Amazon wrote the first chapter of retail media, but Meta is writing the next one, Retail TouchPoints reports. Partnerships with such retailers as Kroger, Walmart and Best Buy are changing retail media execution. The second wave of retail media is about making retailer data actionable offsite in measurable ways.  

Elon Musk testified on Wednesday that he did not realize social media posts he wrote in 2022 prompted some Twitter shareholders to think he could be backing out of his proposed purchase of the social media site. He did not realize his comments would significantly affect Twitter’s share price. Musk was testifying in a shareholder lawsuit.

Yahoo has sold Engadget, its tech news website, to Static Media, The Verge reports. “This move reflects Yahoo’s focus on our core brands, while aligning Engadget with an owner whose primary focus is operating and growing editorial media brands,“ says Sona Iliffe-Moon, Yahoo’s chief communications officer, in a statement. This move includes a broader Yahoo partnership with Static Media.

News Corp. has signed a deal with Meta that will allow the parent company of Facebook and Instagram’s to scrape News Corp’s U.S. and U.K. content to train its artificial-intelligence products. The deal is worth up to $50 million a year, and runs for three years. Robert Thomson, chief executive of News Corp., said the firm’s content is “hard to beat” as an “input” for AI.

Bloomberg clients can now customize their subscriptions to Bloomberg’s Real-Time News Feeds to focus on news about companies, securities and global macro themes, Markets Media reports. This is being done with “tickerized” versions of the News Feeds that reduces manual processing and allows users to integrate targeted news inputs into their trading and risk workflows. 

TikTok has doubled the number of people using it since 2021, Pew Research Center reports. The social channel now draws 37% of U.S. adults. This includes 44% of people ages 30 to 49, 30% of those 50 to 64 and 12% of individuals age 65 and older. And overall, 20% are on TikTok constantly. 

The Omaha World-Herald is closing its local printing operation at the end of this month, and like several other Nebraska newspapers, will be printed in Des Moines, Iowa, Nebraska Public Media reports. Nathan Bekke, president and interim CEO of Lee Enterprises, told the World Herald that “we are committed to building sustainable local news media organizations. Achieving that goal requires optimizing our legacy cost structure so that we can meaningfully invest in our digital future and continue providing essential, community-centered local journalism.”

Media Do International, Inc., is acquiring Seven Seas Entertainment, Inc., reportedly one of the largest independently owned manga publishers in the English-language market, for $80 million, Publishers Weekly reports. Sales at Seven Seas had hit $50.4 million in 2024, which was slightly down from pandemic levels. Media Do International is the U.S. subsidiary of Tokyo-based Media Do Ltd. 

Almost 70% of CTV advertisers plan to increase their spending, with an average hike of 17%, according to the 2026 CTV/OTT Advertiser Survey, Advanced Television reports. Of that funding, 25% is coming from overall ad budget growth and the remainder from other channels. Advertisers are driven, in part, by CTV’s ability to reach opt-in audiences (44%).

Outfront Media and AdQuick have formed a multi-year partnership through which AdQuick will license its OOH says cloud product to Outfront, Digital Signage Today reports. In addition, AdQuick will invest invest up to $20 million in AdQuick at certain milestones.