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
Digiday·2026-05-12
Amazon positions live sports portfolio as leverage to pry open upfront dollarsStreaming companies have spent years chiseling their way into the upfront market. Few have done so as aggressively as Amazon, which is using the annual negotiation season as a beachhead for both its ad tech and streaming ad businesses as it kicks off this week. “We re not incremental to linear anymore. We re competing at the broadcast level,” said Tanner Elton, Amazon’s vp of U.S. ad sales. Speaki
The Guardian·2026-05-12
BBC staff fear meagre pay rise after bosses forgo own increaseBBC staff have been told their bosses will forgo a pay rise this year but fear the freeze will lead to a meagre increase for the rank and file, who have been urged to be realistic about the outcome of union negotiations. Employees have been told that the corporation’s executive committee – its 12 highest-paid bosses including the director general, who were paid almost £5m in total last year – will have their pay frozen this year amid a £600m cost-cutting drive. “Part of our [savings] plans is that members of the BBC executive committee will receive no annual pay award this year,” said Rhodri Talfan Davies, the interim director general, in an all-staff video meeting session. “[This is] recognising the scale of the financial challenge we have at the moment.” The corporation is in the process
The Guardian·2026-05-12
Broadcasters must react to threat from ‘creator journalism’, says ex-head of BBC NewsBroadcasters must urgently adapt to an existential threat from “creator journalism” that is causing audiences to shun traditional television news, the former boss of BBC News has said. Deborah Turness, who resigned from the BBC alongside the then director general, Tim Davie, last year, said consumption was “collapsing” for traditional television news, which was facing “a profound moment of disruption”. She said that a new habit of following personality-led journalism on digital platforms such as YouTube, TikTok and Substack was now in the process of replacing traditional news. She said the impact of the shift may be “greater than the advent of the digital age, or the arrival of social media”. In her first intervention since stepping down from the BBC after the corporation’s edit of a Donal
Adweek·2026-05-12
Disney Makes Super Bowl and Live Events the MVP of Its Upfront PitchDisney had more than 100 celebrities, but live events and the Big Game were the true stars of its upfront.
Adweek·2026-05-12
YouTube’s Brandcast Puts Creator Partnerships Front and CenterGoogle's ad sales chief Sean Downey talks direct-to-creator deals, channel slates, and why 'the future of brand is trust, not social.'
Adweek·2026-05-12
Why Some Brands Chose Stagecoach Over Coachella This YearBrands like T-Mobile and American Eagle tapped into the buzzy country music festival to reach a growing niche
Adweek·2026-05-12
Gold House Turns Its Gala Into a Brand Partnership PlaybookGold Gala featured activations and experiences from brands that share Gold House’s mission.
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
The Guardian·2026-05-12
The joy of shredding all your paperwork | Brief lettersAdrian Chiles says he needs drastic action to address his paperwork backlog (The best filing system? The one where every piece of paper goes in the bin, 6 May). He should get a shredder. Nothing is more satisfying than sitting in front of the machine with a coffee and a biscuit, and watching it whirring as the paper disappears. The remnants make great bedding for rodents. Chris Walters Buxton, Derbyshire • Andrew Snelson wonders where investment would come from if utilities were nationalised (Letters, 12 May). The same place as privatised profits come from: us, the customers. Except that we’d actually get the investment, rather than seeing the money paid as dividends instead. Colin Shaw Kingston upon Thames, London • Isn’t it time that EU citizens with settled status, who have often, as in
Digiday·2026-05-12
OpenAI makes it easier to run shopping ads in ChatGPTOpenAI is making it easier for e-commerce companies to run ads on ChatGPT, adding automation that lets retailers generate ads directly from their product catalogues rather than building them one by one. To be clear, the ad itself looks the same to the user. The so-called “product feed” campaign will still appear in the same placement as any other ChatGPT ad — below the response, clearly labelled a
Digiday·2026-05-12
Ad Tech Briefing: Accountability in adland’s agentic era?During the inaugural annual general meeting for The Agentic Advertising Organization, dubbed The Foundry, last week, attendees debated an awkward talking point for the advertising industry’s AI ambitions. For all the enthusiasm around “agentic” systems, which can plan, optimize, and measure the effectiveness of media campaigns with minimal human intervention, i.e., realize the headcount savings cu
Digiday·2026-05-12
How GameStop went from struggling retailer to eBay bidderThis story was first published by Digiday sibling Modern Retail . Earlier this month, GameStop offered to buy eBay for about $55.5 billion. GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen, who previously led pet marketplace Chewy, told The Wall Street Journal that GameStop had built a roughly 5% stake in eBay and had a commitment of up to $20 billion in financing from TD Bank. If eBay isn’t receptive, Cohen said he was p
Nieman Lab·2026-05-11
In Atlanta, the push for digital subscriptions hasn’t taken off as much as hopedFor American newspapers, the past decade-plus has been all about seeking digital subscribers. The print business is shot . Digital advertising is shot . And while not everyone can be The New York Times — now the proud provider of 13 million subscriptions — even most local and regional newspapers have made digital subs Priority No. 1. But even those who don t have an unpopular billionaire owner to
Nieman Lab·2026-05-11
Behind the scenes at Wirecutter for an epic duel of air purifiersTim Heffernan lights five matches with a single stroke and waves them up and down to spread the smoke. He sets them on a dinner plate as the small conference room fills with the smell of burning wood. He checks his particle meter to make sure the room is sufficiently smoky, then steps around the table to turn on an air purifier on the floor. This is no ordinary air purifier. It is the Coway Airmeg
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.
