Digital Marketing

A-listers teaming up with A+E next season include Kevin Bacon, Ted Danson and Tom Selleck.

Does Google prohibit reasoning skills or teach humans to think? As AI takes hold, Liz Reid, VP/head of search at Google, has some strong ideas on the subject. She has been working at Google for more than 20 years, mostly in Maps and Search.

Paramount Skydance has an answer as to what will happen when it takes over CNN and combines it with CBS — truth and trust. Considering recent moves, is it something consumers and advertisers might need to examine further?

The capability is being developed via a partnership between Slightly and Vurvey Labs that builds people models and AI personas.

“Hoppers” was a surprise success as an early March original animated film. Disney spent an estimated $9.2 million on national TV advertising with 3,370 spots and some 507.9 million impressions, according to iSpot.

Pixar’s “Hoppers” was a surprise success as an early March original animated film. Warner Bros. had a different kind of shock with a $7.3 million opening for “The Bride.”

Former U.S. trade representative Robert Lighthizer resigned from Trump Media & Technology’sboard of directors, effective Friday, CNBC reports. Lighthizer played a critical role in the imposition of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with Mexico and Canada.   

Kari Lake acted unlawfully in running the Voice of America, U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth has ruled, NPR reports. Lamberth ordered that all of Lake’s actions for the past year are null and void, including the layoffs of more than 1,000 journalists and staffers at the U.S. Agency for Global Media and the Voice

Media workers are being fed to Google’s gluttonous AI Overviews, Futurism reports. The SEO firm Growtika looked at data from Ahrefs tracking web traffic to 10 major tech outlets from early 2024 to early 2026. In that time, media companies saw their site visits fall from 112 million per month to a little less than 50 million. 

A startup law firm is suing the Trump administration for approving the sale of a U.S. version of TikTok to a joint venture of Oracle and other companies, including the China-based ByteDance.