After Loss of Federal Funding, CPB to Shut Down Operations
The media entity expects to see the majority of its operations end on September 30, 2025.
Lab Weekly — 08/01/2025
Lab Weekly — 08/01/2025 More thoughts on Hollywood x AI; A new Floor 9 episode; Plus, the latest AI news about AI browsers, stablecoins, Fortnite activations, and more must-know news and stats Want this newsletter in your inbox every week? Sign up for our mailing list here Updates to Hollywood’s Complicated Relationship with AI Content This week, Amazon’s investment in [...]
Ed Couchman Joins Netflix From Spotify as UK Ad Sales Lead
Ed Couchman was previously head of advertising sales, U.K. and Europe at Spotify.
The WIR: AI Drives Reddit Revenues, Australia to Ban YouTube Accounts for Under-16s, and WBD to Split into Warner Bros. and Discovery Global
In this week's Week in Review: Reddit revenues jump 78 percent in Q2, Australia includes YouTube in social media ban for under-16s, and Warner Bros. Discovery announces names of its split companies. Top Stories Reddit Shares Jump 20 Percent as AI Drives Ad Revenues Reddit shares jumped 20 percent after the social sharing company reported its [...]
Gray’s Not Done Yet: Announces Plan to Buy More Stations
Gray said it expects the transaction to strengthen its presence in the Midwest
Gray Looks to Buy Two Stations from Sagamore Hill Broadcasting
Gray will request waivers of the FCC’s current local broadcast ownership rule under the “failing station” waiver standard
Prime Video and Omnicom Deploy Robocouriers in LA for Eddie Murphy Movie
Robocouriers are taking over the streets of Los Angeles. Prime Video and its media agency of record, Omnicom Media Group, have now partnered with autonomous delivery service Coco Robotics on […]
Kendrick Lamar is the latest celeb to take a bite out of advertising’s lunch
The latest celebrity creative to launch into the advertising space is Kendrick Lamar, the rapper who starred in this year’s Apple Super Bowl Half Time Show and famously has an ongoing feud with rival Drake. In launching Project 3 Agency, Lamar brings a strong pedigree of working with brands including Chanel, Converse, and Calvin Klein. [...]
With a $650 Million Self-Funded Stadium, Chicago Fire FC Makes Its Big Pitch
Chicago Fire FC and Excel Sports Management make the $650 million facility's case to fans, brands, and global soccer ahead of its 2028 opening.
MAA Ad of the Week: Sydney Sweeney for American Eagle
The internet is like a hydra: someone objects to something and a thousand fully-formed objection specialists spring into action. As they did with Sydney Sweeney’s so-called “whiteness” in this campaign for struggling clothing brand American Eagle. It would be too obvious to say that genes rhymes with jeans….. A reminder that ads can still make [...]