Digiday·2026-04-10
How did Nike’s embattled heritage brand Converse reach a 15-year revenue low?This story was first published by Digiday sibiling Glossy The Converse Chuck Taylor is one of the most iconic shoes in footwear history, and yet the brand that makes it has been struggling. This is a member-exclusive article from Digiday. Continue reading it on digiday.com and subscribe to continue reading content like this.
Digiday·2026-04-10
Why Pfizer and other blue-chip brands are building internal AI search hubs to reclaim controlThe ad industry’s latest dernier cri is going in-house. Marketers at major advertisers, such as Pfizer, are pulling generative engine optimization (GEO) expertise inside the tent as their sense of urgency over search’s shifting landscape grows. Pfizer officially transitioned its SEO and AI discoverability efforts to its in-house team this week, according to a LinkedIn post from Joshua Palau , the
The Guardian·2026-04-10
Reform UK voters least likely to see social media posts from family and friends, study findsReform UK voters are the least likely to see posts from friends and family on social media and most likely to see content from brands and news organisations, a study has found. The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) thinktank said algorithms were fuelling isolation and division after its research analysing users’ feeds on Instagram, Facebook, X, Bluesky and TikTok found that only 13% of Reform UK voters saw content from someone they knew, compared with 23% of Green party voters. The findings were based on a representative UK survey of 1,000 people who were asked to categorise the top four posts of their most used social media feed. Of these top four posts, 18% came from someone a user actually knew, while 35% were from influencers, public figures or recommended content, and 29% we
The Guardian·2026-04-10
Andrew Bolt swims against News Corp tide on Ben Roberts-Smith prosecution | Weekly BeastOccasionally the Murdoch commentator Andrew Bolt defies the party line. In 2021 he said News Corp Australia’s editorial campaign for net zero emissions by 2050 was “rubbish” and “global warming propaganda”. This week Bolt stuck his neck out in support of the war crimes prosecution of Ben Roberts-Smith, in a marked departure from News Corp’s approach since 2018, when the Age and the Sydney Morning Herald published a series of stories alleging the Victoria Cross recipient had committed murder and other war crimes. “I have a simple question for the people angrily defending Ben Roberts-Smith, claiming a war hero is being persecuted by woke civilians judging soldiers in battle from the comfort of their sofas,” Bolt wrote in his Herald Sun column. “Do you think Australian soldiers should be allo
Digiday·2026-04-10
OpenAI has quietly launched its ads manager as it races to build out its ads businessOpenAI launched an ads manager last week — the latest move in its fast expanding advertising business, Digiday has learned. The tool — described by those with access as serviceable and broadly similar in layout to Google Ads — is a test within a test accessible to only a handful of advertisers. But it represents a meaningful step in OpenAI’s fast-expanding advertising business: for the first time,
Digiday·2026-04-10
Future of Marketing Briefing: The ad industry has an AI label problemPeople no longer trust what they see, and the ad industry hasn’t agreed on what honesty looks like in response. Does an AI-generated background warrant a label? What about a synthesized soundtrack? Or does the threshold only kick in when it s a human face, a product claim or a body that never existed? These feel like mundane distinctions until you factor in what labelling actually costs. Research
Adweek·2026-04-10
Revolving Door Roundup: CNN Names Alex MacCallum COOCNN names new COO and other moves from around the news industry.
Adweek·2026-04-10
YouTuber Jesser Launches Parent Company, Preps Business ExpansionThe media company, which generates an eight-figure revenue, has content and product debuts coming later this year.
Adweek·2026-04-10
Marketers on the Move: Hires and Exits at Babylist, OpenAI, McDonald’s, and moreA weekly roundup of the biggest U.S. and global brand leadership appointments.
Adweek·2026-04-10
WPP Taps Estée Lauder’s Anne-Isabelle Choueiri as Chief Transformation OfficerShe’ll be central to the holdco's three-year turnaround plan.
Adweek·2026-04-09
Week of March 30 Evening News Ratings: NBC News and CBS News GrowCBS News had the most-watched broadcast in the demo during President Trump's primetime address.
Adweek·2026-04-09
EXCLUSIVE: Intuit Is Shutting Down Its Ad Network for Small BusinessesSMB MediaLabs launched in 2023.
Digiday·2026-04-09
Media Briefing: Another AI threat emerges for publishers: the third-party scraperThis week’s Media Briefing will dig into the growing alarm among publishers, as execs warn behind closed doors that third-party web scrapers are quietly fueling an AI marketplace they’re largely shut out of. The AI licensing black market TikTok’s head of publisher operations exits Tech billionaires are buying media, AP and Lee Enterprises clash over licensing contract, and more The AI licensing bl
Nieman Lab·2026-04-09
ProPublica journalists walk off the job in first U.S. newsroom strike over AIOn Wednesday, roughly 150 members of the Propublica Guild, one of the largest nonprofit newsroom unions in the country, went on a 24-hour strike. About two dozen Guild members picketed ProPublica’s headquarters in New York City’s Hudson Square neighborhood during working hours, as simultaneous picket lines formed in front of the publication’s offices in Chicago and Washington D.C. On the uncharact
Adweek·2026-04-09
Build Your First AI Agent at Social Media WeekCode and Theory experts will walk you through hands-on agent building, and you'll leave with tools you can actually use.
Digiday·2026-04-09
Ipsy joins the WNBA craze as the official beauty partner of the Las Vegas AcesThis story was first published by Digiday sibling Glossy Another beauty brand is stepping into the sports arena. On Wednesday, Ipsy announced a new partnership with the WNBA as the official beauty partner of the Las Vegas Aces. “With women’s sports finally having its moment, we really wanted to be a part of that cultural conversation,” said Ipsy chief marketing officer Stacey Politi. “The WNBA rea
Digiday·2026-04-09
Ford and Nissan are embedding their brands in sports as they chase fandomsRather than sponsor sports leagues and clubs, advertisers like Nissan, Google and Ford are putting themselves in the role of ringmaster and producing their own branded content built around sports fandom. Ford Bronco has been working with the Pro League Network (PLN), an extreme sports channel available to stream on Amazon Prime Video, to create sports programming featuring their vehicles in a star
Adweek·2026-04-09
AppLovin’s CEO Is No Longer Board Chair and Two Top Execs Are Stepping DownPublic adtech company AppLovin is undergoing a substantive power shift with a slate of changes to its C-suite and board of directors.
Digiday·2026-04-09
While AI is building the web faster than ever, accessibility can’t be left behindChad Sollis, Chief Marketing Officer, AudioEye AI has given marketers something they’ve wanted for years: speed. Landing pages that used to take weeks now take minutes, and product content scales without headcount. That s genuinely good news, but speed has a side effect that most marketing teams haven t fully reckoned with yet. The experiences being built at this pace aren t automatically accessib
Nieman Lab·2026-04-09
More than 1,300 newsrooms participate in the first “Local News Day”Every September since 2012, thousands of volunteers have come together around a shared goal: getting more Americans registered to vote. They ve channeled attention and energy into a single day, dubbed National Voter Registration Day . While having coffee with the founder of National Voter Registration Day, Montana native Matt Singer, Montana Free Press founder and executive director John Adams had
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.
Nieman Lab·2026-04-08
Do links hurt news publishers on Twitter? Our analysis suggests yesElon Musk has said as much : Links in tweets are bad for engagement. Over the last few days, sparked by a post from Nate Silver, people have started arguing again about the relationships between links and engagement. But our new analysis of thousands of tweets from 18 publishers makes it pretty clear: Links do seem to hurt news publishers on X/Twitter. Back in 2016, the analytics company Parse.ly
Nieman Lab·2026-04-07
How newsrooms are bringing their archives to lifeChris Moran , editorial lead on generative AI at The Guardian, recently spoke about how his team used AI tools to build an internal chatbot that lets journalists query the archive, as well as an initial experiment with tag pages that pulls from the paper’s archives to create AI-generated summaries of past events. Similarly, L Eco di Bergamo, a local newspaper in Italy, has used AI to repurpose mor
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.
