Dollar Shave Club is running a 60-second spot in which a CEO at a rival razor firm asks: “Why don’t we just replace everybody with AI?”, Retail Wire reports. Has the brand gone too far in introducing AI in a commercial? 

The media industry eliminated 17,000 jobs through the first 11 months of 2025, according to data from Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inside Radio reports. As in past years, this was largely due to mergers, technological change and changing consumer habits.   

Washington State is imposing a 10.35% surcharge on every firm that utilizes digital advertising, according to the Tacoma News Tribune. This will hurt small businesses, the News Tribune reports.

Top artificial intelligence (AI) companies, which have spent more than $300 million on advertising in one year, have moved a least a small share of those dollars to out-of-home advertising.