Digital Marketing

In what was a volatile year of ups and downs, 2025 ended flat in December, according to just-refreshed data from Guideline’s U.S. Ad Market Tracker.

The fast-growing, 15-year-old fast-casual pizza chain boasts nearly 300 restaurants across 36 states and three countries.

For fledgling household products, regional buys, broader activations and timing are the real play.

I spotted a Tesla with a peace sign covering its T logo. The symbolism was clear – virtue signaling that “I like Tesla, but I don’t like Elon’s politics.” It felt dated, out of place, an old story.

There is a natural focus on streaming and merger efforts to buy WBD – and some core issues with NFL rights as well as other sports-related factors at work, UBS reminds us.

A request by six Montana media organizations to open all court documents in the Michael Brown murder case has been denied by an Anaconda judge. Brown is accused of shooting and killing four people in the town’s Owl Bar last summer. 

Media firms are facing challenges related to sales compensation in 2025, Max Bartels writes in Demand Gen Report. Organizations must look at aligning pay for performance and balancing integrated portfolio sales while creating programs that respond to emerging sales approaches like hybrid artificial intelligence, agent/human and self service.    

The move combines operations across more than 500 employees in Detroit, Minnesota and Chicago. Jessica Henrichs, CEO of Colle McVoy will lead the new entity.

New Mexico legislators are considering a proposal to fund tribal media stations, Native News Online reports.. The proposal by Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham would provide $430,000 to the stations in an effort to fill federal funding gaps. 

IAB’s 2026 Outlook predicts faster growth, bigger bets on AI and a collective industry shrug toward “agentic” everything.