Following a surprising uptick in March, the U.S. ad market expanded just 1.7% in April, its weakest growth since September 2023, based on data from Guideline's U.S. Ad Market Tracker. Read the full story by Joe Mandese

With House of Sport stores, fast-growing private labels, and smart cultural plays, Dick's Sporting Goods is scoring big with young athletes. Read the full story by Sarah Mahoney

Canvas Worldwide CEO Paul Woolmington encourages employees to create their own AI-based projects and tools. He is working on a few of his own, including one called Bullfighter, although he's … Read the full story by Laurie Sullivan

In the now-defunct deal, the companies would have built connected in-vehicle experiences. Read the full story by Tanya Gazdik

Three former Microsoft employees have built tech that breaks out numbers to help companies better understand what they spend on GAI. Every query costs even if it's bundled into an … Read the full story by Laurie Sullivan

YouTube (including YouTube TV) had 340 billion streaming minutes in April and YouTube (without YouTube TV) had 288 billion - vs. Netflix at 177 billion. In Q1, YouTube had 27% … Read the full story by Wayne Friedman

As many people do when suing other people, Trump and his lawyers set their monetary demand by picking an outlandish number out of thin air. Read the full story by Adam Buckman

Or so says a sizzle reel attached to a press release announcing the rebrand, explaining it was to create "One company. One vision. One platform integrated across the WPP network … Read the full story by Joe Mandese

New York Attorney General Letitia James can proceed with a lawsuit alleging that TikTok harms young users' mental health, a state court judge in Manhattan has ruled. Read the full story by Wendy Davis

The App Store Accountability Act, set to take effect January 1, will require Google and Apple to verify users' ages and block minors under 18 from downloading apps without parental … Read the full story by Wendy Davis

Connoisseurs of "My 600-lb Life" on TLC will likely notice a significant difference between that show and the new obesity docuseries Lifetime introduced this week. Read the full story by Adam Buckman

Disney, in second place, dropped 7% to 10.7% vs. 11.5% share a year ago, but gained 0.2 percentage points from March of this year. Read the full story by Wayne Friedman

This show about a family business in Louisiana that manufactures and sells duck calls became the phenomenon of its era. Read the full story by Adam Buckman

The Supreme Court on Tuesday turned away personal injury law firm Lerner & Rowe, which had sought to revive a lawsuit over the use of its trademarks to trigger search … Read the full story by Wendy Davis

This column begins with a conversation I had with Horizon Media's Bill Koenigsberg one month ago -- about a week before news broke that WPP was rebranding GroupM as "WPP … Read the full story by Joe Mandese