You don't get to meet all of them, no matter how long you toil on the TV beat. But you do cross paths with a great many of them. Here … Read the full story by Adam Buckman
Sadly, 2016 has ended with a tsunami of unexpected celebrity deaths, each shocking and hard to process in its own way. Read the full story by
The supply of consumer attention to digital media crashed to a seasonal low on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, but showed some spikes -- especially for desktop browsers -- in … Read the full story by Joe Mandese
In the by-product category, it's already selling a cleaner made with water used in olive oil production, and vegan mayo, which uses repurposed liquid from cooking chickpeas. Read the full story by Sarah Mahoney
Consumers were generally unaware of the fake business until 2016. But for years, phony operators have been pretending to serve ads going to fake Web sites and being seen by … Read the full story by P.J. Bednarski
This dilemma has been complicated by the fact that many brands have inadvertently placed their ads on fake news sites via programmatic buys. Read the full story by Devon Wijesinghe
Adding to Facebook's "fake news" woes, exaggerated reports caused its Safety Check feature to send out a false alarm on Tuesday. After a number of stories reported an explosion in … Read the full story by Gavin O'Malley
It looks like the German government is serious about its proposed ban on fake news. In the latest development, the German Ministry of Justice revealed that it is considering levying … Read the full story by Erik Sass
"2017 is going to provide an interesting opportunity for news organizations, thanks to voice-activated personal home assistants," says Ray Soto, design director of emerging technologies at USA Today Network. Read the full story by Jack Loechner
"The Washington Post" plans to expand its newsroom by about 60 journalists in early 2017 -- a large number of hires at a time when many publishers are making staff … Read the full story by Sara Guaglione
Six non-news networks among the top 30 cable TV channels showed total viewer prime-time gains in 2016: HGTV, Hallmark Channel, Investigation Discovery, Bravo, TV Land and Nick Jr. Fox News … Read the full story by Wayne Friedman
U.S. advertisers invested $17.6 billion in digital advertising during the third quarter of 2016, according to the latest IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report released Wednesday by the Interactive Advertising Bureau. Read the full story by Laurie Sullivan
Holiday online sales grew 10.7% year-over-year to $79.2 billion, according to a report from Adobe Digital Insights -- and email helped drive as much as a fifth of revenue. Read the full story by Jess Nelson
If the ongoing presidential campaign was this year's dominant TV show -- which it was -- then the year's top TV star was Donald Trump. Read the full story by Adam Buckman
Digital newsstand app Texture has curated a list of the most-covered people in 2016 on magazines published this year. It comes as no surprise that President-elect Donald Trump took the … Read the full story by Sara Guaglione
Recently a media buyer asked me, in the course of a presentation, whether certain insights were modeled. It's a good question, sort of. When I qualified the answer, telling him … Read the full story by Ted McConnell
The big new thing often starts out being dismissed as a toy. Facebook, Snapchat, virtual reality, bots, emoji, messaging -- what marketer took them seriously at the beginning? What marketer … Read the full story by Josh Engroff
"Would you rather lose a limb or never be able to access the Internet?" My daughter looked at me, waiting for my answer. "Well?" Read the full story by Gord Hotchkiss
Amazon's Echo may become a star witness in a first-degree, hot-tub murder investigation. An Arkansas judge issued a search warrant for data inside an Amazon Echo in a case related … Read the full story by Chuck Martin
Right on the heels of information that police are seeking past voice data thought to be recorded on Amazon's Echo, comes word from the company that a huge number more … Read the full story by Chuck Martin
In 2014, MediaPost named The Media Kitchen our "Search (Programmatic) Agency of the Year," our first ever recognition for that category, largely because it did away with a siloed way … Read the full story by Joe Mandese
At a time when big brands and agencies have been struggling to adapt to the declining efficacy of television advertising, BBDO reinvented itself as a "video" agency and shifted its … Read the full story by Joe Mandese
It was a great accomplishment for Acronym to get a patent for a mapping system in secure search -- a feat that the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office called "impossible." … Read the full story by Laurie Sullivan
John Moore, global president, MullenLowe Mediahub, said in a recent interview that "my favorite media is inventing it. Media is everywhere and only limited by your imagination." In 2016, MullenLowe … Read the full story by Steve McClellan
What sets Hearts & Science apart is its ability to pair human insights and creativity with data -- not just machine-to-machine, data-driven audience acquisition. At its core, the agency focuses … Read the full story by Tobi Elkin
Martin Cass may joke about being mistaken for that other Martin -- Sorrell -- but he's actually CEO of Assembly and MDC Media Partners, the media agency umbrella group responsible … Read the full story by Larissa Faw
There had been augmented-reality games before. Even Niantic, the Google-spun-off company behind Pokemon Go, had created their own game, Ingress, in 2012, that also melded the real world with an … Read the full story by Aaron Baar
Selecting a Media Agency of the Year isn't always clear for the editors of this trade publication. Often, it is like picking a needle out of a haystack, sorting through … Read the full story by Joe Mandese
While the use of ad blockers has been reaching a critical mass for years, no supplier has become more associated with the phenomenon on Madison Avenue than Adblock Plus. That's … Read the full story by Joe Mandese
Sources from different social-media arenas give us their takes on what will shape the coming year. Read the full story by Thom Forbes
Back in October, 24-year-old Dentsu Japan employee Matsuri Takahashi committed suicide after routinely working 100-plus hours of overtime each month. Read the full story by Richard Whitman
There's been quite a bit of transformation for email in recent years. Here are five important changes to watch for in 2017: Read the full story by April Mullen
Publicis New York is using its talents to raise awareness for Syrian refugees through a passion project with Doctors of the World, a human-rights organization that provides long-term medical assistance … Read the full story by Larissa Faw