There are no bad iPads. That’s the best news about Apple’s tablet lineup: 15 years after Steve Jobs first debuted the device, the iPad is the best tablet on the market, ... read more

Nintendo is possibly hoping to steer the narrative regarding the Switch 2 back in a positive direction by showing off its most exciting game, Mario Kart World. The publisher held a ... read more

Perplexity’s AI voice assistant will reportedly play a significant role in the upcoming Motorola Razr device expected to be announced this week, Bloomberg reports. The news comes after Motorola posted a ... read more

Shein and Temu are preparing to raise their prices in the US. In almost the same notice to customers, the ultra-cheap retailers warn that they will start adjusting their prices on ... read more

Digital ad revenue grew nearly 15% to $259 billion in 2024, according to the IAB, which released its annual internet ad revenue report on Thursday. ... read more

Archer says it will launch an air taxi service in New York City with United Airlines, which will include routes between Manhattan and major airports like JFK, LaGuardia, and Newark. The ... read more

Discord is preventing some users from accessing sensitive content unless they allow the platform to verify their age by scanning their face or ID. The new age verification process is described ... read more

Another strange moment in a different marketplace could be occurring - the upfront market for national TV networks and premium streaming platforms. ... read more

A new World War II miniseries demonstrates that sometimes the use of flashbacks can be so overdone that confusion reigns. ... read more

Wikipedia is attempting to dissuade artificial intelligence developers from scraping the platform by releasing a dataset that’s specifically optimized for training AI models. The Wikimedia Foundation announced on Wednesday that it ... read more

Running training plans have notably been absent from Strava’s platform… ‘til now. | Image: Strava, Runna Go to any run club in the world and there’s a good chance that everyone there ... read more

With brand budgets under pressure, marketers are reaching for every lever they can pull to make their campaigns more efficient. One area that’s often overlooked? The creative itself. Creative quality contributes to nearly 50% of ... read more

In Digiday+ Research’s end-of-year survey in 2024, we learned that marketers expect to grow their investments in influencer marketing in 2025 compared with 2024. Of marketer respondents, 57% said their company would increase their budget ... read more

This week’s Media Briefing looks at how publishers including Financial Times, Immediate Media and Reuters adopting AI tools to augment their journalism. AI-assisted newsrooms Gannett’s DE&I pullback, AP’s White House ban and more ... read more

WPP’s acquisition of data clean room InfoSum has raised eyebrows both inside and outside the industry, not just because of what it signals about the holding company’s ambitions but also because of what it reveals ... read more

When Temu sneezes, paid social advertising catches a cold.  The Chinese e-commerce juggernaut has been one of the most aggressive spenders in digital advertising, blitzing Facebook and Instagram with a volume and velocity of ads ... read more

Towards the end of Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony in a Washington, DC courthouse, a smile flashed across his face.  Meta’s lead attorney, Mark Hansen, had asked the CEO if he was “happy” ... read more

Just weeks after Assembly named one, Interpublic's Momentum Worldwide unit this morning appointed a Chief AI Officer, indicating that it is the hot new title on Madison Avenue. So we asked an AI to assess ... read more

Gemini Live’s feature that lets it see and respond to what’s on your camera and your screen will now be free for all Android users via the Gemini app, Google announced ... read more

He most recently spent 8 years at Corus, where he was Chief Revenue Officer overseeing more than $1.5 billion in revenue. ... read more

SAN JUAN, PR — In an advertising landscape dominated by performance metrics and retail media expansion, Colleen Hotchkiss, President of Growth Practices at Publicis Groupe’s Zenith Media, is calling for a renewed focus on brand ... read more

As the scramble for television advertising dollars continues to heat up, many still think that premium content is the key to attracting both viewers and advertisers. But, while content may be king, the signals that ... read more

Copilot Vision is now free in Edge. Copilot Vision, Microsoft’s AI assistant feature that can interpret what’s on your screen and help you use apps, is now available for free use within ... read more

Right-wing influencers are shilling an app that purportedly lets people earn crypto for reporting sightings of undocumented immigrants. ICERAID, a “GovFi protocol that delegates intelligence gathering tasks to citizens,” has recently ... read more

Apple dropped "Search" from Search Ads and rebranded its ad business to Apple Ads to better represent its expanding ad placements across the App Store. ... read more

Apple’s making steady progress toward its climate goals, the company’s latest environmental progress report shows. Its planet-heating pollution shrank by 800,000 metric tons last year compared to 2023, about a 5 ... read more

"The Act as drafted fails to pass constitutional muster," U.S. District Court Judge Algenon Marbley in the Southern District of Ohio wrote in a 49-page decision striking down the Parental Notification By Social Media Operators ... read more

Zoom is suffering from a major outage, preventing people from connecting to video calls or even accessing its website. As shown by data on Downdetector, the outage appeared to have started ... read more

LinkedIn is expanding its partnership with the MRC accreditation audits to include new video ad metrics and gaining third-party industry-standard assurance of its measurement and reporting systems. ... read more

LinkedIn is expanding its partnership with the MRC accreditation audits to include new video ad metrics and gaining third-party industry-standard assurance of its measurement and reporting systems. ... read more

In an effort to boost the in-app presence of emerging creators, YouTube is expanding its "Hype" program to more creators in testing markets. ... read more

"Defendants agreed to enact and enforce mandatory brand safety standards that they intended to have an effect on digital advertising on user-generated platforms," Rumble argues in new court papers. ... read more

The unscripted TV show will see Fallon starting up a marketing agency staffed by up-and-coming brand creative personnel. ... read more

Meta, gavel’d During Meta’s antitrust trial today, lawyers representing Apple, Google, and Snap each expressed irritation with Meta over the slides it presented on Monday that The Verge found to contain easy-to-remove ... read more

The lack of an alleged competitive search market in Britain prompted a class-action suit filed at the Competition Appeal Tribunal Tuesday, arguing that without competition Google could charge higher prices for ads that appear in ... read more

Ad platforms with high exposure to performance-driven campaigns and Chinese brands face the biggest threat from higher tariffs on imports. ... read more

Xbox is finally rolling out the ability to purchase games and DLC, as well as sign up for Game Pass directly from its mobile app. But there’s a catch: you’ll no ... read more

In recent years, Do Not Disturb has evolved on both iPhones and Android phones: it’s no longer just a simple block on notifications and distractions, but rather a selection of modes ... read more

OpenAI is releasing two new AI reasoning models today: o3, which the company calls its “most powerful reasoning model,” and o4-mini, which is a smaller and faster model that “achieves remarkable ... read more

Periods of instability and budget cuts are rife with innovation and reallocation. ... read more

The 2024 Kindle Scribe introduced a better writing experience. It’s currently on sale in all configurations. As a part of its ongoing Book Sale, Amazon isn’t just cutting prices on its budget-friendly ... read more

Lyft said it is acquiring mobility platform FreeNow, giving the ridehailing company its first major presence in Europe after years of operating exclusively in the US and Canada. FreeNow aggregates ... read more

Average national TV viewership has seen a slight 2% decline to a Nielsen average 1.53 million viewers on TNT, ESPN, ABC, ESPN 2 and truTV, according to Guggenheim Securities and Sports Business Journal. ... read more

Although much larger than an inkjet printer, Anker’s UV Printer E1 is much smaller than commercial-grade UV printers. | Image: Anker Falling somewhere between a 3D printer and the inkjet you use ... read more

While Natasha Lyonne’s Charlie Cale can always tell when someone is lying, the new trailer for Poker Face’s upcoming second season makes it pretty hard to tell which of its characters ... read more

Figma slapped Swedish AI coding startup Loveable with a cease-and-desist warning for naming one of its new product features “Dev Mode.” It turns out Figma successfully trademarked the term Dev Mode ... read more

DJI’s new drone accessory is designed to ensure public safety and emergency officials are heard loud and clear — and I mean really loud. Its enterprise-focused Zenmuse V1 speaker can broadcast ... read more

TikTok has announced “Footnotes,” its own take on the community notes features that started on Twitter and have been spreading to other social networks. As elsewhere, it’s a crowd-sourced approach to ... read more

The government will continue funding the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program. In a statement to The Verge, US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) spokesperson Jared Auchey said it “executed the ... read more

Spotify is down according to widespread user reports across the US and Europe, with issues preventing the platform from loading or streaming music. At 8:45AM ET on Wednesday morning, the Spotify ... read more

Microsoft has started testing an early version of its Copilot for Gaming experience. Sources familiar with Microsoft’s Xbox plans tell me that employees can now access Copilot within the Xbox mobile ... read more

Patreon is taking on Twitch with a new feature that lets creators offer live video streams directly on the platform. The feature will be available “starting this week” to “select creators” ... read more

The Aspen is Aura’s newest digital photo frame, featuring a 4:3 aspect ratio and an anti-glare screen. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Digital picture frame company Aura Home’s ... read more

AI has been crucial in helping Google enforce policies and prevent bad actors and harmful content from reaching users. Its latest models contributed to detecting violations on 97% of the 1.3 billion publisher pages. ... read more

Nvidia is releasing a new GPU driver today that includes a massive amount of fixes for bugs and crashes that have plagued its Game Ready drivers recently. After widespread reports of ... read more

By 2028, after three years of 27.2% compounded annual growth, a doubling of ad spend of this year's results is projected - to exceed $10 billion, according to eMarketer. ... read more

By 2028, after three years of 27.2% compounded annual growth, a doubling of ad spend of this year's results is projected - exceeding $10 billion, according to eMarketer. ... read more

The campaign marks the first effort from the brand's new head of marketing, Kate Alini, who started in October. ... read more

The real PowerShot was the friends we made along the way. I’ve been trying to buy a Canon PowerShot G7 X Mark III for two weeks, and I no longer believe this ... read more

"Media consumption has reached its saturation point as digital device penetration rates having peaked in major developed markets, like the U.S.," PQ notes in its new report, adding, "Analysis of the 2024-2029 period indicates that ... read more

Microsoft has enabled a new “computer use” feature for Copilot Studio this week that lets AI agents interact with websites and desktop applications. Much like OpenAI’s Operator or Claude’s identically named ... read more

A quip made by Seth Rogen (left), who co-presented an award with Edward Norton (right) was edited out of the ceremony video. When the Breakthrough Prize, founded by Facebook, Apple, and Google ... read more

Steep hills? No problem for the BougeRV Electric Foldable Wagon, until you go down. Not to brag, but I’m somewhat of an expert in folding wagons. Huge flex, I know. But I’ve ... read more

Brands are increasingly feeling the impact of President Trump’s tariffs — particularly those sourcing from China, where U.S. tariffs have climbed to 145%, with more changes on the horizon. One such brand is Bogg Bag, the ... read more

In the measured language of quarterly earnings calls few phrases say more with less than “cautious but competitive”. That’s how Publicis Groupe CEO Arthur Sadoun described the mood among advertisers as tariffs cast a long ... read more

They say the third time’s the charm. The owner of Possible — the conference, trade show and event that’s hitting its third year — certainly hopes so and has invested millions into its scaled but ... read more

This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at how TV network and streaming service owners like AMC Networks are placing bigger bets on outcome-based measurement heading into this year’s upfront and the potential for outcome-based ... read more

This is the first installment in Digiday+ Research’s 2025 CMO Strategies series that analyzes key marketer strategies and challenges across leading marketing channels, including ad-supported streaming, retail media, display advertising and social media. In this ... read more

AAM working groups formed last year have been instrumental in providing feedback for new initiatives, but spent several months creating the certification after hearing feedback from publishers, brands and agencies. ... read more

AP says its reporters were blocked from attending the meeting between President Trump and President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador. ... read more

Noting the increased macroeconomic uncertainties since the beginning of the year, the company widened the range of its organic growth outlook for the year from 3.5%-4.5% to 2.5%-4.5%. ... read more

The deal leverages Zenapse's AI-powered Large Emotion Model built to understand emotional and psychological drivers to help advertisers increase engagement, personalization and campaign performance. ... read more

Making Instagram a separate company. Buying Snapchat. Wiping everyone’s Facebook friends. Creating a feed of only ads.  These were some of the ideas that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg considered over the ... read more

The Method 360 ANC earbuds’ charging case uses a sliding design and can be clipped to a bag strap. | Image: Skullcandy Skullcandy has made a name for itself in recent years ... read more

Mohsen Mahdawi had a feeling his naturalization appointment would go awry. A week before his meeting with US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Mahdawi called his friend Chris Helali and told ... read more

OpenAI has revealed the “advisors” for its new nonprofit commission: Dolores Huerta, Monica Lozano, Dr. Robert K. Ross, and Jack Oliver. The company says the four advisors will help “inform OpenAI’s ... read more

TikTok is now integrating location reviews directly into the video comments tab, so places tagged by users can be rated by the video's creator, including user reviews and uploaded photos. ... read more

OpenAI is adding an image library to ChatGPT to make it easier to access your AI-generated images, the company announced today. It’s rolling out to all Free, Plus, and Pro users ... read more

Funding is about to run out for the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program – a system used by major companies like Microsoft, Google, Apple, Intel, and AMD to identify and ... read more

SAN JUAN, PR – As the media landscape rapidly evolves, Nav Singh, vice president and managing director of programmatic at Horizon Media, said advertisers are entering a new era — one defined by data, customization, ... read more

More than 250 Democratic lawmakers are urging a judge to rule that President Donald Trump lacked authority to fire Federal Trade Commissioners Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter. ... read more

A PDF of Meta’s opening statement slides in its FTC antitrust hearing yesterday contains easy-to-remove redactions that make it possible to see everything the company didn’t want made public, The Verge ... read more

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg had a “potentially crazy idea” in 2022 to get people using Facebook more: deleting everyone’s friends’ lists. The possibility was discussed on Monday via internal emails shown ... read more

Tariffs are dissuading, not motivating, some companies to move their production to the US. Blackmagic Design, an Australia-based digital cinematography camera company, was gearing up to start making products in the United ... read more

About a year before the Federal Trade Commission first opened its antitrust investigation into Meta’s acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, CEO Mark Zuckerberg internally suggested “the extreme step of spinning Instagram ... read more

Anthropic is getting ready to introduce a new “voice mode” feature that could rival OpenAI’s similar option within ChatGPT, according to Bloomberg. The AI voice assistant will reportedly live within its ... read more

Hermès handbags, Birkenstocks, Tide Pods, Lululemon activewear, and mountains of luxury furniture — what if I told you you could cut out the middleman and buy it straight from the source ... read more

Google announced Tuesday that it’s going to redirect country code top-level domain names (ccTLD) for Google Search to google.com over the coming months to “streamline people’s experience on Search,” according to ... read more

Players looking to harness desert power will have to wait as Dune: Awakening has been delayed. Funcom, developers of the MMORPG based on Frank Herbert’s Dune sci-fi series, announced the news ... read more

If you want a mental escape from today’s constant bombardment of alarming news, one method is to lose yourself in a good book — and an excellent way to do that ... read more

Max Carranza, vp, technology and data partners, LiveRamp Partnerships have long been a growth engine for brands. For decades, companies have used co-branding to grow their customer base, foster loyalty and reduce marketing costs. Yet ... read more

Google, for the first time, inked an agreement to purchase geothermal energy for its facilities in Asia. The deal also marks the first geothermal power purchase agreement for Taiwan, according to ... read more

European allies who have reservations about working with Elon Musk’s Starlink will have more to worry about if they side with Chinese satellite internet services, Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr ... read more

Anthropic is launching two major features today: Research and Google Workspace integration. The company announced today that Claude can now connect directly to your Gmail, Google Calendar, and Documents, turning the ... read more

Google is letting Gemini Advanced subscribers try out Veo 2, its text-to-video AI model that it says is capable of creating high-resolution clips with “cinematic realism.” Starting today, subscribers can select ... read more

An emergency meeting has been called to announce Among Us 3D will launch on May 6th. The game was originally planned to be a VR-exclusive before the development crew at Innersloth ... read more

Japan’s Fair Trade Commission (JFTC)  has ordered Google to stop making deals that give preference to Google Search and Chrome on Android devices. Nikkei Asia says that it’s the first time ... read more

As they do every year in mid-May, the major media companies are about to unveil their multi-platform strategies for the upcoming broadcast year, which includes their respective fall TV schedules. This marks the start of ... read more

TikTok is selling dependency as progress. But dependency, by definition, is a liability. Saying a business thrives because of TikTok is like saying alcoholics thrive on alcohol. It's not a healthy relationship - and certainly ... read more

After a light teaser trailer last month, we finally have our first proper look at The Life of Chuck. And while it doesn’t give too much away, the new trailer provides ... read more