Streaming ad spending is expected to surge 13% to $12.3 billion this year as advertisers shift budgets from declining traditional television. Viewers increasingly complain about loud, repetitive, ...

Rob Leathern and Rob Goldman, who both worked at Meta, are launching a new nonprofit that aims to bring transparency to an increasingly opaque, scam-filled social media ecosystem. When billionaire ...

Consumer giant Kimberly-Clark, which makes Huggies diapers and Kleenex tissues, is buying the company that makes Tylenol and Band-Aids in one of the biggest mergers of the year. The deal, worth almost ...

Coca-Cola has taken another stab at artificial-intelligence-generated holiday ads after last year’s attempts drew criticism from creative professionals over their execution and the technology’s ...

The maker of popular brands like Huggies and Kleenex announced Monday that it’s acquiring the company behind Tylenol in a massive $48.7 billion deal. The transaction, which is expected to close in the ...

YouTube users are experiencing extremely long, unskippable ads, sometimes up to an hour long. There’s a good chance that ad blockers might be contributing to the issue. Google maintains that it ...

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention's "Tips From Former Smokers" ads are set to stop at the end of September. For 13 years, these tough and honest commercials told real stories about the ...

X owner Elon Musk told advertisers in a live discussion on Wednesday that the platform plans to introduce ads in Grok’s responses, as reported by the Financial Times. The move would help power X’s ...

Meta Platforms Inc. will begin showing ads inside of its WhatsApp messaging service, opening a new potential revenue stream while the company invests heavily in artificial intelligence and other ...

They will appear in only one part of the Meta-owned messaging service, it said. The move is potentially lucrative, while raising questions about user privacy. By Eli Tan and Mike Isaac Reporting from ...

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Netflix will embrace AI-generated ads, whether we like it or not. The streaming service will roll out AI-generated ads in 2026 that will play in the middle of a show or whenever users hit pause for ...