Digital Marketing

“In general, businesses with subscription models have shown little interest in making cancellation processes easy for consumers,” said groups including the Electronic Privacy Information Center and National Consumer Law Center to the FTC.

xAI announced that it has exceeded its initial targeted round size, securing $20 billion in an effort to launch new consumer and enterprise products, build data centers and advance Grok 5, its newest AI model.

Uber Advertising announced an interactive advertising format combining branded map displays with destination-specific creative that runs the consumer’s entire ride.

The FTC is asking an appellate court to lift an injunction blocking the agency’s investigation of the watchdog Media Matters, which in late 2023 issued a report about neo-Nazi content on X.

It may have started with vision and sizzle, but the year evolved into a sophisticated, methodological framework for rearchitecting advertising and media on the road to 2030.

A holiday campaign by a well-known retailer produced record traffic and orders. Then the hangover hit, Retail Touchpoints writes. Most of the “new” customers never returned, and those that did require deeper and deeper discounts. 

Oshry was OAAA’s senior vice president of marketing and communications, and had joined the organization as vice president of marketing in 2024.

With the move, Sarah Cunningham, formerly president of TPN, assumes the role of Chief Retail Experience Officer, Flywheel, reporting to CEO Alex McCord.

This year is shaping up to be one in which AI search is rewriting the rules of discovery and creator ecosystems are starting to look more like traditional media, eMarketer predicts. Even B2B is changing as a result of the blurring of consumer and professional audiences. 

It is not yet clear what the shutdown of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) means for independent public media. Stations in rural and tribal areas — many of which received half of their annual budgets from CPB — are at the greatest risk, Columbia Journalism Review writes.