Digiday·2026-05-29
Publishers quietly cut ‘six-figure’ deals via Snowflake’s AI licensing platformPublishers are quietly cutting six-figure AI licensing deals on Snowflake, as the data giant positions itself as matchmaker-in-chief between locked-down news content and enterprises keen to plug reliable publisher content into their own internal AI tools via retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). For publishers, the cloud platform’s Cortex Knowledge Extensions act as a monetized RAG pipe: a way to
Digiday·2026-05-29
Future of Marketing Briefing: OpenAI is working with Skai to bring retail and commerce advertisers into ChatGPTOpenAI may be telling marketers to treat ChatGPT as a test channel rather than a performance one but its partner deals, tech builds and measurement moves tell a different story about the advertiser it actually wants. The latest is a deal with commerce media platform Skai, according to two sources with knowledge of it. This is a member-exclusive article from Digiday. Continue reading it on digiday.
Digiday·2026-05-29
Overheard at IAB Tech Lab Summit: Tim Berners-Lee on the agentic webDigiday readers need no reminder that the internet s infrastructure, not to mention its funding, is in flux, causing equal amounts of trepidation and excitement among those earning a living in the digital economy. Amid this dynamic, IAB Tech Lab, the body responsible for setting tech standards in the ad industry, hosted its annual summit this week, where Tim Berners-Lee shared his views on how the
Adweek·2026-05-29
Week of May 18 Evening News Ratings: CBS News Has Double-Digit Gains in DemoCBS News finished above 4 million viewers for the week.
Adweek·2026-05-29
Week of May 18 Cable News Ratings: Holiday Weekend Brings a Mixed BagFox News was the only network with gains during primetime and total day.
Adweek·2026-05-29
Marketers on the Move: Hires and Promotions at OpenAI, CNN, Chloé and MoreA weekly roundup of the biggest U.S. and global brand leadership appointments.
Adweek·2026-05-29
The Experience Is Now the ProductWe’re living through one of the most fragmented periods in media and cultural history, and because of that, people are returning to real‑world experiences with more desire, emotion, and urgency [ ]
Nieman Lab·2026-05-28
Think the media’s biased against you? You probably think misinformation is tooEver feel like the news media is out to get you? That it skews its stories to make your side look bad? Okay — now what about the fake news media? All the misinformation out there online: Is it more unfair to your side of most arguments or the other one? Decades of communications research has found that, all else equal, people do tend to think that the news media is rooting against people like them
Digiday·2026-05-28
OpenAI turns on cost-per-action ads inside ChatGPTOpenAI has switched on cost-per-action ads inside its ads manager, Digiday has learned. The feature, which is currently available to select advertisers only, lets them pay for ads in ChatGPT only when a user takes a specific action, whether that’s clicking through to a site, signing up or making a purchase. Until now, advertisers have had to pay for every thousand impressions or click regardless o
Nieman Lab·2026-05-28
Micropayments for news have failed everywhere. Can they succeed in Kenya?It is a small and unglamorous bet. But it sits at the center of one of the most consequential questions facing journalism. Can micropayments build a sustainable financial foundation for news? And might Africa, constrained by lower incomes, expensive mobile data, and limited success with Western-style paywalls, be showing the rest of the world something it has yet to figure out ? Based on my conver
Nieman Lab·2026-05-28
A battle of the Stars looms in D.C.’s shifting media sceneAfter The Washington Post laid off more than 300 journalists in February, several local and national news outlets based in the nation s capital announced expansions to fill coverage gaps . Among newsrooms vying to step up where the Post was ceding ground, NOTUS emerged as the most ambitious. In March, it announced plans to double its staff , starting with hiring several former Post reporters; in A
Variety·2026-05-27T21:02:28Z
Byron Allen Closes BuzzFeed Acquisition, Says Company Is Now 'Officially Chasing YouTube'Byron Allen now is the majority owner of BuzzFeed -- the struggling digital media player that Allen plans to use to launch a free-streaming platform that he imagines will rival video colossus YouTube.
Nieman Lab·2026-05-27
The emerging AI content licensing market puts news publishers in a “double bind,” a new report warnsA new report from the thinktank Open Markets Institute scopes out the current state of AI content licensing for news publishers. “ Same Gatekeepers, New Tollbooths: Mapping the AI Content Licensing Market ” explores the emerging market for content licensing, arguing that news publishers are currently in a “double bind”: The same big tech companies that are developing commercial AI products and str
Hartford Courant·2026-05-02T14:00:01Z
Spotify adds verification badge to distinguish human artists from AILOS ANGELES — Spotify is adding a new level of verification to artists' profiles, in an effort to reassure subscribers worried about AI-generated music. Starting Friday, a "Verified by Spotify" badge will begin to appear on artist profiles across the platform. As AI avatars and music continue to break through on social media and streaming platforms, the marker is meant to be a more reliable ...
