
News
The industry ratings watchdog disclosed major problems with Nielsen's Big Data + panel measurement service causing "seemingly unusual changes" in its audience estimates, including a double-digit
decline in adults 25-54 … Read the full story by Joe Mandese

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Private label is growing twice as fast as national brands. What comes next is as much about marketing as it is about M&A. Read the full story by Sarah Mahoney

News
The Children and Teens' Online Privacy Protection Act would expand the current federal children's privacy law by prohibiting website and app operators from serving behaviorally targeted ads to users
under … Read the full story by Wendy Davis

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Noem faced bipartisan criticism over the commercials during U.S. congressional hearings this week. Read the full story by Tanya Gazdik

Commentary
The social-first push for its new exfoliating products aims to make an "old" brand smell young again. Read the full story by Sarah Mahoney

News
"The original clip of Chris Kempczinski tasting the Big Arch has already been viewed more than 4.5 million times," according to "Forbes." Read the full story by Tanya Gazdik

Commentary
My runner-up headline was: "Sex Sells, Even If It's AI-Generated." There were other great choices for today's "3.0," but 68% of you will have to keep reading to find out. Read the full story by Joe Mandese

Commentary
With its cheapest iPhone and laptop ever, the tech giant is making a calculated move into a contracting market. Read the full story by Sarah Mahoney
Commentary
In a world where Meta's Manus, and Google's and Amazon's equivalents, offer soup-to-nuts, full stack, end-to-end agency solutions, who needs agencies? Read the full story by Maarten Albarda

Commentary
That's the headline Google's NotebookLM wrote when I asked it to help me draft this column on a new report about how agencies need to evolve their AI business models. Read the full story by Joe Mandese

Commentary
Information asymmetry has been the cornerstone of brand value, enabling marketers to both sell more and sell for more. AI changes that. Read the full story by J. Walker Smith

Commentary
Trump already accounts for a third of all unilateral military strikes, more than a quarter of all "emergency" declarations, and two-thirds of all SCOTUS "emergency docket" rulings. Why the bum-rush? Read the full story by Joe Mandese