The Guardian·2026-04-20
Daily Mail’s ‘aggressive’ reporting on Prince Harry and Meghan ‘irreparably damaged’ press briefingsThe Daily Mail’s “aggressive” approach to reporting on Prince Harry and Meghan’s Australian visit has “irreparably damaged” the Sussexes’ ability to brief press ahead of trips, Guardian Australia has been told. The Daily Mail’s Australian website broke an embargo by publishing details of the royal couple’s movements five days before they landed in Melbourne, despite that information being strictly non-publishable until they arrived. The Mail reported “under-wraps details” about the location of the stops in Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra as well as the background notes and a Q&A, against the instructions given to media by the royal pair’s team. The Guardian has been told the Sussexes’ media office complained, resulting in the Daily Mail report being taken down. Sources close to the Duke
Adweek·2026-04-20
Consumers Are Taking a New Purchase Journey on SocialThis post was created in partnership with Brandwatch Marketing data exploded when traditional search engines took over the internet, providing brands with fresh insights into consumer interests and habits. But [ ]
Adweek·2026-04-20
If Comments Are the New Frontline, How Is Your Brand Showing Up?This post was created in partnership with Respondology AI is changing how brands interact on social media. Increasingly, the real action is happening in the comments—where conversations unfold, and brand [ ]
Adweek·2026-04-20
Inside Coachella’s Off-Site Events That Are Rewriting the Festival’s LandscapeBrands are skipping the festival grounds and staging their own moments off-site
Adweek·2026-04-20
Marketers Need to Stop Chasing Data and Start Harnessing Audience SignalsThis post was created in partnership with Sprout Social Brands have more data than ever, but most of it remains untapped. What’s missing isn’t more data. It’s the signal that [ ]
Digiday·2026-04-20
Digiday+ Research: Agencies punt budget growth expectations to 2027 — while AI worries intensifyBetween the war in the Middle East’s potential impact on ad spending and the rapid integration of AI tools across workflows, agencies have a lot on their minds in 2026. Overall, agencies’ top concerns this year are client spending and the effects of AI. Thirty-eight percent of agency professionals anticipated that the biggest challenge the agency industry will face in 2026 is reduced client budget
Digiday·2026-04-20
Why Mondelez is hiring a global lead to solve for AI-driven shopping botsAgentic commerce has moved from hype to reality — at least that’s the bet Mondelez seems to be placing. The idea that AI bots will shop on behalf of humans isn’t something out of a sci-fi novel. It’s the next era of online shopping. Mondelez, parent company to brands Oreo, Sour Patch Kids and Cadbury chocolate, is trying to get ahead of it. The conglomerate is hiring a global lead of emerging comm
Digiday·2026-04-20
As upfront negotiations near, buyers chart path through complex sports marketHopping between streaming services and TV networks to follow your favorite team’s ups and downs has become an inconvenient and expensive fact of modern life. Fans wanting to follow along their team’s progress throughout the regular NBA season, for example, will have to access ESPN/ABC, NBC/Peacock and Amazon Prime Video to catch every game. Earlier this month, the issue prompted the U.S. Justice D
Digiday·2026-04-20
From page views to propensity: How the Daily Mail is retooling for a zero-click worldThe Mail still plays in the big-numbers league. But inside the newsroom, the dials are quietly being reset. Page views, once the dominant metric on every dashboard, are being pushed aside in favor of time spent, repeat visits and what Mail executives call a “golden metric” of quality engagement. The urgency behind that reset is the rise of zero-click search and AI assistants, which answer user que
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
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·2026-04-14
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
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.
