Digiday·2026-04-30
X upgrades its ad platform in long overdue overhaulOpenAI isn’t the only platform rethinking its ads manager . X just rolled out what it s calling the biggest overhaul of its advertising tools in the platform’s history. The revamp, framed invariably as an AI-powered upgrade, is already being deployed globally, with features including retrieval and ranking systems being updated on a rolling basis, as the platform shifts toward contextual and semant
Digiday·2026-04-30
How former college athlete and Airbnb host turned Love Island fame into widespread successIn 2024, college athlete TJ Palma had around 5,000 followers on Instagram and close to 15,000 on TikTok. He amassed a healthy following posting videos of himself playing baseball at University of Tampa and showcasing the daily life as an Airbnb host in Florida. His social media presence drew attention from the Love Island casting department, and in 2025, Palma had a stint on the wildly popular dat
The Guardian·2026-04-30
Financial Times journalists in dispute with management over plans for office daysJournalists at the Financial Times are at loggerheads with the publication’s management over plans to order staff back to the office four days a week by the end of the year. Members of the Financial Times’ union have unanimously voted to invoke the company’s dispute procedure over the proposals, arguing that management have “not made a compelling case” for the need to move from the current three office days. Staff received an email about the proposals this month and the FT chapel of the National Union of Journalists held a “fiery meeting” to invoke the dispute procedure with Tobias Buck, the FT’s managing editor. Officers at the NUJ are understood to have been informed of the dispute this week. “The email was a bolt out of the blue,” said one journalist. “We don’t believe the case has been
The Guardian·2026-04-30
Revealed: British ad firm’s billion-dollar greenwash of US oil industryA British advertising conglomerate has helped the oil companies ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell and BP spend an estimated $1bn (£740m) on adverts in the US since the 2015 Paris agreement to tackle the climate crisis, a report shows. London-based WPP was the leading advertising group serving the US’s oil industry over the past decade, according to analysis by the climate investigations platform DeSmog. The figure is nearly twice the respective amounts linked to its US rivals Omnicom and Interpublic Group (IPG), which merged in November. During this period, ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell and BP employed “deceptive and misleading” communications strategies designed to thwart policies to tackle the climate crisis by curbing the use of fossil fuels, a congressional investigation concluded in April 2024.
Digiday·2026-04-30
Uncertainty is the real cost of the Middle East war for advertisersWhat began as a regional conflict is now a compounding drag on the advertising industry — not catastrophic, but persistent enough that many CMOs are starting to feel it. While the economics of war travel slowly — through oil prices, supply chains, corporate margins and people’s wallets — they do travel, and enough time has now passed for the effects to start showing up in the numbers. WPP s Middle
Adweek·2026-04-30
5 Themes That Defined Possible 2026From outcomes-based pricing to agent-led orchestration and the future of discoverability, these are the conversations that dominated Possible.
Adweek·2026-04-30
Chess.com Surpassed 250 Million Users And Is Launching a New Advertising GambitAds make up just 10% of its revenue. The platform hopes to grow that number without alienating its paying subscribers.
Adweek·2026-04-30
Week of April 20 Cable News Ratings: Viewership After WHCD IncidentFox News was the only network with across-the-board week-to-week gains.
Adweek·2026-04-30
Three Takeaways From Meta and Google’s Earnings CallsBoth companies are spending massively on AI infrastructure: It’s a gambit that could pay off as signals point to AI improving advertising performance.
Digiday·2026-04-30
The Rundown: Google expands AI Max as automation shifts upstreamThe agentic era of the internet is well and truly underway, with the accompanying quest on how to monetize it, i.e., the AI ad wars, occurring simultaneously. OpenAI’s advertising pilots in ChatGPT have garnered much of the recent headlines, although the biggest company in adland — that’s still Google, BTW — is likewise evolving its offering. Google is widening the scope of its AI Max ad product,
The Guardian·2026-04-30
Bari Weiss appoints editor viewed as pro-Israel in latest CBS News shakeupBari Weiss, the CBS News boss, has ousted a veteran bureau chief following tensions over coverage of the Middle East and brought in a new foreign editor who, according to sources, is more aligned with Weiss’s pro-Israel agenda. Paramount, which owns CBS, announced on Wednesday that it had hired Shayndi Raice, a Wall Street Journal editor who most recently served as the paper’s deputy bureau chief for the Middle East and north Africa, based in Israel. Raice will move to London, where she’ll oversee the network’s international coverage in a newly created position, the company said. In a social media post, Weiss called Raice “a scoophound reporter, a brilliant editor, and a clear-eyed leader”. The announcement followed reports that CBS News had ousted Claire Day, the London bureau chief and a
The Guardian·2026-04-30
FCC chair denies ABC license review is related to Kimmel controversyBrendan Carr, the Trump-picked chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), denied speculation that the agency is forcing ABC to apply early to renew licenses for its eight owned and operated local television stations as punishment for an ill-timed joke made last Thursday by the late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel. The decision drew backlash from the industry group National Association of Broadcasters, whose chief executive called it “nearly unprecedented”; from the Republican senator Ted Cruz, who said the agency should not operate as “the speech police”; and from press freedom organizations that have derided it as an example of a disfavored network being punished for editorial purposes. Carr – the US’s top media watchdog – instead said the license renewal order stemmed from an i
The Guardian·2026-04-30
Press freedom at lowest level in 25 years amid growing authoritarian pressurePress freedom around the world is at its lowest ebb in a generation, according to an influential annual index that highlights growing authoritarian pressure on the media. The average score for the 180 countries assessed by the World Press Freedom Index, compiled by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), was the lowest in the index’s 25-year history. For the first time, more than half of all countries were placed in the “difficult” or “very serious” categories for press freedom. While a fifth of the global population lived in a country where press freedom was categorised as “good” in 2002, that has now fallen to less than 1% of the world’s population. The study found that a dramatic expansion of “restrictive legal arsenals” used by governments around the world, particularly in their use of nation
Nieman Lab·2026-04-29
More scoops, less aggregation and analysis: How Casey Newton is revamping his newsletter to compete with AIOriginal reporting, news analysis, and a roundup of links. Those have been the three pillars of journalist Casey Newton s technology newsletter, Platformer , since it launched in 2017. But, Newton wrote Monday , two of them — link roundups and news analysis — may no longer work so well for his audience in a time of AI automation. So he s experimenting with changes to Platformer s offerings, spendi
Nieman Lab·2026-04-28
“Like nailing Jell-O to a wall”: Why unions are struggling to protect journalists’ rights in the age of AIProPublica journalists walked off the job for 24 hours, after more than two years of negotiations that failed to yield a deal for a union contract that would have included terms around AI and a ban on AI-related layoffs. Meanwhile, in Italy, the country’s main journalists’ union called for two strike days over publishers refusing to accept basic rules on the use of artificial intelligence. And at
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.
Nieman Lab·2026-04-27
Geospatial AI is reinventing the rainforest beatIn 2018, Joseph Poliszuk fled Venezuela. That year, after exposing corruption in then-President Nicolas Maduro’s administration, he had become the target of lawsuits by wealthy Maduro loyalists. He and several of his colleagues at the independent outlet Armando.info packed up their lives and fled the country under threat of imprisonment. For years, Poliszuk had published stories on Southern Venezu
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.
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
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.
