Google’s former SSP practices are the legal gift that keeps giving; Perplexity has been disregarding robots.txt files; and ads prop up a large chunk of the US economy. The post OpenX Sues Google; Cloudflare Says ... read more

The influencer marketing playbook is getting a rewrite—or at least a few new chapters added—as the lines between search and social continue to blur, creating a new frontier for brand discoverability. To be sure, influencers ... read more

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Spotify On July 23 more than 80 publishers and industry trade group IAB Tech Lab gathered together to get on the same page for how to deal with generative AI ... read more

The article was first published by Digiday sibling Modern Retail. A recent report that OpenAI is developing a checkout system within ChatGPT is garnering mixed reactions among founders of retail startups, with some worrying that ... read more

Related Insights Member Exclusive Ad Tech Briefing: Alphabet’s Q2 hints at ad tech’s declining profile in Google’s future Subscribe To Read Read More Uncertainties over the impact of ... read more

Talk to any expert in the AI field, and they’ll tell you that the agentic web is coming. It’s a vision of the internet where AI agents make decisions and perform tasks on behalf of ... read more

Ziff Davis-owned IGN Entertainment has laid off staff, including eight members of the IGN Creators Guild. Those cuts represent 12 percent of the bargaining unit. The layoffs are the latest ... read more

The news comes as OpenAI is set to release GPT-5 sometime this summer. ... read more

Amazon has killed the cloud-based skill that connects Sengled bulbs to Alexa. Some Sengled bulbs that use local protocols, like this Matter one, can still work with Echo devices. After ... read more

Valve founder Gabe Newell is setting out on a new adventure — and it doesn’t involve Half-Life 3. Instead, Newell is acquiring Oceanco, the yacht-building company that’s creating his $400 ... read more

The latest Kindle Paperwhite starts at $124.99, which beats its Amazon Prime Day price. A Kindle lets you carry an entire bookshelf while on the go, which is why almost ... read more

OpenAI, which is expected to launch its GPT-5 AI model this week, is making updates to ChatGPT that it says will improve the AI chatbot’s ability to detect mental or ... read more

The verdict stems from allegations that Meta collected ad-targeting data from the menstrual tracking app Flo. ... read more

Using Grok Imagine, SuperGrok and Premium+ X subscribers on xAI's iOS app can now use text or image prompts to generate 15-second videos with a "spicy mode" trained for sexually explicit content. ... read more

The AR launch is designed to engage Snap users ahead of Bettany Hughes' new documentary series, "Seven Wonders of the Ancient World with Bettany Hughes," which follows her book of the same name. ... read more

The AI search startup Perplexity is allegedly skirting restrictions meant to stop its AI web crawlers from accessing certain websites, according to a report from Cloudflare. In the report, Cloudflare ... read more

As audiences fragment across platforms, the industry is grappling with how to monetize and measure in a cohesive way, a challenge that is forcing a fundamental rethink of long-standing business models. For one industry executive, ... read more

The advertising industry’s relentless pursuit of programmatic efficiency could be leading it toward an unintended, and undesirable, destination: a sea of sameness. As more brands adopt the same automated tools and data sets, there is ... read more

The venture arms aim to build an agentic marketing platform called AI Decisioning, where AI agents on behalf of marketers can carry out tasks. ... read more

CANNES – At this year’s Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, artificial intelligence dominated conversations across the Croisette, and the Beet.TV stage was no exception. In a panel discussion moderated by Beet.TV contributor Tameka Kee, ... read more

Newsletter platform Ghost now lets publishers syndicate their posts across social web platforms like Bluesky, Threads, and Mastodon.  With Ghost’s free social web syndication feature, which is built on top ... read more

Rivian is suing Ohio’s department of motor vehicles over the state’s ban on car companies bypassing dealerships to sell cars directly to consumers. In the federal lawsuit, the electric vehicle ... read more

Apple sold its iPhone 16 devices last year with a promise that a new AI-powered version of Siri would soon be a lot more personalized thanks to Apple Intelligence. Almost ... read more

"We are thrilled that the jury recognized Nielsen's allegations were baseless and predatory, and that HyphaMetrics' single-source data stream is a proprietary solution that will revolutionize media measurement," CEO Joanna Drews said. ... read more

Anthropologie’s in-house label Maeve is being spun off into its own, standalone brand. How does a marketing team handle that in 2025? By creating new social channels (find Maeve on Instagram and TikTok), investing in CTV, ... read more

"Los Angeles and California surely need a daily dose of The Post as an antidote to the jaundiced, jaded journalism that has sadly proliferated," parent News Corp. Chief Executive Robert Thomson added in a statement ... read more

"The injunction hobbles Google's ability to compete, inflicts reputational harms, increases security and privacy risks for millions of users, magnifies burdens on device makers and over 500,000 developers, and requires Google to deal with rivals," ... read more

Alienware’s AW2725Q is currently $224 off at Amazon. If you prefer gaming on a PC instead of consoles, you should hook it up to a display that can support playing ... read more

Amazon is splitting up its Wondery podcast studio just four years after acquiring it, as first reported by Bloomberg. As part of the change, the studio will shed around 110 ... read more

AMENIA, NY – The long-standing boundaries between buying and selling in programmatic advertising are dissolving as supply-side platforms assert greater influence over media investment decisions. “The supply side is taking on an increasingly more significant ... read more

8BitDo’s new wireless Xbox controller. 8BitDo has created its first wireless Xbox controller in partnership with Rare, a game studio acquired by Microsoft. The officially licensed controller features a gold ... read more

The company will be divided into three businesses: studios, D2C and TV media. David Ellison, CEO of Skydance, will be chairman/CEO of Paramount Global. Former NBCU CEO Jeff Shell will be president of Paramount Global, ... read more

Many CTV advertisers are buying a lot of inventory that might not fit their own personal definitions of CTV. Streaming ads that play on smart TV sets in living rooms are just part of the ... read more

Hello, and welcome to Decoder! This is Casey Newton, founder and editor of the Platformer newsletter and cohost of the Hard Fork podcast. I’ll be guest hosting the next few ... read more

Scenario: A radiologist is looking at your brain scan and flags an abnormality in the basal ganglia. It's an area of the brain that helps you with motor control, learning, ... read more

Researchers have introduced a systematic framework for LLMs that emphasizes their indifference to truth. A high score signals the model is producing confident-sounding statements with a degree of certainty or reliability. ... read more

Google, Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Apple and Amazon are not in the hunt for legacy TV media encumbered with costly old-style entertainment distribution and marketing systems including TV networks, TV stations, pay TV systems and movie ... read more

Tesla approved a restricted stock award of 96 million shares, worth about $29 billion, to “incentivize” the controversial billionaire to remain at the head of the company during a protracted ... read more

Private equity firm H.I.G. Capital this morning announced the completion of its previously announced $1B acquisition of Kantar Media from the Kantar Group. Bain Capital and WPP continue to own the rest of Kantar, with ... read more

Spotify is increasing prices in several regions outside of the US, just days after posting disappointing earnings. Spotify announced on Monday that Premium subscribers across Europe, South Asia, the Middle ... read more

Stephen Colbert's interview with Kamala Harris on Thursday was as dull as dishwater. ... read more

It’s an influencer world; we’re just living (and advertising) in it. Content creators have become a powerful force in the social media landscape, yet many advertisers are only just beginning to figure out how to ... read more

By Joshua Koran, Chief Executive Officer, Koran Consulting  AI-powered answer engines are revolutionizing how consumers discover and engage with information. AI-generated answers are slowly taking over, replacing traditional search and its long lists of blue ... read more

Coinbase is getting into ads; Etsy can’t rely on search ads for very long; and Zuckerberg wants to buy AI companies. The post Back To The Base; A Betsy On Etsy? appeared first on ... read more

As brands move faster and spend more on creator marketing, creators are gaining both the confidence and the opportunity to raise their rates significantly — sometimes by 100 percent. Seven influencer marketers told Digiday that creators’ ... read more

The story was first published by Digiday sibling Work Life. With President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) now law, HR departments across the country are scrambling to understand what this sweeping legislation means for ... read more

The creator economy is getting too big for investors to ignore, expected to be valued at $480 billion by 2027, according to Goldman Sachs. That may be why private equity firms are elbowing holding companies ... read more

If there’s one thing technology has enabled, it’s the ability for smaller media agencies to build out tech stacks in ways that let them execute in a similar fashion to the big holding companies. Be ... read more

"Fantastic" had a box-office drop of nearly 70% from its first-week $118 million opening weekend. Analysts were expecting a drop of around 55%. ... read more

"Fantastic" had a box-office drop of nearly 70% from its first-week $118 million opening weekend. Analysts were expecting a drop of around 55%. ... read more

Reddit is showing impressive increases in both its ad business and its overall revenue, while seeing only a slight boost in daily active users as growth slowed in international and stateside markets. ... read more

Reddit is showing impressive increases in both its ad business and its overall revenue, while seeing only a slight boost in daily active users as growth slowed in international and stateside markets. ... read more

"This is the modern formula for outrage marketing," said Molly McPherson, crisis and reputation strategist, according to CNN Entertainment. ... read more

CANNES – With the advertising industry still on a mission to simplify its notoriously convoluted digital supply chains, supply-path optimization (SPO), a buy-side-led effort to consolidate spending through fewer, more efficient intermediaries, has been a ... read more

On Monday, the Freedom of the Press Foundation filed a complaint against Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr. The filing, sent to the Office of Disciplinary Counsel at the DC ... read more

Nintendo has just raised the price of the original Switch in the US. The console, which has cost $299.99 since its release in 2017, is now priced at $339.99 on ... read more

After a quarter century chronicling the ad biz, Smith explains why the time is right to shift to a different kind of media criticism, America's first mass medium of comic strips. ... read more

Push a button and get more screen. | GIF by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Part of me still can't believe it, but Lenovo did the thing: it took ... read more

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 92, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, I've kept my phone case on all ... read more

The simple joy of gadgets — that’s what “Today I’m Toying With” is all about. It’s our video series where we try to encapsulate that joy of playing with ... read more

The Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 Smartwatch is on sale starting at $299.99 ($50 off). If you’re looking to upgrade an older Android smartwatch, or want to give wearables a try ... read more

The sudden firing of two high-ranking antitrust officials this week is signaling upheaval at an agency responsible for arguing some of the biggest tech monopoly cases in decades. Two top ... read more

While the summer doldrums have hit Washington, the MAGA influencers can never truly go on vacation, especially if they've spent their careers promising to reveal the truth about Jeffrey Epstein. ... read more

I didn't expect a brief game about flies to make me emotional. But when I finished Time Flies, I nearly began to cry. Time Flies initially seems very silly. You ... read more

Fixing my eroded attention span has been a journey. Brick has sort of helped. "We need to talk." Nobody likes to hear those words from their spouse. Especially when it's ... read more

The go-anywhere BougeRV CRD2 40. Keeping humans alive at home in post-agrarian societies requires refrigeration. Meat bags on the move must either load up a cooler with ice for a ... read more

It has been another busy week. GPT-5 appears to be just around the corner… This week, I decode the meaning behind Mark Zuckerberg's "personal superintelligence" manifesto, and what it means ... read more

Delta Air Lines is explaining more about its AI-assisted dynamic pricing model after coming under scrutiny for recent comments about the pricing. In November, Delta president Glen Hauenstein said at ... read more

Apple CEO Tim Cook boasted about the potential of AI and the company’s approach to developing it in a rare all-hands today that was reported on by Bloomberg. Apple has ... read more

Amazon’s new Alexa Plus voice assistant works with most existing Amazon devices. In the week's least surprising news, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy revealed that the company is exploring ways to ... read more

A federal jury in Florida found Tesla partly liable for a deadly 2019 crash involving Tesla’s Autopilot driver assist software, according to reports from The New York Times and CNBC. ... read more

A federal judge has tossed a privacy lawsuit over allegations that The Gap contracted with a third party to track customers' interactions with marketing emails. ... read more

Fujifilm has raised prices on cameras and lenses across its lineup, with price hikes reaching into the hundreds of dollars. Among the hikes is an increase to the price of ... read more

When I was a restless fourth-grader, Norton Juster’s novel taught me about learning and life. ... read more

Bose headphones are some of the most comfortable around. | Image: The Verge Finding peace among the chaos on campus can be more challenging than a midterm. But a quality ... read more

Evo 2025, the biggest fighting game tournament in North America, starts this weekend. If you tune into one of the nine different Evo Twitch channels you'll see some of the ... read more

Just about every piece of hardware that Nintendo sells is getting a little more expensive in the US - with the exception of the Switch 2. That includes all models ... read more

Google is largely reversing course on its plans to discontinue support for all shortened goo.gl URLs on August 25th. Goo.gl URLS that already show a message saying that they will ... read more

We can attribute Microsoft's gain and Google's loss to AI, according to Microsoft Head of Search Jordi Ribas, who posted new numbers on X this week from Comscore and StatCounter to show the divide. ... read more

The entry-level AirPods 4 are back down to $99. | Image: Apple If you know where to look, you can often score discounts on Apple’s ever-expanding AirPods lineup. Both the ... read more

An appellate court on Thursday restored the Washington, D.C. attorney general's lawsuit against Meta over charges that its privacy policies unintentionally misled consumers. ... read more

On Friday, Anthropic debuted research unpacking how an AI system’s “personality” — as in, tone, responses, and overarching motivation — changes and why. Researchers also tracked what makes a model “evil.”  ... read more

Yesterday, when Epic won its Google antitrust lawsuit for a second time, it wasn’t quite clear how soon Google would need to start dismantling its affirmed illegal monopoly. Today, Google ... read more

Verizon just announced a three-year price lock in April, but now the company has confirmed that it’s “making some adjustments” that will raise the cost of your phone bill anyway. ... read more

Most reality TV watchers fall into the "light viewer" category, watching between one and five hours a week. ... read more

Meta is offering a more efficient content studio. Google created an autonomous agency, automating the entire tactical pipeline. ... read more

Reddit is pausing its plans to let people make subreddits with content behind a paywall, CEO Steve Huffman said as part of Thursday’s earnings. The company is making the change ... read more

At least, that's what some new research from Omnicom and language consultants Maslansky + Partners suggests. And the bottom line is no longer about being "good," but being "fair." ... read more

Dentsu said it disputed the part of the court's ruling that found Dentsu's transgressions extended beyond the test events to include "the management and operation of the main event, which greatly differs from the Company's ... read more

There’s a new turn in the itch.io story. In a forum post, itch.io creator and founder Leaf Corcoran has notified users that the company has begun the process of restoring ... read more

Strong second-quarter results show shoppers are still opening their wallets -- and marketers are, too. ... read more

Chatbot users have discovered that every question asked and every response given are potentially visible to millions. ... read more

Brilliant Labs’ new Halo smart glasses weigh just over 40 grams. | Image: Brilliant Labs Startup Brilliant Labs has announced a successor to its $349 open-source Frame smart glasses, which ... read more

Ryan Coogler's first Black Panther feature set itself apart by pushing audiences to think about how comic book heroes and villains would fit into a world shaped by horrors like ... read more

Nintendo is raising the price of the original Switch “family of systems and products,” the company announced on Friday. Along with the first-generation Nintendo Switch, the price change also affects ... read more

The Trump administration may have just axed the IRS Direct File program. During a summit earlier this week, IRS Commissioner Billy Long said the free tax filing service is “gone,” ... read more

The ESPN unlimited plan includes the new ESPN D2C platform launching this fall and ESPN+ as well as ESPN branded broadcasts on ABC Television Network. ... read more

Windows 11 SE running on a low-cost laptop. Microsoft is ending support for Windows 11 SE next year, five years after it launched the operating system on low-cost laptops that ... read more

During its Q2 earnings phone call with analysts, the company said sports programming pricing and volume witnessed double-digit percentage hikes. ... read more

Changes come so quickly in the TV business these days that only three years after Warner Media and Discovery Inc. merged, they are now unmerging. ... read more