The canvas finish only comes on this teal version of the Edge 60 Fusion. Motorola announced the first phone in its midrange Edge 60 series, which ships with a novel twist: a ... read more

Unilever may be investing billions of dollars into influencer marketing, but marketers aren’t necessarily copying their playbook just yet. When one of the world’s largest advertisers says it will now invest half of its ad ... read more

Amazon Ads’s quest to become the first programmatic port of call for media buyers is intensifying.  It’s courting media agencies across the industry hoping that more will treat its demand-side platform (DSP) as their go-to ... read more

Uncertainty around TikTok’s future in the U.S. led many advertisers to slam the brakes on their advertising there. Others treated the turmoil as a green light.  Walmart, Coca-Cola, Comcast, PepsiCo, Warner Bros Discovery, Google and ... read more

This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at how the programmatic guaranteed versus private marketplace debate is shaping up as programmatic becomes an upfront fixture. Get with the programmatic Amazon’s studio chief exits, Disney’s ... read more

With influencer marketing budgets steadily rising, more multinational brands are partnering with influencer agencies as the industry becomes more complex. The World Federation of Advertisers released a report today showing that some 54% of multinational ... read more

Being small and less data-dependent aren’t always selling points for attracting search advertisers. But in the case of one privacy-focused browser, both are core selling points. Since introducing search ads in 2024, Brave has courted ... read more

Could it be? A wireless plan that doesn’t suck? Visible, the budget wireless brand owned by Verizon, is offering a new premium plan that looks like a heck of a deal compared ... read more

U.S. National Security Adviser Michael Waltz in the White House Oval Office on March 13, 2025. | Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images<br> Last week, National Security Advisor Michael Waltz inadvertently invited a ... read more

Meta is reportedly preparing a higher-end version of its Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses with a built-in screen to launch as early as by the end of the year, Bloomberg reports. The ... read more

Snapchat first started testing Sponsored Snaps in October to accelerate the growth of its ad business by reaching users directly in their chat inboxes with vertical full-screen branded content. ... read more

Some Google Pixel users have found that their At a Glance widget has been showing outdated weather forecasts, as reported by Android Police. But the company says in a statement to ... read more

Roblox is launching a new type of ad that, if watched, will give players things like in-game currency and power-ups, according to an announcement from the company. The full-screen video ads, ... read more

T-Mobile has officially closed its joint venture deal with the fiber provider Lumos,  after taking down its webpage dedicated to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the process, as reported by ... read more

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Donald Trump shake hands during a campaign rally in Glendale, Arizona in August 2024. | Photo: Getty Images Drastic “reductions in force” are upending agencies within the ... read more

What was once a humble research lab has transformed into one of the biggest consumer technology companies of all time. OpenAI, founded in 2015 to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI) — ... read more

Accessories like the Xbox Wireless Headset let you make the most of Microsoft’s latest consoles. | The Verge The Xbox Series X and Series S are excellent machines directly out of the ... read more

Meta's VP of AI Research Joelle Pineau says she plans to leave the company at the end of May. She says "as the race for AI accelerates, and as Meta prepares for its next chapter, ... read more

Though John Wick definitely seemed dead by the end of his last high stakes adventure, that no longer appears to be the case. During its presentation at this year’s CinemaCon, Lionsgate ... read more

Starting with this year’s football season, the NFL will use Sony’s Hawk-Eye cameras to measure the line to gain — a process the chain crew has done manually for decades. The ... read more

Hyundai has revealed a gaming-inspired “Insteroid” concept EV in Seoul that takes its tiny all-electric Inster and gives it an over-the-top street racing makeover. The automaker’s cutesy compact SUV was handed ... read more

AI startup Runway says its latest AI video model can generate consistent scenes and people across multiple shots, according to an announcement. AI-generated videos can struggle with maintaining consistent storytelling, but ... read more

More than 1,900 scientists and engineers have signed a letter saying they “see real danger in this moment” as the Trump administration slashes federal support for scientific research. “Wise investments by ... read more

Members of ZeniMax Workers United, a union of over 300 quality assurance workers in Texas and Maryland, have voted to authorize a strike. The vote, which passed with over 94 percent ... read more

SAN JUAN, PR — Skydeo has launched a new audience segment management platform designed to make data selection more intuitive and efficient, according to Mike Ford, CEO of the predictive audience data and insights platform. ... read more

Yesterday, we wrote that a new Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) process would help private jet owners keep their registration details private upon request, and speculated that it would make things difficult ... read more

A year and a half ago, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) worked with state attorneys general to shut down Prehired, a shady tech sales bootcamp program that a court said ... read more

The Pixel 10 Pro Fold might not look all that different. | Image: OnLeaks via <em><a href="https://www.androidheadlines.com/google-pixel-10-pro-fold">Android Headlines</a></em> You probably shouldn’t expect major changes to Google’s next Pixel foldable. Renders shared with ... read more

If you want to create a cinematic experience at home, then chances are that your TV’s built-in speakers just won’t cut it. Instead, it may be worth investing in a top-notch ... read more

Smartphones are great. They’re also… a lot. The idea of a more balanced device, one that gives you all of the most important and useful features of a smartphone but keeps ... read more

Dbrand’s Touch Grass collection is available for over 100 devices. | Image: Dbrand Dbrand wants you to feel less guilty about having your face buried in a screen all day and not ... read more

The study is expected to presume the marketplace will consolidate from a multitude of contenders to two recognized ad "currencies," which is consistent with the history of the ad industry. ... read more

Substack plans to protect foreign writers “residing lawfully” in the US who may be targeted by the government for what they write. The company is partnering with the nonprofit Foundation for ... read more

Though Sony’s initial plans to release Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse in 2024 didn’t quite work out, the film finally has a new premiere date that seems like it will stick. Last ... read more

It’s finally time for the biggest video game event of the last few years. In January, Nintendo officially unveiled the successor to the Switch, helpfully called the Switch 2. The short ... read more

Welcome to the worst day on the internet! As Chaim Gartenberg pointed out years ago, brands and a holiday dedicated to hoaxes are rarely a winning combo. If you’re a company ... read more

Billionaire Elon Musk gives $1 million to Wisconsin voter Ekaterina Diestler during a town hall meeting he was hosting at the KI Convention Center on March 30th, 2025, in Green Bay, Wisconsin. | ... read more

Measurement tools and partnerships were added with IAS and Kantar as well as verification companies DoubleVerify and Nielsen to support purchase intent, frequency metrics, brand lift, fraud prevention and more. ... read more

How’s that 5G rollout going in your area? Even in 2025, there’s no guarantee you’re going to be able to get reliable cell service everywhere you go, especially if you happen ... read more

Almost, but not quite, E2EE. Google is updating Gmail to allow enterprise users to send encrypted messages to any inbox in just a few clicks. Google says it’s developed a new encryption ... read more

The early go-ahead was given by the Trump Administration's Department of Government Efficiency, overriding a Federal Trade Commission investigation probe into the antitrust implications of the merger. ... read more

With a wide range of public U.S. companies, especially direct-first companies and some law firms, now bending the knee to the Trump Administration, one wonders what's next - especially for the media. ... read more

So much of our online and technological lives rely on standards, the sets of rules designed to make sure our favorite gadgets and services work together. At their best, they make ... read more

What happens when a man is handpicked by a telemarketer for the devil to become a bounty hunter for escapees from hell? ... read more

The motivation is April Fool's Day -- and for whatever reasons, this year seems to be a banner one for goofiness. ... read more

At the time of writing, The Trade Desk's stock price has dropped precipitously to start the year, a 60% decline from a 52-week high of $141.53 to $56.31 ($TTD ( ▼ 2.02% ) ). While ... read more

Every time I see “mAh” on a consumer product, I cringe. Megahertz are starting to bruise, too. That’s because the most critical components of portable gadgets — batteries and processors — should ... read more

Buying a giant battery for the next blackout or off-grid adventure can be daunting, especially when hundreds or even thousands of dollars are on the line. Get it wrong and you’ve ... read more

Zuck bought himself a position of honor at Trump’s inauguration. | Image: Kenny Holston-Pool/Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg — having spent months cozying up to President Donald Trump — will now be looking ... read more

ChatGPT’s latest image generator — which has gone viral for its ability to generate uncanny recreations of Studio Ghibli art — is now available for everyone, after OpenAI initially delayed the ... read more

A screenshot from the Palworld dating sim, called Pal♡world! ~More Than Just Pals~. The developers of Palworld and PUBG: Battlegrounds have announced details of dating simulators set in the universes of their ... read more

Up to 140W off a USB-C PD 3.1 laptop charger you might already own. | Image: Ampler Ampler made one of the first modern e-bikes I ever tested, and now it’s selling the first ... read more

Interested in sharing your perspectives on the media and marketing industries? Join the Digiday research panel. Retail media’s moment in the advertising spotlight continues — both for better and for worse. Concern is growing among ... read more

A downturn is coming, but the ad industry might talk itself into making it worse.  We get it. The world is a mess. Tariffs are doing the economic hokey pokey, geopolitics are one long anxiety ... read more

Concerned over Substack’s ideological messaging, some creators are leaving — or considering leaving — the platform in 2025. One of those creators is sportswriter Joe Posnanski, who published his final Substack post on March 3. ... read more

Just weeks ago, the mood among marketers was one of mild crisis. The prospect of a TikTok-less future — unthinkable yet suddenly plausible — had them sketching out fallback plans, hedging bets and recalibrating campaigns. ... read more

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Spotify When Dotdash Meredith made its deal with OpenAI deal last year, it wasn’t only opening its content to ChatGPT. It was also enlisting OpenAI’s large language model to assist ... read more

As if the retail media boom isn’t under enough scrutiny, new tariffs and talk of a potential economic recession have sparked more questions about the negotiation process that is known as joint business planning (JBP). ... read more

Another Google core update was completed last Friday, the first one this year — but what it will mean for publishers won’t be clear for a while, if at all. Google’s core updates, which happen ... read more

OpenAI has raised $40 billion in a new investment round led by SoftBank, vaulting the company to a $300 billion valuation. It’s the largest funding round for a private tech company ... read more

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from launch pad 30A at the Kennedy Space Center, carrying four astronauts to the Space Station. | Photo by Manuel Mazzanti/NurPhoto via Getty Images The ... read more

Ad execs are coming to believe the infrastructure of the internet itself must be optimized to handle the “hyper scale” demands of live streaming events, where millions of concurrent viewers create unprecedented advertising challenges. These ... read more

Several companies, including iRobot, have announced updates and support for Apple Home through Matter. | Image: iRobot The release of  Apple’s iOS 18.4 on Monday includes good news for robot vacuum owners. ... read more

The selections followed a formal review that began last year and was managed by ID Comms. ... read more

Samsung Ads has launched "GameBreaks," an interactive ad format that advertisers in the U.S. and Canada can use to turn passive ads playable on Samsung TV Plus, the company's ad-supported streaming service. ... read more

Connected TV advertising suffers from a fundamental lack of transparency that’s leading to misplaced ads and questionable attribution, according to a senior Yahoo executive. The problem is particularly evident when CTV ads, designed for large-screen ... read more

Microsoft is making its AI features widely available on Copilot Plus PCs equipped with Intel and AMD chips. One of the most notable of these features will be Live Captions, which ... read more

SAN JUAN, PR – The migration of content consumption from the open web to connected TV is opening up what one ad-tech executive calls “white space” for advertising strategies. By understanding consumers’ interests across platforms, ... read more

The simple contraption quickly attaches to both buttons and rocker switches. Smart plugs are great, but unfortunately, they can’t automate everything. Thankfully, there is a cheap cube-like contraption called the SwitchBot Bot ... read more

Trump told Reuters the White House will strike a deal with ByteDance by Saturday to sell TikTok, adding: "We have a lot of potential buyers." The public has received little information about the logistics of ... read more

The company reports a $1.27 billion loss as sales decline again. ... read more

Apple has released iOS 18.4, and one of the biggest features is priority notifications, which use Apple Intelligence to highlight “important notifications that may require your immediate attention,” according to Apple’s ... read more

Following months of testing, Plex has started to roll out its redesigned mobile app to Android and iOS devices, and it will arrive to everyone within the next week. The new ... read more

The cycle social media won't break -- and teens can't escape. ... read more

Amazon has launched a new AI model, Nova Act, which is designed to perform tasks — like online shopping — in your browser. For now it’s only available to developers in ... read more

The Echo Show 8 is one of the devices Alexa Plus is currently available on. Amazon has officially launched its AI-powered Alexa Plus – but it’s only available to a “small number” ... read more

The bright blue is now gone, replaced with a black-and-white palette. | Image: Warner Bros. Discovery Warner Bros. Discovery introduced new branding for its Max streaming service yesterday, alongside announcing availability in ... read more

Today, I’m talking with Matt Bromberg, who is the CEO of Unity, one of the leading video game development platforms. He’s been in the job for less than a year, and ... read more

Deadline reports that Warner Bros. Discovery has agreed to sell Coyote vs. Acme’s global distribution rights to Ketchup Entertainment, the same production studio that bought The Day The Earth Blew Up: ... read more

YouTube had a leading 21% share of streaming minutes in 2024. Compared to just FAST platforms, YouTube is far ahead in streaming minutes, followed by Tubi with a 4% share and Roku with 3%. ... read more

It’s World Backup Day, which to the makers of storage devices means driving home the urgency of protecting the files you hold dear. So obviously, there are deals on all sorts ... read more

France’s competition watchdog (Autorité de la concurrence) ordered Apple to pay €150 million (~$162.4 million) after finding that its App Tracking Transparency system allows the company to abuse its dominance in ... read more

The companies have independently supported data, optimization and advertising. Together they have the ability to protect brand assets, optimize digital marketing strategies, and strengthen the ability for brands, retailers, and agencies to maximize return on ... read more

Sorry I’ve been a bit quiet this past month. I’ve been heads down on research for our State of Martech 2025 report that we’ll be releasing on #MartechDay — May 6 — along with the ... read more

Reddit released several Ads Manager features Monday morning aimed at making it easier for small to medium-sized businesses get started running campaigns on the platform. The company turns 20 years old in June. ... read more

As TikTok’s April 5th sell-by date approaches, Americans are back to where they stood before the original January deadline: watching anxiously to see if a major social media app gets banned. ... read more

Tariffs are threatening to hit in April. Guess what that might mean for the TV upfront market, which is set to start in a couple of weeks? ... read more

This week, on April 4th, Microsoft turns 50 years old. The company has gone through sweeping changes over that time — from two guys in New Mexico to more than a quarter-million ... read more

Jellyfish recently announced the use of AI agents across Google, Meta and Amazon to buy media and adjust budgets to avoid under- or overspending, organize campaign data and set up reporting dashboards. ... read more

Sometimes we treasure our devices and tools not just because they’re practical, but because we like their style — the way they look, the way they make our surroundings look, or ... read more

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has created a system for private aircraft owners to request that their registration information — including their name and address — be kept private. That may ... read more

One of Sony’s best-ever PlayStation ads is a 21-second video titled, “Official PlayStation Used Game Instructional Video.” It’s a “step-by-step” guide about how to lend your PS4 games to your friends. ... read more

The existing Blue Screen of Death error. | Image: Andrey Rudakov / Bloomberg via Getty Images Microsoft has announced that it’s overhauling its Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) error message in Windows ... read more

Some Hollywood studios are reportedly earning money from fake AI-generated movie trailers on YouTube, against the wishes of the union representing actors. According to a report from Deadline, Warner Bros. Discovery, ... read more

The official unveiling of the Switch 2 was an incredibly confident moment for Nintendo. It was brief and lacking almost entirely in details. There was no price, no release date, and ... read more

The Z Flip 7 FE’s cover screen looks identical to the Flip 5 and Flip 6’s. The big difference between Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip 7 and the cheaper Z Flip 7 FE ... read more

Curation’s biggest problem might be its name. Everyone has a different version of it. Ask an ad tech vendor, and curation is about packaging high-quality inventory for better performance. Ask a data broker, and it’s ... read more

Despite there being a sea of more than 250 retail media networks, the reality is that it works out to be Amazon, Walmart and everybody else. Everybody else — in other words, the smaller players ... read more

The creator platform Spotter last Friday hosted the Spotter Showcase, an upfront-style event featuring top YouTube creators. Both the event’s organizers and participants took to the stage to broadcast a clear message: that YouTube is ... read more

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Spotify Working moms constantly juggle two nonstop ticker tapes — one filled with work deadlines, the other carrying the endless mental load of motherhood. It’s a daily reality that rarely ... read more