Digital Marketing

Google announced Wednesday that it will phase out Dynamic Search Ads (DSA), and upgrade all advertisers to AI Max for Search powered by artificial intelligence.

Local news consumption patterns are changing as general interest has declined, Pew Research Center reports in a fact sheet. In 2025, 21% of Americans said they follow local news very closely, down from 37% in 2016. And 36% of U.S. adults said they get news from their local daily paper at least sometimes compared to 43%

Axle AI will demonstrate a new panel for its Avid Media Composer that will allow editors to search, preview, and import media directly from any Axle AI media asset management system, AIThority reports. “Editing is all about storytelling, but storytelling depends on quickly finding the right media,” says Sam Bogoch, CEO of Axle AI.Media Composer is

One Sheet, a newsletter about newsletters, has suffered several issues, including misattributed information and made-up quotes, leading to questions about whether its AI use is leading to hallucinations, Semafor alleges. The publisher of One Sheet, media news site Mediaite, has suspended author Colby Hall. Hall told Semafor that “written ideas, angles, summaries, takes, and editorial

Nelson Media Company has acquired seven out of eight central Iowa newspapers that were in danger of closing after their owner Mid-America Publishing shut down, We Are Iowa reports. The papers are The Graphic Advocate, the Winnebago County Tribune, The Grundy Register, The Clarksville Star, The Butler County Tribune and The Parkersburg Eclipse News Review.  

Two different documentaries on the Artemis II moon mission are coming this week, but one will touch down on TV one day earlier than the other one.

An open letter in “The New York Times” cast major concern on what the merger means for the business. What comes next?

Hub Entertainment Research notes that some of the strongest aggregators are led by Amazon Prime Video, where 54% of respondents say they use it to get one or many streaming services.

TikTok has begun integrating ByteDance’s next-generation AI video model into its Symphony suite for advertisers, expanding video-script generation to actual branded video automation for in-app promotions.

YouTube is making changes to the way it delivers ads during popular livestream sessions, declining to rely on AI to pause ads entirely when a creators’ viewers are engaging with the video most.