Digital Marketing

Bloomberg Media is celebrating a successful first half, judging by a staff memo – albeit without actual dollar figures – sent by Karen Saltser, CEO of Bloomberg Media.

Green Dildo Coin, a meme coin intended to be perceived as a joke, was launched to protest the “toxic” environment in the crypto world.

Meta Platforms’ $14.3 billion acquisition of a 49% stake in artificial intelligence company Scale AI will enable the social platform to foreclose competition in data annotation — which is key to developing large language models.

“Friends Map” – Instagram’s newest feature – takes on Snapchat’s long-running in-app map, which it uses to show people where their friends are in real time, and promote brick-and-mortar shopping experiences.

To help boost X’s struggling ad business, X and xAI owner Elon Musk told advertisers via a live broadcast on his social media platform Wednesday that he plans to allow marketers to buy ad space in responses provided by the Grok chatbot.

A division of Public Good has launched an AI search platform with consumer cash back options, revenue share for publishers and an organized environment for brands to advertise. It grabs data from LLMs such as Perplexity, Gemini, DeepSeek, and OpenAI ChatGPT.

“The evidence decisively demonstrated that Meta — once an online ‘Facebook’ for connecting students — has evolved into a diverse global provider of entertaining and informative content that competes with increasingly similar social apps including TikTok, YouTube, iMessage, and others,” the company argues.

WPP Media was the star billing in an otherwise lackluster second quarter earnings presentation to investors this morning, featuring a forward-looking presentation by the unit CEO Brian Lesser, which began with a sizzle reel, and focused on the unit’s reboot from GroupM, including its shift to a data- and AI-driven “platform” approach to servicing clients

If the NFL is to have 10% ownership of ESPN, does that mean the ESPN universe of content platforms will have to increase the attention they pay to NFL football by 10%?

For its most recent quarterly period, Disney+ and Hulu posted a 2.6 million rise in subscribers to 183 million, a bit softer than some analysts expected.