Hey, Google Assistant sounds like John Legend (and other advances from Google I/O)
Google promoted its advances in artificial intelligence by showing how machines can make phone calls just like humansand even sound like John Legend. In a...
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Record labels reap more than $1 billion selling Spotify stakes
Two of the three major record labels stand to gain more than $1 billion after selling stakes in Spotify Technology SA, the streaming music company...
Vice buys events company to pitch marketers on experiential events
Vice Media has bought a Brooklyn-based events production company as the publisher eyes producing more events for its editorial properties and advertising clients. Vice Media’s...
Google is revamping Google News with more video and higher speed
Google is revamping Google News with a new design that will incorporate elements of the Newsstand app and YouTube, according to people familiar with the...
Cambridge Analytica shuts all operations
Cambridge Analytica, the political-consulting firm at the center of a data-collection and privacy scandal, said it’s shutting down all operations and has begun insolvency proceedings...
Digiday Research: Marketers’ transparency fears are leading to renegotiated contracts
At the Digiday Media Buying Summit in March in New Orleans, we sat down with 63 media-buying executives to learn about advertisers’ media transparency fears....
Twitter sold Cambridge Analytica researcher public data access
Twitter sold data access to the Cambridge University academic who also obtained millions of Facebook users’ information that was later passed to a political consulting...
T-Mobile calling for merger with Sprint
T-Mobile U.S. and its German owners are advancing toward a long-awaited telecommunications union that would value merger partner Sprint at about $24 billion, according to...
Digiday Research: Nearly 40 percent of retailers have a subscription product
At the Digiday Retail Summit in February in Austin, Texas, we sat down with 53 retail executives to learn how they’re employing subscriptions, addressing customer...
Amazon’s advertising play pays off with $2 billion quarter
Amazon more than doubled its advertising revenue in the first quarter, demonstrating that the e-commerce giant is reaping the benefits of an aggressive shift into...
Advertisers signal to Facebook they want more data, not less
Advertisers are more concerned Facebook will cut off access to data than they are about privacy, it seems. Far from boycotting the social network over...
Digiday Research: Amazon dominates digital retail media
At the Digiday Media Buying Summit last month in New Orleans, we sat down with 63 media-buying executives to learn their thoughts on running ad...
Viacom agrees to deliver a new slate of shows to Snapchat
Viacom says it has renewed the Snapchat versions of “Girl Code” and “Cribs,” a pair of MTV shows tweaked for the Snapchat audience, and is...
Facebook to show pre-roll video ads in more places
Facebook will show pre-roll adscommercials ahead of videosin more places on the social network. On Friday, the company revealed the expansion of pre-roll ads, a...
Once focused on scale, Hearst is cutting back on aggregation and viral fluff
Digital scale used to be the watchword at Hearst Magazines, but it’s now joining the stampede to original reporting. Back in January 2017, only one...
Amazon now has 100 million paid Prime subscribers, Jeff Bezos says
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said the e-commerce giant has exceeded 100 million paid Prime subscribers and will continue to invest to meet “ever-rising” customer expectations....
