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The rumor mill is up and running about the fate of TikTok’s ownership in the U.S. after President Joe Biden signed the “divest or ban” TikTok bill last week. The legislation requires ByteDance to sell its shares in the app to a U.S. business within 270 days (with the potential for a 90-day extension if significant progress is deemed to be made toward a sale), otherwise it will be banned...
As of today, Walmart is able to sell physical goods directly to users inside Roblox. The introduction of real-life e-commerce could be a watershed moment for the company’s ambitions to become an all-encompassing destination for virtual life. Walmart’s Roblox e-commerce experience launches later today, with users inside the pre-existing Walmart Discovered able to have real-life items...
Monks are generally known as quiet, contemplative types.  Media.Monks, the media agency network formed by Sir Martin Sorrell — founder of WPP and the agency holding company model — under corporate parent S4 Capital, has been noisy as of late, but for some of the wrong reasons. The latest addition to this presently grumbling assemblage of digital agency players — in the form of a new COO —...
Starting a new search business has always been a nearly impossible hill to climb, since one is invariably up against Mt. Everest — aka Google. However, Perplexity aims to bring its new momentum from generative search into the enterprise world of AI even while exploring ads further down its timeline. Last week, Perplexity announced its entrance into the worlds of enterprise tech. Flush with new...
In case it slipped under your radar — the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) dropped its latest opinions Friday afternoon on the merits and pitfalls of Google’s efforts to replace third-party cookies with its own alternatives in its Privacy Sandbox. Anytime this happens it’s a big deal. After all, the CMA is essentially the referee tasked with determining whether these efforts cross into...
Madison Avenue and Wall Street are receiving similar signals from Silicon Valley this earnings season: Generative AI will be worth the investment. It just might take a while. Google, Microsoft and Snap all reported results yesterday that exceeded expectations. And while CEOs celebrated solid results, leaders in social and search also warn it will take a while to scale the business side of...
La cantante cubana Camila Cabello compartió con sus más de 65 millones de seguidores en Instagram el video del comercial de su nueva asociación con BACARDí, en el clip de 30 segundos se respira el Caribe en cada paso. Se trata de la mayor campaña de la marca hasta la fecha, bajo el slogan ‘Do What Moves You’, el spot está ambientado con su nuevo single ‘I LUV IT’, de su nuevo álbum. El valor...
Publishers are testing generative AI technology for all kinds of functions — from onsite search to games. But monetizing those offerings is slow going. Some publishing execs told Digiday they’re not ready to do so by adding advertising to these generative AI products just yet. Like the rest of the digital publishing world, monetizing these AI experiences falls into two camps: subscriptions or...
We’re 10 weeks out from the Union of European Football Associations’ Euro 2024 tournament, one of the largest sporting events on the planet and a major opportunity for marketers to get their brands in front of enormous audiences. Just 12 days afterward, some of them will be doing it all over again when the Olympic Games roll into Paris. Though only European teams compete in the Germany-hosted...
Looks like those third-party cookies aren’t going anywhere just yet. And you know what that means: cue the flood of theories and hot takes about what Google is really up to. Digiday has gathered up some of the juiciest theories and added a bit of extra context for good measure. The third (and final?) delay to third-party cookies in Chrome came because Google read the tea leavesContinue...