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Website building and hosting platform Squarespace is gearing up for Big Game appearance No. 11 with its release of the trailer for “A Tale as Old as Websites.” The company plans to run a 30-second ad between the first and second quarters of Super Bowl 59. It has been developed by its in-house creative team….

EDO has struck a deal with AI-powered ad-tech firm Chalice AI to optimize better outcomes across programmatic CTV and digital ad campaigns.

Chad Schulte, senior vice president of agency partnerships and strategy, Seedtag

In this time of unprecedented access to information, it’s crucial objective journalism remains a cornerstone of an informed and functional society. However, as modern news organizations grapple with increasing financial pressures, a troubling trend has emerged: advertisers’ over-reliance on blunt-object keyword-blocking measures.

These practices are designed to shield brands from content deemed controversial or unsafe but unintentionally undermine the viability of a healthy and functioning news media. At the heart of this issue is a misunderstanding of how the public views advertising in the context of news. Rather than associating brands with negativity, readers often trust brands more when their advertisements appear alongside professional journalism.

Broad ad-blocking strategies discourage coverage of complex topics

The financial strain on news organizations is a longstanding public affair, some of which is self-inflicted. With digital advertising now the dominant revenue stream for news outlets, applying certain brand-safety practices has led to the widespread demonetization of critical news topics. Words like conflict, crisis, protest and even election often trigger automated ad-blocking algorithms, depriving articles on these topics of revenue opportunities.

The implications are profound: Newsrooms face financial disincentives to report on complex issues that require public attention.

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Allen Media owned station KADN laid off more employees in its news department on Tuesday. Five staffers were let go from the Lafayette, Louisiana Fox and NBC affiliate, including anchors Taylor Trache and Jeff Horchak and meteorologist Michael Crowley. Two producers were also let go. This latest round comes nearly three months after the station…

CBS Chicago (WBBM) anchor Jim Williams is leaving the CBS owned station after 23 years. “New year, new chapter for me,” he wrote on social media. “This Thursday, January 16 is my last day as a full-time employee at CBS Chicago. I hesitate to call it retirement because I’ll occasionally do pieces for the station,…

After a five-year hiatus, Stella Artois is making its return to the Big Game as part of Anheuser-Busch’s (AB InBev) Super Bowl 59 ad blitz, which will also include for Bud Light, Budweiser, Busch Light, and Michelob Ultra. With five spots promoting the brands, AB InBev will occupy three minutes of national advertising time and…

Patrick Mahomes’ new brand partnership has some bite. After years of fan theories and speculation online that Mahomes uses Invisalign–with internet sleuths suspecting the Kansas City Chiefs quarterback was seen chewing on an Invisalign on the sidelines–Mahomes is finally setting the record (and his chompers) straight: He is an Invisalign user. And the QB is…

The hosts of Uncanny Valley spent the week following the advice of AI chatbots when it came to shopping, fitness, and parenting. Here’s how it went.

“The New Yorker” devotes 13 pages to a new profile of Lorne Michaels this week as his show, “Saturday Night Live,” marks its 50th anniversary this year.

Although ad-supported streaming and digital platform businesses continue to show gains, the study says, ad-free streaming platforms are still a huge part of the streaming marketplace.