Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple just made its biggest push in decades to boost original content on its podcast app, which has been refreshed with the recent update to ... read more

While August's 1.2% expansion was modest, it follow's July's 6.2% growth. ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Federal Trade Commission and more than a dozen state attorneys general have filed a sweeping antitrust lawsuit against Amazon, alleging that the e-commerce giant ... read more

Microsoft on Tuesday announced the creation of a new ad network for retailers in the U.S. wanting to quickly launch a retail media program. ... read more

John David Washington as Joshua in The Creator. | Image: Oren Soffer Gareth Edwards’ new dystopian sci-fi epic is a gorgeous morass of AI doomerism that’s lacking in the way of novel ... read more

Tech-savvy PMG this morning became the latest in a long line of agencies launching their own bespoke generative AI chatbots. But so far, it's not talking. At least not to me. ... read more

The Media Rating Council has given accreditation to iSpot.tv's core national TV occurrence data. iSpot.tv says this accreditation is the first of its kind ever to be approved by the MRC. ... read more

Image: The Verge Threads, Instagram’s X (formerly Twitter) competitor, is struggling to keep users around following its blockbuster launch, according to data from Insider Intelligence. The data, which was first reported on ... read more

Bowers & Wilkins’ PX7 S2 offer phenomenal sound and are among our favorite noise-canceling headphones. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Sony’s WH-1000XM5 and Apple’s AirPods Max have attracted so ... read more

As it looks to power its data centers running AI with nuclear energy, Microsoft is hiring a nuclear technology project manager. Much more energy is needed to run AI-related applications compared to search. ... read more

Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, speaks during an interview in Redmond, Washington, on Wednesday, March 15th, 2023. | Image: Chona Kasinger / Bloomberg via Getty Images Microsoft thinks next-generation nuclear reactors can ... read more

"More Than That with Gia Peppers" is expanding with a four-part limited broadcast TV series on Revolt, the black-owned multimedia company. ... read more

In the wake of the news that the writers' strike is ending, my thoughts turned to what the TV writers actually write for the rest of us. ... read more

Image: Sony As one of the twin Hollywood strikes appears to be winding down, SAG-AFTRA has voted to approve strike authorization for video game performers covered under the union’s interactive media agreement. ... read more

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Google Podcasts is going away. Starting next year, Google will focus on offering podcast access within YouTube Music instead. This change doesn’t come as a complete ... read more

The Xiaomi Watch 2 Pro makes the leap from a proprietary OS to Wear OS. | Image: Xiaomi Xiaomi announced it’s making the jump to Wear OS for its new Watch 2 ... read more

Whoop Coach runs on ChatGPT-4. | Image: Whoop Whoop announced it’s adding generative AI to its platform with a new feature called Whoop Coach. Powered by ChatGPT, it’s meant to deliver more ... read more

The Xiaomi 13T Pro in blue. | Image: Xiaomi Xiaomi is launching the 13T and 13T Pro today, two smartphones that will benefit from more Android upgrades than what it’s offered previously. ... read more

Ad fraud will leap 105%, from $84 billion in 2023 to $172 billion in 2028, the researcher projects. ... read more

Typically, scores of new linear TV shows each season barely make it through their first season before getting the axe. ... read more

Next time you need something to watch, just ask. | Image: Tubi Tubi’s library of streaming content is huge. And kind of impenetrable. You can watch its many always-on channels or watch ... read more

Jam is rolling out globally to all Spotify users on Tuesday, September 26th. | Image: Spotify Spotify just introduced a new social listening feature that lets multiple people DJ for your group ... read more

SAG-AFTRA has voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike against ten major video-game companies. Union officials say many of the same issues actors are focused on for that strike -- higher wages and AI -- are ... read more

One of the trade associations -- the 4A's -- goes a step further, defining MFAs as "made-for-arbitrage." ... read more

The dust has largely settled from MediaMath’s bankruptcy, but the fallout still has publishers questioning SSPs’ obligations to their partners. “There needs to be a retrospective on all SSPs and how they claim to understand ... read more

Advertisers are laser-focused on the seismic shift happening next year with the deprecation of third-party cookies on Google Chrome. But it’s not just cookies on Chrome – Google’s Sandbox initiative is also targeting mobile signals ... read more

Why, that’s not a tiger at all, my gAI. | Image: Mattel Mattel has announced Pictionary Vs. AI, a version of its visual guessing game where an AI model does all the ... read more

Image: Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Former foes have turned friends. Uber is listing more and more taxi drivers in its app, most recently in Los Angeles. How ... read more

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge How a tall tale from a California water official tested the Constitution’s limits. Continue reading… ... read more

SALISBURY, CT – The very first Beet Retreat Berkshires brought together leaders from the media, advertising and ad-tech industries to a region that offers woodland beauty and a burgeoning cultural scene. Beet.TV capture a range ... read more

Image: Sony Sony is releasing a custom pair of its LinkBuds S earbuds designed in collaboration with pop star Olivia Rodrigo. And the partnership goes beyond just style: this pair of the ... read more

Image: EVgo Imagine buying a new car, and suddenly, most gas stations are broken. That’s a reality new electric vehicle owners are finding when it comes to EV charging stations supplied by ... read more

Is the programmatic advertising industry in a rut? Maybe just call it a midlife crisis, says JiYoung Kim, president for North America at GroupM Nexus, the recently launched performance division of WPP-owned GroupM. Programmatic has ... read more

The LG Gram Fold in its array of orientations. | Image: LG Following the likes of Lenovo, Asus, and most recently HP, LG has announced a new laptop built around a single ... read more

Illustration by Hugo Herrera / The Verge An updated road map for combating climate change pours cold water on the idea that unproven technologies can play a major role in averting disaster. ... read more

We have seen a lot of change in the identity landscape over the past 10 years. What once was a bit of the Wild West has turned into a highly regulated space. Yet it remains ... read more

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Trade And Trade-Offs Tech regulation proponents in the US Senate traveled to Belgium last month, where they discussed their EU counterparts’ relative success ... read more

Moneygram is cashing in on the growing popularity of Formula One in the U.S. The financial technology company is currently running a contest offering the winner the opportunity to attend the first-ever Formula One Grand ... read more

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Stitcher • Spotify Advertisers’ aversion to the news seems to be a neverending issue for news publishers. Tales of advertisers’ overly broad keyword blocks continue to pop up, as they ... read more

Interested in sharing your perspectives on the media and marketing industries? Join the Digiday research panel. It’s really a marketing cliche at this point: Brands and retailers have to meet consumers where they’re spending their ... read more

Late Sunday evening, the Writers’ Guild of America (WGA) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) announced they had reached a tentative agreement after 146 days on strike. While marketers and agency ... read more

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Stitcher • Spotify Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Spotify Live music might be the metaverse’s killer app.Continue reading this article on digiday.com. Sign up for Digiday newsletters to get the latest on media, marketing ... read more

After investing in one generative AI startup and suing another, Getty Images has entered the AI race with its own AI image generator. The platform, announced on Monday, is trained on the company’s vast trove ... read more

Esta historia fue reportada por primera vez en Modern Retail una publicación hermana de Digiday en Español. Un mesón de mármol negro, un horno doble de acero inoxidable y una cocina de seis fuegos brillan bajo ... read more

Esta historia fue reportada por primera vez en Glossy, una publicación hermana de Digiday en Español. La próxima gran misión de Ulta Beauty es contagiar la alegría a sus compradores. El minorista se ha asociado con ... read more

Half-Life: Alyx. | Image: Valve Valve built up to virtual reality for a very long time — and never stopped, but it also seemed to slow its roll while nurturing the Steam ... read more

Video by DJI / GIF by The Verge Now that Skydio has exited the consumer drone business and will never sell me the miniature self-flying drone of my dreams, I’m looking to ... read more

The District of Columbia Attorney General threatens state sovereignty at the bidding of the left. ... read more

Why are Democrats demanding that he resign without a trial? ... read more

A new CFPB rule would make it easier to refuse to pay medical bills. ... read more

Raise your hand if you never heard of YouTube Premium Lite but now wish it was available in your area. | Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge After YouTube spent two years ... read more

It hasn’t been this threatened since the 1930s. ... read more

Candidates for the 2024 presidential nomination should dust off his Oct. 24, 1980, speech for Wednesday’s debate. ... read more

As strange as it seems, my son is obsessed with the Fonz. ... read more

Amazon’s former hardware boss Dave Limp will take on the role of CEO at Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin after announcing his departure from Amazon, according to a report from CNBC. Internal documents ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google will send Gmail’s basic HTML view sailing into the great beyond starting in January 2024, after which time everyone who uses it will be ... read more

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge Unity executive Marc Whitten participated in a fireside chat that addressed the company’s new pricing program, the backlash it caused, and what it’s doing to ... read more

Illustration: Nick Barclay / The Verge Facebook can be sued over allegations that its advertising algorithm is discriminatory, a California state court of appeals ruled last week. The decision stems from a ... read more

The proposed law is Xi Jinping’s latest effort to codify ‘the party’s policies and the people’s will.’ ... read more

My brother Jack made his own luck 32 years ago. ... read more

In the wake of Jann Wenner's ouster from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame board, a surprising source came to his defense: long-time rival Bob Guccione Jr. In the following Q&A he explains why ... read more

ProLiteracy has applied the technology to assist low-literacy parents to improve reading and writing skills and has enlisted Droga5 to create a campaign demonstrating one family's experience. ... read more

Nissan’s Concept 20-23. | Image: Nissan Nissan is previewing a new sporty, Micro Machines-looking all-electric concept vehicle for Europe that signals its plans to go all-electric in the continent by 2030. ... read more

Pain Hustlers. | Image: Brian Douglas / Netflix Film festivals like TIFF are a great chance to get a sense of what’s coming to theaters in the coming months, but they’re also ... read more

Illustration: The Verge Tinder announced a $499 per month invite-only subscription, Tinder Select, on Friday, Bloomberg reports. As part of the premium plan, subscribers can message people they’ve not matched with, while ... read more

As part of its new contributor program, Reddit is pledging to award its users actual money for their "karma" and "gold" internet points, and also announced it will replace its previous Reddit Gold system with ... read more

Speech, voice, and vision features announced by OpenAI Monday in its ChatGPT move the technology to a conversational interface that ad agencies and companies can build into their own platforms. ... read more

The Publicis Media unit also named UM's Maura McCartan head of the Hulu account, and L'Oreal's Ben Watson head of commerce. ... read more

The publisher’s bravery has exposed China’s false promises to Hong Kong. ... read more

Conservatives want to unite the country, while politicians like Trump seek only to stoke grievance. ... read more

Globalism, climate-change alarmism and cultural self-annihilation have all come under serious challenge. ... read more

Rick, Summer, and Morty. | Image: Adult Swim Adult Swim has been tight-lipped about its plans to keep Rick and Morty going following the scandal-related departure of series co-creator and star Justin ... read more

The feature uses OpenAI's new voice generation technology, Spotify says. ... read more

If you're a planner or a buyer, get a copy of the final Hollywood union agreements, read the parts related to AI, and think about framing something similar for media services. ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Reddit is going to let users spin Reddit gold into real money as part of its new “Contributor Program,” the company announced on Monday. It ... read more

Snap inked a deal to integrate with Microsoft's Chat Ads API to serve relevant Sponsored Links in its My AI chatbot. The companies announced the news Monday. ... read more

The port on the MagSafe Duo itself is Lightning, which may not matter too much if you’re not traveling with the charger. | Photo by Dieter Bohn / The Verge It’s officially ... read more

So small, so powerful. | Image: Apple The most significant new thing in the iPhone 15 Pro this year isn’t its lighter titanium frame, new A17 Pro processor, or its camera system ... read more

Image: Analogue Another special edition of the Analogue Pocket handheld is on the way. Later this week, the company will be launching a new transparent version of the device, which will be ... read more

Eddy Cue, left, with Apple CEO Tim Cook. | Photo by Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images Apple senior vice president of services Eddy Cue is set to testify at the US v. ... read more

The Pixel Watch 2. | Screenshot: Wes Davis / The Verge Google will apparently give you a free Pixel Watch 2 if you preorder a Pixel 8 Pro, according to a promotional ... read more

Verbal conversation with a machine to plan ad strategies will soon become common. The Brandtech Group is working on a generative AI tool that moves the ad industry more toward conversational media. ... read more

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge Over the last 25 years, Netflix shipped more than 5 billion DVDs to millions of subscribers. The disc-by-mail service, which is shutting down this Friday, ... read more

Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge Today, we have ChatGPT, Bard, Alexa, Siri, and a thousand others. Nearly a half-century ago, there was GUS. GUS, which stood for the Genial Understander ... read more

Screenshot: iFixit via YouTube While Apple may have made the iPhone 15 Pro Max easier to repair physically, a teardown from iFixit reveals it still comes with the same parts pairing constraints ... read more

Was it John Lennon who wrote, “Imagine there’s no martech, I wonder if you can?” I may be misremembering that lyric. But it’s what came to mind when I saw the above chart. It’s ... read more

What is actually left for Fox News Channel, Fox News Media, and Fox Television Network? Right now many would say much of the same, especially under his son Lachlan Murdoch, executive chairman of Fox Corp. ... read more

Image: Meta Meta’s Horizon Worlds 3D social platform is starting to roll out on the web and mobile, and it generally works a lot better outside of VR than I expected — ... read more

Image: Getty Images Getty Images is partnering with Nvidia to launch Generative AI by Getty Images, a new tool that lets people create images using Getty’s library of licensed photos. Generative ... read more

Shopify Audiences, the ecommerce platform’s ad tech integration product, doubled its partner roster on Monday and announced new ad targeting and analytics features. Shopify Audiences debuted last year with only Google and Meta. In January, ... read more

You’ll soon need to pay $6 a month to regain Guard features through the new Emergency Assist service (pictured). | Image: Amazon Amazon has announced that it’s shutting down Alexa Guard — ... read more

The vast majority of marketers are focused on AI's role in content, creativity, and customer experience, not media. ... read more

Hollywood entertainment writers and major legacy TV/movie companies have reached a tentative deal, which could end the nearly five-month-long strike. In a memo to its members on Sunday night, the Writers Guild of America negotiating ... read more

Image: Nick Barclay / The Verge What if podcasters could flip a switch and instantly speak another language? That’s the premise behind Spotify’s new AI-powered voice translation feature, which reproduces podcasts in ... read more

Illustration: The Verge Most of OpenAI’s changes to ChatGPT involve what the AI-powered bot can do: questions it can answer, information it can access, improved underlying models. This time, though, it’s tweaking ... read more

Thanks to the writers' and actors' strikes, network TV will start a new fall season this week with lineups that seem more like midseason and summer slates than fall schedules. ... read more

Kamiya onstage at Microsoft’s 2016 E3 press conference. | Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images Hideki Kamiya, the Japanese video game director known for his work on Bayonetta, Viewtiful Joe, and The Wonderful ... read more

Amazon has commited to an initial $1.25 billion investment that can be increased by an additional $2.75 billion. | Image: Amazon / Anthropic Amazon announced on Monday that it will invest up ... read more

Omnicom's OMD unit and Teads will release results of what they call a pioneering neuroscience study analyzing the new metric, as well as three measurement tools associated with it. ... read more

A teaser image of the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro released by Google. | Image: Google Google’s upcoming Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro could come with seven years of software support, ... read more