Advertising & Marketing

Newsmax IPO is conservative media's moment: The network’s early success as a public company emphasizes advertiser confidence in right-leaning media.

Spotify boosts global ad tools: New programmatic, targeting, and AI creative features position Spotify as a full-funnel solution for global marketers.

Netflix, Patreon explore podcast potential: As competition in the podcast space heats up, brands are looking for unique value propositions to draw audiences.

As the ban deadline nears, creators are diversifying fast—but juggling platforms with different audiences and monetization tools poses operational hurdles.

Flashy new features meet AAA games, yet battery life shrinks and OLED gets ditched. Is this really a next-gen move?

Inside the Meta and UFC partnership: The deal—both strategic and political—makes Meta UFC’s “official fan technology partner.”

On today’s podcast episode, we discuss how to increase basket size, how to break out of category while staying true to brand identity, and how to respond to TikTok trends without seeming like a brand responding to a TikTok trend. Listen to the conversation with our Senior Analyst Sara Lebow as she hosts Vice President and Principal Analyst Suzy Davidkhanian and the CMO of True Religion Brand Jeans Kristen D’Arcy.

The top two desired search innovations consumers are looking for are real-time search results with up-to-the-minute information (38%) and more relevant product recommendations (34%), per an October 2024 survey from adMarketplace, Veridata, and TEAM LEWIS.

Demand is melting hardware, throttling performance, and showing just how brittle the infrastructure behind AI’s biggest platforms really is

With training lagging and pressure mounting, businesses risk losing talent and momentum in a workplace increasingly shaped by automation.

With fresh data running out online, AI bots are swarming Wikimedia, creating costly bandwidth surges and risking future paywalls.

By buying The Search Monitor, Similarweb adds compliance firepower, but integration hurdles and pricing shifts may test smaller clients

Why CPMs are falling at Upfronts: Increased inventory and viewership is causing streamers to soften prices during the buying season.

GenAI adoption complicates retailers’ customer acquisition strategies: Brands are struggling to optimize their websites and product listings to account for rising traffic from genAI tools.

YouTube nears top spot in media revenue: The video giant is expected to overtake Disney (excluding parks), leading the global media industry.

On today’s podcast episode, we discuss why people might become more worried about using AI at work, why they might become less worried, and how significant an impact artificial intelligence has had on jobs already. Join Senior Director of Podcasts and host Marcus Johnson, Senior Vice President Henry Powderly, and Senior Analyst Gadjo Sevilla, for the conversation. Listen everywhere and watch on YouTube and Spotify.

Companies like Klarna and StubHub are loading IPO documents with AI buzzwords, risking SEC scrutiny and signaling a growing AI bubble driven more by marketing than substance.

OpenAI introduces 4o Image Generation: Usage is skyrocketing—but while advertisers are showing more acceptance, consumer sentiment remains a concern.