The most telling point (so far) of Netflix’s proposed acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery, HBO and streaming businesses came from the company itself. In pushing back on claims that the deal would be anti-competitive, Netflix ... read more

In January, Nick Pugh will take on a new role at Ebiquity, one that quietly reflects how unsettled the business of marketing has become. He will become the media management firm’s chief marketing effectiveness officer, ... read more

Over the past year, Roblox has become harder for brands to ignore — not because it has resolved the challenges of digital commerce, but because of the scale at which younger consumers already use it. The ... read more

There will not be a Media Briefing next week due to Digiday’s holiday break. This week’s Media Briefing takes a look at the top trends from 2025, from digital advertising revenue performance to AI licensing ... read more

On Wednesday evening, OpenAI launched an App Directory to browse all the tools currently available and opened its SDK for developers to build new interactive experiences that operate within the ... read more

In July, Sony sued Tencent to prevent the release of Light of Motiram, a game Sony alleged was a "slavish clone" of its popular Horizon series. But the legal battle ... read more

Dolby Atmos FlexConnect technology debuted this year with the TCL Z100 speakers, and now we're getting our first FlexConnect soundbar thanks to LG. The new H7 soundbar - which runs ... read more

Snap just launched a new Quick Cut video editing tool right inside Snapchat that "helps Snapchatters turn their favorite Memories into beat-synced, ready-to-share videos in seconds." With Quick Cut, you ... read more

The Senate confirmed Jared Isaacman's appointment as the head of NASA on Wednesday, a decision that comes just months after President Donald Trump pulled his nomination before picking him yet ... read more

LONDON – Connected television and ad-supported streaming are moving firmly into the mainstream, creating rapid growth opportunities and new challenges for advertisers and the programmatic ecosystem, said Cadi Jones, SVP, EMEA, at Index Exchange. Speaking ... read more

In-store retail media is maturing beyond pilot programs toward enterprise-wide networks as national brands commit repeat investments and standardized measurement becomes urgent rather than aspirational. “We’re seeing that national brands are shifting real media dollars ... read more

RANCHO PALOS VERDES, CALIF. – Could the narrative around connected TV be shifting? Once seen as a pure-play brand-building medium, a growing chorus of vendors and agencies now pitches CTV as a bottom-funnel conversion driver. ... read more

RANCHO PALOS VERDES, CALIF. – Linear TV ad budgets have gone from a steady migration to connected TV to a full-on deluge after two decades of industry predictions. The shift has followed linear viewership rates ... read more

The change would directly affect business accounts using Facebook to promote their products and brand, effectively forcing them into paying to be verified on the platform. ... read more

A defiant Brendan Carr testified before the Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday in his first public appearance before lawmakers since threatening broadcasters who aired comedian Jimmy Kimmel's show. Over ... read more

Louisiana can't enforce a law that would have required social platforms to verify users' ages and ban minors under 16, without parental consent. ... read more

A small group of YouTube creators have agreed to allow Google Labs to develop and showcase their likeness in the form of in-app AI avatars via YouTube's experimental "Portraits" feature. ... read more

Meta has "paused" its program to license its VR operating system to other hardware companies so they could build their own headsets using the platform, as reported by Road to ... read more

A Meta data center in Ashburn, Virginia. | Photo: Getty Images Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) fired off a letter on Tuesday to ... read more

If you’re looking for a gadget to get as a last-minute Christmas gift, we’ve got your back. The Beats Solo 4 are among the best on-ear headphones we’ve tested in ... read more

Meta Platforms is urging a federal appeals court to reject former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee's bid to revive claims over CBD gummy ads that misappropriated his name and image. ... read more

Amazon's head of artificial general intelligence (AGI), Rohit Prasad, is leaving the company next year as it reaches an "inflection point" in its development of the technology, CEO Andy Jassy ... read more

Spending on video game hardware during November totalled $695 million, a drop of 27 percent compared to last year, according to market analyst company Circana, "This is the lowest video ... read more

Bluetooth trackers come in all shapes and sizes. | Illustration: Cath Virginia / The Verge Some people rarely lose things. Wallets are always exactly where they’re supposed to be, keys ... read more

Peter DeSantis will lead the new group, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy wrote in a letter to employees, which also posted on the company's blog. Jassy has been spearheading the push into everything AI. ... read more

Mozilla's new CEO Anthony Enzor-DeMeo laid out his strategy to push AI with safeguards into the company's products, from paid advertising to its privacy-centric browser Firefox. ... read more

Sexual fetish content. How to light a match. Where to find knives in the home. These are all conversation topics that recently-recalled children's toys - built atop AI chatbots ... read more

The Oscars are headed to YouTube - in a few years. "Beginning in 2029, the Oscars will broadcast exclusively on YouTube for free globally and on YouTube TV in the ... read more

After more than five decades on Disney's ABC unit, the Oscars will move to YouTube and YouTube TV beginning in 2029. ... read more

As we tuck into Fallout season 2, eager to see Amazon bring New Vegas to life, there's one person who stands out - and not just because of his power ... read more

Tesla and other automakers working on Level 2 and higher driving systems would be required to restrict their vehicles to specific road types or clearly defined operational domains under a ... read more

Tech billionaires have been obsessed with space for a long time. Now, as the largest AI companies race to build more data centers in a frenzied pursuit of profitability, space ... read more

A new Monday Night Football broadcast will offer an alternate telecast that presents the game live from the All-22 camera angle that shows the entire field, coupled with on-screen analytics ... read more

Mercedes-Benz sent out a notice to customers recently announcing its plans to discontinue MBUX Sound Drive, an interactive audio feature that syncs music to the car's actions. The feature was ... read more

The Selfix case is expected to launch on Kickstarter early next year. | Image: Dockcase Smartphones with secondary screens on the back aren't a new idea. Most recently the Xiaomi ... read more

Though Paramount Skydance was trying to buy Warner Bros. Discovery for much more money than Netflix is offering, David Zaslav and the rest of WBD's board are urging their shareholders ... read more

Wikipedia will be 25 years old in January. During that time, the encyclopedia has gone from a punchline about the unreliability of online information to the factual foundation of the ... read more

Internet connectivity for audio streaming in the select models will now be free for eight years. ... read more

2026 is going to be a big year for NBCUniversal. Not only will it play host to the 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Milan, it’s also going to broadcast the Super Bowl, the NBA Playoffs, ... read more

NBCUniversal is introducing LIVE Total Impact, which the media giant is billing as industry’s first cross-platform tool designed to leverage real-time viewership of live tentpole moments and extend engagement across the company’s full ecosystem beyond ... read more

Google is upgrading its Gemini app with Gemini 3 Flash, a more efficient version of its flagship AI model that's still capable of fielding complex requests. The new model will ... read more

A data center under construction in Phoenix, Arizona in 2024. | Photo: Getty Images AI created as much carbon pollution this year as New York City and guzzled up as ... read more

Peacock has found a new place to stuff ads. Starting next year, the streaming service will greet you with an ad alongside your profile icon on the "Who's watching?" screen ... read more

Gary Danks, GM, AIM by Kochava For years, app marketers have leaned heavily on last-touch attribution as the foundation of their measurement strategy. It’s fast, familiar and baked into most performance workflows. But as privacy ... read more

The Trade Desk is cutting its workforce. A company spokesperson confirmed the news with AdExchanger. The layoffs affect less than 1% of the company. The Trade Desk’s current headcount is approximately 3,900. TTD is hosting ... read more

Consumers spent $187.3 billion from Nov. 1-Dec. 12, which represents 6.1% growth year-over-year, according to Adobe Analytics data. Online spending is set to reach $253.4 billion - up 5.3% YoY - but will there be ... read more

The K11 Plus offers 6,000Pa of suction power and a mop that does a decent job of wiping floors. Small robot vacuums that fit into tight spaces rarely deliver strong ... read more

In all the chaos of 2025, The Verge was able to see through the fog and focus on the consumer technology that really made an impact this year: robot vacuums, ... read more

Years often go by between new seasons of big streaming shows - just ask fans of Severance or Stranger Things - but with Fallout the wait hasn't been so bad. ... read more

US defender Tim Ream looks to pass during the international friendly match between Paraguay Men's national team and the US Men's national team. The World Cup is happening next year, ... read more

Take note. The OnePlus 15R's battery life is exceptional. It's a smidge better than the very impressive OnePlus 15's, and the 15R costs two hundred dollars less. So why am ... read more

Following the demise of two of the Big 4 hold co.'s public ad forecasts, this is my first attempt at generating a new composite mixing the remaining two - Dentsu and WPP - with other ... read more

Rad Power Bikes, the once dominant electric bicycle brand in the US, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this week as it seeks to sell of its company. The move ... read more

From pervasive layoffs to continued price hikes, things didn't go so well for Xbox in 2025. But even though Game Pass, the Xbox subscription service, isn't quite the deal it ... read more

Apple's streaming service got a new name this year - it dropped the "plus" and is now just Apple TV - but its actual programming didn't change all that much. ... read more

Disney Plus and Hulu had an eventful year. Not only did the streaming services release a swath of exciting original shows and new seasons, but they're also in the midst ... read more

Analysts figured Paramount and Comcast - longtime legacy media movie-studio/TV network competitors - were in a likely position to acquire WBD. Now Comcast seems to be out of the hunt. ... read more

2025 could have been a pretty disastrous year for Google. The company came in knowing it had three major legal battles to fight, increasing competition in the burgeoning AI market, ... read more

The year 2025 has been, to put it mildly, eventful. If you’re like me, you’ve felt as if it’s pretty much impossible to keep up with things; every day brings ... read more

Bluesky is finally letting you find people you already know, one of several common features on other social platforms, like notifications and bookmarks, that have been notably absent at the ... read more

Years from now, I'll look back at 2025 as the year when a fundamental shift happened in wearable technology. Over the last decade, the category has been synonymous with health ... read more

Magnum's brands include Ben & Jerry's, Magnum, Wall's, Cornetto and others. Magnum was previously Unilever's ice cream division, which was spun off into a separate company earlier this month. ... read more

Matt Kalish had long been frustrated by the lack of growth in creator media on channels like Twitch, YouTube, and TikTok. The DraftKing co-founder and long-time leader of the company’s North American business saw creator ... read more

Take a look at the list of Rob Reiner's movie and TV credits on Wikipedia and prepare to be awed. ... read more

Tesla could be temporarily locked out of its biggest US market if it doesn't change deceptive marketing that exaggerates the self-driving capabilities of its cars, the California Department of Motor ... read more

How does Amazon strike a balance between AI-driven efficiency in creative production and the risk of commoditization? It’s a question Jay Richman, Amazon’s VP of product and technology, is often asked, he says on this ... read more

Coca-Cola’s Secret Recipe Clicks, carts and content are all part of the same recipe, Manolo Arroyo, Coca-Cola’s EVP and global CMO, tells The Drum. The modern media system brings together retailers, shoppers, online content creators ... read more

This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks back at the top topics and trends that overtook the TV, streaming and digital video industries in 2025. Year in review Year in review 2025 is ... read more

The story was first published by Digiday sibling Modern Retail. Expect more AI-powered recommendations and personalization from Lowe’s next year as the home improvement retailer continues to hone its e-commerce strategy. Mylow, a shopping assistant ... read more

YouTube has been chasing TV ad budgets for years. What’s changed recently is the approach. Marketers who’ve sat through recent pitches say the difference is clear. The VIP packages, sold both directly to advertisers and ... read more

AI licensing has gone from niche to crowded fast: Meta, Microsoft and Amazon have entered the fray in the last six months, and publishers are now juggling a growing menu of deals — each with ... read more

In the latest “every surface becomes shoppable” news, more platforms are inking deals and rolling out shoppable ad formats across the open web. As more media environments become points of purchase, attribution and measurement remain ... read more

Elon Musk, a billionaire who decimated the United States federal workforce using the Department of Government Efficiency, is not remembered fondly by the most powerful woman in Washington: Susie Wiles, ... read more

Days after a rumor circulated that home arcade machine maker Arcade1Up would be shutting down, the company has finally shared a statement about its future. "Select assets" from Arcade1Up have ... read more

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks as (L-4th L) White House “AI and Crypto Czar” David Sacks, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and first lady Melania Trump listen during a dinner at the State ... read more

Alexa Plus now has a new home on the web. The Alexa.com website appears to be live for some users. The browser-based home for Alexa Plus, the company's revamped digital ... read more

Following the release of the 115-inch Micro RGB TV back in August, Samsung has revealed today that its Micro RGB technology will extend into smaller sizes ranging from that 115-inch ... read more

According to a YouTube Gaming post, the "Playables Builder" closed Beta test allows YouTube creators to forgo traditional coding hurdles and develop games with "short text, video or image prompts" managed by Gemini 3. ... read more

X Corp. is suing Operation Bluebird, a recently-announced startup that aims to reclaim the Twitter brand for a new social network. In a lawsuit filed on Tuesday, the Elon Musk-owned ... read more

Flag illustration representing the European Union The Office of the US Trade Representative posted on X Tuesday, claiming that US service providers have been hit by "a continuing course of ... read more

On December 9th, Rolling Stone published a story that some saw as a bombshell: a network of coordinated, "inauthentic" social media accounts had a hand in the weekslong discourse that ... read more

WhatsApp users can send those too-long-to-listen-to voice memos to a bot, and receive a voucher for a free Heineken. ... read more

A federal judge has thrown out claims that Google and TikTok failed to remove videos promoting dangerous activity. ... read more

Bologna will take over day-to-day U.S. operations and will also focus on the agency's strategy to double revenue in 5 years. ... read more

A screenshot from Divinity’s reveal trailer. The CEO of Baldur's Gate 3 studio Larian has inadvertently stirred up some controversy over the use of AI in the developer's next game. ... read more

Instagram is taking Reels to even bigger screens by launching on Amazon Fire TV, following the launch of its first native iPad app. ... read more

Hollyland, a company best known for affordable wireless microphones that are popular with creators, has announced its first webcam, the small 4K Lyra. While it lacks advanced features like the ... read more

LONDON — Advertisers have faced the perennial issue of balancing identity-focused ad targeting with the need to respect these same consumers’ demand for privacy. The promises of agentic AI seem to grow on a daily ... read more

As connected television matures, contextual targeting is set to become more intelligent, more dynamic and far more creative, according to Jess Brown of WPP Media, speaking with Beet.TV contributor David Kaplan. Looking ahead to CES, ... read more

RANCHO PALOS VERDES, CALIF. – As artificial intelligence reshapes nearly every corner of modern media, Spark Foundry president Steve Birnbaum says its most transformative effect can be summed up in a single word: streamlining. From ... read more

Publishers facing traffic declines from artificial intelligence-powered search summaries might have one engaging tool to fight back. “Video can’t that easily be replaced by an AI summary. Even if you do video to text and ... read more

"Automakers leaned into the festive season in November, with 14 of the 20 most-seen ads featuring holiday themes and/or special promotions," says iSpot.tv's Stuart Schwartzapfel. ... read more

If you’re shopping for a book lover, it’s hard to beat a Kindle, especially if your giftee already owns a library of Kindle books. Amazon’s latest sale makes them even ... read more

Larry Ellison, co-founder and executive chairman of Oracle Corp., during an executive order signing ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. ... read more

This State of the Industry report, sponsored by IntentIQ, explores how brands, agencies, publishers and retailers are targeting audiences and building more transparent and measurable identity strategies. From publishers and media companies to brands and ... read more

Mattel's collaboration with OpenAI will not materialize this year, as regulatory challenges emerge amid greater scrutiny of how kids and teens interact with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. ... read more

OpenAI is overhauling its image generator with a new model and redesigned interface. On Tuesday, the company announced its "new flagship image generation model," GPT Image 1.5, which it said ... read more

A federal judge has blocked enforcement of an Arkansas law that would have prohibited social media platforms from using algorithms or design features that could "cause" a user to commit suicide, buy drugs, develop an ... read more

Google wants you to start your day with AI. Google's AI, to be specific, which is why the company is launching an experimental agent to comb through your emails, calendar, ... read more

Months after staffers from the Department of Government Efficiency were found in the Federal Communications Commission directory, the FCC is being accused of slow-walking demands for information about what they ... read more