Chick-fil-A is branching into original content creation, collaborating with major studios to produce family-friendly, unscripted series for a new streaming service launching later this year. The company is also exploring scripted and animated projects, with a budget of around $400,000 per half-hour for unscripted content.
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Paramount Global will close Paramount Television Studios as part of a restructuring effort that includes significant layoffs. This move follows Paramount’s announcement that they’re cutting 15% of their U.S. workforce, adding to the 800 employees laid off six months ago.
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The courts have been waging their antitrust war against Google for quite some time. The U.S. District Court ruled that Google violated antitrust laws, marking a pivotal turn in this landmark case against the walled garden. But the war is far from over. Google announced plans to appeal the ruling.
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Two bills, called the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), passed the US Senate with overwhelming support in late July. Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers said her committee will begin work on a House version as soon as Congress returns from its recess in September.
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In Q1 2024, Google conducted an experiment to assess the performance of Privacy Sandbox APIs and first-party signals, such as publisher first-party data and identifiers, compared to traditional third-party cookies.
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In a memo to employees, CNN CEO Mark Thompson announced that the company will merge the television newsgathering and digital news divisions into one unit, hoping to help the network's shift towards digital expansion.
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The ad tech industry is working overtime to prevent privacy compliance mishaps, but every once in a while, bad actors seep in between the cracks. Noyb, a prominent tech watchdog, has backed a complaint against Microsoft's advertising subsidiary Xandr, accusing it of violating data access rules and providing inaccurate data.
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It's no surprise that political ad spend is booming this year, especially with a pivotal presidential election approaching, but the spend is higher than analysts initially expected. AdImpact originally forecasted political ad spending at $10.2 billion, but it has shot up to $10.7 billion.
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Publishers, what would you say if we told you that if Chrome nixed third-party cookies today, you'd be waving goodbye to a whopping 60% of your ad revenue? That's the report according to Criteo's Privacy Sandbox market testing.
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At the Cannes Lions Festival, Wall Street Journal publisher Almar Latour called out advertisers for avoiding credible news outlets over brand safety, exacerbating their financial struggles. His sentiment is in line with a recent Prohaska study which revealed that 30% of publishers' ad inventory was blocked from advertisers spend due…
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