Principal buying is a betrayal. It moves the agency-client relationship from a trusted partnership into a minefield full of conflicts of interest. ... read more

Google will pay $100 million to settle a class action lawsuit accusing the company of charging for clicks on ads placed outside the geographic locations selected by advertisers, as reported earlier ... read more

As protests against Tesla continue to grow, Elon Musk is threatening to “go after” the people who say or post anything negative about the company — which he labels “propaganda.”   That ... read more

The Dow Jones U.S. Media Index is down 8% to a 786 index with the Dow Jones U.S. Broadcasting & Entertainment Index losing 3% (to 1,136) since Jan. 21. The Dow Jones Industrials has declined ... read more

The proposed ban on cell phones in schools reflects concern about the damaging effects of teenagers' addiction to social media -- and their phones. ... read more

Keep your private messages private. If you hadn’t heard of Signal before this week, chances are you’re well aware of it now. The messaging app was thrust into the news on Monday ... read more

The Trump administration planned a military strike in Yemen the way normal people plan a surprise birthday party: in a group chat.  As detailed by The Atlantic earlier this week, Secretary ... read more

Senator Mark Warner (D-Virginia) is urging the FTC and DOJ to investigate whether DoubleVerify, Integral Ad Science, Human Security and others misrepresented their ability to detect traffic from bots. ... read more

The Sourdough Sidekick will work with other flour brands, but the King Arthur logo isn’t going anywhere. Baking sourdough bread may seem pointedly old-fashioned, but that doesn’t mean it’s immune to the ... read more

Trevor Milton, founder of Nikola Corp., exits court in New York, US, on Monday, Sept. 12, 2022. Trevor Milton, the founder of Nikola Motors who was convicted of defrauding investors in his ... read more

Alphabet, Amazon and Microsoft are projected to spend over $250 billion on capital expenditures needed to support generative AI services in 2025 on public cloud servers. Morningstar analysts believe the trend is like witnessing the ... read more

Google has announced that it will release the Pixel 9A in the US, Canada, and the UK on April 10th. The budget-friendly device was initially expected to launch shortly after its ... read more

NASA and Boeing are preparing the Starliner for its next flight after technical issues left the spacecraft unable to ferry its astronauts back to Earth for months. On Thursday, NASA announced ... read more

Some Helldivers 2 players are reporting that they can no longer play the game on their computers equipped with older CPUs. The issue stems from the developer Arrowhead Game Studios’ and ... read more

The First Alert Smart Smoke & Carbon Monoxide (CO) Alarm will work with Google Home and offer some of the same features as the Nest Protect it’s replacing.  Life safety manufacturer First ... read more

The new Yale Smart Lock with Matter works with any Matter smart home platform but is designed to pair with Google’s Nest video doorbell. Following the news that Google is discontinuing its ... read more

The Nest Protect smart smoke alarm has been discontined. In this week’s least surprising news, Google has announced it’s discontinuing the Nest Protect Smart Smoke and CO alarm and the Nest x ... read more

“Is the rage boiling over?” Bennett Foddy asks me as I fall down a wooden plank for the dozenth time. The creator of QWOP and Getting Over It is known for ... read more

In the media battle for "Yellowstone" between Paramount and NBCU, Paramount has exclusive rights to stream the blockbuster Western hit on Peacock through 2029, according to 'The Wall Street Journal.' ... read more

A concert on Monday night at New York’s Radio City Music Hall was a special occasion for Frank Miller: his parents’ wedding anniversary. He didn’t end up seeing the show — ... read more

Samsung tried to preemptively stave off any patent infringement claims from Oura against its Galaxy Ring Last June, Samsung made a surprising move against smart ring maker Oura. The tech giant filed ... read more

Nvidia’s 50-series desktop GPUs have been off to a slightly rocky start, with quality control issues, underwhelming performance gains over last generation, and the occasional melting cable. Its new laptop GPUs, ... read more

Measurement and optimization to track performance across multiple campaigns and ad accounts can become overwhelming. This is why LinkedIn updated its platform to support advertising and marketing and especially small businesses. ... read more

Though the first chapter of Adult Swim’s Common Side Effects animated series is about to wrap up this Sunday, the story isn’t over yet. Today, Adult Swim announced that Common Side ... read more

Jennifer Salke joined Amazon in 2018. | Photo by Kevin Winter/GA/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty Images<br> Jennifer Salke, the head of Amazon MGM Studios, is stepping down from her role and will ... read more

Nintendo’s news app is already breaking some news: today it revealed the premiere date for the upcoming live-action Zelda movie. The film, which appears to be called simply The Legend of ... read more

WhatsApp is reviving some old school internet nostalgia with a new feature that allows users to add temporary music clips to their profile updates. Snippets from popular songs can now be ... read more

When you can create art just by asking for it, what might you create? If you’re anything like the internet these last few days, you’d create some lovely things — stylized ... read more

Industry veteran God-is Rivera previously held roles at Twitter, VMLY&R, Disney, iCrossing and T3. ... read more

Google is adding gaming support to Android Auto, with titles including Candy Crush Soda Saga and Angry Birds 2 playable from compatible cars’ touchscreens. The new feature is included in the ... read more

Ad agencies have long fielded relentless pitches from Google Ads reps pushing new products in search of more money. But now, agencies of all sizes say the pressure is intensifying, with reps pushing harder to ... read more

The so-called culture wars have reached a fever pitch as of late as the polarization of the country continues. And as the lines between politics and pop culture continue to blur, brand marketers are tasked ... read more

Ad tech’s recurring question in 2025 so far has been, “What’s delaying the Google verdict?” The honest answer? Well, nobody really knows… resulting in speculation, deferred decision-making, and overall prolonged anguish. This ... read more

A year into its first brand marketing campaign in over a decade, The Economist’s traffic numbers have seen high highs and low lows. To measure the success of the campaign, the company is prioritizing other ... read more

Time has evaluated “dozens and dozens” of AI tools to determine what could be a good fit for the company, both as enterprise tools to help employees work more efficiently, and to help build products ... read more

Google released what it calls a thinking model that takes users into its thought process to reveal assumptions and why it chose the line of reasoning for its responses. ... read more

Switch 2 Nintendo has revealed something new about Switch 2 games on a day it wasn’t planning to talk about the new system. After today’s Nintendo Direct stream, the company revealed the ... read more

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks with reporters during a press briefing at the White House on March 26, 2025 in Washington, D.C. | Photo by Andrew Thomas via Getty Images ... read more

The national-security communications snafu shows a government in the hands of immature bros. ... read more

The latest Kindle Scribe is a far better value now that you can save on all three configurations. Unsurprisingly, Amazon is discounting a variety of e-readers during its Big Spring Sale, including ... read more

TikTok has already begun working with merchants in France, Germany and Italy, According to a report from Reuters - helping sellers load their products onto the platform. By next Monday, TikTok Shop should be up ... read more

Staff at the Federal Trade Commission have been instructed to no longer refer to the agency as “independent” in complaints, according to an email obtained by The Verge.  “Moving forward, when ... read more

The Ploopy Classic 2 trackball trades a USB-B port for USB-C. | Image: Ploopy Ploopy, a Canadian company known for its customizable open-source peripherals, has announced an upgraded version of its Classic ... read more

"Location information is an integral component of advertising personalization and marketing that allows companies to reach consumers with relevant content and ads," the ANA, 4As, IAB and others say in a letter to state lawmakers. ... read more

Ubisoft is spinning off Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, and Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six into a subsidiary backed by Tencent, according to an announcement on Thursday. The Chinese gaming giant will invest ... read more

Just in time for the "Sweet 16" portion of the NCAA's basketball championship series, Platinum Rye Entertainment, part of Omnicom's Dallas-based TMA, has compiled a list of the "most markable" men's and women's stars in ... read more

Dealer Stream, a streaming ad company for the automotive industry, announced Thursday an exclusive partnership with Blockboard, a programmatic advertising platform, to eliminate streaming ad waste for franchise automotive dealerships. ... read more

Facebook is trying to go back to its roots with a new “Friends” tab that filters out the algorithmic recommendations that have taken over its main feed. The new tab is ... read more

As consumers delegate more tasks to AI -- like shopping, research and decision-making -- AI itself is becoming the consumer. ... read more

I admire birds as much as the next person, but taking up birdwatching isn’t something I’ve considered. I don’t have the patience, nor do I own a good pair of binoculars ... read more

Perplexity can connect brands and retailers to any ecommerce merchant or new sales channel with one integration to firmly.ai's API, while retaining their merchant of record status - without the need for engineering resources to ... read more

The biggest news at Nintendo’s March Direct showcase was a software update. Mixed in amongst a trailer for Metroid Prime 4: Beyond and the surprise reveal of a mobile news app, ... read more

The two Democratic Federal Trade Commission members illegally fired by Donald Trump have filed a lawsuit against the president and newly appointed Republican FTC chair Andrew Ferguson, as well as fellow ... read more

"Plaintiffs bring this action to vindicate their right to serve the remainder of their respective terms, to defend the integrity of the Commission, and to continue their work for the American people," Alvaro Bedoya and ... read more

The fervor around ChatGPT’s more accessible (and more advanced) image generation capabilities has forced OpenAI to “temporarily” put a rate limit on image generation requests, according to CEO Sam Altman. “It’s ... read more

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella moved quickly to get DeepSeek’s R1 deployed on Azure in January. Nadella appeared to have anticipated the rise of a breakthrough like R1, and now he says ... read more

While we expected to find out much more about Nintendo’s next game system next week during the Switch 2 Direct event on April 2nd, a tiny new detail has been confirmed ... read more

Forget about Black Friday and Cyber Monday — or Prime Day, for that matter. For the second year in a row, Amazon has launched a spring sales event, which will run ... read more

You can now choose WhatsApp as your iPhone’s default app for calls and text messages, as noted by WABetaInfo. After updating WhatsApp to version 25.8.74, you’ll see the app appear as ... read more

There are 31 servo motors powering Robosen’s self-transforming Bumblebee toy. | Image: Robosen Robosen’s partnership with Hasbro continues with a new Bumblebee self-transforming robot toy launching this summer. Powered by 31 servo ... read more

Audio-Technica is releasing four Star Wars-themed versions of its ATH-CKS50TW2 earbuds. | Image: Audio-Technica Ahead of Star Wars Celebration Japan getting underway on April 18th in Tokyo, Audio-Technica has announced four new ... read more

Microsoft is planning to improve the startup speed of its Office apps, starting with Word in May. The launch times of Office apps will improve thanks to a new scheduled task ... read more

Luna, the cloud gaming service from Amazon that lets you stream to PC, Fire TV sticks, and more, is getting several Electronic Arts games, including Star Wars titles and sports games, ... read more

Pinterest is insistent on positioning itself as the most positive social-media platform, while attempting to prove to advertisers that their campaigns will perform better in a positive-leaning space. ... read more

A Shinichirō Watanabe production wouldn’t be complete without an absolute banger of a soundtrack, and his upcoming Adult Swim series Lazarus is no exception. Ahead of Lazarus’s premiere on April 5th, ... read more

California resident Katherine Wilson can proceed with a claim that Google violated a state wiretap law by tracking her activity on the state's Department of Motor Vehicles website, a federal judge ruled this week. ... read more

Real time day / night cycles have been featured in a lot of Pokémon titles since the Gold and Silver era, but Pokémon Legends: Z-A is going to take the classic ... read more

Samsung launched its new, very fast 9100 Pro PCIe Gen 5 SSD last week, and the prices are pretty high, starting at $199.99 for the 1TB model without a heatsink pre-installed. ... read more

Elon Musk and Steve Huffman. | Image: Getty Images / The Verge Nearly two months ago, Elon Musk went on a public crusade against Reddit.  On X, he said it was “insane” ... read more

The Echo Show 5 is appearing as the Alexa Show 5 for some Amazon customers. According to images seen by The Verge, Amazon is testing changing the name of its Echo smart ... read more

In addition to showing off a bunch of new games including a brief glimpse at Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, Nintendo also shared some new features coming to the Switch. Coming in ... read more

The Light Phone III is the most impressive Light hardware yet – but it’s not quite finished. What are the essential features of a smartphone? That’s not a rhetorical question, and it’s ... read more

Caterpillar is adding lidar to its heavy-duty construction equipment after striking a deal with Luminar, which makes the laser sensor for a number of automakers and self-driving car operators. Caterpillar ... read more

As if things weren’t embarrassing enough for national security adviser Michael Waltz, what with inviting a journalist into a private policy group chat and all, Wired discovered that his Venmo account ... read more

Nintendo closed out today’s Direct with a surprise announcement: a news app that will keep players up to date on everything Nintendo. It’s called Nintendo Today, and it’ll be available on ... read more

Jamie Seltzer succeeds Dan Hagen as Global Chief Data and Technology Officer of Havas Media Network. ... read more

Jamie Seltzer succeeds Dan Hagen as Global Chief Data and Technology Officer of Havas Media Network. ... read more

AI-generated images have made significant progress since the days of abstract renderings and glitchy amalgamations. OpenAI’s newly released “Images for ChatGPT” has an uncanny ability to nail depth, shadows, and even ... read more

A series of steps Microsoft introduced aims to help security teams within an organization enforce policies that prevent sensitive data from being typed into generative AI apps, starting with ChatGPT, Copilot Chat, DeepSeek and Google ... read more

A screenshot from Metroid Prime 4: Beyond. Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is still alive — and it’s looking good. Nintendo unveiled a new trailer for the game that serves as an introduction ... read more

Best Buy in Canada has confirmed the company will open pre-orders for Nintendo Switch 2 on April 2nd so that customers have the chance to secure their console early. Best Buy ... read more

On today’s episode, we’re talking about bird flu, but in a pretty Decoder way. Lauren Leffer, who recently wrote a piece for The Verge about bird flu and how it’s becoming ... read more

The 2026 GMC Sierra EV is getting some new features. | Image: GMC GMC’s flagship electric truck is starting to fill out its lineup. The GM-owned brand announced new ATF and Elevation ... read more

Big viewing and ad revenue gains for Tubi, Pluto TV and the Roku Channel aren't slowing down - and they continue to bring in new deals. ... read more

The second day of the Audience x Science conference echoed Day One's trust issues, underscored by discussions about the evolution of AI, the ANA's Project Aquila, and the continuing dominance of walled garden data. ... read more

Before the countdown to the Switch 2 direct officially ends April 2nd, Nintendo has some games to get off its plate before we can begin the company’s next generation feast. Nintendo ... read more

iSpot says brands can see conversion-rate tracking - specifically which programs, dayparts and audience segments generate the best response to ad campaigns - with its attribution solution for linear TV/streaming video ad campaigns ' at ... read more

Google is introducing new features to Maps, Search, and Hotels that aim to help users plan upcoming travel and vacations. The Google Maps app is getting a standout feature that can ... read more

Instacart is introducing a new way for shoppers to make money: taking videos of store shelves “one aisle at a time.” The new earning opportunity, called Store View, will allow Instacart ... read more

If we genderswapped James Bond, Q would definitely use these. A few months ago, I was stuffing my face with Christmas cookies and catching up on the season 3 reunion episode of ... read more

Sherlock Holmes has a love child? In TV's newest Sherlock series, that appears to be the case. ... read more

Leading brands in this year's report combined timing, relevance and context to create unforgettable experiences, according to InMarket. That's what it takes to reach consumers as they cut spending amid intense competition for their dollars. ... read more

AI insights were inevitable. | Image: Garmin It was only a matter of time. Garmin announced today it’s launching Garmin Connect Plus, a premium tier to its app that adds AI-powered insights ... read more

Vivaldi and Proton have teamed up to make it easier for Vivaldi browser users to privately explore the web without downloading a virtual private network (VPN). Starting today, the free version ... read more

Uber’s shuttle to JFK runs every 30 minutes. Uber is expanding its airport shuttle service to include one of the busiest hubs in the world, New York City’s John F. Kennedy International ... read more

The Poco F7 Ultra is yellow. Very yellow. Poco is releasing its first phone with “Ultra” branding, and on paper it lives up to the name. The F7 Ultra runs on the ... read more

We’re all familiar with user-generated content all over social media by now — but what about employee-generated content? Five B2B brands told Digiday that they are turning to their own employees to create and publish ... read more

Meta is now in the principal-based buying business, putting its own twist on the hotly debated practice in talks with agency holding companies. The platform is feeling out holdco investment teams about a setup where ... read more

Last week, the online advertising standards body IAB Tech Lab unveiled its Trusted Server Framework proposals. The scheme hopes to give “publishers complete control over ad monetization…” but not everyone agrees, and debate broke out. ... read more

It’s been just over a year since the BBC relaunched its website and app in March 2024 — and the company has been rewarded for its efforts with a significant traffic boost. The website update was ... read more