Look at that trackball! That’s ZSA’s Navigator, an accessory for its Voyager keyboard. Do you love to tinker with your keyboard layout? Do you love trackballs and think that one ... read more

There’s a paradox at play in how marketers are adopting artificial intelligence. Eighty-seven percent of US advertisers say they plan to increase AI usage over the next 12 months. But only 45% feel confident in ... read more

Dick Van Dyke published a new book just last month, "Dick Van Dyke: An Optimist's Guide to a Happy Life, 100 Rules for Living to 100." ... read more

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is one of those games that been a long time coming. Fans have been waiting almost a decade for the next entry in Samus' first-person adventures. ... read more

Wait, is 78,432 minutes supposed to be a lot? It’s time for year-end lists, annual roundups, and, of course, Spotify Wrapped. The usual suspects are here, like your most listened ... read more

Agency buyers who manage portfolios of Google Ads and Merchant Center accounts are being targeted by sophisticated scam artists who hijack those accounts, drain client funds and sometimes lock out admins for weeks or even ... read more

Unlike a robovac, Mirumi will never eat a sock or get stuck under furniture. | Image: Yukai Engineering Among a sea of new TVs, robovacs, and smart glasses, Yukai Engineering’s ... read more

Gardner previously served as COO of the Harris Poll, which he joined in 2017. Earlier he was APAC CEO and global COO of Penn Schoen Berland. ... read more

One of The Trade Desk’s longest-tenured leaders on the product side has left the company. Jud Spencer, who served as one of TTD’s lead engineers for the past 12-plus years, confirmed to AdExchanger that his ... read more

Broadsign’s acquisition of Place Exchange last week is a defining moment for programmatic out-of-home (OOH).  But it is not the endgame; it is merely the setup. The OOH stack is being rebuilt from the inside ... read more

Homepage Hero? If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. That’s Newsweek’s course of action to combat the dip in traffic publishers are seeing due to growing chatbot use and Google AI Overviews, Digiday reports. It’s ... read more

Not long ago, a programmatic lead laid out the strain in their DSP mix to The Trade Desk: ascending Amazon, aggressive Google and uneasy clients. The tech vendor’s response surprised her. After years of immovable ... read more

A recent prediction in a Fast Company article raised some eyebrows in the HR profession, proposing that by 2026 the traditional HR director title will begin to give way to another executive role: chief productivity ... read more

This article was first published by Digiday sibling Modern Retail. TikTok Shop, once synonymous with rock-bottom prices, is getting more expensive. While TikTok doesn’t publish aggregate marketplace metrics, product-level prices and sales counts are visible ... read more

Supply-side platforms (SSPs) were originally built as publisher advocates. Their job was straightforward: get impressions into the market and take a cut. Then they decided to work with advertisers, a move that never sat easily ... read more

Omnicom began absorbing its former rival Interpublic Group (IPG) this week with a swath of redundancies up and down the org chart. Among the 4,000 people cut loose across the globe were Susan Credle, global ... read more

This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at what TV and streaming companies’ latest quarterly earnings report indicate about the state of the streaming ad market. Market check Paramount’s and Netflix’s WBD bids, Disney’s ... read more

In early 2025, Criteo entered a new chapter, with its current CEO, Michael Komasinski, taking the reins as the fourth chief executive of the company in its 20-year history — a sign that investors expect ... read more

YouTube confirmed Wednesday that it will adhere to Australia's upcoming social-media ban and remove accounts of Australian children under the age of 16 - even social media influencers. ... read more

I love instant cameras because of how they help me slow down and be creative without the distractions of a phone. Holding a real print also feels grounding in a ... read more

Indiegogo is planning to launch a new “Express Crowdfunding” campaign format that lets creators ship things while the campaign is on-going instead of forcing creators to wait until the campaign ... read more

It’s here! Our brand-new, 127-page Martech for 2026 report. No form to fill. No “leave a comment on LinkedIn” arm twisting. You can simply download the full PDF right here. These are the 7 ... read more

“BG3 players exploit children,” reads an Google AI-generated headline. | Image: Google Did you know that BG3 players exploit children? Are you aware that Qi2 slows older Pixels? If we ... read more

Rohit Prasad, Amazon's SVP of AGI. This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once ... read more

In the television industry’s move toward new measurement standards, much of the focus has been on the proliferation of new currencies. But what if simply swapping out one ratings provider for several alternatives doesn’t address ... read more

Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers that covers the political intrigue and power struggles between Big Tech and Big Government. Subscribe here for a weekly dispatch ... read more

Two California residents are pressing to revive their claim that Quest violated California's wiretap law by allegedly sharing website visitors' browsing data with Meta. ... read more

Through the Nonprofit Co-Lab, select NYC nonprofits will collaborate with Havas volunteer teams to co-create PSA campaigns that address community needs. ... read more

If you’ve been short on storage on your PC, the latest Helldivers 2 beta update might help. The developers said Tuesday they’ve managed to cut down the PC file size ... read more

Though HBO Max was very proud to announce that it would be the first platform to stream Mad Men in 4K, the show's new rollout has been an absolute mess. ... read more

RANCHO PALOS VERDES, CA — The advertising industry is rushing to embrace artificial intelligence. For Gillian MacPherson, VP, product and consumer insights at Epsilon, the key to unlocking AI’s potential is a robust data foundation ... read more

RANCHO PALOS VERDES, CA — Among advertisers’ hopes for artificial intelligence is the ability to shape and reshape creative moments within scenes streaming on CTV to bring more emotionally resonant ad experiences at scale. “Every ... read more

The Roborock Saros 10 is one of the best Cyber Monday deals still lingering around. | Photo: Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Black Friday and Cyber Monday brought some ... read more

With new in-app ecommerce options, Discord says it now allows gamers to "find, buy, and gift in-game digital goods from chat, friends' Wishlists, and directly within official game communities" on the platform. ... read more

Since amassing $100 million in Black Friday sales in the U.S. last year, TikTok Shop has grown in size, increasing holiday sales while attracting name-brand sellers. ... read more

The Steam Controller. It's a big deal that Valve is making a game console. But I'm beginning to think the Steam Machine may end up a footnote in gaming history. ... read more

The National Retail Federation is asking a judge to block a Texas law requiring app stores to verify users' ages and block minors under 18 from downloading apps or making in-app purchases, without parental consent. ... read more

After a big movie weekend, looking at overall business, two major theater chains went south. The largest U.S. company, AMC Entertainment Holdings, was down 3% in early Monday morning trading to $2.38. ... read more

Android users will soon have an option to add an “urgent” indicator to their calls, which shows up on the receiver’s incoming call screen and in their call history if ... read more

AI notification summaries will shorten long texts or group chats. | Image: Google More Android phones will soon support AI-powered notification summaries. The feature, which is bundled in the latest ... read more

The latest update for Android 16 has arrived, marking the official end to Google’s annual release schedule. Compared to the major Android 16 launch in June, the new 16 QPR2 ... read more

As the holiday season winds down, a little-known window of opportunity opens for advertisers known as Q5.  During the period from late December to mid- or late January, also known as Q5, many advertisers go ... read more

UE’s Wonderboom 4 is still sitting at $59.99 ($40 off), which remains the best price we’ve seen on the terrific Bluetooth speaker. With Cyber Monday officially in the rearview mirror, ... read more

If you had told me a year ago that it was going to be Dentsu, I would've said, "huh?" So much for ad industry legacies. ... read more

Data from NRF, Adobe and Mastercard shows people were out in force -- but only buying when marketers deliver value. ... read more

America’s biggest department stores are changing, and changing fast. In the past quarter, for instance, Target has piloted a new store model in Chicago, where it’s begun segmenting some stores into more backroom operations and ... read more

The AR "Winter Village" experience represents digital boutiques with "up close" product discovery and direct purchasing of luxury brands via Snapchat's e-commerce site. It is accessible on Snap's Lens Carousel, as well as each brand's ... read more

How do we balance our beliefs about what is wrong and right with our desire to consume? Which do we care more about? ... read more

Apple Music is getting ahead of Spotify Wrapped with the launch of its yearly recaps. This year’s Apple Music Replay is available natively within the app and comes packed with ... read more

You can remove the dock’s smaller hub using an eject button on top. | Image: Anker Anker has released a new docking station that eliminates the  problem of having to ... read more

One of the biggest surprises of Cyber Monday was the excellent discount we saw on the Nintendo Switch 2 + Mario Kart World bundle, which dropped the price of Nintendo’s ... read more

The firm's Global New Business Barometer (NBB) for the January-September period shows Publicis Media led both total and net new business results, generating $7.7 billion in net new client billings. ... read more

The Wuben G5 is as easy to pocket as a Zippo and a much better light source. | Photo: Andrew Liszewski / The Verge I was never a Boy Scout, ... read more

Here’s a sad, yet predictable truth: most Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals are gone. But, not all of them have disappeared. In fact, some of the most popular deals, ... read more

One report last week suggested Netflix may be most favored by the company going forward. ... read more

One night in May 2020, during the height of lockdown, Deep Ganguli was worried. Ganguli, then research director at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, had just been alerted to ... read more

Apple makes a lot of gadgets. Most of them are very good! You'd frankly be hard-pressed to find a company with a better track record, especially across so many categories. ... read more

Smart home products are all about making everyday life a little easier, which is why they're some of the best and most thoughtful gifts you can give. Some people go ... read more

When Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is good, it's good. The latest in Nintendo's sci-fi exploration franchise, and the first since Metroid Dread in 2021, Beyond captures the moody sense of ... read more

A scene from Death Stranding 2: On the Beach. It’s one thing to do a bit of online shopping during the Black Friday / Cyber Monday sales, but it’s another ... read more

Apple is not planning to comply with an order from the Indian government directing phone manufacturers to preload a state-backed cybersecurity app, according to Reuters.  Industry sources tell Reuters that ... read more

Over the past couple of years, I've tried to switch to many different gaming keyboards and always ended up back with a Wooting 60HE. Wooting changed PC gaming with the ... read more

Third time’s the charm? Amazon is starting to test ultra-fast deliveries that aim to drop household goods at your doorstep in 30 minutes or less. The Amazon Now service is ... read more

From most angles, it looks just like the last-gen A7 IV. Sony is announcing the A7 V, its first camera with a partially stacked sensor and various features borrowed from ... read more

YouTube is rolling out a new roundup experience that lets you quickly review your most notable video habits over the last year. The Recap feature “uniquely highlights interests, deep dives, ... read more

The Nikon ZR with its touchscreen flipped out. If you shoot video professionally, there's a good chance you've salivated over a RED camera at some point. RED has long been ... read more

Access to Copilot via WhatsApp will end on January 15, 2026. WhatsApp parent company Meta will prohibit use of general-purpose AI chatbots including ChatGPT and Perplexity AI through its app. ... read more

Comedian Sebastian Maniscalco is speaking out on behalf of everyone who does not love TV. ... read more

Discord’s adding a new commerce feature that will let users buy digital items for games they might not even play. Starting with Marvel Rivals, users will be able to search, ... read more

The 16GB version of the Raspberry Pi 5 (pictured) has jumped from $120 to $145. Raspberry Pi is increasing the price of several single-board computers in an attempt to offset ... read more

For the first nine months of the year, OOH revenue reached $6.98 billion, up 3.2% versus the same period a year ago. ... read more

The tides are turning in the AI race, and the pressure is getting to OpenAI. Chief executive Sam Altman reportedly declared a “code red” on Monday, urging staff to improve ... read more

You can’t make this up. Microsoft shipped a Windows 11 update yesterday that is supposed to make dark mode more consistent, with dialogs in File Explorer finally getting a dark ... read more

Nearly every ad tech company is out there promising some form of AI-powered magic. The vendor landscape is turning into a sea of sameness. So what’s worthwhile and what’s worth chucking in the bin? The ... read more

Omnicom is making more cuts; investors aren’t interesting in publishing; and OpenAI is still on the fence about ads. The post Omnicom Downsizes But OmniPlusses; VCs Aren’t Buying Dotcoms appeared first on AdExchanger. ... read more

Payment frictions continue to undercut the creator economy’s growth. Creators continue to wait too long to get paid, according to several ad execs interviewed for this story. What should be routine disbursements can slip from ... read more

This story was originally published on sister site, Modern Retail. Carter’s new CMO, Sarah Crockett, has led marketing efforts at a number of consumer brands including DSW, Dickie’s, Backcountry and Burton Snowboards. But when she ... read more

Having hosted its fifth upfront last month, U.K. retailer Tesco, is on a mission to change how advertisers perceive Tesco Media — its retail media arm — in a bid to take more ad dollars ... read more

After months of increasingly public friction over transaction IDs (TID), request duplication, and the broader transparency rift roiling in programmatic advertising, the IAB Tech Lab is preparing to corral the industry’s most entrenched parties. The ... read more

Newsweek is developing an AI-powered homepage, modeled after Google’s AI Mode search experience, as part of a broader partnership with Google Cloud. The goal is to create a more conversational, AI-driven homepage that will function ... read more

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Spotify WPP has had a hell of a year.  2025 was a nod to the good, the bad and the ugly for the agency hold co. There were financial challenges, ... read more

The Aura Aspen is one of many gift-worthy items you can still pick up for Cyber Monday. If you’re hoping to whittle down your wish list before the holiday panic ... read more

Nomad’s tracking card can help you keep tabs on your wallet if it goes missing. | Image: Nomad One of the pitfalls of Cyber Monday is getting overwhelmed by deep discounts ... read more

Hoto’s electric screwdrivers are great for working on computers and making other small repairs. | Image: Hoto Hoto makes some of our favorite tools, the kind that are not only ... read more

Govee’s speaker / smart lamp combo is down to $134.99 for a limited time. Whether you’re looking to liven up an upcoming holiday party or pick up a gift that ... read more

I kind of wish they’d called it the Z Fold Fold. Samsung is officially announcing the Z TriFold, its much-anticipated foldable with not one, but two hinges. It’ll launch first ... read more

The Powerbeats Pro 2 are available in purple, orange, white, and black. Unless you want an open-style clip bud, getting high-quality workout earbuds has become more difficult in the past ... read more

The Apple Watch Series 11 currently starts at just $329, which is its lowest price ever. Cyber Monday is usually just a repeat of Black Friday, but occasionally the annual, ... read more

One year after the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan, his alleged shooter, Luigi Mangione, faces charges of first and second degree murder, criminal possession of a weapon, ... read more

OpenAI announced an ownership stake in the private equity investment firm Thrive Holdings, whose parent company, Thrive Capital, is one of the main investors in, you guessed it, OpenAI. While ... read more

There are deals on gaming laptops and MacBooks, as well as gaming laptops that want to be MacBooks. We’re well into Cyber Monday, and many of the same laptop deals ... read more

The most unexpected twist in Omnicom Group’s landmark merger with Interpublic Group is how many agency brands the combined company chose to keep intact, said Brian Wieser, chief executive of consulting firm Madison & Wall. ... read more

Apple AI chief John Giannandrea is stepping down from his position, according to an announcement on Monday. The change comes as Apple struggles to get the launch of its AI-powered ... read more

Tim Cook, please stop telling me that the AirPods Pro 3 are Apple’s most advanced earbuds yet, and that I’m gonna love them. I know they have a built-in heart ... read more

The Nintendo Switch 2 and all things that orbit the console are among the hottest holiday gifts this year. Consider us surprised to not just see the $499 Mario Kart ... read more

Cox Communucations warned the Supreme Court against "turning internet providers into internet police." ... read more

Television has evolved beyond its traditional broad reach positioning to deliver the precision targeting capabilities once exclusive to digital channels, fundamentally changing how healthcare brands approach video advertising strategies. “Television is delivering the kind of ... read more

The long-held ambition for connected television advertising is finally coming into focus: recreating the immense, immediate reach of traditional linear TV, but with a new layer of intelligence that its predecessor could never offer. As ... read more

This WTF guide, sponsored by Dstillery, dives into what multimodal AI is, the many ways it can be used and how it can solve both current and future challenges for advertisers. As AI adoption accelerates ... read more

The page flipper can work on most portable devices that have a capacitive touchscreen. | Image: TeoTeeo I’ve been looking for any huge Cyber Monday deals that I might have ... read more