Innovation and experimentation are key to creating brand experiences that resonate with audiences, according to Lindsay Hegleman, director of global experiences at Meta. “Brands should be open to testing and learning as well,” she said. Hegleman oversees Meta’s experiential marketing strategy, bringing its products and services to life at both its own events and those…Read More
Meta reported weaker-than-expected user numbers and warned of a significant acceleration in its infrastructure expenses in 2025 in its third-quarter earnings report Wednesday. (CNBC) By the numbers, 96% is the portion of Meta’s third-quarter revenue driven by ad sales. This is a slight dip from the second quarter, when advertising accounted for 97% of its…Read More
Two small nations with outsized levels of impunity–Haiti and Israel–are the world’s top offenders in allowing the murderers of journalists to go unpunished. (CPJ) According to the Committee to Protect Journalists’ 2024 Global Impunity Index, released Wednesday, Somalia, Syria, and South Sudan round up the list of the top five countries allowing journalists’ killers to…Read More
Roku beat Wall Street estimates for third-quarter revenue Wednesday, driven by higher advertising sales on its platform. (Reuters) For the third quarter, Roku reported streaming households of 85.5 million, a net increase of 2 million from the second quarter and up 13% year over year. (Variety) In its quarterly letter to shareholders, the company signaled…Read More
With the presidential election two weeks away, the big three cable news networks focused on politics and were rewarded with high viewership. CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC were all up in both measured categories across both dayparts. (TVNewser) ABC News’ Good Morning America maintained its status as America’s No. 1 morning show for the new…Read More
The Grammy Awards are headed from CBS to Disney in a historic streaming deal. After CBS served as the Grammys’ broadcast home for 54 consecutive years when accounting for the upcoming 2025 and 2026 ceremonies, the awards will move to Disney beginning in 2027. (TheWrap) The Recording Academy and Disney entered into an agreement that…Read More
New Jersey’s biggest newspaper, The Star-Ledger, said Wednesday that it will stop publishing its print edition in February amid rising costs and slumping demand for print. (NY Post) The shuttering of The Star-Ledger’s printing plant will cause its sister publication, The Jersey Journal–a Jersey City-based newspaper with a storied, 157-year history–to cease publication altogether. (NYT)Read More
The Washington Post is paying to remind readers that it is still pretty tough on Trump. Like many news organizations, the Post pays a small amount each month to show articles in feeds on Facebook and other social media platforms. But Monday, the paper aggressively ramped up its paid advertising campaign, boosting dozens of articles…Read More
Speaking about that charged moment with TVNewser at ADWEEK’s Mediaweek event Tuesday, Abby Phillip compared the experience of wrangling back control of the panel on CNN’s NewsNight to “trying to stop a bullfight in progress.” (TVNewser)Read More
Radio Krakow, a Polish radio station that launched a channel run almost entirely by artificial intelligence–including having AI presenters–decided to end the “experiment” after less than one week on the air following a backlash against the idea. (NFP)Read More
