Month: September 2024

Siding against Meta Platforms, a judge is allowing Messenger users to proceed with a class-action complaint alleging the company unlawfully collects biometric data.

The House Committee On Energy and Commerce on Wednesday advanced the controversial Kids Online Safety Act, which would regulate how social-media platforms display material to minors under 17.

HubSpot has announced updates to its Marketing Hub and Content Hub platforms that combine its experience in automation, AI and video to make it easier to launch campaigns.

The new in-app tool allows creators to “make engaging videos with AI from a simple text, or soon, image prompt,” says Snapchat VP of Product Ceci Mourkogiannis, who delivered the keynote at Snap’s
2024 Partner Summit on Tuesday.

Snap says its updated user interface seeks to simplify users’ engagement options, moving stories posted by friends to the top of the inbox, with alerts to indicate new content.

SocialAI is an online universe where everyone you interact with is a bot—for better or worse.

Fruit by the Foot, a legacy General Mills product, is actually longer than a foot. In fact, it’s closer to three feet, which can take a considerable amount of time to consume, inspiring a wacky campaign where teenage fans age several decades between the start and finish of the snack. The brand, which hasn’t advertised…

NBC Boston has named Matt Fortin its morning weekend reporter. “I’m so happy to be NBC Boston’s newest weekend morning reporter! Wake up early in the ams with me for your local headlines,” Fortin wrote on social media. Fortin joined NBC Boston in 2022 as a web producer after working at WBTW in Myrtle Beach,…

This is TVNewser’s basic cable network ranker and cable news report for the week of September 9, 2024. What a difference a historic presidential debate makes. After a sleepy post-Labor Day week, the big three cable networks saw double digit week-to-week and year-to-year gains courtesy of the Sept. 10 match-up between Kamala Harris and Donald…

Negative keywords are coming to Google Performance Max campaigns, along with new insights and reporting. Google also plans to strengthen brand controls on Broad Match, expand AI features and much
more.