A federal judge said a Nevada resident can proceed with a privacy claim against LinkedIn over allegations that it collected tracking data from Nevada's Health Link insurance marketplace. ... read more

Reddit can proceed with a lawsuit alleging that Perplexity and data scraper SerpApi wrongly obtained copyrighted Reddit posts from Google's search results. ... read more

Apple's services division, which includes advertising, reached a record of $30.7 billion in revenue for Q3 2026, up 12% year-over-year. Ads were a key growth driver supporting App Store and Music, but services slightly missed ... read more

Roblox showed an increase in revenue and cash flow in Q2, with advancements in creator engagement and generative AI capabilities, but struggled to engage its youngest cohort of players. ... read more

Overall U.S. ad spending surged 19%, while national TV ad spending jumped 36% vs. June 2025. The World Cup boost is expected to have a similar impact in July. ... read more

The midsized cable TV network group, including A&E Network, History Channel, Lifetime, Vice TV and others, would now be 100% owned by Hearst. The deal is expected to be finalized at the same time as ... read more

The company, with ambitious expansion plans in Europe, Asia and the U.S., said media now accounts for 40% of its revenue. ... read more

Most robotics companies seem to be focused on building humanoids. And if they’re not humanoid, they tend to resemble other things familiar to us like dogs or cars.There does not appear to be a lot ... read more

The teaser opens on a woman expressing displeasure about a male shopper, with comments such as, "A man is shopping my Instacart, thoughts and prayers," and "Male Instacart shopper, lord help me." ... read more

NBC with its new "Sunday Night Baseball" deal has spiked 51% to 2.5 million Nielsen-measured average viewers, with games airing on the NBC TV Network and Peacock from March 26-July 12. ... read more

Reasons vary, but for many it's financial or avoiding big, alcohol-focused gatherings, according to new research from Stagwell's The Harris Poll and Allison Worldwide. ... read more

Launched in honor of National Breastfeeding Awareness Month, the limited-edition bra evoke's the coconut water brand's tropical imagery and draws attention to the importance of hydration for breast-feeding moms. ... read more

As a tornado struck the station, meteorologist Jordan Ambrose stayed live on the air as colleagues off-camera kept the broadcast going. ... read more

Women’s sports is having a moment as publishers, advertisers and the tech vendors in between try to capitalize on rising viewership. Digital out-of-home is having a moment, too. The post DOOH You Like Women’s Sports? ... read more

Sweetgreen used the World Cup as a marketing opportunity to promote its new wraps. The brand tapped the video advertising startup Atmosphere TV for help running a video ad in those public spaces where people ... read more

Serves You Right The ad industry has found a new audience to bombard with ads: AI bots. Time recently began serving ads to bots in an attempt to monetize its growing bot traffic. The ads ... read more

Compute is about to become the next big commodity in advertising. The economics demand it. AI has gotten expensive enough, fast enough, that holdco CEOs are now being asked outright how funding it won’t come ... read more

This story was first published by Digiday sibling ModernRetail The retail industry is facing a significant surge in legal scrutiny as “phantom discount” practices come under fire.In recent weeks, major global brands — including Lululemon ... read more

Marketing effectiveness used to be just another front in the attritional conflict between CMO and CFO. Now, it’s something for CEOs to boast about. This week’s second-quarter earnings calls featured several big brand bosses pointing ... read more

For years, Gabby George was creating fitness content in her at-home studio, pulling together her knowledge (a master’s in public health, a background in marketing) to try and see what would stick. Though she ... read more

New campaign tools, sports buys and cloud computing gains are powering better-than-forecast sales. ... read more

Amazon’s advertising businesses earned a total $19.8 billion in Q2, the company reported in its quarterly earnings on Thursday. That’s up from $15.7 billion in Q2 2025, and good for a 26% year over year ... read more

Reddit saw its Q2 revenue leap by 61% to $805 million, surpassing estimates of $730.4 million, Reuters reports. But it experienced uneven search-engine traffic, affecting U.S. user growth. "Search referrals were choppy in the quarter, ... read more

Guess there’s no pleasing investors. Despite Reddit delivering an objectively solid Q2, with overall revenue up 61% year-over-year to $805 million and advertising revenue up 64% YoY to $762 million, the company’s stock cratered on ... read more

CEO Mark Zuckerberg attempted to assure investors on the company's AI-first investments and looming regulatory issues. ... read more

A consortium of banks led by Morgan Stanley reportedly will lend $15 billion to Nexus Data Centers, a Texas-based privately held developer of large-scale, AI-ready data center campuses. Google will provide guarantees for the billion ... read more

LinkedIn is rethinking its strategy for AI-generated content on the platform's main feed, nixing AI-first publishing features while inviting users to mark probable AI slop for deletion. ... read more

"Meta has the capacity to combat deceptive Facebook ads and keep scammers off the platform," Facebook users argue to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. ... read more

"The retaliation against ABC is a signal to every media company in the country: accommodate the Administration's view of what news coverage should look like or pay the price," Disney's ABC says in a new ... read more

The drone delivery business will allow DoorDash to explore a variety of agentic AI ordering opportunities and a partnership with companies like Shopify. Some of these opportunities for media buyers could create a different type ... read more

Consumers judge brands within the first purchase and then decide whether the loyalty points are worth collecting later. ... read more

Madison & Wall commented that the firm's growth was stronger than most groups other than Publicis. ... read more

The Russian vodka brand is promoting its new vodka water line with a limited edition office vodka/water cooler. ... read more

Today's IAB Tech Lab release introduces new capabilities intended to make agentic deployments more practical and move into production. The updated framework was designed to improve consumer privacy and regulations and has been tested to ... read more

Performance marketing has fundamentally changed how marketers define success. Better targeting, attribution and optimization finally give marketing leaders what they’ve always wanted, which is a concrete way to prove that advertising works, expressed through performance ... read more

Ari Emanuel, CEO of talent agency WME Group, came out in defense of the deal for Paramount Skydance in its efforts to buy WBD in a 'Wall Street Journal' op-ed column. ... read more

It took 64 years for TV to return to cartoon cats with human characteristics living in an urban alley. The catalyst for this revival is comedy top cat Ricky Gervais, whose new animated series about ... read more

What if the advertising industry’s obsession with shiny new capabilities may be missing the point entirely? While competitors race to stack more technology, one agency leader argues the real transformation lies in dismantling the organizational ... read more

The vacuum cleaner aisle used to start with a Google search. Now it begins with a TikTok video of someone’s favorite creator demonstrating how a cordless stick vac handles pet hair on hardwood floors. ... read more

No Business Like Show-Level Business Third-party ad tech companies and some agencies have started testing ways to effectively jury-rig show-level CTV reporting – even when streaming media sellers don’t make that data available. Which, typically, ... read more

Meta will gain access to Newsmax's archived and current library of digital news content, with the ability to train its AI-powered search and discovery tools while supporting user searches on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Meta ... read more

This week’s Media Briefing looks at why publishers are flirting with the idea of breaking up with Google — and what’s stopping many from finally walking away. Why most publishers won’t break up with ... read more

OpenAI just hit the coupon phase of building an ads business. It’s the stage every platform before it has run through, whereby they hand advertisers credits to get them spending more, testing budgets, and building ... read more

By now, the Unilever creator story is a familiar one.  Last year, the conglomerate announced plans to center creators in its marketing, and has since built an army of 300,000 of them, activating 50,000 at ... read more

Time has begun serving ads to AI bots. Ally Bank and Project Management Institute are among the first buyers.  Strange as that sounds, it’s also logical. To understand why, it’s important to go back to ... read more

Time has begun serving ads to AI agents. Ally Bank and Project Management Institute are among the first buyers.  Strange as that sounds, it’s also logical. To understand why, it’s important to go back to ... read more

Collectively, viewership for the top five cable news networks was up 10% this month to 4.4 million prime-time viewers, according to Nielsen data - vs. 4.0 million in July 2025. ... read more

Copilot, which includes AI features supported by cloud services in its Office suite, grew 20 million paid users last quarter, showing the time spent convincing users to give it a try has paid off. ... read more

Netflix is automating ad buying and introducing new artificial intelligence tools in a bid to attract smaller advertisers, Merca 2.0 reports. Automation will reduce the barriers that have limited access for small and medium-sized firms. These advertisers can use predefined parameters such ... read more

Microsoft’s Xbox is testing a way for users to stream games for free by watching ads instead of paying for a Game Pass subscription, Business Insider reports. This not the first time Xbox has tested ads, but ... read more

Microsoft’s Xbox is testing a way for users to stream games for free by watching ads instead of paying for a Game Pass subscription, Business Insider reports. This not the first time Xbox has tested ads, but ... read more

Comcast is addressing the recent loss of broadband subscribers with generous offers, The Street reports. The company lost 167,000 U.S. customers and suffered a 5.5% revenue decline YoY in the second quarter of 2026. It ... read more

The Wall Street Journal has hired Samantha Henig as head of multimedia, a newly created title, effective September 8, Talking Biz News reports. Henig will oversee the Journal’s audio and video departments, while reporting to Aja Whitaker-Moore, deputy editor in chief. Maral Usefi, ... read more

Meta would have had a great quarter. That is, if it weren’t for the layoffs, the lawsuits and the galactic-level AI operating costs. The company’s Q2 earnings call on Tuesday evening started off strong as ... read more

CANNES, France — Connected TV was supposed to be the promised land for advertisers – the precision of digital married to the reach of television. Instead, it delivered a sprawling patchwork of publishers, apps, and ... read more

CANNES, France — Artificial intelligence’s appetite for data creates a natural gravitational pull toward performance marketing metrics, but brands that follow that pull risk sacrificing the long-game brand building that creates lasting competitive advantage. “AI ... read more

WPP Media CEO Brian Lesser asked Green whether he felt The Trade Desk was misunderstood and Green responded in the affirmative. ... read more

First CBS News. If Paramount ultimately gets its hands on CNN, it may make "The Daily Show" live up to its tagline: "America's only source for news." ... read more

Snapchat is rolling out new tools and programs designed to help agency partners manage brands and collaborate with clients on Snap campaigns. ... read more

"Contrary to its privacy representations, Hims shared its consumers' health information with advertising platforms," the FTC, California and Utah allege in a lawsuit against the telehealth company. ... read more

AI has been built on the ability to identify intent before it occurs - not as a prediction, but a calculated event. ... read more

Tom Tempe joins from head of advertising at "CQ" and "Roll Call." ... read more

Antitrust enforcers are urging an appellate court to uphold a trial judge's finding that Google monopolized search, but reverse the judge's decision allowing Google to continue sharing search ad revenue with Apple and others. ... read more

About 47% of U.S. adults say they watch local TV news daily or most days, matching the highest level since 2020. ... read more

More than 1,200 employees from leading AI companies signed an open letter urging the U.S. government to slow the pace of AI development so safety and security measures can catch up. ... read more

A report finds that 42% of consumers say low-quality or "uncanny" AI-created advertising negatively affects their opinion of the brand, while 40% view polished, professional AI ads positively. ... read more

The World Federation of Advertisers and Elon Musk's X Corp. have settled a nearly two-year-old antitrust suit over the now defunct Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM). ... read more

The World Federation of Advertisers and Elon Musk's X Corp. have settled a nearly two-year-old antitrust suit over the now defunct Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM). ... read more

Omnicom’s advertising revenue suffered in the second quarter. But that did stop the holding company’s stock from jumping to a one-year high on Wednesday morning as investors digested its plan to sell off parts of ... read more

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If the merger is still in limbo when next year's upfront cycle begins, we'll see advertisers and media buyers do what they always do when facing uncertainty. ... read more

YouTube, Netflix, Spotify, Apple and others keep investing in the video podcast business. This activity also grows alongside "video shorts" platforms like YouTube Shorts, Reels and TikTok. ... read more

Is Charter - and other legacy cable and satellite pay TV providers - now reaching "core" traditional TV consumers? Yes, but perhaps new types of consumers as well. ... read more

YouTube, Netflix, Spotify, Apple and others keep investing in the video podcast business. This activity also grows alongside "video shorts" platforms like YouTube Shorts, Reels and TikTok. ... read more

It is difficult to see how this merger will leave consumers with fewer entertainment choices. ... read more

Women’s sports are a lot more popular than they used to be. But ad inventory remains scarce, because women’s sports still gets way less mainstream media exposure. The post There’s Not Enough Women’s Sports Ad ... read more

Marketing consumer products comes with plenty of challenges. But just try selling a political candidate in a hyper-polarized, 24-hour news environment. That’s the world Mark Jablonowski has been operating in for most of this career. ... read more

Through The Lookalike Glass Eyewear company Blacksheep made a name for itself by asserting that the eyewear industry is predatory with unfairly marked-up prices. Now, it’s arguing that Google does the same. Last month, the ... read more

Omnicom CEO John Wren just said the quiet part out loud: nobody’s actually priced AI yet. The admission came on the holdco’s Q2 earnings call yesterday, in response to an analyst question on where AI ... read more

This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at Comcast-owned FreeWheel enabling streaming ad sellers to directly show-level reporting to programmatic ad buyers. Showtime Paramount’s delayed WBD deal, YouTube’s new Peacock deal and more ... read more

The Hollywood Press Association (HFPA) has sued Penske Media, charging that Penske plans to monopolize the awards market and to that end fraudulently acquired the Golden Globes, The Hollywood Reporter reports. The HFPA alleges that Penske leveraged ... read more

BuzzFeed is cutting 35% of its workforce following its takeover by Allen Media, KHQ reports.  About 180 jobs will be eliminated from the staff of around 500, including positions in its HuffPost and Tasty divisions. The ... read more

BuzzFeed is cutting 35% of its workforce following its takeover by Allen Media, KHQ reports. About 180 jobs will be eliminated from the staff of around 500, including positions in its HuffPost and Tasty divisions. ... read more

CBS News is adding several name journalists to "60 Minutes," including New York Times columnist Ross Douthat as a correspondent and author/documentarian Sebastian Junger as a contributor, The Wall Street Journal reports. The hires are part of Executive Producer ... read more

Eventual, a new media company, is partnering with Polymarket to provide a media platform for news and analysis for top prediction market traders, Axios reports. "Prediction markets have gotten it right when pollsters, pundits and so-called ... read more

Eventual, a new media company, is partnering with Polymarket to provide a media platform for news and analysis for top prediction market traders, Axios reports. "Prediction markets have gotten it right when pollsters, pundits and so-called ... read more

The company says World Cup campaign helped fuel a 5% gain in Coca-Cola, and 8% in Powerade. And perhaps things are about to get Spricy. ... read more

Paid X subscribers based in the U.S. now have access to "X Money," Elon Musk's stand-alone money-transferring app - another step in the development of a burgeoning "everything app" ecosystem. ... read more

The organic revenue figure Omnicom reports is based on gross revenue that does not exclude pass-through costs such as those related to principal-based trading, which competitors like Publicis and WPP provide. ... read more

"The FCC seeks to censor Disney's and ABC's speech and send a chilling message to all broadcasters: carry speech we don't like at your peril," ex-FCC leaders say. ... read more

"The FCC seeks to censor Disney's and ABC's speech and send a chilling message to all broadcasters: carry speech we don't like at your peril," ex-FCC leaders say. ... read more

CANNES, France — Shouldn’t the ideal shopping experience should feel effortless? That’s the vision driving the next phase of retail media, according to one industry executive who argues the channel’s true measure of success isn’t ... read more

CANNES, France – Artificial intelligence may be the hottest guest at every advertising conference, but Dave Taylor isn’t ready to hand it the keys just because it showed up wearing a shiny new algorithm. Speaking ... read more

An Amazon spokesperson explained that the company's AI portfolios evolve based on customer needs - one way that Amazon provides companies, agencies and brands with guidance and migration paths as models advance and others become ... read more

Forget the beer fridge, the brand has rolled out a walk-in "CoolShed"powered by solar panels to ensure your Natural Light is ice cold, "even in a heatwave." ... read more

Buoyed by the shift of sports programming to streaming, ad spend on digital video continues to climb, but that growth comes with greater scrutiny around transparency and business outcomes.  Case in point: A major beverage ... read more

A Reddit user reported finding hundreds of Claude chats filled with personal information on Google Search after typing an operator code used to find publicly indexed links. ... read more

Dubbed SourTrade, the ingenious malvertising exploit uses your browser to passively assemble malware locally over time. ... read more

Before advertisers and media buyers obsess over outcomes, they need to ask where the measurement came from, the VAB says. ... read more

A New York law requiring social media platforms to confirm users' ages and refrain from recommending content to minors based on their personal data will come into effect early next year. ... read more