Google confirmed Friday that a Gemini AI model accessed the internet and hacked other companies' systems during a test of its cybersecurity capabilities. ... read more

Infillion checked in with its latest acquisition on Friday: Foursquare. Apparently, if there’s a strategically interesting or distressed ad tech asset on the market, Infillion will find it. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. ... read more

A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit by a California resident who claimed Meta violated an anti-hacking law by allegedly collecting his "voiceprint" when he used Messenger. ... read more

The law requires disclaimers on negative political ads with AI-generated content. ... read more

Most of the conversation about AI in marketing focuses on chatbots and LLM-powered discovery. The money tells a different story. “This year in the US, AI advertising will generate more than $32 billion in revenue. ... read more

Have you checked your accounts lately? The ad industry had a nice laugh earlier this week when news popped about a nine-year- old who used his father’s already-logged-in Google business account to spend $118,000 on ... read more

'OpenAI Sponsored Agents' launched earlier this week with new integrations, with HubSpot the first CRM integration. The updates represent the next step in automation and building OpenAI's AI-based advertising platform, making the ads a part ... read more

The gaming channel is having a bit of an identity crisis. On one hand, gaming ad platforms are delivering the targeting and measurement capabilities advertisers expect from other digital channels. That way, gaming can position ... read more

The former Initiative Australia CEO is credited with scaling Song's APAC media operation over the last two years and is tasked with doing the same in the U.S. ... read more

For advertisers, the acquisition consolidates contextually relevant native ad inventory in finance and other high-value sectors. ... read more

Taboola has made an offer to buy Dianomi, a UK-based ad tech company that connects financial advertisers with premium business and finance publishers. Terms of the deal include a cash component and potential earnout provisions ... read more

Meta's Oversight Board has filed two new decisions criticizing Meta's ineffectiveness in protecting users from deepfakes - especially with regard to harassment of refugees and women. ... read more

Smith takes over Disney streaming businesses Disney+ and Hulu - overseeing product, engineering, ad tech, programming, viewer experience, partnerships, and data and analytics. ... read more

Oprah Winfrey says the idea for mounting a two-hour journey of light, sound and music at the Las Vegas Sphere came to her as she was watching a U2 performance in the famed globe-shaped arena. ... read more

The Trade Desk’s recent reduction of 15% of its workforce comes after nearly two years of challenges on Wall Street, leadership turnover and bumpy product decisions. Independent analyst Richard Kramer comes on to dissect how ... read more

CTV buyers want more transparency into where their ads actually run. According to a new IAB report, 43% of CTV buyers said they have little or no confidence in the inventory they’re buying.  As the ... read more

Enjoy this weekly comic strip from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem …  The post Comic: “Everybody Say: ‘Prog IO!'” appeared first on AdExchanger. ... read more

It's the end of an IPO era for ad tech; Business Insider looks for solutions to its cratering traffic; and Amazon and Walmart's AI chatbots face criticism. The post Ad Tech Bears Beat The Bulls; ... read more

It’s been 17 months of speculation over who wins and loses from the attempt to fix Google’s monopoly over online advertising. The remedies are finally here so here’s hoping this is the last word on ... read more

Axios reached its revenue goal for 2026. Now the news publisher is building a new revenue stream to keep up the pace in 2027 and beyond. This month Axios will take to market Axios Direct, ... read more

In 2026, being a pro athlete increasingly means being a full-time creator too. For women athletes in particular, content isn’t a side hustle; it’s become a crucial part of how they get paid, grow their ... read more

This story was first published by Digiday sibling Modern Retail. Walmart’s first-party data platform for merchants and suppliers, Scintilla, is getting a big upgrade next year. As part of first-party data and analytics division Walmart Data ... read more

For better or worse, creators could soon sound like AEO consultants.  Give it a year, maybe less, and a pitch might spend as much time proving a video shows up when someone searches for something ... read more

Meta faces lawsuits from users who allege their Meta smart glasses captured intimate or sensitive footage of them and exposed it to paid-content reviewers abroad. ... read more

OpenAI and Microsoft executives admitted that their AI tools pose a threat to the publishing industry, Bloomberg Law reports. The admissions were visible in an unsealed motion for a summary judgement in the copyright case filed by The New York ... read more

Pinterest unveiled a new ad format, Visual Search Ads, at its Pinterest Presents event, as it moves closer to performance marketing, Trading View reports. The new offering is designed to reach users when they are ... read more

Like many publications, The Atlantic has seen referrals from Google decline. But The Atlantic is getting more subscribers from the Google traffic that does exist. “Google is sending us fewer people who aren’t going to subscribe,” said Nicholas Thompson, ... read more

Several organizations, including the News/Media Alliance, have signed a letter urging California Governor Gavin Newsom to sign a “news-neutral” employment tax credit to preserve local journalism, the News/Media Alliance reports. The “Community NEWS Act,” (AB-2222) is a ... read more

"The Commission's actions here signal a retaliatory effort to punish ABC-owned-and-operated stations for speech the administration dislikes," ex-FCC Chairs and other former officials argue. ... read more

Almost two-thirds of every new ecommerce dollar will go to AI and cashback apps, Northwestern University's Retail Analytics Council and Minty report. ... read more

There's a reason so many CTV advertisers today - particularly those that are performance-focused, are watching their campaigns hit plateaus much faster than they had anticipated. ... read more

Sam's Club Connect introduced "Predictive Precision Targeting" capabilities on Thursday, expanding its measurement offering. ... read more

As a member of the senior leadership team, he'll also play a central role in planning the agency's next phase of growth, partnering with the CEO, Tracey Faux-Pattani, and executive strategy director, Jake Bayham. ... read more

The ad industry opposed the law, arguing it "places severe burdens on ordinary commercial speech." ... read more

This State of the Industry report, sponsored by Braze, explores how publishers are adapting their subscription, engagement and revenue strategies as AI reshapes how audiences discover and consume content. Shifts in AI-driven search behavior are ... read more

Most buying platforms have a mechanism through which a brand can request all its campaign data, down to the log-level insights that say exactly when and where each ad ran. ... read more

Honorees will be celebrated on November 3 in New York City and join a growing community of women leaders across advertising, media and technology. New York, NY (September 17, 2026) — AdExchanger, the leading voice ... read more

The first week of the 2026 NFL regular-season fell 13% to an average 19.5 million viewers per game vs. the record-breaking 22.3 million viewers per game averaged during Week 1 in 2025. ... read more

Upcoming Events: November Top Women Leadership ForumNovember 4, 2026 | The Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers, NYC Top Women in Media & Ad TechNovember 5, 2026 | The Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers, NYC March Convergent TV ... read more

The research analyzed more than 6,300 award-winning campaigns to see how often creative excellence translated into marketing effectiveness, based on the creative and effectiveness award competitions that the group measures annually around the world. ... read more

Sam’s Club Connect, the membership-based retailer’s ad business, launched a suite of new targeting and measurement products on Wednesday. Brands can now create custom predictive modeling audiences and segments for churn prevention or waning brand ... read more

Google monopolized online advertising and the remedy is a code of conduct.  Seventeen months of post-verdict wrangling brought the industry to this point. Judge Leonie M. Brinkema ruled the online ad behemoth had indeed come ... read more

Retail media’s explosive growth over the past few years is the result of a straightforward pitch to advertisers: the ability to reach consumers close to the point of purchase, connect media exposure to transactions and ... read more

Premium streamer Apple keeps working under the radar of the big players - including Netflix, Prime Video, HBO Max and Disney+ - in scoring major awards. ... read more

Many of the shows on ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC are so old that the networks have become the assisted-living facilities of TV. ... read more

There's a growing divide over what AI should do to agency compensation, a consequential finding for media buyers. ... read more

When a creator already loves the product they're marketing, it's easy to work it into their content in ways that feel natural. That's exactly what the Try Guys did. The post How The Try Guys ... read more

Perplexity and other LLMs are mounting massive social influencer marketing campaigns. Also: Xbox is not giving up on its advertising ambitions. The post Paying The Past To Buy The Future; Will Microsoft Finally Do In-Game ... read more

WPP is set to win Coca-Cola’s global media, data and tech business. For CEO Cindy Rose, the timing couldn’t be better. A year into trying to fix the holdco, a win of this size, from ... read more

The makeup of an agency’s AI bill is getting more complicated. Agency execs say AI costs are growing and metered model usage is becoming a trend, forcing execs to take a closer look at AI ... read more

This week’s Media Briefing recaps what publishers said about search traffic declines, opaque AI licensing contracts and monetizing AI visibility during closed-door town hall sessions at the Digiday Publishing Summit, held in Miami this week. ... read more

This story was first published by Digiday sibling ModernRetail Livestreaming is proving to be big business for TikTok Shop’s burgeoning resale economy. Year-to-date, 94% of revenue on TikTok Shop from luxury resale in the U.S. ... read more

Between the disruption of its racing calendar caused by the war in the Persian Gulf, and the difficulty of tempting viewers into watching Grands Prix on Apple TV in its debut season with the streamer, ... read more

The Federal Communication (FCC) is seeking comments on its guidance on discounts for political ads, TVTechnology reports. The guidance issued in March seemed to expand the types of organizations that are eligible for the “lowest unit charge” ... read more

R/GA is launching an AI tool called the BRDNA Sequencer that can help marketers maintain their brand integrity, Fast Company writes. The new offering trains itself on a company’s brand guidelines and puts them into a format ... read more

Macro, a multi-platform entertainment company, has entered the direct-to-consumer streaming field, acquiring Allblk, a streaming platform serving Black audiences, from AMC Global Media, Variety reports. “At a time of significant disruption and consolidation across the ... read more

Auto dealers are finally getting the clarification they have been seeking from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on vehicle price advertising, RVBusiness reports. The FAQ document specifies that dealers must provide the total price the buyer will pay, including the ... read more

"Sports remained a significant driver of automaker reach in August, with the WNBA in particular seeing notable year-over-year impression increases," says iSpot.tv's Stuart Schwartzapfel. ... read more

The Microsoft CEO warned of the risks of training AI models like Anthropic's Claude to be human-like and consider their own state of consciousness or welfare. ... read more

Jason Mraz once sang about having the remedy. A federal judge has now handed one (actually, several) to Google – and, well, “it all amounts to nothing in the end.” Or at least, that’s the ... read more

Save a Life Day -- which provides free doses of an opioid reversal drug -- has adopted "Elevate Harm Reduction" as this year's theme. ... read more

Meta reportedly plans to launch "Luna" - a new camera-less smart glasses model, following its potential unveiling at the company's Connect developer conference from Sept. 23- 24. ... read more

The advertising industry has spent years treating verification as a relatively narrow exercise, asking only, “Was the impression viewable? Was there invalid traffic? Was the content safe?” Those questions are no longer enough.  Over the ... read more

Marketers spent years building first-party data systems to escape their dependence on third-party cookies. Then many discovered that the solution came with its own collection of clean rooms, technology integrations and fresh silos. Apparently, data ... read more

CANNES, Lions — Consumers increasingly divide their time among video games, delivery apps, live events and the occasional attempt to experience reality without checking a phone. That fragmentation is pushing marketers to look beyond conventional ... read more

CANNES, France – Artificial intelligence may be capable of planning vacations, organizing inboxes and softening emails written in a moment of righteous irritation. Transforming a sprawling marketing organization is another matter. Companies must prepare for ... read more

CANNES, France — Artificial intelligence may be able to create a media plan, generate thousands of ads and summarize a meeting before anyone has found the conference room. That does not mean it always should. ... read more

CANNES, France — Artificial intelligence may be able to write an advertisement, analyze an audience and rescue an executive from the inconvenience of forming an original sentence. That does not mean it should run the ... read more

Nearly a quarter of the contracts in the updated list are with major holding companies. Among those firms, Omnicom has the most, with 118 contracts. ... read more

At its retail event Wednesday, Google rolled out a series of agentic commerce updates designed to help merchants capture shoppers who increasingly use AI to research and buy products. ... read more

Google introduced agentic commerce updates at Rethink ROI including structured conversational attributes and AI-driven interactive video ads on YouTube to help retailers optimize their product feeds. ... read more

Threads is building on its Super Bowl 2026 NFL Media Center launch by introducing new podcasting tools designed to incentivize more creators to share their shows and generate on-app conversations among their fans. ... read more

Threads is building on its Super Bowl 2026 NFL Media Center launch by introducing new podcasting tools designed to incentivize more creators to share their shows and generate on-app conversations among their fans. ... read more

To protect voter trust, ad transparency cannot be a final legal review. It must be built into the technology stack from day one. ... read more

An ad in which a woman is shoved to the ground? How to avoid a snafu like the one Good Good faced. ... read more

In Netflix's third-highest subscriber acquisition event in 2026, a trailer was offered during a 6-hour exclusive time period on its launch day - Aug. 27. ... read more

From Jan. 1-Aug. 16 this year, 568.4 million tickets were sold in U.S. movie theaters - a 30% decline vs. the same period in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic. ... read more

NBC's Monday 'Emmys' broadcast was down 9% to 6.7 million Nielsen-measured viewers vs. a year ago. In 2025, the 'Emmys' aired on a Sunday with 7.4 million viewers, its strongest performance since 2021. ... read more

In North America it is debuting a new event next month called Insight to Impact that will take place in Denver, moving to Nashville in 2027. It will combine sessions about market research, content marketing ... read more

Hyundai is the first auto manufacturer to build a closed-loop measurement system powered by Amazon that connects digital shopping engagement in a privacy-compliant way to verified dealership sales. This week the companies plan to make ... read more

The tools, built into the existing Chrome User Experience Report framework, are geared toward helping paid-for media teams that buy and help advertisers to evaluate audience ad-load experiences. ... read more

Horizon Media announced a direct integration with Roku to pipe its TV data into blu., the agency’s homegrown data and intelligence platform. The duo asserts that this is more than just another data integration. It’s ... read more

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The ad-tech sector's leading standards organization introduced new baseline protocols and shared rules to foster higher transparency, consistency, and efficiency across programmatic advertising. ... read more

The advertising market needs a more cohesive path from the campaign brief to the live buy. Answering a mobile RFP can take three to five days and require four teams across research, audience building, supply ... read more

Brave Michael J. Fox brought class and courage to the Emmy Awards Monday night on NBC. ... read more

Blocking bots might feel like the only leverage publishers have left. But keeping them out by default is a bit like unplugging the phone when your customers are trying to reach you, says Tim Frank, ... read more

Creator Sports Network is trying to monetize the ad industry’s two biggest buzzwords: creators and sports. Creator Sports Network, which launched in 2023, helps influencers livestream sports events on their social media pages. The platform ... read more

Roughly 75% of Americans feel press freedom is extremely or very important for society’s well-being, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center, the Associated Press reports. But 50% support government restrictions on ... read more

A Risky Bet Irony is officially dead. The five largest US professional sports leagues are asking the government to crack down on sports bettors who harass players, team personnel and their families, ESPN reports. The ... read more

“It’s basically like magic. Overnight, the dollars start to flow.” That’s how Phil Andraos, gm for digital at Reuters, described the dynamic paywall Reuters launched earlier this year, speaking onstage at the Digiday Publishing Summit ... read more

The Interactive Advertising Bureau’s (IAB) first Creatorfronts in New York City yesterday offered a rare, concentrated look at what’s still stopping big brands from unlocking bigger creator budgets.   Until the creator economy’s plumbing is sorted ... read more

Public ad tech is disappearing and an investment banker just explained why.  According to Josh Wepman, managing director of technology investment banking at Houlihan Lokey, it isn’t a performance problem. It’s a size one. Most ... read more

Social networks poured money into TV advertising even though their whole existence was anathema to it. AI platforms are doing the same with creators now, chasing them hard despite being viewed by many as an ... read more

This week’s Future of TV Briefing features charts breaking down every monthly subscription price change since 2019 across ad-free and ad-supported tiers for nine major streaming services. Price check NFL’s next rights deals, YouTube’s ... read more

The New York Times has hired Michael Hirschorn as media columnist as the column returns in the face of numerous problems facing the industry, including a White House that is hostile to media, the Times reports. Earlier media ... read more

The NFL has extended its ban on prediction-market advertising during games to in-stadium signage, club sponsorships and player endorsements, describing its policy for the first time on the record, Gambling Insider reports. In addition, the NFL has ... read more

Although Google blocked or removed more than 8 billion ads and shut down about 25 million advertiser accounts in 2025, the search giant attracts many scam artists and is arguably not as safe an environment ... read more

Novig "is a company with not much market share, and so polarizing people is a reasonable strategy," says Joshua Lewis, a marketing professor at New York University's Stern School of Business. ... read more

CANNES, France – Podcasts were once the place where two people could talk into microphones for three hours and confidently assume nobody needed to see what they were wearing. That era is ending. Podcasts are ... read more