Shams Charania Leaves The Athletic, Replaces Mentor-Turned-Rival Adrian Wojnarowski at ESPN
Shams Charania is leaving The Athletic to join ESPN as its top National Basketball Association insider. Charania announced the news Monday on X to his more than 2.4 million followers, writing: “I am honored to join ESPN as the company’s senior NBA insider. I can’t wait to be part of an incredible group of colleagues…
Israel-Hamas War Among Deadliest Conflicts for Journalists in Recent History
As of Oct. 7, 2024, the Committee to Protect Journalists’ preliminary investigations showed that at least 128 journalists and media workers were among the more than 42,000 killed since the war began, making it the deadliest period for journalists since CPJ began gathering data in 1992. (CPJ) In one year, more than 130 Palestinian journalists…
CBS Rebukes Anchor Over Tense Interview With Ta-Nehisi Coates
CBS News Monday rebuked one of its star morning anchors, Tony Dokoupil, over an interview that he conducted last week with author Ta-Nehisi Coates, in which Dokoupil challenged Coates’ views about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (NYT) On a call with staffers Monday morning, CBS News chief Wendy McMahon and her top deputy, Adrienne Roark, said the…
Supreme Court Won’t Hear Appeal From Elon Musk’s X Platform Over Warrant in Trump Case
The Supreme Court said Monday that it won’t hear an appeal from social media platform X over a search warrant prosecutors obtained in the election-interference case against former President Donald Trump. (AP) The case arose as part of special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into Trump over alleged election interference in 2020, which the Supreme Court…
Explainer: What Marketers Need to Know About Tech’s Next Big Bet, AI Agents
AI agents, digital assistants pitted as the next evolution in artificial intelligence, promise to handle tasks autonomously, from booking reservations to negotiating business deals. At OpenAI’s DevDay event in San Francisco last week, the company demoed a voice bot calling local delivery service and successfully ordering 400 chocolate-covered strawberries for the attendees, specifying the delivery…
Why Latinx Fans Demand Sports Marketing Beyond Hispanic Heritage Month
Hispanic and Latino sports fans already put up big viewership and sales figures. Brands and broadcasters just need to watch the scoreboard. Back in early September, during an event held amid the US Open tennis tournament in New York, Nielsen teamed with Latinos in Sports (LiS) to release a study on Hispanic and Latino fandom…
Context vs. Cookies With Dotdash Meredith’s D/Cipher Lead
Contextual targeting – one of the oldest tricks in the advertising playbook – has been enjoying a comeback in recent years as an alternative to third-party-cookie-based audiences. Dotdash Meredith (DDM) reembraced contextual when it launched an in-house contextual targeting solution, D/Cipher, back in 2022. The solution combines content-based signals with first-party data insights into how […]
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How Should Advertisers Navigate A TikTok Ban Or Google Breakup? Just Ask Brian Wieser
In a virtual seminar hosted by U of Digital on Friday, Madison and Wall principal Brian Weiser and senior analyst Olivia Morley shared their predictions for the looming TikTok Ban and potential Google ads divestment.
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Can’t Spell Exchange Without Change; ’Soft On Ad Tech
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Curation Nation Chalice, a maker of custom bidding algorithms, integrated with Index Exchange, and it’s not a typical partnership, Adweek reports. What’s new is that Chalice has “containerized” its machine learning models, essentially running a virtual version of its bidding algorithm within Index […]
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