In recent years, several independent companies have vied to be the go-to performance CTV platform. Companies like MNTN, Vibe, and tvScientific look to bring the same type of performance advertising, focusing on outcomes, that’s long ... read more

Next-gen wireless technology for dummies. Where's the Trump Phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump Phone's whereabouts. ... read more

Netflix sent a note of triumph to subscribers after the company sealed a deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, but now Paramount has sent a letter to WBD shareholders promoting its own deal and trashing ... read more

The Tetris: My Play Watch may look like an Apple Watch, but it eschews most of the functionality you'll typically find on a smartwatch to focus on two things: playing ... read more

If you’re not already seeing it, this is how the redesigned watch page is laid out. The YouTube watch screen has been given a new look on TVs. The redesign ... read more

Carlos-Manuel Vesga as Manousos. The theme of this week is isolation. That's always been a part of what makes Pluribus so unsettling, of course; in the show there are only ... read more

Native Union’s Weighter managing one of up to three cables. | Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge Warning: I'm going to make an attempt to justify a $40 paperweight ... read more

Netflix could acquire Warner Bros., unless Paramount swoops in or regulators intervene. How rearranging the streaming leaders could affect the CTV ad business. The post Warner Bros., Netflix, Paramount: The CTV Chessboard appeared first on ... read more

Enjoy this weekly comic strip from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem …  The post Comic: Festival Of Flights appeared first on AdExchanger. ... read more

Traffic! At The Disco Tired: Google possibly divesting its Chrome browser. Wired: Google launching a new browser entirely. The Google Chrome team has built a generative AI-infused browser called Disco, The Verge reports. Disco takes ... read more

Amazon is positioning Twitch as a defining asset in its CTV ambitions, folding the platform’s hard-to-reach audience and live-video inventory into the same pitch it uses to sell Prime Video and Fire TV.  That marks ... read more

This story was first published by Digiday sibling Modern Retail About two years ago, Trademark Property Co. CEO Terry Montesi heard from a national real estate broker that there was a big, secret tenant interested ... read more

Though the Christmas party season is just around the corner, CMOs and agency partners are hard at work plotting out budgets and media plans for 2026.  Ammunition for next year’s best laid plans can be ... read more

Interested in sharing your perspectives on the media and marketing industries? Join the Digiday research panel. Big names in the publisher world are investing in vertical video: Time, CNN, The New York Times. Meanwhile, a ... read more

It’s been another busy week for big news but I wanted to use this week’s briefing to write about something that’s been sitting with me since the Digiday Programmatic Marketing Summit last week: AI is ... read more

While Geoff Keighley had already announced that Tomb Raider would be making a Game Awards appearance, the surprise was that instead of one game announcement there's two. Crystal Dynamics and ... read more

Shortly after appeals court judges ruled against Apple's contempt appeal in a years-long antitrust dispute against the makers of Fortnite, I got to talk to Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney ... read more

Remedy Entertainment is finally showing off the much-anticipated sequel to Control. The new game, dubbed Control Resonant, expands on the original with a new action-RPG framework. It takes place seven ... read more

The next Star Wars game is coming from the director of Mass Effect and Knights of the Old Republic. Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic was revealed during ... read more

President Donald Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick look on as White House artificial intelligence (AI) and crypto czar David Sacks speaks On Thursday evening, with White House AI and ... read more

The Game Awards are back once again to showcase a metric ton of commercials, provide the gaming public with their monthly dose of Muppets, and validate gamers’ opinions on which ... read more

Entertainment has quietly expanded its share of the consumer wallet for the past three years. ... read more

Disney and OpenAI's new $1 billion partnership feels emblematic of the terrible times we're living through. In exchange for access to the generative AI firm's APIs and tools like ChatGPT, ... read more

It’s hard to buy a bad pair of wireless earbuds these days, and with constant discounts and deals wherever you look, now is as good a time as any to ... read more

Built-in Gemini AI features in Chrome are now becoming more widely available on the iOS version of Google's browser, as reported by 9to5Google and Engadget. They're popping up several months ... read more

At a congressional meeting to vote on the future of kids online safety, the most spirited debate of the day was about a bill that wasn't even on the agenda ... read more

Amazon Prime Video has pulled its AI-powered video recap of Fallout after viewers noticed that it got key parts of the story wrong. The streaming service began testing Video Recaps ... read more

Apple has lost its appeal of a massive district court ruling in its ongoing antitrust dispute with Epic Games. That April ruling from Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said that Apple ... read more

Pinterest's data will let tvScientific's CTV advertising clients track sales outcomes and shopping conversions. ... read more

Artificial intelligence is now "supercharging" surveillance pricing, Senator Ruben Gallego stated in a summary of the bill. ... read more

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a bill Thursday that will require advertisers to identify if an ad includes AI-generated people. Hochul's announcement said the bill, S.8420-A/A.8887-B, was the first ... read more

The Platinum Rye Entertainment survey also found that Super Bowl ads are vehicles for discovering or rediscovering music with 44% of those polled saying they have searched for and streamed or downloaded a song after ... read more

So here's what happened when I tried prompting some chatbots to render beloved children's character Snow White in a way that would be inappropriate for young children. ... read more

Fortnite players on Android devices in the US can once again download the game directly from the Google Play Store, not long after it returned to Apple's App Store in ... read more

Just like web and app services have been making their money over the past decade or two: Selling you, the user, as the product. ... read more

TikTok will give brands additional ad-performance measurement capabilities through an extended partnership with DoubleVerify, offering enhanced attention measurement and more platform-specific campaign insights. ... read more

TikTok isoffering brands additional ad-performance measurement capabilities through an extended partnership with DoubleVerify, which promises enhanced attention measurement and more platform-specific campaign insights. ... read more

As Meta tests new feed designs on both Facebook and Instagram, it has announced that all U.S. Instagram users can now manually control which Reels are algorithmically suggested to them. ... read more

As Meta tests new feed designs on both Facebook and Instagram, it has announced that all U.S. Instagram users can now manually control which Reels are algorithmically suggested to them. ... read more

The Google Stadia Controller. December 31st, 2025 is the deadline to save the Google Stadia controller. That's less than three weeks from today - but there's never been a better ... read more

The National Advertising division referred T-Mobile to the FTC and state attorneys general because the company declined to participate in AT&T's challenge to claims regarding 5G service. ... read more

Hoto’s PixelDrive is $20 off. | Image: Hoto Hoto’s PixelDrive electric screwdriver is designed to make everyday fixes a lot easier, and now it’s seeing its first discount. You can ... read more

This week, the AdExchanger Commerce Media Newsletter took a look at AquaSonic an oral care manufacturer and – in my humble opinion – an emblematic case study for digital-native consumer brands. AquaSonic, founded in 2017, ... read more

The Chrome team at Google recently built a new browser. It takes a query or prompt, opens a bunch of related tabs for you, and then builds you a custom ... read more

We've seen NSFW offerings from Grok and other chatbots, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been teasing adult content within ChatGPT for a while. Now, we have a timeline. ... read more

Looks like Pinterest has its eyes – or its pins, rather – fixed on connected TV. The post Pinterest Acquires CTV Startup TvScientific (Didn’t CTV That Coming) appeared first on AdExchanger. ... read more

Amazon's Luna cloud gaming service is coming to cable boxes from Comcast and Rogers. The Luna app is already available via web browsers, Fire TV devices, Fire tablets, and many ... read more

GPT-5.2 is here, and with it, OpenAI wants "to unlock even more economic value for people," Fidji Simo, the company's CEO of Applications, told reporters in a Thursday briefing. She ... read more

Alex Visoky, director of client services, TatariConnected TV ad spend is projected to reach $51 billion globally by 2029, accounting for nearly half of traditional broadcast TV advertising revenue. That shift reflects how quickly the ... read more

A BrightEdge analysis of informational, consideration and transactional queries revealed patterns showing where the biggest competitive battles are - and it's not where most marketers might expect. ... read more

The proposed plan would be dilutive of existing shares but the company said it was necessary to attract and retain talent needed to successfully run the company going forward. ... read more

Hamlet is having something of a renaissance in 2025. This year's edition of the Toronto International Film Festival featured three different takes on the idea, including Chloé Zhao's adaptation of ... read more

Rivian announced that it was designing its own AI chips for fully autonomous driving, in a bold - if belated - move to catch up with Tesla and other automakers ... read more

The AirPods Pro 3 are better than their predecessors in every way. Apple’s latest gadgets have gotten some notable discounts lately — including the recently released Apple Watch Series 11, ... read more

No Grand Effie was awarded, but Ukraine's BetterSvit was named independent agency of the year, and Omnicom's McCann was named "most effective agency network." ... read more

The first trailer for DC Studios' Supergirl feature is finally here to give us a look at what the Woman of Tomorrow is made of. Though Superman's (technically) older cousin ... read more

Disney has accused Google of engaging in copyright infringement on a "massive scale," claiming its AI models have generated images resembling characters from Frozen, Deadpool, Star Wars, and others, according ... read more

WhatsApp says it's making "voicemails a thing of the past" by introducing a new feature that pretty much works like voicemail. Missed call messages are rolling out as part of ... 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. When news broke last week ... read more

OpenAI is facing a wrongful death lawsuit after a 56-year-old man killed his mother and took his own life after delusion-filled conversations with ChatGPT. The lawsuit, filed in a California ... read more

State attorneys general from across the US are demanding more accountability from AI companies, warning them that their chatbots may be violating state laws. As reported by Reuters, the AGs ... read more

Reddit is officially testing its own checkmark verification process with specific accounts - including celebrities, journalists and brands. ... read more

A set of Joy-Con 2 controllers is $79.99 at BJ’s. The Nintendo Switch 2 comes with a pair of Joy-Con 2 controllers, but it’s always good to have a second ... read more

Today, I’m talking with Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts, and you’ll hear me start with the only question I think anyone should be asking any politician in the federal government ... read more

Disney's $1 billion deal with OpenAI would allow fans to create short-form video of some 200 Disney characters from Marvel, Pixar and "Star Wars" content. Disney CEO Bob Iger said the deal is only for ... read more

Do you recognize this power bank? It might be recalled. | Image: INIU A company called INIU has issued a recall for its BI-B41 10,000mAh power banks because the lithium-ion ... read more

The national specialty retail chain expands its relationship with the Dentsu unit from a performance media assignment awarded in 2020. ... read more

Both Chairman and CEO Arthur Sadoun and his predecessor and current Chairman Emeritus Maurice Levy flew in for the New York event. ... read more

Here are all the devices that you get in the Connected Life $699 advanced kit. AT&T is launching Connected Life, a new smart home security offering built around Google Home ... read more

The Nex Playground is a motion-controlled, cube-shaped console for ages five and up that’s selling like hotcakes. It came in third for home console sales during Black Friday week, according ... read more

A new three-year licensing agreement announced between Disney and ChatGPT operator OpenAI will allow the Sora video generator to create "user-prompted social videos" that feature more than 200 characters from ... read more

"Because many of the conversations your chatbots are engaging in may violate our law, additional safeguards are necessary," 42 attorneys general say in letters to OpenAI, Apple, Google and other tech companies. ... read more

"Because many of the conversations your chatbots are engaging in may violate our law, additional safeguards are necessary," 42 attorneys general say in letters to OpenAI, Apple, Google and other tech companies. ... read more

Because just like nature, trade reporters abhor a vacuum, and the demise of IPG's and Publicis' forecasts has created one. Plus, WARC has paid its dues and is widely cited across the industry. ... read more

Consumers are becoming increasingly weary of the complexity in evaluating different products and services, as high-demand streaming services keep regularly scheduled price hikes. ... read more

Once again, a new anchorman has been appointed to a network newscast and the announcement conjures memories of so many such announcements that have come before it. ... read more

It's Game Awards season, y'all. That special time of the year when we gather together to celebrate video games and the people who make them… by watching expensive commercials briefly ... read more

Entrenching generative AI into Adobe's creative software ecosystem is paying off, according to the company's latest earnings. While its share price has fallen by more than 37 percent this year ... read more

Retro gaming handheld manufacturer Ayaneo has finally revealed the design of its first Android phone, which has been teased since August. Fittingly, it too is a throwback - to 2011's ... read more

Bundle Of Joy The cable TV bundle is making a minor comeback – with an assist from YouTube TV. Next year, Google will introduce 10 genre-specific skinny channel bundles that combine broadcast and cable channels ... read more

In a conversation from the sidelines of its annual convention, Dayforce chief people officer Amy Capellanti-Wolf shared insight on everything from navigating AI adoption and combating burnout to rethinking talent strategies. Her POV — heading ... read more

This story was first published by Digiday sibling Modern Retail. In a year marked by volatile changes to tariff policy and a quick succession of pullbacks on diversity, equity and inclusion practices, Costco has continuously ... read more

With referral traffic under pressure, The Arena Group has shifted focus to keeping people on its sites longer so it can turn those moments of attention into meaningful revenue. The company is testing AI-powered content ... read more

Google’s AI Max for Search product is a key component for brands keen to advertise within AI Overviews and AI Mode search results. But buyers remain unconvinced the AI features intended to save time and ... read more

It’s getting more difficult for brands to stand out online thanks to an algorithmic-induced fragmented digital landscape. Plus, the rise of so-called AI slop hasn’t helped. But brands like Zoom and Duolingo are retooling their ... read more

We’ve all heard the expression, you get what you pay for — the inference being that something free might not be worth much at all. That notion can sometimes be challenged, as in the other ... read more

This week’s Media Briefing looks at why publishers have flocked to Substack this year. While the platform was once seen as a refuge for independent writers, major publishers have launched newsletters on Substack to reach ... read more

When business leaders spout buzzwords like "AI," "8K" and "5G," sometimes in the same sentence, we often get a sneaking suspicion they don't know what they mean! With President Donald ... read more

The Trump administration could soon require tourists from dozens of nations to hand over their social media handles before entering the country. Under a proposal from US Customs and Border ... read more

A new beta feature on Spotify takes the idea behind the Discover Weekly playlist and puts the control in users' hands through AI prompts. Prompted Playlists, which are initially launching ... read more

A startup called Operation Bluebird is trying to reclaim Twitter's branding, as reported earlier by Ars Technica and Reuters. Last week, Operation Bluebird filed a petition that asks the US ... read more

"When parents agree to arbitrate disputes related to products and services they bring into their home and for their children's benefit, claims brought by their children arising from those products and services must be resolved ... read more

RANCHO PALOS VERDES, CA – As connected TV continues to pull viewers and ad dollars online, the advertising ecosystem is entering what may be its most dynamic, and complicated, phase yet, said Stacey Bohrer, senior ... read more

RANCHO PALOS VERDES, CA — Retail media and commerce media networks are often flying blind when targeted consumers share login info. But United Airlines’ commerce network Kinective Media rarely flies off course thanks to the ... read more

RANCHO PALOS VERDES, CA – At a time when misinformation, polarization and platform fragmentation dominate the media landscape, Vanessa Otero said one thing is clear: advertisers are relearning how to trust news, so long as ... read more

Research reveals 60% of marketers said ads in news environments outperform their campaign baselines, showing the media has become a high-performing, underused opportunity for brands that may have been hesitant in the past. ... read more

Baiju Bhatt, co-founder of space-based solar company Aetherflux and Robinhood Financial LLC, speaks during the TechCrunch Disrupt 2018 summit in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018. A ... read more

My classic Sony CRT television won't power on. My living room is chilly because my Mitsubishi heat pump isn't putting out enough hot air. I want my Japanese N64 to ... read more

A World Cup-themed launch and names like Trinity Rodman aim to extend the brand beyond core DIY fans. ... read more

Meta Platforms users who are suing over scam ads on Facebook are urging a federal judge to reject the tech company's latest bid to send the dispute to an appellate court. ... read more