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Taboola, the native advertising giant known for placing sponsored content modules beneath news stories on sites like USA Today and NBC News, has named Krishan Bhatia its first chief business officer.At Taboola, Bhatia will be charged with driving revenue through global sales and partnerships across Taboola’s full product portfolio.Most recently, Bhatia served as vice president at Amazon, where he scaled Prime Video’s advertising business to new markets across the world, built out a brand partnerships team, and expanded the company’s live sports offering.Prior to his time at Amazon, Bhatia spent over a decade at NBCUniversal, where in his role as…
SeatGeek announced on Wednesday a new integration with Spotify, bringing a seamless ticket-buying experience for Spotify users. Now, when Spotify users browse an artist’s page or upcoming tour dates, they will see ticket links powered by SeatGeek for concerts at these participating venues, allowing for a streamlined purchase process. Currently, the integration is available for a select group of venues where SeatGeek serves as the primary ticket seller. Specifically, it covers SeatGeek’s 15 major U.S. venue partners, including State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Nissan Stadium in Nashville, and AT&T Stadium in Arlington. (So, although SeatGeek is a major player in…
Like many Silicon Valley companies today, Scout AI is training large AI models and agents to automate chores. The big difference is that instead of writing code, answering emails, or buying stuff online, Scout AI’s agents are designed to seek and destroy things in the physical world with exploding drones.In a recent demonstration, held at an undisclosed military base in central California, Scout AI’s technology was put in charge of a self-driving off-road vehicle and a pair of lethal drones. The agents used these systems to find a truck hiding in the area, and then blew it to bits using…
TikTok has reversed course on a plan to phase out seller-fulfilled shipping in the U.S. for TikTok Shop, pausing previously announced deadlines, according to an email sent to merchants and reviewed by ADWEEK.In the email, sent Tuesday, the company said, “At this time, Seller Shipping remains unchanged, and previously shared deadlines are not going into effect. In the meantime, please continue operating as usual” TikTok corroborated the content of the email. “Sellers have a choice of fulfillment options, including Seller Shipping, Upgraded TikTok Shipping, Collections by TikTok (CBT) or Fulfilled by TikTik (FBT), ” a company spokesperson told ADWEEK. TikTok…
Amazon has hundreds of thousands of robots in its warehouses, but that doesn’t mean all of its robotic initiatives are a success story. The ecommerce giant has halted its Blue Jay warehouse robotics project just months after unveiling the tech, as originally reported by Business Insider and confirmed by TechCrunch. Blue Jay, a multi-armed robot designed to sort and move packages, was unveiled in October for use in the company’s same-day delivery facilities. At the time, the company was testing the robots at a facility in South Carolina and said it took Amazon significantly less time to develop Blue Jay…
Just after 8:00 pm on Sunday night, Evie Magazine’s first live event was finally getting started. The women’s magazine, which was founded in 2019 and once described itself as a “conservative Cosmo,” welcomed eager fans to celebrate the publication, generally, and its new issue, specifically, during New York Fashion Week at the Standard Hotel’s Boom in Chelsea.Guests lined up outside, hugging fur coats around formal dresses, as hosts scanned a list for their names. One blonde woman begged for access to the VIP section; an event planner ran downstairs to tell her coworkers that someone’s hair had caught on fire.…
A trifecta of factors led television viewing in January to a record 12-month high, according to Nielsen’s monthly gauge report.The report, which provides a snapshot of total TV and streaming consumption, revealed that overall TV viewing was up +3.7% compared to the last month of 2025. This was due to win-or-go-home sporting situations, returning broadcast dramas, and colder winter temperatures that kept audiences indoors.The cable segment was the biggest beneficiary during this period, seeing a +9% increase in viewership compared to December. It also had the largest monthly viewing increase across Nielsen’s The Gauge, rising +1.0% to 21.2% from December’s…
Google on Wednesday introduced its latest entry-level Pixel smartphone. The $499 Pixel 10a launches with new AI software capabilities and minor hardware updates. The smartphone is available for preorder now with shipments starting March 5. It comes in Lavender, Berry, Fog, and Obsidian. The Pixel 10a features a completely flat back, which means the camera bar blends with the back of the phone and lies flat when you place it down on a surface. Google notes that the smartphone’s 6.3-inch Actua display is 11% brighter than the Pixel 9a. It also has faster charging than its predecessor, with more than…
After years spent finding and investigating data breaches, Greg Pollock admits that when he comes across yet another exposed database full of passwords and Social Security numbers, “I come to it with some fatigue.” But Pollock, director of research at the cybersecurity company UpGuard, says he and his colleagues found an exposed, publicly accessible database online in January that appeared to contain a trove of Americans’ sensitive personal data so massive that his weariness lifted and they sprang to action to validate the finding.The UpGuard researchers point out that not all of the records represent unique, valid information, but the…
A new ads leader is on the way to Roku City.Today, Roku announced that Patrick Harris will join the company as svp, global media revenue. With the position, Harris becomes Roku’s new ads leader, reporting to Charlie Collier, president, Roku Media. Harris is based in New York and begins on March 9.The appointment comes after the company’s former ads leader, Jay Askinasi, exited Roku late last year to join Paramount.In the role, Harris is responsible for the “full scope of Roku’s global advertising revenue growth and performance efforts, as well as its media innovations,” according to the company. He is…
Only days after Spotify announced its foray into physical book sales, which included an audiobook feature that lets you sync your listening and your offline reading progress, Amazon-owned Audible has launched a feature that brings ebooks together with audiobooks. The company announced on Wednesday an “immersion reading” feature in the Audible app, which allows readers who have both the ebook and audiobook versions of a title in their Audible and Kindle libraries to read the ebook’s text while the audio plays. The feature also lets users switch between the different formats across devices. While in the “Read & Listen” mode,…
Kidde has become the best-known name in the world of smart smoke detectors—a relatively low bar given how few people know the brand of their smoke detector. Still, you’ll find Kidde recommended by reviewers and customers across the internet with surprising enthusiasm, which has only increased since the brand started collaborating with Ring and Amazon, making it an easy add-on to Alexa-powered smart homes.Until now, if you wanted a Kidde smart smoke alarm connected to your other devices, one that would send you alerts by Ring app, you could only choose a hardwired model. Anyone who wanted something battery-powered from…
The social influence publisher ATTN: appointed former BuzzFeed and Complex Networks executive Edgar Hernandez as its first chief commercial officer.Hernandez, who started Feb. 17, will oversee the company’s sales organization and lead its go-to-market strategy across branded content, agency services, intellectual property, and social media partnerships. The hire comes as the media company and creative agency looks to accelerate growth following its recent return to independent ownership.“A lot of publishers have tried to transition into a social and creative agency and failed,” Hernandez told ADWEEK. “It’s very hard to be in the publisher business—at ATTN:, the creative work and the…
Marketing is one of the few operations no industry can afford to ignore, which is why we have a veritable host of AI-powered marketing tools being shoved into marketers’ faces today. All the social platforms, from Facebook and Instagram to TikTok, and major incumbents like Microsoft and Google, to content-generation startups like Jasper and Copy.ai, offer AI tools that claim to make marketers’ lives easier in uncountable ways. That was partly why I was confused to see yet another marketing AI startup entering the fray: San Francisco-based Kana just came out of stealth with a suite of AI agents that…
Those are the kinds of refinements Google has made on the Pixel 10a. The pOLED display is nearly identical, except it can now reach 3,000 nits of peak brightness versus 2,700 nits on the 9a. The glass covering the display uses Corning’s Gorilla Glass 7i instead of the aging Gorilla Glass 3, for better scratch resistance.The battery capacity remains 5,100 mAh, but Google has upped charging speeds to 30 watts when plugging in, and 10 watts for wireless charging. Google skipped the Pixelsnap magnetic Qi2 charging here, a feature the company debuted on its flagship Pixel 10 series. Apple is…
Cathay Home is hardly a household name. The New York-based textile distributor has been shifting bedding through Target, Nordstrom and Bed Bath & Beyond for years. Last May, the company filed a trademark application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a refreshed logo on its “Swift Home” line of pillows, mattresses and sheets. The name had been in use for a decade. The original mark was filed in 2015, registered without incident in 2016, and renewed just last month. Perfectly unremarkable branding for a perfectly unremarkable bedding company.There was just one problem. The new logo rendered the word “Swift” in…