the fight for the future of the internet with the release of ChatGPT Atlas, an AI-powered web browser it hopes ... read more

A new integration between Amazon and Clinch allows advertisers to access Amazon custom audiences via a third-party platform. The post Amazon Audiences Help Keurig Dr Pepper Improve Personalization And Reach appeared first on AdExchanger. ... read more

The 15.6-inch Espresso Pro monitor will change your flow. Most gadgets are iterative in the value they bring to our lives. The 15.6-inch Espresso Pro portable monitor is different, having ... read more

Programmatic advertising requires serious real-time computing power. And that bandwidth consumption is only growing as AI takes on a bigger role in deal curation and, eventually, full campaign activation. Which is why AWS debuted a ... read more

The ad dollars are nice but the real prize for Amazon is the infrastructure itself – the rails on which the entire system runs.  Up until now that’s been the quiet part of its ad ... read more

Reddit sues four companies for scraping and selling (and buying) its data; Unity Software's new zero-fee product is good news for mobile developers; and brands aren't thrilled by TikTok shop's latest updates. The post Sour ... read more

This story was first published by Digiday sibling WorkLife Aruna Ravichandran leads marketing for Webex at Cisco with a 99% remote team, less than 1% attrition and what she calls “maniacal execution.” We caught up ... read more

This story was first published by Digiday sibling ModernRetail ChatGPT is sending more shoppers to e-commerce sites, but most aren’t buying. A new working paper from researchers at the University of Hamburg and the Frankfurt School of ... read more

This week’s Media Briefing looks at how publishers are laying the rails for agent-led buying. We look beyond the hype at the reality of what agents are in play today within publishers’ commercial operations and ... read more

By now, it’s hard to ignore where OpenAI is headed. The executive hints, the ad world hires, the burn rate that would make tech CEO blush – all signs point to advertising. This week’s launch ... read more

A New York Times report on Tuesday cited internal Amazon documents touting how its shift into automation could help it sell more products without hiring more people, but today the ... read more

Meta is planning surprising cuts to an estimated 600 jobs from its Superintelligence AI Labs division. ... read more

Tesla CEO Elon Musk predicted the company would be able to remove the safety monitors from its robotaxis "by the end of the year." He also said Tesla would launch ... read more

In the commerce media space, few categories of company are in quite as advantageous a position as those which hold the purse strings. For American Express, the bet is that its unique position as both ... read more

Remember when word got out that Amazon was building smart glasses for its delivery drivers before possibly launching a version for consumers as well? Amazon has just revealed those ... read more

Reddit "brings this action to stop the industrial-scale, unlawful circumvention of data protections by a group of bad actors who will stop at nothing to get their hands on valuable copyrighted content," the company alleged ... read more

After six years as Fandom’s CEO, Perkins Miller is parting ways with the popular wiki hosting platform. While there has yet to be an official announcement, The Verge has learned ... read more

Boxy can be beautiful. Lomography announced a new Lomo MC-A film camera, a 35mm format point-and-shoot with a fixed 32mm f/2.8 lens and metal body. It’s a charmer of a ... read more

Amazon and Rivian are back together again. The e-commerce giant is collaborating with Rivian’s Also spinoff on a custom-designed, pedal-assisted, four-wheel cargo bike. The bike would likely be based on ... read more

With the audience now firmly established in the CTV environment, the focus is turning toward making those impressions count. For some, the next phase of CTV advertising involves moving beyond simple reach to drive tangible ... read more

The captive audience has long been the holy grail of advertising. But what about the audience that is literally captive, buckled into the backseat of a car with an average of 20 minutes to spare? ... read more

Interactive entertainment has become a cornerstone of omnichannel media strategy, said Ben Hovaness, chief media officer at OMD Worldwide. “We see interactive entertainment playing two key roles,” he said in this interview with Beet.TV contributor ... read more

Criterion recently kicked off its semi-annual sale that slashes the cost of all of its in-stock Blu-rays, DVDs, and box sets. The sale will last through 12PM ET, October 23rd. ... read more

HBO Max is rolling out a new rating system that allows you to share feedback about the shows and movies you watch. The streaming service will tweak your recommendations based ... read more

Google recently reversed a trend that had been dragging down the company's search market share for the past nine months. ... read more

Tesla reported a profitable third quarter today, as shoppers scrambled to snatch up the company’s EVs in record numbers before the federal EV tax credit expired. Tesla said it earned $1.4 ... read more

Just a week after rumors about Samsung canceling the Galaxy S26 Edge due to low sales of the ultra-slim S25 Edge, Apple is reportedly notifying its supply chain partners of ... read more

The national database on billion-dollar weather and climate disasters has found a new home after the Trump administration decided to ax it earlier this year. Thanks to researchers continuing the ... read more

Can’t wait for Swifties to review bomb The Life of a Showgirl Pitchfork is going full midlife crisis mode, experimenting with user-generated content, adding comments (when much of the web ... read more

On the cusp of its merger with Omnicom, Interpublic is not releasing a third quarter ad forecast for the first time in years, raising questions about its future. Interpublic has published industry forecasts since 1948. ... read more

Siding with Meta Platforms, a federal judge has thrown out a Maryland resident's lawsuit over Facebook Marketplace ads for phony Morgan silver dollars. ... read more

When it comes to inventive USB-C accessories with rad designs, nobody does it like Sharge. Now it’s following up its classic Mac-inspired chargers, its Braun turntable-inspired battery, and whatever the ... read more

Reddit is suing Perplexity and three “data-scraping service providers” to “stop the industrial-scale, unlawful circumvention of data protections by a group of bad actors who will stop at nothing to ... read more

Last year, the online transaction company PayPal hired Mark Grether, former CEO of Sizmek, who has also had stints as head of Amazon Advertising and Uber Ads, to lead its nascent advertising division. And in ... read more

The Also TM-B e-bike looks like nothing else. | Image: Rivian Also Rivian’s micromobility spinoff Also has just taken the wraps off its TM-B e-bike, TM-Q pedal-assisted electric quad bike, ... read more

Before RJ Scaringe founded the adventure-themed EV company Rivian, he was thinking about bikes. Well, not bikes exactly. More like pedal-powered hybrid microcars and other forms of alternative transportation. ... read more

The 2026 soccer tournament represents a once-in-a-generation opportunity for marketers in the United States, Mexico and Canada. ... read more

If you’re looking to play games like Ghost of Yōtei or Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, you’re going to need a PlayStation 5. Luckily, right now, you can grab ... read more

GM plans to drop support for phone projection on all new vehicles in the near future, and not just its electric car lineup, according to GM CEO Mary Barra. ... read more

Bad creative wastes media dollars AND has a detrimental impact on your brand. ... read more

It's the nickname for a new technical standard that promises to revolutionize consumer marketing by putting consumers - or their agents - in charge of the process. Think C2B, not B2C. ... read more

Jamie Siminoff’s new book charts the highs and lows of making the world’s first video doorbell. Jamie Siminoff has returned to Ring, the company he founded, with a renewed focus ... read more

Robby Starbuck is suing Google, claiming that its AI search tools falsely linked him to sexual assault allegations and white nationalist Richard Spencer. This is the second case that Starbuck, ... read more

You've never had to wait all that long for Hollywood to adapt another one of Stephen King's tales, but the past couple of years have felt unusually flush with films ... read more

Today, Nintendo announced free updates coming to the Pikmin games in November and posted the full version of its “Close to You” Pikmin short film on YouTube, after it was ... read more

Eight Sleep Pod mattress toppers can now be controlled offline in the event of future outages. Some smart bed users were quite literally losing sleep over the massive AWS outage ... read more

The deal follows one with Comscore for linear TV data and Kantar to manage a calibration panel that is at the heart of Aquila's audience reach deduplication system. ... read more

The agency works with Molson Coors, ZipRecruiter and Wayfair. ... read more

A vehicle is welded by robot arms as it goes through the assembly line at the General Motors Lansing Delta Township Assembly plant in Lansing, Michigan. | Photo: Getty Images ... read more

We’ve got a special episode of Decoder today. I’m talking to General Motors CEO Mary Barra and new GM Chief Product Officer Sterling Anderson about a lot of big news ... read more

It only took a few notes from the Plants vs. Zombies menu music to transport me to a long-forgotten world of sunflowers, pea shooters, and not being able to put ... read more

Ring’s Battery Doorbell Plus is on sale for $79.99 ($70 off) After extensive testing we selected Ring’s Battery Doorbell Plus as the best battery-powered doorbell camera, and it has returned ... read more

Tero Virtala, CEO of Control developer Remedy Entertainment, is stepping down from his position immediately. The news comes in the aftermath of a disappointing launch for FBC: Firebreak, the Finnish ... read more

Three separate reports from PayPal, Deloitte and Measure Protocol show how AI has increasingly become the influencer when consumers are ready to make decisions on how much, where and when they will spend their dollars. ... read more

Casio’s new ring watch features an adjustable strap to accommodate smaller fingers. | Image: Casio Japan After bringing its novel digital ring watch to the US last December, Casio has ... read more

Kin Lane fondly remembers working on the Free Application for Federal Student Aid in 2013. FAFSA is used by millions of college students each year to help access scholarship money, ... read more

Meta is planning to axe around 600 roles within its legacy AI research division, according to a report from Axios. The layoffs will reportedly impact Meta’s Fundamental AI Research unit, ... read more

Many would wonder why Netflix, the dominant premium streaming platform, would consider stepping back to grab some old-school media assets. ... read more

Metroid Prime 1-3: A Visual Retrospective is a fabulous resource for learning more than I ever thought I'd be privy to about Nintendo and Retro Studios' ambitious first-person adventure series. ... read more

YouTube has added a new Shorts feature that makes it easier to manage how much time you’re spending watching videos. Mobile users can now set a customizable daily limit that ... read more

Change is the watchword of marketing, but it is overrated, because the fundamentals of marketing are unchanging and nothing about digital or AI changes that. ... read more

Publishers, brands and agencies today are navigating a new landscape. With rising consumer expectations and evolving regulations, delivering personalized campaigns requires a fresh approach. The old model of broadly sharing consumer data has given way ... read more

"Mob War: Philadelphia vs. The Mafia" is surprisingly suspenseful and frightening in a way that these kinds of documentaries never are. ... read more

Yelp has unveiled its fall product releases, including AI-powered call and answer services and scheduling and the "Yelp Assistant" chatbot that now has a memory. ... read more

As it rushes to meet its pledge for “100 percent” of trips in electric vehicles by 2030, Uber is offering grants of $4,000 for drivers to swap their gas-guzzlers for ... read more

Marketing often gets unfairly pegged as a cost center. But that wouldn’t happen if marketers had access to better measurement that gave them clarity on what truly drives business growth, argues Henry Innis, CEO and ... read more

Prebid doing away with universal Transaction IDs is just the latest example of the ad industry’s counterproductive history of information asymmetry and obfuscation. When both sides of a transaction aren’t working with the same information, ... read more

Wouldn’t it be great to enact standards rather than talk about them?; Amazon wants to go fully automated; and revenue doesn’t seem to drop like search traffic does. The post Why Don’t Marketers Demand Better?; ... read more

With the Chinese government offering little indication it will sign off on TikTok’s proposed framework deal with Washington, ad execs are left addressing marketers’ concerns that the agreement could still unravel. They’ve spent recent weeks ... read more

Brands and media agencies rely on Google’s Ad Exchange (AdX) unit to buy programmatic ads from a wide range of publishers. But they’ve never had much luck negotiating the rates on that ad inventory. Given ... read more

This article was first published by Digiday sibling Modern Retail. Free online returns — once a standard perk of e-commerce — are becoming the latest casualty of President Donald Trump’s tariffs. After years of ... read more

This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at how YouTube’s plan to enable creators to swap out sponsored segments normally baked into their videos may be the most disruptive development in the creator economy in ... read more

Among the many ways generative AI and its machine learning ancestors are helping media agencies do their jobs more efficiently, campaign optimization seems to be catching on in a bigger way. Essentially, more and more ... read more

As if ad execs didn’t already have enough to untangle when it comes to AI, OpenAI just threw another curveball: a browser called ChatGPT Atlas. Before panic sets in, take a breath. Digiday has the ... read more

Netflix's stock price was down 5.3% to $1,175 in after-market trading. Net income was at $2.55 billion vs. $2.36 billion in Q4 2024. ... read more

LinkedIn has been projected to see ad revenue surges through 2027, according to estimates from the World Advertising Research Center (WARC). ... read more

LinkedIn has been projected to see ad revenue surges through 2027, according to estimates from the World Advertising Research Center (WARC). ... read more

Watching the first few minutes of KPop Demon Hunters on Samsung's Galaxy XR headset, I think Apple's Vision Pro might be cooked. It's not because the Galaxy XR - which ... read more

In a livestreamed presentation to investors on Tuesday, co-CEO Greg Peters shared that Netflix had its “best ad sales quarter ever” in Q3, and more than doubled its upfront commitments for this year. The ... read more

The update was provided with the release of the company's third quarter earnings results that show an organic revenue gain for the period of 2.6%. ... read more

YouTube has begun to roll out its likeness-detection technology to creators in its Partner Program, enabling them to easily request that AI-generated content using their likeness be removed from the platform. ... read more

A screenshot from Lego Party!, which will be available on Netflix. Netflix has been investing a lot of time and energy into gaming, but the company sees its work on ... read more

iPhone 17 Pro owners are still waiting for Project Indigo support. | Photo: Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The iPhone 17 series launched just over a month ago, but Adobe’s ... read more

Hello and welcome to Regulator. Of all the strange, unintended consequences stemming from major lawsuits, I never thought that the Trump administration's power to force Apple to remove ICE-tracking mobile ... read more

Starting today, creators in YouTube’s Partner Program are getting access to a new AI detection feature that will allow them to find and report unauthorized uploads using their likeness. As ... read more

We already know that the next-gen Xbox console isn’t locked to a single store, will use an AMD chip inside, and will maintain compatibility with existing Xbox games. Now, Microsoft ... read more

With AI features becoming commonplace, the differentiator is the data. As artificial intelligence transforms media planning, Katy Varner, global chief growth strategy officer at IPG Mediabrands believes the true competitive advantage lies not in the technology ... read more

Siding against LinkedIn, a federal judge refused to dismiss a class-action complaint claiming that the company violated a federal video privacy law by allegedly sharing a subscriber's personally identifiable video-viewing history with Meta Platforms. ... read more

The Soundcore Sleep A30 sit flush in your ear and are comfortable enough to wear all night. | Image: The Verge If you’re a light sleeper who needs complete silence ... read more