The Guardian·2026-05-13
US-based internet suicide forum implicated in 160 UK deaths fined £950,000A nihilistic internet suicide forum implicated in over 160 UK deaths has been fined £950,000 by the online regulator in its latest attempt to shut it down. Ofcom said the US-based website remained accessible in the UK despite over a year of warnings. Online safety campaigners have accused the regulator of taking an “interminable” amount of time to act. The Samaritans, mental health campaigners and the Molly Rose Foundation have repeatedly raised concerns about the site, which has remained accessible despite it being cited in multiple coroners’ reports on the deaths of UK citizens. The Molly Rose Foundation was set up in the memory of Molly Russell, a 14-year-old who took her own life after descending into a vortex of negative online content, including about suicide. Its chief executive, An
Digiday·2026-05-13
Future of TV Briefing: Inside Warner Bros. Discovery’s programmatic upfront pitchThis briefing is made available to all Digiday readers through a partnership with sponsor DirecTV Advertising This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at how WBD’s programmatic advertising business has evolved with programmatic playing a bigger part in its upfront deals. WBD s biddable upfront Netflix’s privacy suit, the upfront’s overarching pitch, YouTubers’ growth gurus and more WBD s biddable u
Adweek·2026-05-13
Retail Advertising Firm Stratacache Liquidates Its U.K. BusinessStratacache, a company that sells in-store digital screens to retailers, is liquidating the U.K. arm of its business.
Adweek·2026-05-13
YouTube Wants to Be a Home, Not a LaunchpadAfter losing top talent to rival streamers for years, YouTube is finally fighting to keep them.
Adweek·2026-05-13
EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Scraps Planned API Fees After Backlash From Tech FirmsSome believe the ecommerce giant’s threat cleaned up companies' usage.
Adweek·2026-05-13
YouTube Goes All-In on Creator Shows, Pitches Itself as the Future of MediaWith a slate of creator shows that look a lot like TV, YouTube is daring advertisers to treat it that way.
Nieman Lab·2026-05-13
These for-profit local news sites have become the “papers” of record in their communitiesIn most American cities, the largest local newsroom still belongs to the local newspaper. But that certainly doesn t mean the largest local news audience always goes to the people with a printing press. And in some cases, the local traffic champ isn t even a TV station or public radio station — it s a for-profit, digital-native news site. When we write about local news here at Nieman Lab, we spend
Nieman Lab·2026-05-13
Minnesota — and its public radio station — kept everyone’s attention at the start of 2026Minnesota Public Radio s coverage of ICE put it at the top of the traffic rankings for public media websites in the last quarter of 2025. That trend continued in the first quarter of 2026; according to our regular rankings derived from Similarweb data, MPR saw 7 million more visits in January than in December, driven in large part by its coverage after federal agents killed Renée Good and Alex Pre
Digiday·2026-05-13
TikTok launches MCP server to let AI agents run campaignsTikTok is opening its ads platform to AI agents with its new model context protocol (MCP) server and developer toolkit, aimed at automating campaign creation, management and optimization. TikTok Ads Model Context Protocol (or TikTok Ads MCP) Server will “effectively enable marketers to connect their own AI agents directly to the Tiktok ads platform so their AI systems can plan, launch and optimize
Digiday·2026-05-13
The state of agentic advertisingThis State of the Industry Report, sponsored by Optable, examines agentic advertising and how publishers, advertisers and agencies are interacting with the medium — from investment and readiness to barriers and impact. Agentic AI is the latest optimization tactic across media, supporting initiatives like agentic advertising. However, because agentic AI is described as “a situation where multiple A
Digiday·2026-05-13
Mail Metro Media shifts ad strategy toward PMPs and fewer ads as it unifies stackMail Metro Media is rewiring its commercial model around PMPs, first-party data, and a lighter ad load to build a more outcomes-driven business. The shift comes as publishers face ongoing volatility in open-market programmatic revenue and increasing pressure from buyers to prove performance. On sheer scale alone, you’d assume Mail Metro Media — the commercial ad arm of DMG Media, which owns the Da
Nieman Lab·2026-05-12
The European Union backs Italy’s right to make Meta pay for newsMeta must comply with Italian law requiring it to negotiate with and fairly compensate news publishers for the the use of their content, according to a ruling by the Europe s highest court on Tuesday. The decision by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) found that EU copyright law doesn t prohibit individual countries from setting up systems that give news publishers power to negotiat
Nieman Lab·2026-05-12
“Affiliation, not just access”: Newsrooms try to move beyond membership to a focus on “belonging”Facing declining trust, unreliable social platforms, and search traffic weakened by AI summaries, the media industry is looking for a deeper way to hold onto audiences. Could the answer be a sense of “belonging”? “I think belonging is trying to figure out ways for the audiences to feel heard and seen, to engage or learn more,” said Matt Adams , director of audience growth and engagement at The Tex
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 ...
Screen Rant·2026-04-27T19:00:20Z
Netflix’s New Feature Officially Brings Streaming Even Closer To Social MediaThe biggest streaming platform in television has just made a big statement about where its content is going, with a brand-new interface feature.
The Boston Herald·2026-04-22T20:05:54Z
Ticker: Trump media company replaces CEO; SpaceX in $60B deal to to buy AI coding toolThe Trump business behind Truth Social is replacing a former congressman and big supporter of the U.S. president as the leader of the social media platform after a stock collapse that wiped out billions in investor wealth.
PBS News·2026-04-22T20:00:09Z
Trump Media replaces Nunes as Truth Social CEO after stock plunge that wiped out billionsThe Trump business behind Truth Social is replacing a former congressman and big supporter of the U.S. president as the leader of the social media platform after a stock collapse that wiped out billions in investor wealth.
Newsmax·2026-04-22T10:45:49Z
Trump Media Company Replaces Fmr Rep. Nunes as CEO After Stock Plunge That Wiped out BillionsThe Trump business behind Truth Social is replacing a former congressman and big supporter of the president as the leader of the social media platform after a stock collapse that wiped out billions in investor wealth.
