Meta said it will continue to invest billions of dollars on AI infrastructure, which will help propel its advertising revenue. Meta, parent company of social media platforms Facebook and Instagram, reported a 22% increase in revenue for 2024, generating $164.50 billion. For Q4, revenue increased 21% year over year to $48.36 billion. Advertising generated roughly […]

An industry narrative is emerging that has the potential to exacerbate the structural flaws in digital advertising rather than usher us into a new paradigm. Some of our industry’s sharpest minds are claiming that we are entering the Outcomes Era.  Instead, I posit that we have been in the Outcomes Era for over a decade. […]

Fox hopes to launch a DTC product by the end of 2025, an announcement that alleviates questions of how Fox will respond to cord-cutting.

Here’s how content marketing used to work: Create great content for your website, and you would attract the attention of potential customers. But with artificial intelligence (AI) rewriting the rules, what happens when this basic principle no longer applies?

The 2024 Ad Quality Report found that over 70% of users now perceive at least half of online ads as untrustworthy—a trend fueled by a 10% year-over-year surge in malvertising levels in 2024. Malvertisers are increasingly exploiting social engineering tactics to deceive users.

Experiential marketing is often billed as big thinking, and thus, big things. But event professionals know that the value is in the moment, and sometimes transforming a space the size of a postage stamp into a tiny brand oasis can create exponentially big impact. Let’s take a look at how micro-experiences are evolving in the […]

Under the new leadership, the FTC is signaling a pivot away from sweeping rulemaking efforts to let Congress play that role. Instead, the agency will likely stay laser-focused on enforcement actions. Expect deceptive practices, fraud, consumer redress and select privacy concerns to take center stage.  While the agency has historically looked to Congress for federal […]

The anticipation is building ahead of the Chiefs vs Eagles’ Super Bowl rematch.

With Congress slated to consider a host of measures that could profoundly impact businesses in 2025—ranging from taxes to trade to artificial intelligence—it’s more important than ever that business leaders leverage a trusted army of authentic stakeholders and validators. Our author outlines the ways in which communication teams can take up this task, through proactive and creative storytelling.

CTV transparency remains a flashpoint between advertisers who want it and broadcasters who won’t provide it. Our special guest, Jounce Media’s Chris Kane, weighs in. Plus, we examine a persistent issue in ad tech: the chronic mislabeling of instream video.