Digital Marketing

Apple will launch an ad platform for Maps this summer, allowing agencies and brands to run campaigns in the company’s Maps app.

But cost cuts, including an 11.5% staff reduction last year, encouraged investors to boost the company’s stock price 25% after full-year earnings were released this morning.

The Federal Communications Commission  has approved the transfer of 10 local television broadcast licenses from Allen Media Group to Gray Media, TheDesk.net reports.  Allen Media Group announced the transaction last August after saying it had to sell off its local TV stations to address debt obligations. It is not clear why the transaction was delayed from the expected

The Pentagon announced it will move journalists from their dedicated workspace inside the building to work from a separate facility, The Washington Post reports. And while saying it will comply, it plans to appeal a decision by Senior U.S. Judge Paul L. Friedman that the Defense Department’s media police violated press freedom and due process

The ongoing dispute between NewsGuard Technologies and the Federal Trade Commission is now being fought in court, TVNewsCheck reports. NewsGuard, a media monitoring services, filed suit last month, accusing the FTC of “brazenly using its power not for any issue concerning trade or commerce but rather to censor speech simply because it disagreed with NewsGuard’s judgments

Grammarly has scrapped its Expert Review, an AI feature that suggests improvements to what users are writing, saying they are from celebrated authors, Nieman Lab reports. Technology journalist Julia Angwin filed a class-action lawsuit against Grammarly, and Superhuman CEO Shishir Mehrotra has apologized and agreed to an interview with Nilay Patel on the Decoder podcast from

Publicis advising clients to avoid The Trade Desk in the name of “transparency” is a little like Pete Rose telling Bud Selig how to umpire a game. The point might land, but the perspective isn’t exactly neutral. And that tension is worth unpacking. To be clear, scrutiny is a good thing. Clients should expect it.

Recently, there have been perceived threats from FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr over news distortion and hints of license removals. The problem is in proving any of this.

News on the radio? It’s like having press releases delivered to a TV columnist by fax machine.

Nearly half of marketers admit they have published AI-generated content without disclosing it and would happily do it again.