Digital Marketing

Broadcaster Gray Media has named two senior executives to new roles as it expands its local news operations and accelerate its digital transformation, The Desk reports. James Finch was promoted to senior vice president of news services and Joanie Joanie Vasiliadis will join as the senior vice president for transformation in June.

Red Owl Boxing, an independent sports platform, has formed a partnership with Yoruba Media Labs to drive cross-platform storytelling, Fight News reports. The firms will develop premium spots and culture-driven content across streaming, digital, music, live events and creator ecosystems. 

Jimmy Kimmel restrained himself from making his annual monologue at the Disney Upfront this week all about his battles with Donald Trump.

Skyrocketing AI shakes up the playing field, as a record four brands now top the $1 trillion mark.

Meta advertising sales will jump 22% to $240 billion, according to updated projections from WARC.

The partnership aims to solve the problem of visibility and give marketers tools to “vibe code” apps and websites by bringing search intelligence into the building process.

TikTok has launched a new IP protection initiative designed to protect against the circulation of counterfeit product listings on its ecommerce platform, TikTok Shop.

Walsh joins from Havas Media Network where he was most recently Global Chief Business Transformation Officer. Previously, he was CEO of Havas Media’s North America region.

Book narrators, broadcasters and podcasters allege that their voices were wrongly used by Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft and others to develop artificial intelligence systems.

Attorneys representing Myanmar refugees are asking a federal appellate court to reconsider whether they can sue Meta over allegations that it helped fuel the Rohingya genocide by spreading hate speech on Facebook.