MediaDailyNews Editions for April 2026
MediaDailyNews - Monday, April 20, 2026
ARF's McDonald Retiring, Second Ad Trade Chief Search Begins
Nexstar To Appeal Federal Judge's Hold On Tegna Acquisition
Omnicom Launches Frequency Probe, Finds 'Negative Reach'
Magnite, AMC Global Media Partner On Programmatic
FTC Withdraws Demand For Information From NewsGuard
Predictive Betting Sites Are Not News: Opinion
Zig-Zag To 4/20 Stoners: Slow It Down
TransPerfect Acquires Italy's Studio Emme
Remembering The Far-Out Kids' Shows Of Sid And Marty Krofft
Paramount Meets Advertisers: What's Up With Upfront Pricing?
With 'The Mandalorian & Grogu,' Archer Meats Finds Its Big-Deal Moment
The Google Analytics 'Blind Spot'
Brands Bought All The AI, Forgot To Fix The Chaos, Merkle Says
Navigating The Fallout Of The WPP Whistleblower Suit
ChatGPT Ads Need Performance Metrics Before OpenAI Goes Public
WPP Media Wins KFC, Pizza Hut Singapore Assignments
Open Beta Door: Email Service For Agents Is Now Being Publicly Tested
Business Group Backs South Carolina Social Media Restrictions
Google Used AI To Help It Block 8.3B Malicious Ads
Meta Redesigns Threads Website, Tests DMs & Shortcuts
Roku Surpasses 100M Global Households
MediaDailyNews - Friday, April 17, 2026
ANA Opens Search For Liodice Successor
Vox Media Is Likely To Sell Individual Units, Not The Whole Company
IAB: Ad Revenue Reached $294.6B In 2025
'NOTUS' To Rebrand As 'The Star' In June
Stagwell Expands 'Owned Media' Management Team
Pinterest's Plea: 'Put Down Your Phones'
Netflix Q1 Ad Buys +16%, Expected To Double This Year
Cartoon Cat Is a Real Butt-Head In Amazon's 'Kevin'
Albertsons Media Adds Incrementality Measurement
Threads Expands Social Media Management Functionality
YouTube Lets Users Remove Shorts From Its Home Feed Via Timer Setting
Predictable Irrationality In TV And Streaming Ad-Buying
What Barbie Learned From Her First Trip To Coachella
Virginia AG Fights To Restore Mandatory Social Media Time Limits
Google, Meta, Apple Petition To Throw Out Gambling Apps Suit
Authenticity Is Only KPI That Can't Be Automated, But Brands Will Try Anyway
Roku Surpasses 100M Global Households
Apple TV: When Will Ad Revenue Be Part Of The Plan?
Conde Nast Shrinks: Publisher Is Closing 'Self' And Several 'Glamour' Editions
Why It's Best For Marketers To Reach Gen Z On The Go
Nudify Apps Remain A Problem In App Stores
LIV Gold League Coverage Suffers Outage On Thursday
MediaDailyNews - Thursday, April 16, 2026
Amazon Sellers Boycott Ads
Nielsen Provides Inaccurate Metrics, NBCUniversal Exec Charges
FTC Targets Brand Safety Under Guise Of Fighting 'Censorship'
Crossover Media Group Appoints John Murphy To New Position
Cannes Unveils Lions Juries, Dentsu's Swayne Joins Media Roster
Court Green-Lights Cumulus Media Restructuring
Brands Blur Lines Between Ads, Entertainment
Reddit Launches HubSpot Beta Integration To 'Close A Loop'
Snooki Waves Good-Bye As 'Jersey Shore' Has Final Season
Maine Rejects Broad Privacy Bill
Are We Witnessing The Death Of The Media Plan?
Meta Lowers Technical Barriers To Win New Advertisers
Social Platforms Keep Teens Hooked, Parents Keep Losing The Argument
Paramount-WBD Merger? Theater Owners Expect Even Tougher Times
No Attention, No Outcomes
Nielsen Top-Rated 2025-26 Programs: Netflix, CBS Score Big
Snap To Cut 1,000 Jobs, Embrace AI Efficiency During 'Crucible Moment'
MediaDailyNews - Wednesday, April 15, 2026
FTC: Dentsu, Publicis, WPP To Discontinue 'Brand Safety' Standards
Google Replacing Dynamic Search Ads With 'AI Max'
AI In Marketing: ATM Or iPhone?
YouTube To Pause Ads During Peak Livestream Engagement
How To Influence Future Voters
Amazon Autos Broadens Reach, Deepens Inventory
Viant DSP Buys TVision For $40M
TikTok Expands 'Symphony,' Offers AI Video For Brands, Creators
Amazon Ads Donates Framework To Improve Ad Bidstreams
Yelp Survey Finds Most Use AI Search, Few Trust It
PBS 'Nova' Scoops Discovery In Artemis Space Race
Southwest Airlines Hires First Chief Digital/Marketing Officer
Bollore Strengthens Control Of Havas, Reports 'Solid' Quarter
Alabama Lawmakers Pass Privacy Bill Opposed By Advocates
Algorithmic Targeting Is Messing With Our Zeitgeist
Amazon Biopharma Research Debuts With AI Agents
Virginia Governor Signs Law Banning Sales Of Location Data
Amazon, Roku Maintain Strong Streaming Positions
Scaling The Paywall: 'The Washington Post' Uses A/B Tests To Tweak Its Marketing
Can Hollywood Talent, Creative Impact Paramount-WBD Deal?
Interest In Local News Declines, Media Patterns Shift
Axle AI Unveils Media Composer Panel For Search And Editing
Mediaite's One Sheet Newsletter Contained Fake Quotes And Misattributions, Semafor Says
Endangered Iowa Newspapers Saved By Nelson Media
MediaDailyNews - Tuesday, April 14, 2026
ANA Urges FTC To Avoid Mandating 'Easy' Cancellation Tools
Nielsen: Move Along, Nothing To See Here (*)
Roblox Moves Ahead With Age-Specific Accounts For Kids
Advertising's Biggest Headwind Is, Well, You
As In Days Of Old, TV Took Us To The Moon And Back
The $165B 'Annoyance Economy' -- Friction Is The Business Model
Meta Set To Surpass Google In 2026 Ad Revenue
Why Targeting A 'Civilization' Has Gen Z Deeply Concerned
Appeals Court Rejects Virginia Bid To Reinstate Time Limits For Social Media
X Prioritizes Original Content By Cutting Aggregator Payouts
OpenX Repositions As 'Intelligent SSP'
Don't Forsake Humans To Appease Bots: Flywheel's Camarota
'The Wall Street Journal' Trumps Trump In Defamation Case - Pending Appeal
Amazon Close To Acquiring Satellite Telecom Firm
Survey Reveals News Outlets Are Not Seen As 'Trustworthy'
Dollar General, QSIC Partner To Expand Chain's In-Store Audio Network
Nexstar To Use NewsNation Content On Local TV Stations
MediaDailyNews - Monday, April 13, 2026
FTC Expands Political Bias Probe, Expects Agency 'Settlements' Soon
Agencies Using Google Ads Hit With Phishing Scams
When Was The Golden Age Of Media Services Agencies?
Retail Marketers Talk Big Game, Budgets Tell A Different Story
Local Ad Spend Forecast Revised To +8.1% This Year
Stagwell Taps Publicis' Souza As Chief Growth Officer NA
'DMV,' 'Watson' On Short List Of Network Cancellations This Season
Sorry, You Can't Measure That (And Who Really Wants To?)
Meta Must Face Massachusetts AG's Addiction Suit
VML, WPP Media Help Recruit U.S. Navy Healthcare
Gamers May Have A Future In Air Traffic Control
AT&T, Verizon Press SCOTUS To Nix Privacy Fines
Navigating The AI 'Say-Do' Gap
2026 Best Movie Theater Start Since Pre-Pandemic
TiVo Builds Performance Data Play From Home To Car
Deeper Influencer Messaging For Linear's Old-School Ad Ecosystem?
Meta Vows To Appeal Two Recent Verdicts
Scammers Conduct Fraudulent Investment Schemes, NY AG Warns
'The Economist' To Feature Its Writers In New Mobile App Product
Why Local Media Firms Are Having A Tougher Time Selling Advertising
MediaDailyNews - Friday, April 10, 2026
WPP Creates Chief Transformation Role, Taps Estee Lauder's Choueiri To Fill It
Watchdogs To Court: Lift Amazon's Perplexity Ban
Svedka Fembot Returns With 'Svedphone,' Y2K-Era Flip Phone Easing Digital Burnout
AMC Has The 'Audacity' To Take On Silicon Valley
Offside: Trump Admin Steps Over NFL Media Line
TikTok Adds Wix Integration For SMB Brands
Amazon CEO's Case For Major AI Spend
Arkansas Petitions To Reinstate Restrictions On Social Media Algorithms
TikTok To Build Second Finland Data Center For EU User Info Storage
Search Fills Gaps For AI Chat Queries
Consumers Want Video, Brands Keep Sending Emails Anyway
B2B Marketers Discover 'Revenue' After Years Of Enjoying Activities
Justice Department Probes NFL As Consumers Say Watching Football Is Too Expensive
OpenAI Projects $100 Billion In Ad Revenue By 2030
Judge Says Pentagon Violated His Order To Restore Access For 'NYT' Journalists
Meta Pulls Ads That Would Recruit Clients for Social Media Addiction Lawsuits
MediaDailyNews - Thursday, April 9, 2026
P&G Sets Multibrand Deal With WNBA
AMC Networks Changes Name To AMC Global Media
The Media-Buying Singularity Is Almost Here: Upfront 2031-32
A Third Of U.S. Streaming Ad Spend Is By Firms That Run On All 9 Platforms
Greece To Impose Teen Social Media Ban
American Public Media Unveils Inform Media Network
How Reddit Made The Privacy-First Ad Measurement Shift
Christian Siebeneck Joins Public Media Management In Technology Role
Jung von Matt SPREE To Lead VW's Global Social Media
Disney, Google Seek Dismissal Of Children's Privacy Claims
'Malcolm in the Middle' Gets Updated In New Hulu Series
Prediction Markets: Do Networks Need More Transparency About How They Work?
Luxury Is Back, And Media Buyers Can Finally Stop Whispering About It
What Most Brands Get Wrong Measuring Influencer Marketing ROI
Creators Of ICE Reporting Tools Press Censorship Claim Against Trump Admin
Automotive TV Spending Falls 31% In March
Finding Future AI Stars
Agency Consultancy Acquires Amazon Ads Expert
Jeff Shell Leaves Paramount In Quick Exit
MediaDailyNews - Wednesday, April 8, 2026
TikTok Ad Chief Khartoon Weiss Leaving For 'New Opportunity'
Media Consolidation Could Harm Press Freedom: Opinion
Upfront 2026-27: 'What's A Network?'
Amagi Unveils An Agentic AI Platform That Will Choose And Package Stories
Scripps Sports To Air Nashville Predators Games
Netflix Launches Ad-Free 'Playground' For Kids
Publicis, Microsoft Partner On Agentic Marketing
Sony To Lay Off A Few Hundred Employees In Operational Restructuring
Anthropic Hits $30B, Unveils Massive Cybersecurity Project
OpenAI, Disney: Looking To Save Part Of Deal?
TikTok, HubSpot Integration Unifying Campaign Management
Peacock's 'Miniature Wife' Is Less Than Meets The Eye
LinkedIn Hit With Privacy Suits Over Browser Scans
Google Battles SerpApi Over Scraping
Amazon Wins Content Olympics While Everyone Else Brings Snacks
AP's Acute Therapy: News Service Offers Buyouts As It Moves From Legacy Business
More Sports On Linear, Streamers? There's A Price To Pay
The Ever-Changing Role Of The Upfront In 2026
MediaDailyNews - Tuesday, April 7, 2026
CBS To Fill 'Colbert' Time Slot With 'Comics Unleashed'
Trump Threatens Jail Time To Reporters If They Don't Name Leaker
Can An Ad Industry Award Save Democracy?
'The American Prospect' Says It Will No Longer Run Programmatic Ads
Google Tests AdSense Privacy Updates In Two Phases
Former 'Daily News' Co-Owner Fred Drasner Dies At 83
Musk Said To Demand SpaceX IPO Investors Buy Grok Subs, Advertise On X
'Wall Street Journal' EIC Praises 'Fortune's' Use Of AI
Billionaires Owning The Media - But Do They Rename The Media?
Lego Calls In Real-Life Luke To Hype Smart Bricks
Meta Hybrid Superintelligence Could Shift To Mostly Closed AI Models
AI Research Is Now The Default, Not The Experiment, For B2B Buyers
Amazon Accused Of Scraping Videos To Train AI
How Parents Won: The Case That Changed Social Media Liability
When Google AI 'Ghosts' The Experts Who Fed It
No One Was Laughing This April Fool's Day
TikTok, SoundOn Aim To Further Protect Musicians' Licensed Work
SCOTUS Scraps Copyright Infringement Verdict Against Grande
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