The World Federation of Advertisers and Elon Musk's X Corp. have settled a nearly two-year-old antitrust suit over the now defunct Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM). Read the full story by Wendy DavisJoe Mandese

Overall U.S. ad spending surged 19%, while national TV ad spending jumped 36% vs. June 2025. The World Cup boost is expected to have a similar impact in July. Read the full story by Joe Mandese

The drone delivery business will allow DoorDash to explore a variety of agentic AI ordering opportunities and a partnership with companies like Shopify. Some of these opportunities for media buyers … Read the full story by Laurie Sullivan

Today's IAB Tech Lab release introduces new capabilities intended to make agentic deployments more practical and move into production. The updated framework was designed to improve consumer privacy and regulations … Read the full story by Laurie Sullivan

Most robotics companies seem to be focused on building humanoids. And if they’re not humanoid, they tend to resemble other things familiar to us like dogs or cars. There does … Read the full story by Maarten Albarda

LinkedIn is rethinking its strategy for AI-generated content on the platform's main feed, nixing AI-first publishing features while inviting users to mark probable AI slop for deletion. Read the full story by Colin Kirkland

Marketing experts call the tactic "newsjacking" - using a trending story to promote a product or message. Read the full story by Tanya Gazdik

NBC with its new "Sunday Night Baseball" deal has spiked 51% to 2.5 million Nielsen-measured average viewers, with games airing on the NBC TV Network and Peacock from March 26-July … Read the full story by Wayne Friedman

The teaser opens on a woman expressing displeasure about a male shopper, with comments such as, "A man is shopping my Instacart, thoughts and prayers," and "Male Instacart shopper, lord … Read the full story by Teresa Buyikian

"A CBS News poll found that 4 in 10 people say they are now buying or eating less produce to avoid the "explosive diarrhea" parasite that causes cyclosporiasis," according to … Read the full story by Tanya Gazdik

"The FCC seeks to censor Disney's and ABC's speech and send a chilling message to all broadcasters: carry speech we don't like at your peril," ex-FCC leaders say. Read the full story by Wendy Davis

If the merger is still in limbo when next year's upfront cycle begins, we'll see advertisers and media buyers do what they always do when facing uncertainty. Read the full story by Cory Treffiletti

It is difficult to see how this merger will leave consumers with fewer entertainment choices. Read the full story by Adam Buckman

First CBS News. If Paramount ultimately gets its hands on CNN, it may make "The Daily Show" live up to its tagline: "America's only source for news." Read the full story by Joe Mandese

The organic revenue figure Omnicom reports is based on gross revenue that does not exclude pass-through costs such as those related to principal-based trading, which competitors like Publicis and WPP … Read the full story by Steve McClellan

Madison & Wall commented that the firm's growth was stronger than most groups other than Publicis. Read the full story by Steve McClellan

WPP Media CEO Brian Lesser asked Green whether he felt The Trade Desk was misunderstood and Green responded in the affirmative. Read the full story by Steve McClellan