Digital Marketing

The 102-year-old magazine “The Ring” is now offering six print issues a year for $60.

The deal focuses on what the companies call “Streaming 2.0” – the “next stage in the evolution of music” rooted in new paid subscription tiers and an expanded content catalog, as well as artist and user perks.

Handing a victory to Meta Platforms, a federal judge refused to grant class-action status to Facebook users who accused the company of monopolizing the “personal social network services” market by misrepresenting its privacy practices.

A research lab in China has released an open-source AI model that could disrupt plans by Meta, Google, Microsoft and others – mainly because it has found a way to train its models at a lower cost.

Hearst’s first-ever cross-division AOR will handle media strategy and creative, including a new multi-million buy breaking next month for the Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, Good Housekeeping, Car and Driver. Other properties rolling out soon.

She said the post “opens the door to expanding some of our strongest U.S. offerings into Canada.”

Under Lisa McKnight’s leadership of both the Barbie brand and as chief brand officer for all of its franchises, Mattel is pioneering a deeper understanding of post-media branding. You can’t just surf culture; you have to make culture.

Moore has been global CEO at Mediahub for five years; previously, he was global president and was earlier CMO. He’s credited with orchestrating the agency’s global expansion.

December tied for the second-highest growth month of the year, matching August’s 13.2% and trailing only July’s 15.3% expansion.

There’s an underlying task is to figure out how to disentangle those networks from the rest of bigger media companies.