Tech Giants Say They Can't Guarantee Your Security Under New Encryption Laws
A group representing Google, Facebook, Amazon, and others has slammed the Australian government's draft encryption legislation.
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The Anti-Facebook Mask
<strong>Be invisible.</strong> Or, at least, fool Facebook for Halloween.
Akshay Kumar Wrote A Moving Letter Voicing Concern For Bollywood's Stuntmen and Women
"You deserve so much more than a wage packet, & I hope I live long enough to see a change."
Small Social Is Here: Why Groups Are Finally Finding A Home Online
Facebook Groups, Slack, Nextdoor and others are leading a charge into new territory for the social internet.
French People Are Losing Their Shit Over This Photo Of Crêpes
"Sacre bleu! Quelle tragédie!"
A Woman Shared Her Epic Fart Story On Facebook And It’ll Give You Secondhand Embarrassment
"I'm thinking, do I leave? Do I leave the country? Is this happening??"
Facebook's Photo Filters Look Exactly Like Instagram's
<b>It's uncanny!</b> Maybe now we know why Facebook really bought Instagram: so it <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/jwherrman/before-buying-instagram-facebook-planned-to-destr">wouldn't look so bad</a> when they copied it.
A Billionaire Politician — Not Trump, Another One — Is Running Facebook Ads For Chloroquine
Australian billionaire Clive Palmer has promised to buy a million courses of a drug that has not been proven to help COVID-19.
What Should Hollywood Learn From Kane Parsons?
The 20-year-old YouTube creator, whose A24 film Backrooms premieres May 29, has created a new kind of rollout strategy.
LiveRamp’s Data Gives Publicis a New Way Into Commerce Media and Agentic AI
Publicis Groupe's $2.2 billion acquisition of data firm LiveRamp could help the holding company better compete in a commerce media landscape dominated by Amazon.
Omnicom’s John Wren Made More Than Double All Other Advertising Holdco CEOs Combined in 2025
Omnicom CEO John Wren earned nearly $70 million in 2025—more than twice the combined pay of every other major advertising holdco CEO, with Publicis' Arthur Sadoun trailing as the next-highest earner at $9.4 million.
Google Challenges Amazon With New Native Checkout, Rolls Out AI Ad ‘Explainers’
Google is standing up infrastructure that lets consumers shop from countless merchants without leaving its properties, whether they’re watching videos on YouTube, browsing on Search, or querying the Gemini app. […]
Apple’s Eddy Cue Is Cannes Lions 2026 Entertainment Person of the Year
Under his leadership, Apple TV has emerged as a crown jewel for the company.
James Murdoch to Acquire New York Magazine, Vox Media Podcast Network, and Vox
Vox Media will be split in two: CEO Jim Bankoff will lead the newly acquired titles, while president Ryan Pauley will oversee the remaining titles.
Sandi Cohen Named EP for Peter Alexander’s Upcoming MS NOW Show
Cohen was most recently a senior broadcast producer for CNN’s Laura Coates Live.
Viant Taps Ad Fontes Media to Bring ‘News Bias’ Targeting to CTV
The integration scores news programs on reliability and bias, giving buyers a more granular way to activate against inventory.
After 3 Years of Missed Sales, Target Reports Growth, but Warns of Upcoming Headwinds
The retailer's ad business grew 51% year over year.
How Condé Nast Grew Its Events Revenue 40% Last Year
The media company is projecting another 22% growth in 2026 as it leans into cultural tentpoles to hedge against AI and traffic declines.
Heinz Brings Back the Iconic Glass Bottle To Mark Its 157th Birthday
The nostalgia play kicks off the brand’s anniversary campaign from Wieden+Kennedy New York.
Jaron Lanier: How we need to remake the internet
In the early days of digital culture, Jaron Lanier helped craft a vision for the internet as public commons where humanity could share its knowledge -- but even then, this vision was haunted by the dark side of how it could turn out: with personal devices that control our lives, monitor our data and feed us stimuli. (Sound familiar?) In this vis...