Microsoft this week announced it has "built important guardrails" into its Copilot's AI products to help respect authors' copyrights. This new commitment extends Microsoft's existing intellectual
property support to commercial Copilot services and builds on its previous AI Customer Commitments.
Zeropark, a global commerce media platform, brought 1.4 million clicks programmatically in early tests for brands including Chipotle, AARP, Wayfair, Zenni Optical and others.
CNET deleted thousands of articles to improve its site performance in Google Search results, adding to the controversy over articles recently written by AI chatbots after laying off part of its
staff.
A research study explored the complexity of bidding environments and how current solutions perform for advertisers.
Messages about economic forecasts are mixed and muddled this year. Third-party data and research companies have divergent views on how consumers will spend money. McKinsey & Associates released data
in June that suggests "optimism is trending upward, but spending isn't."
Brands can expect more targeted ads closer to the point of sale as generative AI continues to roll out at Google and Microsoft, according to recently released insights.
On average, one in five domain-name system requests from a browser ask to load an ad or tracking domain. That means nearly 20% of internet traffic is junk -- mostly ads, according to AdGuard.
BeatSting is costing advertisers up to $1 million per month by creating fraudulent inventory that allows fraudsters to siphon money from legitimate audio channels and apps.
BDG has acquired ten companies in less than a decade. But it isn't about the transaction. A successful M&A boils down to culture, transparency, and integration. Bustle Digital Group's Executive Vice
President, Sharmi Gandhi, shared lessons learned from overseeing many of these deals. She explores how companies can prepare pre-close to set up a successful acquisition post-close.
The Google News Initiative is working with the American Journalism Project to find U.S.-based founders with innovative ideas that can advance local news online.
More marketers plan to increase rather than decrease ad and marketing budgets in 2023, according to a study spanning B2C and B2B from NP Digital.
Facebook's Q3 Widely Viewed Content Report shows just one in the top 20 posts qualified as engagement bait, vs.100% a year earlier. For the first time since the report has been produced, none of the
top 20 posts violated platform rules. The Widely Viewed Content Report aims to provide transparency and context about what people see on Facebook by sharing the most-viewed domains, links, Pages and
posts for a given quarter on Feed in the United States.
Consumer trust in a brand is crucial to purchase decisions. Some 51% of consumers say online content adjacency influences their trust in a brand, and 69% say their level of trust influences their
decision to engage with a brand's products and services.
NowThis pioneered social video news distribution to capture young audiences where they spend time. NowThis/Vox's Publisher, Athan Stephanopoulos, explores how to be agile in the face of a constantly
changing landscape and where consumption is happening as well as the challenge of monetization models that have yet to catch up to audiences.
Tubular Labs, which provides insights from a variety of platforms, added data from search and domain activity to its Consumer Insights product to support advertisers, creators and publishers.
As one of the world's leading brand licensors, Meredith has had commerce in its DNA for decades. Online, the company has learned from its innovations across every emerging e-comm opportunity. From
shoppable video to inspiration-to-shopping cart deep integrations with retailers like Walmart, GM of Commerce Content Chloe Reznikov walks us through how these next-gen e-comm models bring publishers
way beyond the affiliate link.
Advertisers thought they bought billions of ads on one Gannett site, but they were actually served on other ones, according to the research.
More U.S. consumers say misinformation is a major problem, exposing a significant trust gap.
Publishers using Next-Gen Solutions -- now available for the open web -- must also have adopted Yahoo ConnectID, which enhances audience matching, enabling advertisers to deliver more relevant
messaging.
In 2020, The New York Times added a record 2.3 million digital-only subscriptions, bringing its subscriptions to digital products and print newspaper to more than 7.5 million. By focusing on improving
the reader experience, the Times has built stronger relationships with its subscribers and knows what type of information and storytelling resonates with their influential audience. Hear how The Times
is focusing on fewer higher quality ads and using its first-party data to offer targeting, based on emotional states and reader motivations, to provide more powerful ad experiences.
"The vast majority of the sites spreading election misinformation a year ago have continued to promote the narrative that the election was not legitimate, while defending, downplaying, or redirecting
blame for the riot," NewsGuard's analysts note in the new report.
Media veracity watchdog NewsGuard published its annual list of best and worst informers of the year, including the top 10 "misinformers" generating the most engagement.
OpenWeb on Thursday announced a partnership with NewsGuard to help OpenWeb combat disinformation and ensure it only partners with publishers publishing quality, reliable news.
Pew finds a large majority of U.S. adults (84%) say they get news from a smartphone, computer or tablet "often" or "sometimes," according to the research.
GoodRx launched GoodRx Health on Thursday to provide research-based answers to vital health questions.
Criteo participated in Google's first FLoC Origin Trial in an effort to understand the audience cohorts. The Yandex browser also creates FLoC cohorts.
Among the top 22 market-share holders in skincare, 17 are publishers or informational websites -- capturing 62.34% of available search traffic.
Marketers test and optimize websites and content served by Google and Microsoft search engines only to find that consumers add items to their carts they may never intend to buy. Here's why.
Seventy-six percent of Yahoo users say their mental health has been impacted in the past year, a Verizon Media Study finds. "We're creating a space where it's okay to not be okay," said Guru
Gowrappan, CEO, Verizon Media.
Readers in the younger age groups will subscribe to newsletters if they trust the publisher and find the content meaningful, Jeeng reports.