Digital Marketing

A federal judge said Google must face accusations that Shopping ads for pirated textbooks infringed publishers’ trademarks.

Spotify’s new partnership with United will make over 450 hours of curated playlists, podcasts, and audiobooks from the streaming service available to airline passengers for free.

OpenAI plans to appeal a copyright order brought by The New York Times that would require it to keep ChatGPT logs indefinitely.

X has partnered with Polymarket, a crypto-based prediction marketplace where users make wagers on different outcomes for real-world events.

Rebecca Van Dyck becomes CMO after a stint consulting with Airbnb.

Meta was hit this week with a new privacy lawsuit for allegedly secretly tracking users’ browsing activity on mobile websites that embed Meta’s analytics pixel, and linking that activity to users’ identities.

As reported earlier this week most of the Paramount media business is shifting to Publicis Groupe, with the exception of the company’s US streaming service.

Apple hosts its Worldwide Developers Conference next week. For advertisers this means gaining a better understanding of how desktop and mobile referrals are split and what this means for their media-buying strategies. For publishers it means that while AI search referrals are growing, mobile – the dominant traffic source – remains untapped. Mobile product share

Total national TV ad revenue (including CTV) will fall 6.3% in 2025 (6.1% excluding political advertising) to $43.2 billion.

Fox Corp. posted an eye-opening 5% gain in the most recent first quarter to about $2 billion in linear affiliate revenue, a number that has been trending higher.