The Guardian·2026-04-15
BBC to cut up to 2,000 jobs in biggest downsize in 15 yearsThe BBC is to cut as many as 2,000 jobs in the biggest downsizing of the public service broadcaster in 15 years. Staff were informed of the cuts, which will affect about 10% of the BBC’s 21,500 employees, at an all-staff meeting on Wednesday afternoon. The round of job losses, the biggest at the BBC since 2011, is being set in motion before the former top Google executive Matt Brittin takes over as director general next month. The corporation announced a £600m cost-cutting plan in February, saying that it would involve a reduction in headcount and the end of some programming. Tim Davie, the outgoing director general, said at the time that the BBC would need to cut 10% of its approximately £6bn annual cost base over the next three years. Davie left the BBC on 2 April, having announced his r
The Guardian·2026-04-15
‘Misogyny with a marketing budget’: UK AI firm accused of sexist advertA British AI company that recently secured millions of pounds of investment has been accused of running a misogynistic and sexist advertising campaign. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has received at least seven complaints about the campaign by Narwhal Labs, which includes an advert depicting a woman next to the strapline: “She outworks everyone. And she’ll never ask for a raise.” The ad continues: “Meet your new AI employee. Always on, never sick and no HR required.” The Guardian understands the complaints received by the ASA challenge whether the ads are misogynistic and are being assessed to determine whether there are grounds for further action, although a formal investigation has not been launched. The adverts for the Bristol-based company can be found online and had been pl
Adweek·2026-04-15
The People Behind the News Movement Launched a Platform for NewsfluencersThe news media startup Caliber is launching SaySo, an ‘Apple News for creators,’ as part of its broader vision for the future of media.
Adweek·2026-04-15
Molly McPherson Analyzes 3 PR Fiascos and the Brand Mistakes Behind ThemThe crisis PR guru analyzed some recent blunders at ADWEEK's Social Media Week.
Adweek·2026-04-15
Emma Grede’s 4 Rules for Making Your Brand Actually Matter on SocialThe serial entrepreneur broke down her principles for success for audiences at ADWEEK's Social Media Week.
Adweek·2026-04-15
How Manscaped Used AI to Evolve Beyond Ball MemesThe brand shared how it transformed its social presence at Social Media Week 2026.
Digiday·2026-04-15
Google AI Max moves out of beta: Marketers sound off on the inevitable migrationThe days of marketers manually managing their Google search campaigns seem numbered as the industry barrels toward automation in the age of AI. Today, Google’s AI Max is moving out of beta. With that, campaigns using Dynamic Search Ads (DSA), automatically created assets (ACA) and campaign-level broad match setting will automatically be upgraded to AI Max. Come September, the search giant is furth
Digiday·2026-04-15
Future of TV Briefing: Netflix’s VOID peeks at the future of virtual product placementThis week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at an AI tool developed by a team including several Netflix employees that could presage the evolution of virtual product placements. AI-generated product placement DOJ’s NFL investigation, Paramount-WBD’s industry opposition and more AI-generated product placement Earlier this month, a group of AI researchers, including several Netflix employees, unveiled a
Digiday·2026-04-15
A closer look at OpenAI’s ads manager – and how much work it still needsOpenAI has an ads manager . It’s in testing and may not launch in lockstep with the ad business itself — something the company has been at pains to stress to partners . But that’s not really the point. The point is that it exists. Which is historically unusual. This kind of ad tech tends to arrive well into the life of an ad business, not at the start of one. Meta, Twitter and Snapchat all followe
Digiday·2026-04-15
Why brands can’t stop acting like reply guys and jumping into viral comment threads on social mediaThis story was first published by Digiday sibling Modern Retail. In their quest to drive up social media engagement, brands are spending more time in the replies. A prominent example came last year, when soda brand Olipop commented on the news of Poppi gifting influencers with vending machines as a Super Bowl campaign. Olipop replied under a post on the news claiming that PR boxes should go to “re
Nieman Lab·2026-04-15
Journalists champion Wayback Machine after news publishers limit article archivingIn January, Hanaa’ Tameez and I broke the story that The New York Times, The Guardian, and USA Today Co. had begun limiting the Wayback Machine’s access to their news articles. Our reporting showed that these decisions, including a “hard block” by the Times that started late last year, were driven by publishers’ concern that the Internet Archive’s free library of webpage snapshots could be scraped
Nieman Lab·2026-04-15
Prediction markets are breaking the news and becoming their own beatDepending on whom you ask, prediction markets are either: A dangerous, unregulated form of gambling that allows for degenerate betting on real events, unfettered by the economic and legal rules that keep stock markets and sports betting in check, creating an opportunity for corruption and insider trading on a scale we have never seen before. Perfectly legal crystal balls that could replace polling
Adweek·2026-04-14
How AI Is Democratizing Content and Creating Today’s ‘Access Era’Higgsfield AI's Mahi de Silva reveals how creativity barriers are coming down at ADWEEK's Social Media Week.
Adweek·2026-04-14
BMW Digital Founder Urges Brands to Trade Moments for CommitmentsAt Social Media Week, NeAndre Broussard argued that consistency will outperform trend-driven campaigns.
Adweek·2026-04-14
Patrón Takes Shot at Sponsoring Prime Video’s NBA Nightcap Through the PlayoffsPrime Video shares advertising game plan for NBA playoffs.
Adweek·2026-04-14
Disney CEO Sends Memo Confirming LayoffsDisney is expected to lay off as many as 1,000 employees.
Nieman Lab·2026-04-14
The Baltimore Banner’s parent nonprofit acquires the Pittsburgh Post-GazetteWill Pittsburgh become America s most important city without a newspaper? Josh asked in January. The answer, we learned Tuesday, is no: The Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism , the nonprofit parent organization of The Baltimore Banner , reached an agreement with Block Communications to acquire the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette , which was slated to shut down in May. It s a dramatic, if not entire
Nieman Lab·2026-04-14
Social traffic kinda stinks for news publishers now, in 3 chartsA lot of the discussion of news publishers traffic in recent months has focused on a decline in search traffic . But social traffic is down, too. Last week, when I was analyzing how links hurt publishers on Twitter , I asked analytics platform Chartbeat for data on how Twitter referral traffic has changed. The decline is stark. Global Chartbeat clients traffic from Twitter has fallen by 70% since
Nieman Lab·2026-04-13
Independent journalists are mission-driven, but financially strained, a new report saysThere isn t yet a clear playbook for financial sustainability in creator journalism, according to a report published by the Center for News, Technology Innovation (CNTI) on Monday. To better understand the trends and challenges in the growing landscape, CNTI partnered with Project C — a research hub on creator journalism — to survey 43 independent information providers and creator-journalists in t
Nieman Lab·2026-04-13
BREAKING: These are the kinds of news tweets that perform bestFor news publishers, links are life. But, as I reported last week, publishers appear to face a penalty when they link to their stories on X. I used Claude to scrape the 200 most recent tweets from 18 different publishers, then charted their median engagements (likes + comments + RT s). Posts with links definitely do worse. The New York Times, which includes links in 88% of its tweets, has 53 milli
Adweek·2026-04-08T17:26:58Z
Experiential Retail as a Loyalty Driver at a Heritage Brand With Tecovas CEO David LafitteBalancing brand and performance marketing.
Fast Company·2026-03-21T13:01:00Z
John Stamos debated live-streaming his first tattoo at SXSW: Is the future of media 'life in real-time'?Speaking with Fast Company at SXSW, the 'Full House' actor shared why he’s excited to be the chief innovation officer of streaming platform Zeam.
