Month: November 2024

In honor of the Thanksgiving holiday, we’re taking a moment to highlight some things the media industry can be thankful for.

Let’s not be coy: it hasn’t exactly been daisies and roses this year. Publishers had to deal with AI companies freely gobbling up their content, declining (or at least stagnant) referral traffic from search and social platforms, and a chaotic news cycle in a U.S. presidential election year — all while battling growing trends of news avoidance and audience attention shifting away from traditional media.

But it’s not all bad. Here’s what media executives can be grateful for this Thanksgiving:

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Here’s the unfortunate trajectory of Rudolph T. Reindeer — from short-antlered outcast to Santa’s bright-nosed Head of Transportation, and then ravaged celebrity outcast.

The new limits, which are expected to be announced Monday, are intended to slow China’s ability to build large and powerful AI models.

“This case involves an extraordinary attempt by a lone competitor to use the federal judiciary to restructure the day-to-day operations of Google’s app store,” Google writes in an appellate brief
filed with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Elon Musk’s X Corp. says Alex Jones’ bankruptcy trustee has no right to sell the account names @Infowars and @realAlexJones.

X has begun running full-screen promotions for its Premium account offerings, including a new offer that promises to match Shopify merchants’ ad spend this holiday season.

Mediavine has formed a partnership with sustainability platform Scope3 in an effort to decarbonize digital advertising,

Google launched a series of ad campaigns this week. One showcases Google Shopping as game show content, and another promotes its AI tech Gemini as a way to engage in natural back-and-forth voice
conversations with the technology on Pixel phones.

HLK will lead all brand strategy, creative development and media planning and buying for the brand, with new campaign work expected to launch in 2026.