Digital Marketing

Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones has appealed an order blocking enforcement of a law requiring social platforms to verify users’ ages and prohibit minors under 16 from accessing social media for more than one hour a day without parental consent.

It’s a partially new role, succeeding former Chief Data Officer Michael Bregman, who left to become Chief Digital and Analytics Officer of Subway.

My runner-up headline was: “Sex Sells, Even If It’s AI-Generated.” There were other great choices for today’s “3.0,” but 68% of you will have to keep reading to find out.

YouTube Android and iOS apps are showing persistent overlay ads, just as Google launches general availability of “Video Reach Campaign Non-Skip Ads” in Google Ads and Display & Video 360.

The push may come from the end result – making $800 million in TV ad revenue in one day. That’s more than many cable TV networks do in a year.

Yahoo has sold Engadget, its tech news website, to Static Media, The Verge reports. “This move reflects Yahoo’s focus on our core brands, while aligning Engadget with an owner whose primary focus is operating and growing editorial media brands,“ says Sona Iliffe-Moon, Yahoo’s chief communications officer, in a statement. This move includes a broader Yahoo partnership with

Information asymmetry has been the cornerstone of brand value, enabling marketers to both sell more and sell for more. AI changes that.

News Corp. has signed a deal with Meta that will allow the parent company of Facebook and Instagram’s to scrape News Corp’s U.S. and U.K. content to train its artificial-intelligence products. The deal is worth up to $50 million a year, and runs for three years. Robert Thomson, chief executive of News Corp., said the firm’s

Bloomberg clients can now customize their subscriptions to Bloomberg’s Real-Time News Feeds to focus on news about companies, securities and global macro themes, Markets Media reports. This is being done with “tickerized” versions of the News Feeds that reduces manual processing and allows users to integrate targeted news inputs into their trading and risk workflows. 

The big TV companies just might find a use for their legacy cable networks that could prove to be valuable.