Adweek·2026-06-10
Week of June 1 Evening News Ratings: NBC News and CBS News Have All-Around GainsABC World News Tonight saw declines in total viewers.
Nieman Lab·2026-06-10
The Centre Daily Times unionizes after backlash to McClatchy’s AI toolJosh Moyer remembers the exact moment he decided he needed to unionize. Moyer is a senior reporter for the Centre Daily Times, a newspaper in State College, PA, and for months he had been concerned about a new AI tool being rolled out in his newsroom. McClatchy, the Centre Daily Times’ parent company, had chosen the paper as an early test market for its Content Scaling Agent (CSA). The tool repack
Digiday·2026-06-10
LinkedIn wants to own B2B creator discovery with new creator marketplaceLinkedIn is making a late but logical move to own B2B creator infrastructure before someone else does. As of today, the platform has launched its first creator marketplace, making creator discovery easier — or at least more scalable for marketers looking to reach LinkedIn’s growing creator ecosystem — the latest step in a multi-year push that has already included products like BrandLink, TopVoice3
Digiday·2026-06-10
D+ Research: Marketers embrace AI for social and retail media, but show skepticism in AI ad buyingAs AI is increasingly becoming embedded in marketing workflows, the technology is gaining more traction in specific channels and use cases than others. More than 4 in 10 marketers report using AI in their social media (49%) or retail media (42%) campaigns. That’s according to a Digiday+ Research survey conducted in the first quarter of 2026 among more than 100 marketing professionals. But exactly
Nieman Lab·2026-06-10
AI use, growth challenges, and funding cuts: A new report looks at the state of nonprofit newsThe Institute for Nonprofit News released its ninth annual INN Index on Tuesday, analyzing data reported from hundreds of its members to understand the state of nonprofit news in 2025. The Index remains one of the most detailed snapshots of the revenue and audience picture across nonprofit newsrooms; this year s data set primarily draws on survey responses from 412 INN members, or 93% of its membe
Adweek·2026-06-10
Latin America’s World Cup Ads Have a Secret U.S. Brands Keep MissingMany brands use creative tactics in Latin America that are steeped in local culture, and that many U.S. marketers might find surprising.
Adweek·2026-06-10
Paris Hilton Dishes on How She Vibe Coded Her First App In Her Latest Deal With GoogleThe tech giant taps Hilton to make vibe coding more accessible to women.
Digiday·2026-06-10
Inside the messy middle of January Digital agency’s AI adoptionThe promise of AI efficiency versus the messy, financial-based reality is creating ongoing tension as the industry continues to debate whether AI expedites work, scales creative and curbs costs. “Whether or not it does or doesn t is still completely all over the place,” said Vic Drabicky, founder and CEO at January Digital, an independent media agency and consultancy, based in New York. Brands lik
Digiday·2026-06-10
OpenAI’s ChatGPT ads get its first conversion API partner in LiveRampOpenAI’s speed dating tour of ad tech has a new match: LiveRamp. The data matching firm — and potentially Publicis-owned — is the first independent ad tech company to pipe conversion data into OpenAI’s conversion API. Brands could do it directly before but not via an intermediary. Unlike other deals of this ilk, this one is tightly scoped. It s U.S.-only for now, with Europe close behind , and lim
Adweek·2026-06-10
Why the World Cup Will Have In-Game Ads For the First TimeThe new inventory, along with skyrocketing ticket prices, are a preview of how soaring rights fees are reshaping live sports.
Nieman Lab·2026-06-09
What kind of stories are best at turning local news readers into subscribers? It’s hard news, not the soft stuffLet s start with the good news. What types of news stories are most likely to make a reader subscribe on a local newspaper s website? Is it celebrity news, horoscopes, sports scores, the gardening column? Nope — it s hard news. Local government, public health, politics — the sort of stuff that makes for a healthy democracy. Those stories are much more likely to turn a reader into a subscriber than
The Verge·2026-06-05T14:00:00Z
Peacock will stream all 104 World Cup matches in Dolby Vision, Atmos… and Spanish.Telemundo’s live feed on Peacock will apparently be the first commercial deployment of the efficient Dolby AC-4 codec by a streaming platform, promising immersive stadium sound that shouldn’t overload the network. Peacock will also be streaming the World Cup in 4K and 1080p HDR, according to Dolby spokesperson Andrea Villarreal.
Update and correction: Peacock will stream the games in 4K and 1080p HDR, but won’t offer personalized audio controls as previously stated.
[Link: Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos to Power Telemundo’s FIFA World Cup ™ 2026 Coverage on Peacock, a Streaming First | https://news.dolby.com/en-WW/266633-dolby-vision-and-dolby-atmos-to-power-telemundo-s-fifa-world-cup-2026-coverage-on-peacock-a-streaming-first/ | Dolby Newsroom]
Nieman Lab·2026-06-04
With its new season, the podcast Scene on Radio takes on the newsFor more than a decade, the podcast Scene on Radio has dedicated each season to one big topic: whiteness , men and the origins of misogyny , climate change , and capitalism , among others. Now, after seven seasons, the team is turning the lens inward with a season called The News . The first two episodes dropped last week. We started talking about doing a media season probably five years ago, said
Variety·2026-05-27T21:02:28Z
Byron Allen Closes BuzzFeed Acquisition, Says Company Is Now 'Officially Chasing YouTube'Byron Allen now is the majority owner of BuzzFeed -- the struggling digital media player that Allen plans to use to launch a free-streaming platform that he imagines will rival video colossus YouTube.
