WarnerMedia and CNN Veteran Katrina Cukaj to Lead Entertainment Ad Sales for Fox
Fox is expanding its advertising sales team, bringing on Katrina Cukaj to serve as executive vice president of ad sales and portfolio marketing. (THR) Cukaj will oversee ad sales strategy for Fox...
View ArticleFox News to Debut Spanish-Language Show, Website Ahead of Election
Fox News will launch a daily Spanish-language news show called Fox Noticias that will air on Fox's Spanish-language sports cable network, Fox Deportes, executives told Axios. Ahead of the debut next...
View ArticleBrazil Lifts Ban on X After Elon Musk Complies With Court Orders
Elon Musk's X is getting back up and running in Brazil after a monthslong standoff between the company and the country's federal supreme court minister, Alexandre de Moraes. (NBC News) The immediate...
View ArticleTikTok Sued by 14 AGs Alleging App Is Harming Children’s Mental Health
More than one-dozen states and the District of Columbia filed lawsuits against TikTok Tuesday, saying that the popular short-form video application is designed to be addictive to kids and harms their...
View ArticleHearst, OpenAI—Flush With Cash—Strike Content Deal
OpenAI struck a content partnership deal with Hearst, one of the largest newspaper and magazine holding groups in the country, the companies said Tuesday. (Axios) The collaboration spans over 20...
View ArticleWalmart Reveals How It’s Using Gen AI and Augmented Reality to Change Shopping
Walmart is using new types of artificial intelligence, generative AI, and immersive commerce in its stores. The new technology is part of Walmart's broader "adaptive retail" strategy aimed at...
View ArticleUS Says It’s Weighing Google Breakup as Monopoly Case Remedy
The U.S. Department of Justice told a federal judge it is considering recommending that Google be forced to sell off parts of its operations to alleviate the harm caused by its monopolization of the...
View ArticleAdtech Firms Invested Millions In the Cookieless Future, ROI Remains Slow to...
For four years, adtech firms have been preparing for Google's deprecation of the third-party cookies that power the programmatic advertising ecosystem. But companies are still waiting to get returns on...
View ArticleLocal TV Stations Still Pushing to Reclaim 10 p.m. Hour From Broadcast...
Local stations are continuing to push to reclaim the 10 p.m. hour from broadcast networks, Mike Hayes, president of Hearst Television, said Wednesday. (Deadline)
View ArticleX Changes Creator Payouts to Depend on Engagement, Not Ads
As X continues to alienate advertisers, even recently suing a group over their boycott of the platform, the company is shifting its creator payments policy to be less dependent on ads. (TechCrunch)...
View ArticleNew Body to Handle Disputes Between EU Users and Facebook, TikTok, YouTube
Social media users in the European Union will soon have a new forum to challenge decisions by platforms to remove posts and videos for breaking their rules or to leave up others that may violate them....
View ArticleWeek of Sept. 30 Ratings: Cable News, Morning Shows, Evening Newscasts
While the evening news broadcasts may not have seen a bounce from last week's CBS News vice presidential debate between Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), the cable news networks did...
View ArticleKen Jautz, CNN Executive Who Helped News Giant Run, to Exit
Ken Jautz, a key senior CNN executive who played a critical role in both making the news giant run properly and developing some of its best-known personalities, will leave the Warner Bros. Discovery...
View ArticleMeUndies Enters the ‘Underworld’ In New Brand Chapter
MeUndies, the direct-to-consumer (DTC) brand that disrupted the intimate apparel sector, doesn't want underwear to be basic. The Los Angeles-based company has unveiled a new campaign that marks the...
View ArticleThe Female Quotient: Girls Are Not ‘Empowered,’ They’re ‘Inpowered’
"Empowered" is out, and "inpowered" is in, according to The Female Quotient, an experience and media company advancing gender equality in the workplace. The FQ teamed up with mentorship ecosystem Etre,...
View ArticleShari Redstone Defends Tony Dokoupil Amidst Ta-Nehisi Coates Interview Fallout
Shari Redstone, chair of CBS parent company Paramount Global, said Wednesday that CBS leadership made a "bad mistake" with their handling of CBS Mornings co-host Tony Dokoupil's contentious interview...
View ArticleMocha Makeover: Coffee Mate and Vince Staples Redo a High School Teacher’s...
When teachers at a Los Angeles high school called their on-site lounge "sad," "basic," and "antiquated," they were being charitable. In truth, the room likely hadn't been remodeled since the '80s, with...
View ArticleFT Exceeds £500M Annual Revenue for First Time
The Financial Times made more than GBP500 million ($652.8 million) in revenue for the first time in its history in 2023. (Press Gazette)
View ArticleAllen Media Cuts 19 at Louisiana Station
Allen Media-owned station KADN in Lafayette and Acadiana, La., laid off staff due to "economic challenges." (TVSpy)
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