Gross subscriber additions rose to 52 million in Q1 2025 - up from 50 million the previous year, according to Antenna. Those gross additions come from 34 streaming platforms. ... read more

Updates made to the IAB Diligence Platform on Wednesday aim to help the digital ad industry comply with evolving privacy regulations. ... read more

Samsung is set to announce its latest folding phones, the Galaxy Z Fold 7, Galaxy Z Flip 7, and maybe a more affordable Galaxy Z Flip 7 FE, during its ... read more

The "Institute" in the series' title is a shadowy facility that houses genius children who have been kidnapped from their families. ... read more

It’s the second day of Amazon’s four-day Prime Day sale, and if you’ve held out on making impulse buys so you can make informed purchases, you’ve come to the right ... read more

After announcing in May that it was giving up and returning to HBO Max branding for its streaming service, today Warner Bros. has officially made the change. The new / ... read more

Amazon Prime Day is the best time to save money on a Nintendo Switch OLED during a time when there aren’t any deals on the last-gen console (however, there are ... read more

Call of Duty: WWII is currently unavailable through the Microsoft Store. | Image: Activision Activision has taken one of its Call of Duty games down from the Microsoft Store and ... read more

Ikea is powering up its Dirigera smart home hub, adding Matter controller functionality and activating its Thread radio to support its new line of smart home products. Ikea is relaunching ... read more

Ikea’s Blomprakt Bluetooth speaker with an integrated LED light bulb has a dedicated Spotify Tap button. | Image: Ikea Bluetooth and quick-to-music features like Spotify Tap are the future of ... read more

Charli xcx got it right: It’s so confusing sometimes to be a girl. Or, more accurately, a woman trying to access medical treatment. And it’s just as challenging for women’s health care companies trying to ... read more

The advertising industry continues to buy connected TV the wrong way. We have carried over one-to-one programmatic logic from display and online video into a channel that behaves nothing like them. CTV is not a ... read more

Fresh Legs HouseFresh, a website dedicated to reviewing air purifiers and household air quality products, was one of the first (of a great many) long-tail consumer review sites to lash out at Google after its ... read more

Whenever ad dollars swell around new channels — search, social, email — the industry reaches for the same playbook: cut out the middle, get closer to the source, and stop paying for junk reach. The ... read more

Interested in sharing your perspectives on the media and marketing industries? Join the Digiday research panel. Publishers have always had a love/hate relationship with digital transformation. It’s given them more ways than ever to reach ... read more

Google’s AI ambitions are moving fast, and the old architecture of search advertising is starting to show its age. As user behavior shifts toward more conversational, visual queries, the need for automation is growing. But ... read more

This week’s Future of TV Briefing previews next week’s CTV Advertising Strategies event that I’ll be hosting with top brand and agency executives in New York City. Must-CTV TikTok’s U.S.-only app, A+E Global Media’s ... read more

Related Insights The Programmatic Marketer To reduce auction duplication, buyers start to enforce sellers.json Read More On the face of things, request duplication, or “bid duplication” as some ... read more

On Tuesday, X users observed Grok celebrating Adolf Hitler and making antisemitic posts, and X owner xAI now says it’s “actively working to remove” what it calls “inappropriate posts” made ... read more

The Sonos Ace are available for $299 — their best price to date — for a limited time. Amazon’s latest Prime Day sale has officially begun, and we’ve already highlighted ... read more

Fraud-free ad inventory supported by safety and metrics that can analyze content to help advertisers and publishers meet media-quality requirements seems an ideal match - even for smaller companies. ... read more

Fraud-free ad inventory supported by safety and metrics that can analyze content to help advertisers and publishers reach global media-quality requirements is the goal of the partnership. ... read more

Since Navah Hopkins joined Microsoft Advertising as Ads Liaison, she has been detailing how to successfully create ads and run them on the company's ad platform. ... read more

Since Navah Hopkins joined Microsoft Advertising as Ads Liaison, she has been detailing how to successfully create ads and run them on the company's ad platform. ... read more

Over the last two weeks, I've sought to uncover why the Nintendo Switch 2 didn't work with a host of USB-C accessories that worked perfectly fine with other devices, including ... read more

Prime Day 2025 is the best time this year to get a big-screen TV. Sure, there are deals in the weeks leading up to the Super Bowl, but those are ... read more

Apple CEO Tim Cook is about to take over one of the most significant parts of Apple’s business: its design team. The team currently reports to COO Jeff Williams, but ... read more

In a significant albeit preliminary win for the president, the Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to go ahead with its plans to drastically reshape federal agencies by laying ... read more

8BitDo’s excellent Ultimate 2 wireless controller for the Nintendo Switch / Switch 2 is on sale for the first time for Prime Day. Amazon Prime Day is the perfect time ... read more

The brand partnered with Breakthrough T1D, formerly JDRF, a diabetes research organization, to create the doll. ... read more

Jeff Williams will retire later this year. | Image: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images Apple has announced that Sabih Khan, the company’s vice president of operations, will take over ... read more

The AirPods Pro 2 combine excellent sound quality with top-notch ANC, and they offer impressive hearing health features. Before this year’s Prime Day event began, there were already some great ... read more

Everyone knows the TV, tech and ad industries are replete with high-level buzzwords. What will it take to move to practical, operational concerns? For one ad-tech leader, the industry has reached a “tipping point” – ... read more

The new title will offer a monthly digital edition and four print issues per year. ... read more

CANNES — The days of loyalty programs being limited to airline miles or hotel points are over, says Khatidja Ajania, director of strategic partnerships at Kinective Media by United Airlines, the carrier’s advertising network. Speaking ... read more

CANNES — Television may be evolving, but one thing remains constant: advertisers still face the challenge of finding and measuring their audiences across an increasingly fragmented landscape. So says Dave Morgan, founder and chief executive ... read more

Microsoft’s new 12-inch Surface Pro is awesome, and at $115 off at Best Buy, it’s a fantastic deal to jump on during Amazon Prime Day. Both Amazon and Microsoft are ... read more

The IAB, NCTA, Chamber of Commerce and others had challenged the click-to-cancel rules, which were slated to take effect this week. ... read more

Gmail’s Manage subscriptions makes it easier to deal with unwanted emails. | Image: Google Google is introducing a new Gmail feature for those feeling overwhelmed by an onslaught of subscription ... read more

It’s a great time to buy a new TV during Amazon Prime Day (or, days, rather), but that doesn’t mean you should only consider 2025 models. You can get huge ... read more

For years, Warner Bros. Discovery has been playing a desperate game of catchup in hopes of recreating the success that Marvel achieved with its live action comics adaptations. DC movies ... read more

Zoom has rolled out a standalone app for Meta Quest headsets. With the app, you can join or host meetings in virtual reality while appearing as your Meta Avatar. Zoom ... read more

A photo shows flooding caused by a flash flood at the Guadalupe River in Kerrville, Texas, on July 5th, 2025. | Photo: Getty Images By definition, flash floods are notoriously ... read more

In an attempt to help brands engage and retain customers continuously through in-app messaging, Meta is launching an updated version of marketing messages on Messenger. ... read more

Amazon and Walmart should "monitor, identify, and take corrective action against third-party sellers who make false or misleading 'Made in USA' claims," the FTC says in warning letters. ... read more

Amazon finally has listings for the Nintendo Switch 2 in the US – though right now, you can only register your interest for an invitation to purchase a console. If ... read more

The latest Echo Spot is a surprisingly great alarm clock, and it’s even better at 45 percent off. Amazon Prime Day is an excellent time to save on a wide ... read more

Travelers wait in line at a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) security checkpoint inside the Jeppesen Terminal at Denver International Airport (DEN) in Denver, Colorado, US, on Saturday, Aug. 19, 2023. ... read more

106,642 free posture screenings resulted in a 46% increase in preventative spine check-ups for the advertiser, Croatia Polyclinics. ... read more

Twitter co-founder and Block Head Jack Dorsey launched a new peer-to-peer messaging app over the weekend called Bitchat that runs entirely over Bluetooth. Bitchat relies on Bluetooth Low Energy mesh ... read more

Samsung is preparing to parade the latest Galaxy-branded foldables, wearables, and perhaps some other surprises at its summer Unpacked event tomorrow, July 9th. The show is expected to cap off ... read more

Far-right activist Laura Loomer is asking the Supreme Court to revive her lawsuit against Meta Platforms, X, Procter & Gamble and others over the alleged "censorship" of her online speech. ... read more

Far-right activist Laura Loomer is asking the Supreme Court to revive her lawsuit against Meta Platforms, X, Procter & Gamble and others over the alleged "censorship" of her online speech. ... read more

Lately, it has been difficult to ignore a tendency at The New York Times to make astonishingly bad news judgments. The paper's obsession with a view from nowhere is long-standing, ... read more

National CineMedia is projected to be hit with lower ad revenue due to "softer ad trends" as a result of tariff issues in the near term, according to B. Riley Securities. ... read more

Waymo is opening up its robotaxi service to younger riders with the launch of teen accounts in Phoenix. Teenagers aged 14–17 can now sign up for an account on Waymo ... read more

Garmin has announced that a free Google Maps app is now available for most of the company’s smartwatches that lets you know where and how far your next turn is ... read more

Google and Microsoft have made significant changes in the ways they court publishers - partly driven by rising demand for sustainable ad inventory in programmatic buying and production, as well as automation, AI, competition and ... read more

With season 2 of HBO’s The Last of Us in the books, and with no The Last of Us Part III coming in the immediate future, Naughty Dog has come ... read more

Prime Day is in full swing, and we’ve already found close to 200 amazing deals. The Meta Quest 3S with 128GB of storage is one of them, thanks to a ... read more

Mastodon 4.4 is out now, and it brings a bunch of changes for things like profiles and lists and also lays the groundwork for quote posts. With profiles, you can ... read more

Microsoft has added threaded conversations to its Teams communications app this week. After promising to launch the highly-requested feature in mid-2025, Microsoft is now releasing a public preview of threaded ... read more

If AI can do certain jobs four times better than a human, it's time to accept that and build it into our healthcare systems. ... read more

The M4 MacBook Air is a cool $150 off. Amazon has solid discounts on laptops during its four-day Prime Day sales event. One of the nice things about shopping during ... read more

Editor’s note: Amazon Prime Day 2025 is officially underway. If you’re looking to make the most of the four-day shopping extravaganza, we’ve put together a guide to the best Prime Day deals you ... read more

The Oura Ring 4 starts at $296.95, marking a new low price. Smartwatches aren’t for everyone. Maybe you don’t want to wear a screen-equipped gadget to bed, or you’re just ... read more

Alaska Airlines has a straightforward approach to measurement and attribution. The company uses Google Analytics for multi-touch and data-driven attribution, paired with media mix modeling (MMM) analysis, alongside incrementality and lift studies. Wait, did I ... read more

Maxon is sunsetting the Forger sculpting app for iPad to focus on the more comprehensive ZBrush iPadOS app it introduced last year. Forger will be removed from the App Store ... read more

AirTags are the best location traclers for iPhone owners. It’s never a bad moment to buy a reliable item location tracker, like an Apple AirTag. People who use an iPhone ... read more

This WTF guide, sponsored by Fluent, explores what exactly non-endemic commerce media is and what these ad placements look like; why non-endemic commerce media is beneficial for advertisers as well as retailers, merchants and publishers; ... read more

The Galaxy Fold 7 could weigh “less than a large bar of chocolate.” | Image: Roland Quandt via Bluesky Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked event is just one day away, but a ... read more

Anker’s 8-in-1 charging station features a wireless pad on the front and seven ports on the back. Between our rotation of everyday devices, keeping them all charged can feel like ... read more

Ron Jacobson took the classic programmatic startup route. Which is to say, he pivoted randomly into ad tech from a software job at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York after applying to 95 out ... read more

One of the best Prime Day deals brings the price of an 11-Inch M3 iPad Air (128GB Wi-Fi) with two years of AppleCare Plus down to an all-time low price ... read more

CANNES – The days of running a successful media campaign with just a few creative assets are over, according to Aaron Sobel, Unilever’s head of North American Media Investment and Data Governance. “It might’ve been ... read more

CANNES – The Trade Desk is betting that retail media’s future depends on traditionally separate divisions within retailers learning to work together toward common goals. “We are so excited about the ‘One Retail’ vision that ... read more

A grade of 45 might not seem gold star-worthy by old school human standards, but that's how Grok chose to illustrate this column when I interviewed it about rumors that soon-to-be released Grok 4 scored ... read more

The new video streaming platform called Truth+ will be available on all major third-party distributors including Apple iTunes, Google Play, Apple TV, Android TV, Amazon Fire TV, Roku TV and Roku web platforms. ... read more

The new video streaming platform called Truth+ will be available on all major third-party distributors Apple iTunes, Google Play, Apple TV, Android TV, Amazon Fire TV Roku TV and Roku web platforms. ... read more

LinkedIn is stepping up its pitch to creators and advertisers with a new update launching today. For the first time, creators can plug LinkedIn performance metrics directly into the third-party tools they already use to ... read more

We've all had it happen. You slip on a trusty pair of headphones, hop on a call, and your friends, family, and coworkers say, "What?!" Cue your own personal reenactment ... read more

Roborock’s S8 Max Ultra, a Verge-favorite robovac, is nearly half off. Amazon Prime Day has arrived, bringing fantastic robot vacuum deals that make it easier than ever to clean without ... read more

Beyerdynamic is launching its new Aventho 100 wireless headphones in Canada first. | Image: Beyerdynamic Beyerdynamic has announced the second generation of its Aventho wireless headphones, which originally debuted in ... read more

Two key players in the consent management space are merging. On Tuesday, French consent management platform (CMP) Didomi announced its acquisition of Sourcepoint, a CMP that started in 2015 as an anti-ad-blocking solution for publishers. ... read more

The "Bosch" universe expands this week with the arrival of "Ballard," a spinoff built around LAPD Detective Renee Ballard. ... read more

Every month, we like to ask our staff about their favorite stuff — whether it’s tech, kitchen tools, or camping gear. What they answer gives us some interesting insights into ... read more

Prime Day, Amazon’s four-day thunderdome of exclusive deals, is here. Outside of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, we anticipate this to be the best moment of the year to score ... read more

OnePlus has launched five new products today, including the midrange Nord 5 phone and a smaller version of its Watch 3 wearable. The 43mm version of the Watch 3 and ... read more

Microsoft’s latest Windows AI features arrived first on new Copilot Plus PCs last year, but they were limited to a special range of laptops. That looks set to change thanks ... read more

Google challenges Cloudflare’s anti-scraping tech; are dupes plagiarism?; and web traffic is careening off a cliff. The post Can Cloudflare Really Block Google’s AI Crawlers?; Knock It Off, Knockoffs appeared first on AdExchanger. ... read more

Related Insights Member Exclusive Media Briefing: ‘Cloudflare is locking the door’: Publishers celebrate victory against AI bot crawlers  Subscribe To Read Read More Stop me if you’ve heard ... read more

Now that we’ve reached halfway through 2025, retail media remains one of the industry’s biggest growth stories, pulling in more ad dollars and attention. But what started as a rush toward retail media’s on-site ... read more

Independent publishers say Google’s AI Overviews have left them in a no-win bind — and they’re taking the fight to EU regulators. The Independent Publishers Alliance, which has 45 members, non-profit big-tech watchdog Foxglove Group, ... read more

TikTok is reportedly developing a separate version of its app for the U.S. — a contingency plan as pressure builds for ByteDance to divest. But for marketers, it raises more questions than answers. “I’d be ... read more

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Spotify Michelle Khare has done everything from Houdini’s deadliest trick to the Secret Service’s training academy all in the name of content on her “Challenge Accepted” YouTube channel.  Perhaps though, ... read more

Apple’s original Liquid Glass design was very transparent. Apple’s new Liquid Glass design language just got a little more… frosted. In the third iOS 26 developer beta, Apple dialed back ... read more

Grok, the chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s xAI, was updated over the weekend with instructions to “assume subjective viewpoints sourced from the media are biased” and “not shy away from ... read more

When Musk asked his followers on X last week whether it was time to create a new political party, 80% answered "yes." ... read more

The limited-edition, light-up cover is activated by a push button and is powered by a hidden battery pack. ... read more

Adalytics is out with another summer blockbuster, of sorts. For at least a year, Adalytics has observed creator accounts on YouTube eluding the platform’s IP and rights monitoring tech to distribute movies, shows and live ... read more