Digital Marketing

Last week’s verdict against Meta and YouTube cuts directly through the core defense platforms have relied on for decades.

Dating company OKCupid allegedly provided photos of nearly 3 million users — along with demographic and location information — to the facial recognition company Clarifai, the FTC alleged in a complaint unveiled Monday.

Over the last six years, streaming subscriptions have tripled in revenue from $63 billion in 2020.

Daniel Ek, who co-founded Spotify, also co-founded Neko Health, a startup that does full-body scans, with plans to open its first U.S. location in New York sometime soon.

He was former chairman and CEO of Euro RSCG (which later became Havas Worldwide) and founding partner of Messner Vetere Berger Carey Schmetterer.

Two Colorado public media broadcasters are exploring a merger, Inside Radio reports. Community Radio for Northern Colorado and Rocky Mountain Public Media have been in discussions since last year, the report adds, sourcing BizWest. Staff members have been told new no jobs will be lost, but operations will most likely be shifted to Denver.

Could the flurry of recent business and consumer news coverage of Paramount buying WBD – and ultimately beating out a Netflix deal – be a factor?

Brendan Carr, chair of the Federal Communications Commission, claimed on Friday that President Trump is winning his battle with the “fake news media,” The Hill reports. Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Carr said: “Look at the results so far. PBS defunded. NPR defunded. Joy Reid, gone from MSNBC. Sleepy-Eyed Chuck Todd, gone. Jim Acosta, gone. John Dickerson, gone. [Stephen] Colbert is leaving. CBS

Netflix raised the price of its standard ad-free plan to $19.99 per month last week, reflecting how the model has changed, according to The Hollywood Reporter. While streaming platforms offer users the ability to avoid most ads, advertising has become increasingly important. With the standard plan $4.50 more than it was when introduced three years ago, the

Versant, the parent company of CNBC and MS NOW, is one of several suitors in talks to buy the Vox Media podcast network, producer of around 40 podcasts, The New York Times reports. Podcasts are only one of Vox Media’s businesses attracting potential buyers. Others are the Vox portfolio of websites, including Vox.com, The Verge and Eater, and New York