The injection of college sports creators into the U.S. influencer economy has permanently altered the way creator marketing and sports partnerships work. At this year’s March Madness tournament, you would be hard pressed to find ... read more

This week’s Media Briefing recaps what publishers had to say about referral traffic (which, spoiler alert, is as volatile as ever) during the Digiday Publishing Summit’s closed-door town hall sessions. Overheard at DPS Google ... read more

And according to the firm, part of The Brandtech Group, the solution can cut launch time for media campaigns by 65%, by automating such tasks as media research and content strategy. ... read more

Robinhood is getting closer to becoming a full-fledged financial service. On Wednesday, the company announced a wholly online banking platform that will offer checking and savings accounts to Robinhood Gold subscribers ... read more

Members of a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee met Wednesday to discuss what’s typically a highly bipartisan topic: protecting kids online. But in a far-from-typical political climate, the mood was tense ... read more

Nothing’s Ear (a) stand out with their bright yellow colorway, but they’re also available in black and white. From the AirPods Pro to the Shokz OpenRun Pro 2, Amazon’s Big Spring Sale ... read more

During a briefing on Wednesday, President Donald Trump announced plans to put a 25 percent tariff on cars and trucks imported into the US. Trump said the taxes would go into ... read more

Things are looking prettier. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft is sharing several new Xbox gaming updates for March that include a new look for Game Bar on PC, a new Cloud Gaming feature, ... read more

OpenAI is pushing back the rollout of ChatGPT’s built-in image generator for free users. In a post on Wednesday, CEO Sam Altman admitted that the image-generation tool is more popular than ... read more

"I am the second FTC Commissioner in 120 years that a president has purported to fire. I will not be the first to go down without a fight, and neither will Commissioner Bedoya," Rebecca Kelly ... read more

"I am the second FTC Commissioner in 120 years that a president has purported to fire. I will not be the first to go down without a fight, and neither will Commissioner Bedoya," Rebecca Kelly ... read more

Nielsen and Paramount Global finally reached an agreement on a new multi-year deal, which, not surprisingly, coincided with CBS' Grammy Awards telecast. In this week's edition I provide a brief history of TV audience measurement, ... read more

YouTube will soon count Shorts views using the same method as TikTok and Instagram. Starting March 31st, YouTube will count the number of times a Short starts to play or replay, like ... read more

The rise of live event streaming presents a significant opportunity for advertisers, but executing programmatic ads during these high-stakes moments introduces unique challenges that require both technical solutions and human collaboration. With major sporting events ... read more

Connected television has given media buyers a wide range of activation options, from ad servers to DSPs to direct publisher relationships. But some in the industry are coming to think this abundance of choice requires ... read more

After an hours-long tease, Marvel has confirmed much of the cast for the next Avengers movie — and it pulls together a huge list of stars from films ranging from past ... read more

The latest Kindle update brings a useful new feature to the 12th-generation Paperwhite and Colorsoft. | Photo by Andrew Liszewski / The Verge Amazon has released a software update for the current-generation ... read more

Seamlessly integrated into users' daily lives, Alexa has potential for ad placement -- if spots are used appropriately. ... read more

Whenever Verge staffers are asked to describe their smart tech, office tools, kitchen gadgets, or whatever else, they talk about things they recently bought, things they picked up 10 years ago, or things ... read more

Artificial intelligence continues to raise privacy implications as companies like Google and Microsoft integrate the technology into a variety of their respective platforms. ... read more

YouTube has redefined what a "view" means for its short-form video feature, aligning more closely with policies set by TikTok and Instagram Reels. ... read more

When it comes to working out or just hanging outside, the perks of bone conduction headphones versus over-ear headphones or earbuds are growing. They’ve always been the safer alternative since they ... read more

The country is just one of multiple jurisdictions that will investigate whether the proposed M&A deal would restrict competition in the advertising and media buying sectors within their respective territories. ... read more

"It is an open question whether training generative AI models with copyrighted material is infringement or fair use," U.S. District Court Judge Eumi Lee wrote. ... read more

Choose your foldable fighter. A foldable phone isn’t for the faint of heart. They’re generally heavier, pricier, and have less capable cameras than a standard slab-style phone. And while they’re far less ... read more

TikTok is focused on expanding its Smart+ automated ad solution, with a host of new updates for in-app ecommerce providers. ... read more

Advertising has become a major focus for DoorDash as it finds ways for brands it works with to reach consumers through sponsored ads and retail media. ... read more

Advertising has become a major focus for DoorDash as it finds ways for brands it works with to reach consumers through sponsored ads and retail media. ... read more

The DC Circuit Court of Appeals has blocked Apple’s efforts to intervene in the federal antitrust trial against Google that jeopardizes Apple’s lucrative search exclusivity deal, Ars Technica reports. In February, ... read more

Amazon’s Big Spring Sale is happening now through Monday, March 31st, with several dozen good-to-great deals available that don’t require an Amazon Prime membership. Our main roundup has you covered with ... read more

Sunday viewing was up 13% to 10.1 million. The early evening window averaged a combined 15.3 million - up 2.6% from a year ago - while later evening games grew 19% to 8.0 million. ... read more

Publishers need to accomplish three things. Number one: Maintain an advantage and stay competitive with your content. ... read more

Microsoft is rolling out a new sign-in screen for more than a billion consumers that access services like Outlook, Windows, Xbox, Microsoft 365, and more. The updated authentication screen is based ... read more

The Canon EOS R50 V is a redesigned version of the EOS R50 with a stronger focus on video capabilities. | Image: Canon Canon has announced an updated version of its EOS ... read more

ANA-owned Aquila has signed a contract making Comscore the source of the TV audience data component of its cross-media measurement service. ... read more

ANA-owned Aquila has signed a contract making Comscore the source of the TV audience data component of its cross-media measurement service. ... read more

The Roborock S8 MaxV Ultra is just $999.99, which is a whopping $700 discount on the cleaning machine. Spring cleaning season is here, which is probably why we’re seeing retailers slash prices ... read more

Rivian announced the creation of a new micromobility company called Also. The deal includes $105 million in Series B funding from venture capital firm Eclipse and will focus on the development ... read more

Security camera company Wyze’s new AI-powered filter launches this week. Security cameras can be helpful for spotting package thieves, letting you know when your kid got home from school, or scaring off ... read more

Krisp, the company best known for its noise cancellation app, is launching a new AI tool that’s supposed to convert a speaker’s accent to American English in real time. The tool ... read more

Blizzard has announced that it will make exceptions to its hardcore permadeath policy and allow some characters to return to life. According to a report in Ars Technica, Blizzard made the ... read more

Video game menus tend to fade into the background — but that’s not the case with Metaphor: ReFantazio. Like the Persona games before it, the fantasy RPG has an interface that’s ... read more

The iPad in its natural habitat: my coffee table. I can tell you the entire story of the 11th-generation iPad by explaining the results of one benchmarking test. It’s called Geekbench, and ... read more

The new Leaf is an SUV. | Image: Nissan The Nissan Leaf is back, and it’s not a frumpy looking hatchback anymore.  The Japanese automaker is dusting off its pioneering EV and ... read more

On March 24th, The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg published a damning story about being added to the ‘Houthi PC Small Group’ on Signal by Trump’s national security adviser Mike Waltz. In ... read more

The organization said that the annual accolade recognizes a country's consistent success at the Festival as well as "a country's exceptional and enduring commitment to creativity that drives progress and growth." ... read more

Waze is getting rid of Google Assistant for users on iPhones, citing “ongoing difficulties” with the integration. In an update on Tuesday, Waze said it plans on replacing it with an ... read more

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. You awake in a dimly lit bunker with little recollection of yourself or your surroundings. A few moments later, having learned the basics ... read more

While the games industry patiently waits for the proper reveal of the Switch 2 on April 2nd, Nintendo isn’t quite done with its current console. The company announced that it will ... read more

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy describes her home office as comfortable and cluttered. Jennifer Pattison Tuohy is The Verge’s smart home reviewer, and she’s mind-bogglingly impressive in the number of devices she covers. As ... read more

The latest update for No Man’s Sky is going back in time. Called Relics, the expansion launches today and introduces paleontology and archaeology elements to the sci-fi exploration game; players can ... read more

The US has added 80 organizations and companies to a trading export blacklist in an effort to prevent China from acquiring computing technology for military purposes. The new restrictions announced by ... read more

When Princess Mononoke first debuted back in 1997, it marked a major turning point for Studio Ghibli. The studio had already dabbled in computer-generated imagery and digital compositing with films like ... read more

Even the most sophisticated AI systems are only as good as the data they're built upon. The promise of AI to revolutionize everything from customer segmentation to predictive analytics is compelling. But without proper data ... read more

For the most part, though, marketing can get by perfectly well with imprecision. All that matters is knowing whether one choice is better than another. It doesn't matter how much better or how much worse. ... read more

The first day of its Audience x Science Conference delivered fascinating learnings on media and ad measurement, but "attention" metrics surely dominated. ... read more

Nielsen says audiences young and old are increasingly using YouTube to access content that also appears on social-media apps.There is also rising interest in "video" podcasts on YouTube. ... read more

All full-size electric bikes are now banned on most of London’s public transport. | Image: Mike Kemp / In Pictures via Getty Images Transport for London (TfL) has announced that all non-folding ... read more

The old TLC makeover show "What Not To Wear" has been rebooted for Amazon Prime with the new title "Wear Whatever the F You Want." ... read more

Sponsored by Start.ioU.S. mobile ad spending crossed $200 billion last year. That’s more than half (51.2 percent) of total U.S. media dollars—and an impressive two-thirds (66 percent) of digital ad dollars. Of this spending, the ... read more

GeoGuessr on Steam looks an awful lot like GeoGuessr in a browser. 12-year-old browser game GeoGuessr is getting a belated port to PC, with a new listing for the game now in ... read more

If you’re looking for some solid evidence that Microsoft’s strategy to bring Xbox games to PS5 is seeing some early success, look no further than Sony’s own PlayStation Store today. The ... read more

IPG Mediabrands' Magna unit issued its first quarterly update for the 2025 U.S. ad economy, shaving six-tenths of a percentage point from what it forecasted at its year-end outlook in December 2024. ... read more

The Reolink Argus 4 Pro supporting vanlife in Switzerland. As a part-time vanlifer, I’m constantly looking for opportunities to be alone in the world. But I also want to feel safe when ... read more

Here’s Porsche’s 2026 PCM setup. | Image: Porsche Porsche is upgrading the infotainment in the upcoming 2026 model year Taycan, 911, Panamera, and Cayenne with “more responsive” software and features such as ... read more

This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at how live sports will likely be used by TV networks and streaming services in this year’s upfront to drive advertiser demand for non-sports programming. Moneyball WTF ... read more

It’s hard to deny that AI will have a larger part of media buying — even as marketers will stall, resist and negotiate every inch of the way. And who can blame them? The ... read more

According to LUMA Partners’ 2024 Full Year Market Report, the digital media and marketing ecosystem experienced a 13% annual increase in overall mergers and acquisitions compared to the previous year. Specifically, the ad tech sector ... read more

As 1440 looks to grow its advertising business, the newsletter company is laser-focused on the CPM pricing model. Founded in 2017, 1440 Media operates an eponymous newsletter, “1440,” with the goal of providing a comprehensive ... read more

Fast Company and Inc. are tightening up their paywalls. Up until a few weeks ago, the Mansueto Ventures-owned publishers would put one new story a day behind a paywall. Now, four daily stories are reserved ... read more

Copilot AI agents After Google and OpenAI offered up AI news on Tuesday, Microsoft has followed with announcements of its own, including details of two “deep reasoning” agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot ... read more

Competition is key to Mozilla's vision of the internet. But remedies based on Google's monopoly trial could threaten a free and open internet. Depending on the outcome of the remedy, it could have wide-reaching effects ... read more

Chatbot service Character.AI is adding a new ‘Parental Insights’ feature, which lets teens send a weekly report of their chatbot usage to a parents’ email address. As outlined in an announcement ... read more

After delivering a new “open” AI model with better performance on a single GPU, Google has now introduced an update to the AI models for its products with Gemini 2.5, which ... read more

Harper Stanfield and Suzanne Englot took park in the in the National Day of Action joining EPA workers across the US protesting cuts to the agency. Environmental Protection Agency workers took to ... read more

“Pick-your-own” promotions are a personal favorite of mine, so I’m stoked to see the return of Amazon’s deal that lets you grab three 4K Blu-rays, standard 1080p Blu-rays, or DVDs for ... read more

Game Informer is back, and so is its entire staff. On Tuesday, editor-in-chief Matt Miller announced that Gunzilla Games has acquired the rights to the gaming magazine, helping to bring the ... read more

AT&T will cut its autopay and paperless billing discounts in half starting April 24th. In a statement to The Verge, AT&T spokesperson Kyle Loomis confirmed reports that customers enrolled in the ... read more

Watchdogs are asking the court to reject arguments by the IAB, cable lobby and other business groups seeking to invalidate the rules that aim to make it easier for consumers to cancel subscriptions. ... read more

The Colorsoft is like a souped-up Kindle Paperwhite, but that isn’t such a bad thing. When we reviewed the Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition late last year, one of our biggest gripes was ... read more

To drive partnership campaigns, Meta is inviting brands to access personalized, AI-enabled creator content recommendations within the Partnership Ads Hub in Ads Manager. ... read more

Instagram is inviting U.S. middle and high schools to report in-app teen safety issues directly to Meta for faster content-moderation actions. ... read more

Google has expanded access to its AI Mode search beyond Google One AI Premium U.S. subscribers. The lack of links to businesses will become a challenge for all when asking for detailed information. The feature ... read more

The traditional lines separating marketing and commerce are dissolving, forcing a realignment of roles and budgets within organizations. This shift comes as consumers increasingly dictate how and where they engage with brands, a concept one ... read more

It’s extremely hard to beat Anker’s A1695 “InstaCord” 25,000mAh portable battery when it comes to value and price, especially now that it’s 20 percent off thanks to Amazon’s Big Spring Sale. ... read more

Morrissey most recently served as global head of analyst relations for advertising & marketing tech, media & Entertainment at Amazon Web Services. Earlier she served at Yahoo and OMD. ... read more

In their quest to build a coast-to-coast EV charging network, GM, EVgo, and Pilot announce they have installed electric vehicle chargers at 130 locations across 25 states. The partnership, which launched ... read more

New EIC Jennifer Cunnningham describes "Newsweek's" mission in the age of Trump and what she seeks in a new reporter. ... read more

Kristen Raddtke and friends at a Calligraphr font workshop that she hosted. | Photo by Jeffery Gleaves / The Verge Kristen Radtke is creative director at The Verge. “I work with the ... read more

Though it took Amazon MGM quite a while to wrest the James Bond franchise away from longtime producers Barbara Broccoli Michael G. Wilson, the studio has already found the duo’s replacements. ... read more

OpenAI is integrating Sora’s image generation capabilities directly into ChatGPT starting today — this feature is dubbed “Images in ChatGPT.” While Sora was previously only accessible through a separate website, users ... read more

The Digiday Media Buying and Planning Awards recognize companies, campaigns and technology that have been most successful in the modern media landscape. This year’s nominees prioritized technology-driven storytelling, strategic brand partnerships and immersive and interactive ... read more

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal by cyberbullying victims who wanted to revive a claim that Yolo, a former Snapchat extension that allowed people to message each other anonymously, was dangerously ... read more

You’ll need an Nvidia graphics card to play games in 3D. | Image: Samsung After Samsung first revealed its glasses-free 3D monitor last year, the company is finally letting customers reserve preorders ... read more

As Target feels continued backlash, marketers are waking up to the cost of lost trust. ... read more

Apple has set the date for this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), with the event kicking off with an in-person experience to watch the keynote and Platforms State of the Union ... read more

Discord is finally updating the themes on its desktop app to include a full dark mode that’s ideal for OLED monitors. The new Onyx dark mode is part of a number ... read more

Hoto makes tools for DIY tinkerers who have a preference, not just for how their tools perform, but how they look, too. Not to be hyperbolic, but they’re the slickest tools ... read more

Sony’s new WF-C710N wireless earbuds are available in a new blue transparent color option. | Image: Sony Sony has announced a successor to its budget-minded WF-C700N wireless earbuds from 2023. The new ... read more