Sponsored by Blis • August 8, 2025 • Abigail Roulston, vp of marketing, Blis The growth of connected TV has been nothing short of explosive. Viewers are streaming more content on CTV than ever before, eclipsing broadcast and cable viewership combined. This surge presents a valuable opportunity for advertisers to connect with highly engaged audiences. …
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The public markets can be a cold, unforgiving place, with The Trade Desk’s fortunes on the Nasdaq alone this year a prime example of their unpredictability. The industry’s largest independent demand-side platform posted Q2 revenues of $694 million, up 19% year-on-year, beating analysts’ earlier expectations, with The Trade Desk also naming a new chief financial …
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When Google recently claimed that its AI Overviews are driving “more queries and higher quality clicks”, it struck a nerve. Too many, it wasn’t just out of touch; it was patronizing, another reminder of how far the platform’s incentives have drifted from theirs. The message came via a blog post from Liz Reid, Google’s head …
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Generative AI tools promise enormous economies of scale for small creative agency teams. Good news for independent agencies struggling to find some breathing room on the ever-squeezed bottom line — until clients begin expecting those savings to be passed along to them, that is. Digiday spoke with seven indie agency execs in the U.S. and …
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Mark Zuckerberg’s latest big swing — Meta’s SuperIntelligence Lab — is trying to redefine what AI means on his terms. That redefinition, like most things at Meta, will inevitably run through the company’s ads business. Especially as the company continues to auotmate more of it, with plans to eventually automate the entire system, according to The …
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The obfuscated code inside an .svg file downloaded from one of the porn sites. Credit: Malwarebytes The obfuscated code inside an .svg file downloaded from one of the porn sites. Credit: Malwarebytes Once decoded, the script causes the browser to download a chain of additional obfuscated JavaScript. The final payload, a known malicious script called …
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A toy company has voluntarily dismissed its lawsuit against a popular TikTok and Instagram account called “Sylvanian Drama.” Epoch Company Ltd., is the US maker of adorable fuzzy dolls called Calico Critters. Those dolls are known as “Sylvanian Families” in other markets, and more recently, they became a viral sensation after an Ireland-based content creator, …
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“I am going to have a complete and total mental breakdown. I am going to be institutionalized. They are going to put me in a padded room and I am going to write… code on the walls with my own feces,” it said. One person responding to the Reddit post speculated that the loop is …
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According to the groups, allowing copyright class actions in AI training cases will result in a future where copyright questions remain unresolved and the risk of “emboldened” claimants forcing enormous settlements will chill investments in AI. “Such potential liability in this case exerts incredibly coercive settlement pressure for Anthropic,” industry groups argued, concluding that “as …
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Others are irked by how quickly they run up against usage limits on the free tier, which pushes them toward the Plus ($20) and Pro ($200) subscriptions. But running generative AI is hugely expensive, and OpenAI is hemorrhaging cash. It wouldn’t be surprising if the wide rollout of GPT-5 is aimed at increasing revenue. At …
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