Digital Marketing

The focus is on live programming of all types – news, sports, special events, even video podcasts. But what is their real future, from advertising and other perspectives?

The agreement begins this year and extends through the 2028 election season, likely signaling a new service to provide up-to-the-minute stats on political data, making use of AP’s vote-count system.

In her seven months as editor in chief and the de facto head of CBS News, Bari Weiss installed a traditional anchorman on “CBS Evening News” and engineered the total shutdown of CBS Radio News.

Meta and other social media firms will pay $27 million to settle a lawsuit filed by Kentucky’s Breathitt County School District over alleged harms to children’s mental health caused by social media addiction, Reuters reports. Meta will pay the most—$9 million. YouTube will pay $2.01 million, and Snap and Tik Tok will each pay $8 million to

Prescription brands have dramatically boosted their multiscreen TV advertising spend following a federal enforcement action against deceptive drug advertisers, according to an analysis by the Video Advertising Bureau, PPC Land reports. From October 2025 through March 2026, pharma Rx brands spent $4.95 billion on multiscreen TV advertising, a 53% increase over the $3.23 billion invested during the

CNN has sued Perplexity, accusing it of “massive copyright infringement,” Engadget reports. The complaint charges that Perplexity “unlawfully crawls, scrapes, copies, and distributes CNN’s content from CNN Digital Platforms and third-party platforms,” and that it has copied more than 17,000 pieces of CNN content. Other media organizations suing Perplexity include The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Reddit,

Young people engaging with self-harm-related content get redirected to interactive videos and connection to a crisis responder.

Vermont lawmakers have passed a privacy bill that gives residents the right to reject a common form of online ad targeting.

Meta’s Oversight Board has secured additional funding to continue operations through 2028 as an independent watchdog.

Reddit has announced a global expansion of its recent integration with Shopify in an effort to help merchants launch Reddit campaigns while utilizing the platform’s year-old Dynamic Product Ads (DPA) format.