This Media Buying Briefing covers the latest in agency news and media buying for Digiday+ members and is distributed over email every Monday at 10 a.m. ET. More from the series → Omnicom’s acquisition of Interpublic Group is only a few weeks old, but its combined offer to the market will soon be put to …
By Krystal Scanlon • December 22, 2025 • Ivy Liu In the thick of the final quarter of the year, TikTok is on the hunt for new U.S. business for its Shop e-commerce arm. The short-form video platform is offering “limited-time perks” – up to $6,000 in coupons – for new sellers to join the …
TikTok Shop offers incentives to new sellers, as U.S. uncertainty is finally over Read More »
When LaToya Stirrup’s brand Kazmaleje first landed on Target’s shelves in 2022, it felt like a dream come true. The Miami-based founder had spent years building her hair-tool brand — which she launched in 2019 — and securing placement at a national big-box retailer gave her scale and visibility that would’ve been harder to achieve …
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Starbucks has poached a senior manager from E.l.f. Cosmetics as part of its ongoing quest to re-energize the Starbucks brand through cultural collaborations. Neiv Toledano has joined Starbucks as its senior marketing manager of fashion and beauty. While Starbucks has always had employees who have worked on collaborations, including in the fashion and beauty spaces, …
Starbucks hires first-of-its-kind marketing role heading up fashion and beauty collabs Read More »
TL;DR: Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2019 for Windows is just $29.97 (MSRP $229) through December 21 — one payment, no subscription fees, all the essential apps you already use every day. Why keep paying for Microsoft Office on repeat when you can make it a one-and-done purchase instead? For $29.97, you can grab a lifetime license to …
Your subscription fatigue ends here: Lock in lifetime Office for under $30 Read More »
Image: StackCommerce TL;DR: Lifetime access to the 1minAI Advanced Business Plan is now $74.97 (MSRP $540). The end of the year is when people start hunting for upgrades that will actually make life easier in January. If you have spent most of 2024 bouncing between ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and your favorite image generator, this holiday deal rolls everything …
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Image: Logitech This holiday season, why not treat yourself to a techy gift that’ll actually blow you away and make you wonder why you haven’t been using that thing all this time? Something like a proper mouse that’s ergonomic, functional, and performant—one that’s so good that it’s actually one of the most popular mice ever …
Logitech’s special MX Master 3S mouse just dropped to its best price Read More »
At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros Great sound for shooters Ultra simple setup No bells and whistles Microphone can be mounted on the left or right Cons Expensive Poor availability Our Verdict Fostex upgrades the T50RP MK4g a microphone and thus the adds the “Plus” title. Reduced to the essentials—the sound and a functional microphone—the …
Fostex T50RP MK4g review: The minimalist headset for radical gamers Read More »
If your hard drive on your PC is experiencing a lot of errors, one of the solutions is to do a search for bad sectors and try to fix them. To do that you can use a built-in Windows utility called Windows Check Disk or chkdsk. Here’s how to use it. What to do: In …
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The future may be electric, but that future is being postponed. The European Commission, citing the need for flexibility, has softened its ambitious plan to ban the sale of gas-powered cars by 2035. Instead of requiring 100% of new cars to be zero-emission vehicles by that date, the revised plan would allow 10% of new …
As EU waters down 2035 EV goals, electric startups express concern Read More »