CTV growth is three times slower than retail media was at the same point in its development, a WARC Media study finds. Chris Wood on August 11, 2023 Connected TV (CTV) ad spend is expected to reach $ 25.9 billion globally this year, up 13.2% year-over-year, a new study from WARC Media found. Although it’s … Continue reading CTV ad spend is growing, but not like retail media
By Michael Grothaus July 28, 2023 If you’re a red meat lover, you may find the latest warning from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention especially alarming. The CDC has announced that hundreds of thousands of Americans have become allergic to red meat after being bitten by ticks. The bites can result in … Continue reading What does a lone star tick look like? CDC warns of alpha-gal syndrome, red-meat allergies, rash
By Allan Sloan July 28, 2023 We may be seeing a light at the end of the tunnel when it comes to the stock market. And it’s not from an approaching train. U.S. stocks are up nicely this year; we got good news this week about good growth in the gross domestic product (GDP); … Continue reading What recession? This already looks like a bull market
Andrew Tarantola @terrortola For a product that its own creators, in a marketing pique, once declared “too dangerous” to release to the general public, OpenAI’s ChatGPT is seemingly everywhere these days. The versatile automated text generation (ATG) system, which is capable of outputting copy that is nearly indistinguishable from a human writer’s work, is … Continue reading Congress is reportedly limiting staff use of AI models like ChatGPT
By David Salazar June 04, 2023 When comedian and writer Adam Conover started staffing up his 2022 Netflix comedy-documentary series The G Word, which explores the U.S. government, the precarity of Hollywood writers was hard to ignore. Conover recalls a meeting with the show’s producers: One of them noted that, because the show was … Continue reading ‘It’s starting to feel like anything is possible’: Comedian Adam Conover on the next phase of the writers’ strike
The new AI-powered search engine was unveiled at the Google I/O developer conference today. Barry Schwartz on May 10, 2023 It’s here — the all-new AI-powered Google Search engine we’ve heard rumors about under the code name Magi. Is it more “visual, snackable, personal, and human?” Yes. But, for now, you can only gain access … Continue reading Here’s what the new Google search generative AI experience will look like
Most Podcast Listeners Like Or Don’t Mind Ads: Study by Ray Schultz , May 3, 2023 Far from being an annoyance, podcast advertising may be helping to drive sales, judging by a study from DISQO titled Proving the Power Of Podcast ads. Of the daily listeners surveyed, 45% say they pay more attention to … Continue reading Most Podcast Listeners Like Or Don’t Mind Ads: Study
By Danica Lo April 16, 2023 Popular new consumer technology often gives rise to its fair share of ominous doom in public discourse—and the recent rapid adoption of generative AI and tools such as ChatGPT has so rankled the establishment that some tech executives have called for a six-month moratorium on continued innovation in … Continue reading Will you lose your job to AI and tech like ChatGPT?
By Matt Abrahams March 19, 2023 The last time you were asked to introduce yourself, how did you feel? For introverts and extroverts alike, having all eyes focused on you at the team meeting, or introducing yourself to strangers at an in-person conference, can be anxiety-producing, leading to deer-in-the-headlights moments where you do … Continue reading This simple formula can help you introduce yourself like a pro—and not be forgotten
By Michael Grothaus March 08, 2023 In honor of International Women’s Day, Ford Motor Co. has released a humorous new ad highlighting the contributions that women inventors have made to the cars we drive every day. The ad, narrated by Bryan Cranston, starts off purporting to be a commercial for a new “Men’s … Continue reading Bryan Cranston imagines what a Ford Explorer would look like without women inventors
