Adweek·2026-09-04
8 Marketer Moves to Know This Week: Stellantis, KFC, Cleveland Clinic, and MoreMarketing leadership hires and exits from the last seven days.
Adweek·2026-09-04
Week of Aug 24 Cable News Ratings: MS NOW Posts GainsFox News led all the news networks.
Adweek·2026-09-04
Retail Roundup: Amazon’s $20 Billion Lawsuit, and Commerce Media’s First UpfrontsPlus, DoorDash’s measurement certification and Ace’s new feature.
Adweek·2026-09-04
ADWEEK Agencies Advantage: Turnaround Signs at WPP and S4 Could Tip the Holdco Power ScalesPublicis still commands the top spot, but WPP and S4 are upping the competition
Digiday·2026-09-04
Media agencies build audit tools to prevent AI agents from overchargingMedia agencies deploying AI to speed up their planning and buying practices are discovering that the tech won’t deliver savings if it’s left to run by itself — it has to be monitored. As agentic tools developed to aid audience targeting, campaign set-up or media execution proliferate, some agencies are beginning to build tracking or auditing tools. The hope is that they ll allow staffers to check
Digiday·2026-09-04
Marketers say usage rights are driving up the price to work with creatorsCreator pricing is a problem , and everyone is trying to determine the best solution. But one of the biggest hurdles that creators, their agents and the creator marketers looking to work with them face isn’t the initial price tag to get the partnership started, but the usage rights that are tacked on. Usage rights have become a major part of every creator partnership, dictating how the content wil
Digiday·2026-09-04
Future of Marketing: Brands want creators who can win over humans and machines at onceTwo things drive creator spending now. Whether they move audiences and whether they move algorithms inside AI platforms. The second piece is moving fast enough that marketers are already building it into briefs, even though it hasn’t touched pricing yet. Right now, the focus is narrower. Understanding how a creator’s content shapes what an AI chatbot recommends, and using that to shorten the odds
Forbes·2026-09-03T12:56:03Z
Plex Warns Users To Update ‘As Soon As Possible’ To Fix Security IssuesUsers of the Plex streaming platform have been told to update both the media server and desktop as soon as possible “to address a number of security issues.”
Digiday·2026-09-03
Media Briefing: What to expect at the Digiday Publishing Summit, September 2026 editionThis week’s Media Briefing covers what to expect from the upcoming Digiday Publishing Summit in Key Biscayne, Fla., which kicks off on Sept. 14 . Executives from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, CNBC, USA Today Co., Politico will take the stage to unpack how the traditional publishing model is being rewritten to prepare for a world with fewer clicks and a shrinking open web. W
Baltimore Sun·2026-09-02T17:30:42Z
‘Mayday’ review: Stars, filmmakers contribute to lifting action comedyNikolai Ustinov may just be the hero we didn’t know we needed. Kenneth Branagh’s performance as the butt-kicking, America-loving ex-KGB agent is the greatest strength of the Cold War-set action comedy “Mayday,” debuting on Apple TV this week. The veteran British actor isn’t the biggest name in the latest Skydance Media production to go straight to Apple’s streaming platform; that would be his ...
The Verge·2026-08-13T09:09:36Z
‘If it was opt-in, nobody would opt in.’According to Twitch chief product officer Mike Minton, that’s the “honest answer” as to why the streaming platform has started training Amazon’s generative AI models on users’ content by default. Twitch users can choose to opt out, but Minton defends the default setting because “almost every content service in the world” is also doing it.
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution·2026-08-11T01:01:41Z
Trump media company announces a massive loss and new turnaround effortThe president’s media company posted a massive loss in the latest quarter and plans to ditch new business lines and refocus as a forum for users to post their views. The company behind the Truth Social platform said Monday that it lost $238 million in the three months through June as it branched into businesses unrelated to media, including crypto. That was more than 10 times the loss from a year earlier. The new chief executive, Kevin McGurn, said a yearlong effort to expand by branching into several new industries including online betting and crypto would now be largely abandoned as he refocuses the business on its social media mission.
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review·2026-08-10T18:51:31Z
Trump media company announces a massive loss and new turnaround effortNEW YORK — The president’s media company posted a massive loss in the second quarter and announced plans to ditch new business lines and refocus as a forum for users to post their views. Trump Media & Technology, the company behind the Truth Social platform, said Monday that it lost
