A render of Project Ghost. | Image: LogitechLogitech, perhaps known best for its personal computer accessories like the webcam I have used (and loved!) for nearly every workday for three years, is revealing an ambitious ... read more

Google says it’s planning to add Microsoft 365 integration to ChromeOS later this year making it easier for users to install the app and open files. ChromeOS already supports the Microsoft 365 and OneDrive Progressive ... read more

Spotify’s graph showing subscriber and user growth. | Image: SpotifySpotify’s number of premium subscribers increased to 205 million as of December 31st, the company announced in today’s earnings release, representing a 14 percent increase year-on-year. ... read more

Performance marketers once turned up their noses at creative, seeming to only care about audience targeting. But signal loss is putting creative back into the spotlight by highlighting how essential The post Why Creatives Don’t ... read more

The Nintendo Switch Joy-Cons, in a grip, flanked by their N64 and GameCube predecessors. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge

Sony originally estimated that it would shift two million PSVR2 units this quarter. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The VergeSony has reportedly reduced sales projections for the launch of the PlayStation VR2 after receiving ... read more

A photo from E3 2019, the year before the pandemic. | Photo credit should read FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty ImagesPlus GM’s Hummer EV SUV goes into production, and Paramount’s streaming service gets a rebrand. ... read more

Piccolo and Gohan are coming to Fortnite. | Image: Epic GamesFortnite is building on last year’s excellent Dragon Ball event by adding Piccolo and Son Gohan as purchasable skins. The two characters, which are now ... read more

The Galaxy S23, S23 Plus, and S23 Ultra. | Image: Ice UniverseWe already have a pretty complete idea of how they look in leaked press shots, but new photos show what Samsung’s whole Galaxy S23 ... read more

Video creators are in a period of “rapid experimentation,” said TheSoul VP of content distribution Victor Potrel. Some are pursuing commerce, some are getting into CTV and others are going The post How TheSoul Is ... read more

As the economy fluctuates and budgets tighten, 2023 will be a year of adjustment. In the face of these conditions, and the removal of IDFA, app marketers will need new The post As The Economy ... read more

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Let The Search Begin The long-dormant search category is rousing. Microsoft recently invested $10 billion in OpenAI, maker The post Start Your Search ... read more

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Stitcher • Spotify For as big as the short-form vertical video market has become over the past few years, 2023 is poised to be a monumental one. YouTube will start ... read more

As game developers step up their activity in the mobile space, they are looking to build out internal in-game advertising departments — and acquiring an embattled in-game ad company might be the best way to ... read more

Despite warnings of an e-commerce slowdown after the pandemic-era boom, some marketing agencies are creating new commerce-specific teams. New York-based creative agency Barbarian has created a new 200-person team it’s named Barbarian Commerce, which will ... read more

Last week, M&M’s released a statement that they were retiring their famed spokescandies citing backlash to their push to be more inclusive. Just a couple days later, after much speculation on the internet about the ... read more

Interested in sharing your perspectives on the media and marketing industries? Join the Digiday research panel. Agencies expect a big jump in online ad spend this year — but the same isn’t true for offline ... read more

As influencer marketing matures, marketers are seeking longer-term relationships with influencers themselves as well as influencer marketing agencies. Agency execs at influencer marketing agencies say that they’ve seen a significant uptick over the last 18 ... read more

Under the watch of CEO Elon Musk, Twitter is moving forward with plans to disrupt the payments industry by introducing payments. Musk hopes to use fiat currencies such as the U.S. dollar, but may incorporate ... read more

The merger of Paramount Global's two big streaming brands, "Paramount+ with Showtime" will launch later this year both for its streaming and linear TV networks. "Paramount+ with Showtime" will also be the new name for ... read more

Image: GMGeneral Motors has started production on the Hummer EV SUV at its Factory Zero in Michigan, according to Nicole Schmitz, a spokesperson for the company. The Detroit Press reported Monday that customers could start ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeParamount’s merging its Paramount Plus streaming service and premium Showtime channel, as first reported by The Hollywood Reporter. In an internal memo, CEO Bob Bakish announced the company’s rebranding ... read more

Photo by Nick Statt / The VergeNintendo, Sony, and Microsoft are all skipping the revitalized E3 convention in June, according to a new report from IGN. E3 will be back as an in-person conference in ... read more

By year-end, about half of the states will have cut rates on income within three years. ... read more

San Antonio votes to permit eminent domain against a bar owner. ... read more

A federal judge blocks a law that punishes doctors for ‘misinformation.’ ... read more

Kantar this month launched Vivvix as an independent brand specializing in syndicated advertising intelligence among digital and traditional media. Those channels include mobile apps, streaming and social media platforms such as Facebook. Vivvix, which is ... read more

A signal in the bond market suggests the return to a more stable long-run economy may be upon us. ... read more

Capping the maximum benefit is a promising step toward solvency. ... read more

Slugger Creative is overseeing the campaign with ads that use the vehicle of "Dear John" letters to illustrate fans "breaking up" with other games. ... read more

Communism is incapable of nurturing the curiosity that leads to innovation. ... read more

A pro-life father is acquitted on charges that he interfered with abortion access. ... read more

Image: Microsoft / World’s EdgeAge of Empires II is extremely special to me. The game came to me by accident at 16, and it has remained a great gaming love of mine ever since. I ... read more

Nick Offerman as Bill and Murray Bartlett as Frank | Image: HBOThe Last of Us’ third episode illustrates why breaking away from the source material can be exactly what a video game adaptation needs to ... read more

FCC nominee Gigi Sohn helped Fox obtain waivers of FCC rules that the corporation needed to launch Fox Broadcasting Company, former executive Preston Padden told the Senate Commerce Committee. ... read more

As Jalopnik jokes, the cars are being recalled because they’re too quiet. | Image: Roberto Baldwin for The VergeBMW is recalling almost 3,500 EVs due to issues with the artificial sound generator that’s meant to ... read more

Some Horizon Worlds avatars hanging out around a virtual campfire. | Image: MetaMeta is starting to test members-only worlds in Horizon Worlds, its social VR platform, which will allow people to build curated worlds for ... read more

The national TV marketplace was down 6% for all of Q4 -- an improvement from the 16% decline of Q3. Although December's national linear TV ad spend improved vs. previous months, it still declined 2%, ... read more

Image: SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty ImagesThe US Federal Aviation Administration has made some changes to prevent outages similar to the one that disrupted thousands of flights earlier this month, according to reports from Reuters and ... read more

Faced with growing criticism over data practices, the Chinese-owned social app TikTok will send its CEO to testify to the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers said Monday. ... read more

An example of a TravelCenters of America EV charging station built by Electrify America | Image: TravelCenters of AmericaTravelCenters of America is working with Electrify America to get much-needed EV fast chargers installed at its ... read more

A new, more powerful LG Gram. | Image: LG Electronics USAThe 2023 model of LG’s ultralight Gram 17 now has an official release date and price. LG has announced that the devices will be available ... read more

Image: SpaceXA SpaceX Crew Dragon vehicle currently docked to the International Space Station (ISS) could be used to transport extra crew members back to Earth in the event of an emergency, NASA announced. Following ... read more

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The VergeMeta’s Accounts Center feature had a bug that let hackers brute force SMS two-factor authentication, allowing them to bypass the additional protection (via TechCrunch). The vulnerability, which Meta says ... read more

Siding with Amazon, a federal judge has dismissed a privacy lawsuit claiming that the company wrongly targets ads to Alexa users. ... read more

Frontier joins AT&T as another 5-gig capable ISP available in the United States | Graphic by William Joel / The VergeFrontier, an internet service provider (ISP) that services 25 US states, has just launched 5 ... read more

The Kid Laroi’s avatar performing in Fortnite. | Image: Epic GamesChecking out The Kid Laroi might be the first time I ever died during a concert — virtually, of course. The Australian singer is the ... read more

As has been demonstrated in the past, advertisers are too dependent on Facebook to let content concerns get in the way for long, if at all.. ... read more

The Memphis officers almost certainly would have behaved differently had Nichols been white. ... read more

Biden’s reactionary trustbuster seeks to resurrect precedents that were out of date 40 years ago. ... read more

Does the President know that legislation has to pass the House to become law? ... read more

These Notes are all wasted opportunities to post vague lyrics that are definitely not targeted toward your crush. | Image: MetaInstagram Notes, the social network’s recently launched text status feature that reminds me of ... read more

The technology -- an AI chatbot service -- will launch as a stand-alone application and slowly integrate into the Baidu search engine. ... read more

"It keeps telling me the answer is all lower funnel stuff, not advertising," says a top executive at a big agency holding company who has been using the generative AI platform for advice on how ... read more

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The VergeMeta has given its professional Meta Quest Pro headset a temporary $400 discount, bringing its cost down to $1,099 in the US. The deal, which, according to CNET, ... read more

Even though it came out in late 2020, the $799 MacBook Air should still satisfy a lot of people. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The VergeEven though Apple’s M1 MacBook Air laptop is well ... read more

"The truth is somewhere closer to what [Standard Media Index] is seeing," said an executive from an agency holding company that does not publish a forecast, but contributes its media-buying data to SMI's agency pool. ... read more

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The VergeTikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew is expected to appear before Congress in March to face questions from lawmakers over US user safety and security on the popular video app, ... read more

Last year’s Nothing Phone 1. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The VergeNothing’s next smartphone, the Phone 2, will be getting an official US release, the company’s CEO Carl Pei has confirmed in an interview ... read more

A survey underpinning the report found that 88% of respondents believe they are somewhat or heavily influenced by retailers to buy advertising on their RMNs. ... read more

Arrival said it would reduce costs by laying off 50 percent of its employees. | Image: ArrivalArrival, an electric vehicle startup based in the UK, said it was laying off 50 percent of its employees ... read more

"One thing I find shocking across the industry broadly, is a lack of appreciation for history," Brian Wieser quipped in his "final" podcast. "I say this as someone who replaced someone at another agency who ... read more

Berdusco has been an Adswerve board member for the last four years. Before that he was CEO of Triad Retail Media which WPP acquired in 2016 from two equity firms for $300 million. ... read more

The integration is the latest sign that agencies are getting serious about supply-path optimization (SPO) by forging direct relationships with SSPs. It also illustrates the need for SSPs to differentiate The post Horizon Media Connects ... read more

CEO Darryl Lee said the new assignments will allow the company to work as "one united team." ... read more

Verizon is giving away 20 pairs of tickets to the Super Bowl - for three years in a row. ... read more

Two of the highest-grossing domestic movies in 2022 received nominations, suggesting that academy members might be thinking differently about big, wide-release theatrical movies when casting their votes -- a noticeable shift from the recent focus ... read more

A leaked image claiming to show the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra. | Image: NieuweMobiel.NLThree new phones plus as many as five new laptops could await us on February 1st. Continue reading… ... read more

A teaser poster for One Piece on Netflix. | Image: NetflixNetflix has confirmed that its live-action take on One Piece will be streaming in 2023. That’s about all we know so far; Netflix didn’t give ... read more

MARCO ISLAND, FL — Companies involved in advertising have spent the last couple of years adjusting to a world in which digital identifiers like cookies and device IDs are drying up. They have traditionally been ... read more

LAS VEGAS – Consumers have more ways to watch video programming than ever before, whether they’re tuning into news from a local television station or streaming an on-demand movie. Advertisers, agencies, media owners and measurement ... read more

LAS VEGAS — One of the world’s largest chocolate manufacturers likes the taste of a new tech category designed to enable data collaboration while maintaining privacy compliance – but The Hershey Company is also warning ... read more

LAS VEGAS – The global economic outlook has become a bigger source of worry amid high inflation, rising costs to borrow money, war in Europe and significant job cuts at technology companies. As in past ... read more

Image: Sean O’Kane / The VergeA little more than six months after it raised prices on the Mustang Mach-E, Ford said it would now be slashing prices on its flagship electric vehicle as well as ... read more

An ark in the form of an interstellar spacecraft forgot the animals, but the craft's crew is making up for it by pairing off two-by-two. ... read more

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The VergeSony says it should now be a lot easier to find PS5 stock at retailers. After two years of supply challenges, Sony has thanked fans for their patience as ... read more

Disney’s Lisa Valentino is speaking at AdExchanger’s Industry Preview in New York City on February 7. Click here to register. In the years before streaming consumption overtook cable, planning for the The post Why Disney Is ... read more

Holding a silicon wafer with microchips. | Photo by Michael Matthey/picture alliance via Getty ImagesAnd hear Seth Rogen’s Donkey Kong in the latest Mario movie trailer. Continue reading… ... read more

In the weeks following  the US lockdown in early 2020, Delta lost more than 90% of its revenue, the airline’s CMO, Tim Mapes, told AdExchanger. Now that travel is picking The post How Delta Air ... read more

Apple’s 10th-gen iPad, released last year. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The VergeApple could be on track to release a foldable iPad as early as next year, according to supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. ... read more

Companies throughout the ad tech ecosystem are reckoning with the fact that, due to the revised definition of “business purpose” in the CPRA, they may no longer qualify as “service The post So I’m A ... read more

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Big Lame Last year’s Super Bowl ads are noteworthy, in retrospect, for those cringeworthy crypto spots, including The post Not-So-Super Bowl Ads; ... read more

It might be difficult for advertisers to turn their backs on Google completely but it’s getting a lot easier for them to look away these days. Antitrust challenges from the U.S. Department of Justice tend ... read more

As the various segments of the video industry slowly prepare for an upfront season that will start around the beginning of second quarter 2023, one corner of the business hopes it can secure a slightly ... read more

Atlas Obscura wants to turn a profit this year before it raises another funding round, at a time when publishers are facing lower valuations and pickier investors as deal activity slows. Last year Atlas Obscura ... read more

The open market of programmatic inventory, where prices are decided in real-time through an auction, is in a precarious spot. It’s been like this for a while, of course. Even so, that spot seems a ... read more

Earlier this month, professional gamer Nikita “SKillous” Gurevich secured the Netherlands’ first-ever esports athlete visa, allowing him to compete for Team Liquid, a prominent Dutch esports organization. The news is the latest example of a ... read more

The feds block mining that is essential for making EV batteries. ... read more

The police who beat the young man are being held accountable. ... read more

Gen. Minihan shocks Washington by telling his troops to be ready to fight against China. ... read more

Image: Internet ArchiveI never thought I’d actually have fun with a calculator emulator. But here I am, toying with the old-school graphing calculators that the Internet Archive has freed from their plastic chassis and put ... read more

According to the company the acquisition is meant to provide clients with a more robust connection between affiliate and influencer marketing efforts driving more accountable sales and deriving better insights into the full customer journey. ... read more

Image: NintendoThe latest Super Mario Bros. Movie teaser lets us hear Seth Rogen as Donkey Kong for the first time. During the clip, Mario faces off against Donkey Kong in an arena of sorts — ... read more

They boosted mRNA tech at the expense of J&J’s shot, which provides more durable immunity. ... read more

The goal is to replace democratic capitalism with authoritarian socialism. ... read more

Some refuse to be ranked by U.S. News, which weighs test scores and grades rather than diversity. ... read more

They’ll provide a necessary check on a court with nearly unlimited power to dictate economic and political life. ... read more

Space aliens, UFOs, the supernatural—all grist for radio shows. ... read more

The Fed’s actions on rates are driven by data. Central bankers could do a better job of explaining this. ... read more

Promising new drugs are in the pipeline, but the disease evades a cure. ... read more