These days when you want to engage with some media, you can choose from podcasts, videos, games, live performances - or books, one of the oldest and most popular ways ... read more

Snapchat is only for teenagers and Gen Z. That’s a common misconception that Ajit Mohan, Snap’s chief business officer, encounters often among advertisers. Although Snapchat tends to skew younger – it’s got strong usage among the ... read more

Agencies are shifting away from third-party ad tech; ChatGPT is throwing all kinds of monetization spaghetti at the wall; and Axel Springer is looking to buy. The post Programmatic’s Transparency Problem; ChatGPT Backs Into ... read more

If publishers had one Christmas wish, it’d be for the chaos to end.  That means an end to the unscrupulous AI scraping that’s made even the notorious Wild West of ad tech in the mid ... read more

This story was first published by Digiday sibling ModernRetail Starbucks has poached a senior manager from E.l.f. Cosmetics as part of its ongoing quest to re-energize the Starbucks brand through cultural collaborations. Neiv Toledano has ... read more

The story was first published by Digiday sibling ModernRetail When LaToya Stirrup’s brand Kazmaleje first landed on Target’s shelves in 2022, it felt like a dream come true. The Miami-based founder had spent years building ... read more

In the thick of the final quarter of the year, TikTok is on the hunt for new U.S. business for its Shop e-commerce arm. The short-form video platform is offering “limited-time perks” – up to ... read more

Omnicom’s acquisition of Interpublic Group is only a few weeks old, but its combined offer to the market will soon be put to the test.  Digiday has learned that the group’s top cadre in recent ... read more

One thing became clear this year: AI platforms are changing where, how and how much referral traffic gets sent to publishers’ sites.  It’s a topic we covered often this year. ChatGPT referral traffic nearly doubled, ... read more

LONDON — Some advertisers have progressed beyond measuring attention as a signal to using it as a planning currency for more than a year. Still, many others are just beginning to analyze attention metrics from ... read more

LONDON – Contextual advertising may be one of digital media’s oldest ideas, but advances in artificial intelligence are pushing it into new territory, said Brian Gleason, chief executive of contextual advertising platform Seedtag. Speaking with ... read more

LONDON – Contextual advertising may be one of digital media’s oldest ideas, but advances in artificial intelligence are pushing it into new territory, said Brian Gleason, chief executive of contextual advertising platform Seedtag. Speaking with ... read more

LONDON — The television industry remains hobbled by a double standard that gives tech giants an unfair advantage when competing for advertising dollars, according to a senior executive at one of America’s largest media companies. ... read more

As part of the settlement, Instacart will issue refunds to customers who were charged for Instacart Plus without their informed consent. ... read more

Waymo driverless car is not able to detect traffic lights after a major power outage in San Francisco, California, | Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images A power outage ... read more

Santa knows how to boogie. | Image: AFP via Getty Images It's the holiday season, and Christmas music is utterly inescapable. Look, I love Mariah Carey and Wham! As much ... read more

Park Chan-wook's 12th feature-length movie, No Other Choice, begins with Man-su (Lee Byung-hun) as a proud patriarch at the barbecue, a vision of the platonic ideal domestic life he will ... read more

I waited for the Nintendo Switch 2 for a long time. Rumors of an allegedly-real-but-never-released Switch Pro swirled around for years as I watched fewer and fewer AAA third-party games ... read more

If you were an internet user around the turn of the century, there's a good chance I could play a one-second long sound of a door opening and memories would ... read more

The Verge art team's favorite projects this year spanned the circus surrounding DOGE, the myths of the Vietnam War, the privacy crisis for trans people online, the vast surveillance ... read more

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on robotics and AI, follow Robert Hart. The Stepback arrives in our ... read more

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 110, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, happy holidays, and also you can read ... read more

If you’re feeling the stress of having procrastinated on your holiday shopping — and you missed out during Black Friday and Cyber Monday — we’ve got you. We’ve found a ... read more

Holiday shoppers, it's time to finish knocking out that seasonal wish list. At this point, your online purchases may not arrive in time unless you're willing to pay extra for ... read more

RIP LCD Steam Deck. The most affordable Steam Deck, the $399 LCD model, is not available in the US. And, according to the Steam Deck site, it won't be coming ... read more

One day, video game critics and journalists will put together a comprehensive study on the impact Balatro had on the industry - of how so many games that came after ... read more

The new Gulikit joysticks for Xbox Ally handhelds. | Image: Gulikit Even at $1,000, the Xbox Ally X handheld didn't ship with magnetic drift-resistant joysticks, and neither did the $600 ... read more

When a friend invited me to play a new game called REPO earlier this year, I thought I was wasting my money - not because the game looked bad, but ... read more

RJ Scaringe is sitting in Rivian's Palo Alto offices, explaining why the adventure-themed EV company suddenly decided to build its own self-driving cars, when an unexpected guest glides by the ... read more

If you told me last year the Nex Playground would outsell Microsoft's Xbox, even for two weeks, I would have laughed my way out of the room. It's a ... read more

Today was the deadline for Google to reveal how it's complying with Judge James Donato's order to crack open Android for third-party app stores, stop illegally tying its Google Play ... read more

Google is once again part of Movies Anywhere, meaning that movies you've purchased from Google Play and YouTube will now show up as part of your Movies Anywhere collection. Films from Google Play and YouTube ... read more

On Friday, retro and arcade game publisher ININ Games surprisingly announced it's been able to "recalculate production" on offering a physical version of R-Type Dimensions III for the Switch 2 ... read more

Gemini on the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra. Google isn't ready to replace Assistant with Gemini on Android devices just yet. The company said on Friday that it will "continue our ... read more

President Trump signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2026 Thursday with measures that further the bipartisan push for next-generation nuclear power plants. The Trump administration ... read more

OpenAI will now give you the ability to dial up - or down - ChatGPT's warmth and enthusiasm. An update rolling out on Friday gives you the option to choose ... read more

According to the survey, from Stagwell's Harris Poll for Marriott Bonvoy, seeing the sights is particularly important to Millennials with 70% of the cohort saying they would rather give up dining out for six months ... read more

Siding against Media Matters for America, a federal appeals court has lifted an injunction that prohibited Elon Musk's X Corp from continuing to sue the watchdog in Ireland over its report that ads from major ... read more

Netflix plans to use Ready Player Me's tools and infrastructure to invite its users to create individual digital personas and similar to traditional metaverse elements, utilize these avatars across different gaming titles. ... read more

Google has filed a lawsuit against SerpApi, a company that offers tools to scrape content on the web, including Google's search results. SerpApi is accused of violating the Copyright Act ... read more

YouTube TV is planning to launch 10 new, genre-specific TV bundles, including a sports package with access to ESPN, Fox Sports 1, NBC Sports, and the Golf Channel. ... read more

YouTube TV is planning to launch 10 new, genre-specific TV bundles, including a sports package with access to ESPN, Fox Sports 1, NBC Sports, and the Golf Channel. ... read more

I'm disappointed Media Matters didn't second my vote for misinformer of the year - GAIM - but it's tough to argue against who they did pick: White Nationalist Nick Fuentes. ... read more

The SynthID watermark checker in the Gemini app for video can tell users whether a video was generated or modified with Google AI. The tool debuted for images in the Gemini app last month. ... read more

A study released this week suggests YouTube's podcasting dominance comes with a heavy cost for brand advertisers. ... read more

The real disruption isn't that a computer can write a tagline. It's that a computer will orchestrate the entire disjointed workflow of modern advertising. ... read more

Meta Platforms is urging a judge to again throw out a class-action complaint alleging that Facebook overcharged advertisers around $4 billion between 2013 and 2017. ... read more

As Netflix continues to build out its gaming strategy, which has recently included a new era of TV party games, it's going to let people build avatars - with the ... read more

TAE Technologies’ fusion research reactor ‘Norm.’ | Photo: TAE Technologies Trump Media - yup, the parent company of Truth Social - is the latest entrant in the near century-long race ... read more

Roblox has seen steady growth this year, onboarding more Fortune 500 and 1000 companies and building on player-engagement milestones, according to a report from Gamefam, a company that helps brands launch social gaming experiences. ... read more

On this episode of Inside the Stack, Brian Gleason, CEO of Seedtag, explains why contextual is experiencing a resurgence, just as cookies, clicks, and predictable discovery paths are breaking down. The shift isn’t just technical, ... read more

Your next smartphone or PC might cost more amid a global memory shortage that the International Data Corporation expects to "persist well into 2027." A new report from the research ... read more

The QC Ultra remain a great noise-canceling option if you plan on traveling during the holidays. | Image: The Verge If you value peace and quiet, particularly when traveling, Bose’s ... read more

The study, which comes as the Japanese hold co. is weighing the sale of its international operations, found the U.S., U.K. and Canada were most focused on actual cultural change management. ... read more

Where's the Trump Phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week, except next week, when we take a break until the new year. We've reached out, as usual, ... read more

Although our phones are all equipped with cameras, there is still something special about being able to immediately produce a printed photo to pass around or give as a gift. ... read more

I uploaded HMN's just-released "2026 Predictions Report" into NotebookLM to map the mind of its authors and break it down into a simple audio overview. Here's what it found. ... read more

Blind evaluations by expert moderators consistently rated AI-moderated interviews poorly on core qualitative skills, including rapport-building, improvisation and the ability to ask insightful follow-up questions. ... read more

Rapid advances in AI and robotics are set to become both powerful tools for police and potent weapons for criminals, a 48-page report from pan-European police agency Europol argues. Earlier ... read more

The craze around “GLP-3” online is a peak example of the wellness wild west. This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that ... read more

All year on The Vergecast, we've been tracking the many bizarre and problematic actions of FCC Chairman Brendan Carr. There has been a lot to discuss! Then, this week, ahead ... read more

The VAB has a bone with pick with Nielsen about its Big Data ratings, and Pinterest and TVScientific pair up. Then: Google Ad Manager is making changes in the EU, from getting rid of Unified ... read more

Just look at that beaut. A year or two ago, when a phone showed up at my door for review, I could pretty much count on it being black, gray, ... read more

YouTube is easily available to all, and should provide no problem for anyone who wants to watch the Oscars. ... read more

If there's one thing Republicans and Democrats came together on in 2025 - at least at the local level - it was to stop big, energy-hungry data center projects. For ... read more

Things might finally be looking up. In the penultimate episode of Pluribus' first season, Carol (Rhea Seehorn) actually seems to be happy. That's a pretty big deal for someone the ... read more

BMX’s SolidSafe 5K in that Apple orange color. | Image: BMX A new company called BMX, founded by accessory royalty, has emerged from Kickstarter to make its SolidSafe semi-solid state ... read more

A Falcon 9 launched 29 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit on December 1st, 2025. | Image: SpaceX SpaceX says it has lost control of a Starlink satellite that's now falling ... read more

It’s that time of year again – the time when we all start saying things like, “It’s that time of year again!” The post AdExchanger’s Top 4 CTV Stories Of 2025 appeared first on AdExchanger. ... read more

Enjoy this weekly comic strip from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem …  The post Comic: Ads Yule Never See appeared first on AdExchanger. ... read more

Anthropic's AI-operated vending machine sparks chaos; ad revenue should remain a top priority; and Roblox has potential for in-game ads – and concerns. The post Anthropic’s Vending Machine Goes Rogue; OpenAI Won’t Take Its Medicine ... read more

The Trade Desk’s commercial results have stabilized following its earnings miss in February. But transparency concerns among media buyers over its programmatic supply chain products are proving persistent. In recent months the company’s OpenPath product ... read more

This piece was first published by Digiday sibling ModernRetail In 2025, the food industry agreed to help “Make America Healthy Again.” The MAHA initiative has largely been pushed by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the ... read more

A packaging and pulp manufacturer is not the obvious answer when the conversation turns to programmatic advertisers. That assumption, it turns out, would be a mistake.  Georgia-Pacific sits at the more advanced end of the ... read more

The real risk of generative AI for marketers isn’t bad creative. It’s the rise of the “just good enough” economy.  If that wasn’t already clear, Disney’s deal with OpenAI last week brought it into sharp ... read more

After briefly going dark in the US to comply with the divest-or-ban law targeting ByteDance that went into effect on January 19th, TikTok quickly came back online. It eventually reappeared ... read more

Toyota's deal with nonprofit Music Will includes a $75,000 donation. ... read more

Twenty-four companies will participate in the Genesis Mission to support the Trump Administration's national efforts to advance artificial intelligence. ... read more

TikTok has finalized the deal to sell its US business, according to reports from Axios, The Hollywood Reporter, and CNBC. They report that a memo from TikTok CEO Shou Zi ... read more

This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. By all measures, Meta's ... read more

The OhSnap Snap Grip 5 next to a Syncwire magnetic ring. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge In 2022, we called a simple magnetic ring from Anker the ... read more

Siding against Amazon, a federal appellate court has ruled that consumers can move forward with a class-action lawsuit over claims that the company violated an Illinois biometric privacy law by allegedly collecting and storing facial ... read more

If you’re lucky enough to have a bit of time off around the holidays, we have great news: Steam’s annual winter sale kicked off today, and will run through Monday, ... read more

OpenAI and Anthropic are making tweaks to their chatbots that they say will make them safer for teens. As OpenAI has updated its guidelines on how ChatGPT should interact with ... read more

"It's getting harder to determine what is real and what is performative. Reaching consumers in a way that is tangibly authentic is going to be the difference-maker," an anonymous ANA member explained about picking two ... read more

If you're tired of seeing Instagram posts with a seemingly endless list of hashtags, Instagram is making a change to stop that. In a post today, Instagram chief Adam Mosseri ... read more

Current events are not unlike those that triggered the Korean War in 1950. ... read more

LG says it will let users delete the Microsoft Copilot shortcut it installed on newer TVs after several reports highlighted the unremovable icon. In a statement to The Verge, LG ... read more

Google expanded Gemini's AI verification feature to videos made or edited with the company's own AI models. Users can now ask Gemini to determine if an uploaded video is AI-generated ... read more

Kassan has been a fixture in the industry for over three decades, first at media agency Initiative in the 1990's where he rose to president, COO and vice chairman. ... read more

You can save $50 on the latest AirPods Pro and still have it arrive in time for Christmas. You don’t need to deal with long mall lines or crowded parking ... read more

Universal Music Group must face a privacy lawsuit over its alleged failure to honor web users' request to reject tracking cookies, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. ... read more

Riot Games says a security flaw in many recent motherboards could be exploited by cheaters undetected, and now companies including Asrock, Asus, Gigabyte, and MSI have released BIOS updates to ... read more

Netflix is bringing ESPN host Elle Duncan onboard to become the voice of its growing roster of live events. Duncan, who has appeared on SportsCenter, College GameDay, and WNBA Countdown, ... read more

Kia and Hyundai will offer free repairs for millions of cars that lack anti-theft technology as part of a settlement with dozens of US states. The automakers agreed to outfit ... read more

The Roomba maker will continue to operate but will be owned by Picea Robotics. The news that the maker of the Roomba robot vacuum, iRobot, filed for bankruptcy this week ... read more

This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Atlas Obscura has been crowdsourcing ... read more

The rise of AI-powered commerce changes everything for advertisers - moving brands' focus from capturing human attention to optimizing for machine-readable information and AI recommendations. ... read more

Microsoft is at it again with another round of ads showing people talking to Copilot AI on their computers. This time it's holiday-themed, including a cameo from the big man ... read more

Micron, one of the three biggest memory suppliers in the world, forecasts rough months ahead for the global RAM supply. As part of its earnings report released on Wednesday, Micron ... read more