February, 2025

February, 2025

Bold call: The holdco era is over. The operating company age is here — for real this time
When consultant Matt Ryan emerged from last month’s meeting with the CEOs of Omnicom and IPG, one thought stuck with him. Between their fanfare over the proposed union and the swift clap backs from ...

The latest earnings round shows public markets aren’t for the faint-hearted
In recent weeks, the ad tech sector’s leading lights have issued their financial results for the closing quarter of 2024 — traditionally, the big-money period of the financial year — and while a...

AI Briefing: Ad verification’s duarchy touts AI to Wall Street amid expansion plans
DoubleVerify and Integral Ad Science have spent years as rivals focused on brand safety and verification, tasked with protecting the world’s biggest brands from showing up in problematic places. How...

Media Buying Briefing: WPP and Stagwell offer a tale of two outlooks
The two holding companies that reported their 2024 earnings last week — WPP and Stagwell — painted considerably different portraits of the future in the guidance they offered for the rest of 2025....

Ethos Raises $6m for Risk Management Platform
Ethos, a modern model risk management platform, announced that it has secured $6 million in its Seed funding round anchored by Canapi Ventures and backed by Capital One Ventures and Better Tomorrow V...

LLMs on Air: Gen AI Use Cases for News, Sports, and Entertainment
Streaming Media Connect 2025 featured a session on using generative AI in news, sports, and entertainment, moderated by Brian Ring of Ring Digital. The panel included industry veterans Andy Beach, Pet...

Hulu prematurely ended its Oscars stream right before the final awards
Hulu subscribers watching the Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday night were outraged when the streaming service ended its broadcast before the show was actually over. Viewers saw a “thank you for...

Crypto Leaders Push Back on Donald Trump’s Altcoin-Backed Reserve
President Donald Trump’s announcement of a US crypto strategic reserve, comprising a basket of digital assets, has stirred debate among industry leaders. Many argue that Bitcoin (BTC) should be the ...

Masterbuilt AutoIgnite Series 545 Digital Charcoal Grill and Smoker review
Versatile and well-priced, but with some quirks....

Lenovo just gave two of its Yoga AI laptops a major Aura Edition upgrade – here’s all the new features
Lenovo has added two new Yoga laptops to its Aura Edition lineup and its new IdeaPads can now be outfitted with Nvidia RTX 50-series GPUs....

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