Last year, TTD announced plans to launch a TV operating system, called Ventura OS, that powers the viewing experience on smart TVs with an open, ad-supported system. Now, SVP Matthew Henick has lofty goals for ... read more

The elephant-in-the-room moment at an industry ethics summit last week happened when someone asked about something not on the agenda: Dark DEI. ... read more

Across the media, marketing and advertising industries, organizations continue to embrace innovative uses of artificial intelligence — setting new standards for creative and ethical use of AI. The finalists for the 2025 Digiday AI Awards ... read more

OpenAI has started teasing a livestream today that will likely be related to its rumored web browser. A mysterious teaser with a set of browser tabs appeared on OpenAI’s X ... read more

General Motors has parked many unsold BrightDrop electric delivery vans on vacant lots in Flint and in Canada. | Image: Getty General Motors will end production of its Chevy Brightdrop ... read more

Another day, another price increase for a streaming service, and this time it’s HBO Max, which has higher prices for everyone at the same time that its parent company puts ... read more

The Boox Palma 2 Pro is the first version of the pocketable e-reader to feature a color E Ink screen. | Image: Boox First teased at IFA 2025 in September ... read more

The first official look at the Ricoh GR IV Monochrome (pictured). Ricoh is developing a new addition to its GR compact digital camera series that’s designed specifically for black and ... read more

Warner Bros. Discovery has finally said out loud what has been obvious for months now: it wants to be acquired by another entertainment megacorporation. Today, WBD announced that it “has ... read more

The winner was announced at The One Club's "Where Are All the Black People" Conference in New York City last Friday (October 17). ... read more

Tapo’s new solar-powered pan-tilt camera adds a bright floodlight. | Image: Tapo TP-Link’s Tapo smart home brand announced a new solar-powered outdoor security camera with pan-tilt capabilities, 2K video recording, ... read more

Microsoft is now rolling out an out-of-band fix for Windows 11 to address a major bug the company introduced with its latest monthly Windows 11 update. The original update released ... read more

Stream and save live TV content, then jump into shows like Andor on Disney Plus. Hulu raised the price of its Live TV service to $89.99 today, October 21st, for ... read more

Sitting pretty. Aura, maker of digital photo frames beloved by grandparents everywhere, is introducing its first frame with a color E Ink display. The Aura Ink uses a 13.3-inch ... read more

There was almost a doubling rate of subscriber cancellation for Disney+ and Hulu - 8% and 10%, respectively, in September. This was mostly expected. ... read more

The Oakley Meta Vanguard glasses make me look like a sports dad. Slipping on the $499 Oakley Meta Vanguard, I feel the power of Patagonia-clad authority figures wash over me. ... read more

The Solar Cam Pan can be controlled remotely or use AI to track the movement of a person in your yard. | Image: Wyze Wyze has announced its first battery-powered, ... read more

What do you get the tablet that has everything? Last year, Apple debuted a massive overhaul to the iPad Pro, with a thin new design, a gorgeous new screen, a ... read more

This automatic litter box can monitor multiple cats’ toilet habits using AI-powered cameras. The Litter-Robot 5 Pro is the newest poop-scooping machine from Whisker, makers of the excellent Litter-Robot 4, ... read more

Your TV is an Xbox. Your computer is an Xbox. Your phone, your crummy Android tablet, your car's infotainment display, oops all Xboxes. If Microsoft is right about the future ... read more

The NBA on NBC has a message for local news and NBC late-night: Get out of the way! ... read more

While broadcast tied cable TV with a 22.3% share last month, broadcast was still down vs. its 22.6% share in September 2024. Cable was sharply lower vs. its 26.1% share a year ago. ... read more

Amazon has deployed over a million robots to its facilities, and is testing bipedal bots like Agility Robotics' “Digit” (pictured). | Image: Jason Redmond / Getty Images Amazon is reportedly ... read more

Yelp’s Host AI will speak to customers for restaurants. Yelp’s AI-powered solutions promise to answer calls, take reservations, and manage bookings for “understaffed” restaurants. Yelp Host and Yelp Receptionist are ... read more

Viamedia has transformed into Viamedia.ai, a next-generation ad tech company built to solve the challenges of today’s fragmented media ecosystem. The firm has rebranded as Viamedia.ai while also introducing a fresh AI-powered platform built from ... read more

Marketers today are tasked with delivering hyper-personalized messaging at scale. Luckily for them, AI has made it possible to reach individuals with uncanny precision (as we all know: right message, right time, right channel). But ... read more

Apparently, we're in for a hardware revolution; advertisers don't know what to expect from the US's new version of TikTok; and live sports should take better advantage of ad opportunities. The post The Things We ... read more

Advertising loves to talk about transformation. It’s less fond of actually doing it. The latest case in point is the Ad Context Protocol, or AdCP. Billed as a shared, standardised language for how AI agents communicate ... read more

Farewell Privacy Sandbox, we barely knew ye.  At its launch, Google heralded it as a bold declaration of the end era of the third-party cookie — the connective tissue that helped build the digital marketing ecosystem ... read more

This story was originally published on sister site, Modern Retail. In 2021, Walmart said it would create a fintech startup with venture capital firm Ribbit Capital, which has backed companies such as BNPL loan provider ... read more

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Spotify The wheeling and dealing of the creator economy is changing as its maturation continues. The space is growing up as brands like Blue Apron are in-housing their influencer strategies ... read more

What’s in a name, you ask? In the case of MMA, a lot, given that those three letters have worked hard to reinvent themselves over the last 15 years.  The marketing organization known as MMA ... read more

Two days from today, October 22nd, was Google’s deadline to begin opening up its app store, stop forcing developers to use Google Play Billing, let them set their own prices, ... read more

Actors, studios, agents, and the actors union SAG-AFTRA have all expressed their concerns about appearing in Sora 2’s AI-generated videos ever since the deepfake machine was released last month. Now ... read more

When the first 3D Ninja Gaiden came out on Xbox in 2004, I really wanted to play it; though the game looks a little antiquated now, at the time, teenage ... read more

As retailers look to bridge the gap between digital and physical shopping, T-Mobile Ad Solutions is betting big on the rise of in-store retail media. Cherian Thomas, senior director of retail media and digital out-of-home ... read more

MADRID — For years, contextual advertising has largely been a game of matching keywords on a page to the topic of an ad. But as the technology improves, so does the ambition to move beyond ... read more

Television advertising for pharmaceutical brands has evolved beyond general demographic targeting to enable condition-specific audience layering that eliminates wasted impressions while maintaining the mass reach needed for awareness campaigns. “Where we used to do a ... read more

California's wiretap law "was a mess from the get-go," U.S. District Court Judge Vince Chhabria wrote, adding that courts "are issuing conflicting rulings, and companies have no way of telling whether their online business activities ... read more

Companies that use virtual influencers to advertise to children should ensure that the ads carry "clear and meaningful disclosures," the BBB National Programs' Children's Advertising Review Unit recommended Monday. ... read more

Companies that use virtual influencers to advertise to children should ensure that the ads carry "clear and meaningful disclosures," the BBB National Programs' Children's Advertising Review Unit recommended Monday. ... read more

Apple’s latest iOS 26.1 beta has a new option that lets you tint Liquid Glass elements of iOS 26 so that they are more opaque. Since announcing Liquid Glass at ... read more

Startup AdsGency AI raised a $12 million seed investment round led by XYZ Venture Capital to build out what its CEO describes as an agentic AI operating system and agency for advertisers. The company's CEO ... read more

The Media Rating Council (MRC) has revoked Meta's brand-safety accreditation due to the tech giant's decision to opt out of the MRC's annual auditing program. ... read more

Patients wore these smart glasses that paired to a retinal implant in their eye. Several dozen patients regained some of their vision thanks to an implant inside their eye paired ... read more

X will soon begin inviting Premium subscribers to request or purchase inactive usernames in a designated in-app marketplace, with some handles listed for as much as seven figures. ... read more

There are but three certainties in life: death, taxes, and Google’s next Pixel phone getting thoroughly leaked before the company can even announce it. (Multiple generations of Pixel have been ... read more

New research suggests that as companies disclose less, mistrust increases. ... read more

Short-form scripted "micro dramas" look like a regular TV show in setup and story arc but are one to three minutes long. Apps that have started up for this include ShortMax, DramaBox, FlickReels, GoodShort, Reel ... read more

The suit alleges that WPP issued misleading statements about the company's projected performance prior to a profit warning this summer, including expressing "confidence in the company's continued efforts to revitalize and simplify its media division ... read more

Small power banks are a dime a dozen, but Iniu’s Pocket Rocket P50 stands out for its combination of size, capacity, and features. We saw this model drop in price ... read more

If you live in NYC, there’s almost no way you’ve missed the Friend AI pendant subway ad fallout — whether you’ve taken pictures of the most inspired graffiti on the ... read more

Using an expanding clamping mechanism the Kohler Dekoda installs on most toilets without tools. | Image: Kohler Knowing what’s coming out of your body can be just as useful for ... read more

Shelly Palmer also dives into new research suggesting half of online content already is being generated by bots, and we get his impressions on the first agentic media buy. ... read more

Television ranked as the leading influence across all stages of the purchase journey and among all demographic groups. ... read more

Nicki, creator of "Scrolling 2 Death," did not come to this as a pundit. She came as a parent who saw the harms piling up and decided to act. ... read more

The Sims is in a period of transition — and as part of that, the ongoing mobile version will be shutting down in a few months. EA announced that today’s ... read more

The Anbernic RG DS will launch in four colors including blue and one with a translucent white shell. | Screenshot: YouTube Anbernic has shared footage of its upcoming RG DS ... read more

Meta is getting ready to pull support for its desktop Messenger apps on Windows and macOS. Both apps have already been removed from the Microsoft Store and Mac App Store, ... read more

You can grab the AMD-based model, or spend an extra $150 on the slightly faster Intel version that also has double the internal storage. | Image: The Verge As part ... read more

Today’s Decoder episode is a special one: I’m talking to Zocdoc CEO Oliver Kharraz, and we chatted live onstage at the TechFutures conference here in New York City.  You’re almost ... read more

On August 19th at 7:07PM, Tyler Johnston received a message from his roommate. A man, the text said, was knocking on their door with legal documents to serve. Johnston is ... read more

For many healthcare marketers including hospitals and health insurers that have long depended on SEM-driven customer acquisitions, the funnel is breaking down and even collapsing. ... read more

Global media costs have risen half a point to an annual inflation rate of 4.3% for the ad industry this year, according to a just-released WFA compilation vs. what it forecast a year ago. Next ... read more

For the first 30 days after their respective launches, ESPN has amassed 2.1 million subscribers, while Fox One has 1.1 million. ... read more

Ford’s Mustang Mach-E is having a relatively good year, outpacing its gas brethren in sales for the month of August. The expiration of the $7,500 federal EV tax credit doesn’t ... read more

The redesigned Oura app includes new features to help users track and manage their stress levels. Oura is launching a redesigned app with expanded stress-tracking insights as it develops new ... read more

The work is equal parts satire and AI-powered creative lab and reimagines Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro as characters in a darkly comic musical. ... read more

Amazon Web Services experienced a massive outage early Monday that took down many major websites. While the company's services are up and running, many financial services may still have issues. ... read more

A quarter of all Connected TV (CTV) bid requests can’t be trusted. That doesn’t mean fraud every time. Sometimes, it’s incomplete data. Sometimes, it’s oversimplified or mislabeled content. And sometimes, it’s more intentional misrepresentation. But ... read more

The title of a new series, "Bigfoot Took Her," about a Bigfoot abduction, revives memories of the golden age of supermarket tabloids. ... read more

Deli meat company Land O'Frost has been leaning into a new MMM approach to figure out which opportunities it's been overlooking – or even inhibiting. The post MMM Isn’t As Scary As Marketers Think – ... read more

Starlink satellites awaiting deployment. | Image: SpaceX On Sunday, SpaceX launched 56 additional Starlink satellites on separate Falcon 9 rockets, surpassing 10,000 total satellites launched into low Earth orbit to ... read more

Here are just a few of the services impacted by the outage. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is currently experiencing a major outage that has taken down online services, including Amazon, ... read more

If there’s one thing marketers don’t need, it’s another measurement dashboard. “Death by dashboard is real,” said Dane Buchanan, chief data and analytics officer at performance agency M&C Saatchi. But not only is “a plethora ... read more

Walmart’s Gamble Wall Street considered Walmart’s OpenAI shopping integration with ChatGPT a big win. But this AI partnership could threaten Walmart’s other big bet on retail media, writes Mike Shields at Next in Media. In ... read more

There was hardly a conversation, onstage or during the Town Halls, at last week’s fall Media Buying Summit in Phoenix that didn’t include some reference to generative AI and its pervasive impact on every corner ... read more

Digiday+ Research’s recently released holiday marketing report examines which commerce channels are dominating marketers’ 2025 holiday strategies. It also looks at the discounts brands and retailers are offering and the revenue expectations that are guiding ... read more

Even with TikTok’s future in the U.S. seemingly secured, advertiser confidence hasn’t followed suit. Some marketers are already planning, they anecdotally told Digiday, to scale back their spending there next year. There’s still too much ... read more

Generative AI platforms are exploding, as more people use these tools for search. And while this means AI referrals to publishers are growing too, it’s not nearly enough to make up for the losses in ... read more

It’s difficult to contextualize how marketers are strategizing for next year as this year’s books close without acknowledging these unprecedented times — or these emotionally charged times — or whatever “brand safe” language PR teams are pushing ... read more

Google could be headed for some difficulty in Italy. ... read more

X is testing a change to the way it handles links on iOS so that the buttons to like, reply, and repost will always be visible. Normally, when you click ... read more

Weiss reportedly asked the "60 Minutes" team, '"Why does the country think you're biased?" ... read more

Premium Plus and Premium Business users will soon be able to browse and request inactive usernames on the X Handle Marketplace. Handles are going to be broken up into two ... read more

Should this initiative or any other similar one emerge from the bureaucracy again, our coalition against it will be ready—and larger. ... read more

NEW YORK – Technology has changed not just how people communicate with one another, but also how they connect with brands, said Kara Manatt, executive vice president of intelligence solutions at Interpublic Group’s Magna Global. ... read more

LAS VEGAS – Retailers across the board face growing challenges around how to share and activate data responsibly, and Dollar General’s DG Media Network (DGMN) is no exception. Speaking at the Groceryshop convention, Austin Leonard, ... read more

Retail data has evolved from custom audience building within a handful of networks to becoming a critical component that enhances first-party data sets, creating more dimensional customer understanding when integrated through clean room environments. “When ... read more

Listen to Ayn Rand. ... read more

Two words: government subsidies. ... read more

Burden the wealthy too much and they flee. That’s how socialists run out of other people’s money. ... read more

I've read a lot of horror books over the last two years. But my absolute favorite is easily Mariana Enriquez' Our Share of Night. The book was originally published in ... read more

By the time I arrived, the waterfront park in downtown Portland, Oregon was already awash with people as far as the eye could see. The No Kings protest in June ... read more

No Kings protest in Chicago. Saturday marked the biggest day of protest since the start of Donald Trumps’ second term. Organizers of the No Kings protests estimated that over seven ... read more

From Apple TV Plus to Peacock, a number of streaming services have recently increased their pricing — and Disney Plus is no exception. Starting on Tuesday, October 21st, the standalone ... read more

To understand the Sony Watchman, you have to go back. Way back. Back to when "TV" wasn't just a way to refer to any piece of content between 20 and ... read more

The trick to understanding Opera's Neon browser is recognizing that it's not just a browser with an AI bot added to it, but a browser with three AI bots all ... read more

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 102, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, happy spooky season, and also you can ... read more

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on AI and the industry's power dynamics and societal implications, follow Hayden ... read more