Month: September 2024

Some Apple analysts believe AI will spur a boom in iPhone sales. But not everyone’s buying the hype.

Jorge Ramos, veteran journalist and longtime face of Noticias Univision, will depart the network at the end of the year. Ramos and his employer mutually agreed not to renew his soon-to-expire contract. He will leave the co-anchor chair of Noticiero Univision in December following the conclusion of the U.S. presidential election. “This is not a…

Another presidential debate night is upon us, and this time we have a new face on the Democratic ticket facing off against a three-time GOP nominee. Vice President Kamala Harris will stand across from former President Donald Trump in Philadelphia during the ABC News Presidential Debate on Tuesday. A lot has happened since CNN hosted…

“When people do bad things online, their internet service providers are not typically the ones to blame,” Verizon argues in papers urging U.S. District Court Judge Margaret Garnett to dismiss a
copyright infringement suit by record labels.

Monday marked TVNewser founder Brian Stelter’s official return to CNN, and he started the day with a morning delivery of his Reliable Sources newsletter. That’s the new status quo for Reliable Sources, which took a brief hiatus following Oliver Darcy’s departure last month to launch his independent venture, Status. Stelter revealed on X, formerly known…

After
leaving Hyundai this past month, Angela Zepeda has joined X as the social media company’s first global head of marketing since Elon Musk took over the platform in late 2022. 

On Monday, X CEO Linda Yaccarino announced that Zepeda will not only be leading the platform’s marketing
efforts, but will also shape the company’s “transformation” moving forward. 

As
Hyundai’s head of marketing, Zepeda oversaw social media, creative work and experiential and multicultural marketing, leading the automotive company’s recent investment in Reddit and
more.

But Zepeda’s CMO title — which she had held since 2019 — changed when the automaker split its marketing department into creative and performance divisions this past
July. 

About two weeks ago, Zepeda left the company, writing on LinkedIn that after five years at Hyundai, she was
“thrilled to shift gears” and begin a new adventure at X. 

The global head of marketing role at X
has remained vacant since Leslie Berland left the position, shortly after Musk bought the company two years ago. 

Zepeda is stepping into the role at a challenging time, as the platform struggles to boost ad revenue after two years of significant job cuts and an ongoing advertiser exodus in response to
widespread concern over ad safety among a proliferation of harmful and offensive content. 

Research and
consulting firm Kantar recently found that 26% of marketers globally are planning to decrease their spend on the platform in 2025, while only 4% of marketers think X ads provide brand safety.
X’s ad revenue is reportedly down around 83% compared to what it had been before Musk took over the app. 

In addition, last week, X was banned in Brazil, its
largest user base in Latin America, resulting in the loss of about 20 million users and immediately reducing the platform’s monetizable daily active user count from 250 million to 230
million.

Paired with the loss of 5 million users in Europe that the company reported this year, X’s total user base is down at least 10% in 2024. 

Apple Intelligence was the focus at the company’s online event Monday, detailing how the AI product will improve user experiences on Apple devices.

The Department of Justice will attempt to prove Google illegally monopolized ad-tech tools that power programmatic ads.

“Gladiator II,” the NFL season, Pepsi Zero Sugar and Megan Thee Stallion join together in hopes of achieving hot interprofitability.