Digital Marketing

“Instants,” the new stand-alone mobile app for iOS and Android, mimics Snapchat’s disappearing photo-sharing model – expanding the company’s roster of Instagram-connected social platforms.

In Turkey, lawmakers passed a bill on Wednesday that would effectively restrict users under 15 years old from accessing YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, X and other digital media platforms.

BX has been a growing offering in Dentsu Japan for the last decade and started expanding internationally in 2024. The unit now has a staff of more than 100 operating in 10+ markets including the US, UK and China.

In advance of the ANA’s upcoming Advertising Financial Management Conference in Orlando, I had a wide-ranging conversation with PR Council President Kim Sample, who will be speaking at the event about the intersection of PR and procurement and the ever-increasing role of AI.

Yelp wants to become an integrated tool for advertisers as well as a destination for site visitors. The goal is for companies to use advertising to connect consumers with their businesses, and Yelp plans to develop additional AI-driven tools designed to assist businesses nurture leads directly through the platform.

“When they converge, something shifts: subjective creative debates disappear,” touts an Omnicom spokesperson, adding: “Work becomes both effective and distinctive. Optimized for performance and built to be remembered.”

Stagwell has expanded its partnership with The Trade Desk to include the DSP’s agentic AI in its media planning and buying, MM&M reports. This will be rolled out in a global, multi-stage effort across the Stagwell agency network.

Comcast beat Wall Street’s revenue expectations in Q1, adding 5 million paid subscribers, The Wall Street Journal reports. “Legendary February showcased the strength of our Media portfolio, leveraging the unmatched reach of the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics and the Super Bowl to drive record advertising and strong Peacock growth,” says Brian L. Roberts and Mike Cavanagh, co-CEOs of

Andreessen Horowitz has invested in MTS (“Monitoring the Situation), a live-stream-driven platform designed to interpret and place context on rapidly developing news across the internet and the broader media ecosystem, Pulse2 reports. MTS provides steady analysis, blending elements of journalism, commentary, and real-time signal aggregation.

McClatchy Publishing is using artificial intelligence to write entire articles, add real reporters’ names to the stories even if they did not work on them, Straight Arrow News reports, sourcing The Wrap. McClatchy — which publishes the Miami Herald, The Kansas City Star, The Charlotte Observer and other regional newspapers — is facing scrutiny over this alleged practice, and