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Stephen Colbert is saving the best for last.Historic numbers are in for the final episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, as it averaged 6.74 million total viewers on Thursday, according to Nielsen’s preliminary live fast national ratings.With those totals, Colbert delivered the most-watched weeknight episode in the show’s nearly 11-year history. Regarding Colbert’s most-watched episode ever, The Late Show scored 20.55 million total viewers for its post-Super Bowl episode on Feb. 7, 2016.The 6.74 million figure is pretty respectable given today’s fractured TV landscape. The episode also drew more viewership than the show’s premiere with Colbert on Sept.…
So bad, it’s good? Google on Friday joined in the disco ball icon fun taking place on home screens everywhere. After Spotify’s temporary new disco ball app icon, released to celebrate the company’s 20th anniversary, drew extensive online backlash (and a bit of praise for those who like a little kitsch!), Google decided to get in on the joke and rolled out a custom set of Android app icons sporting a similar disco ball theme. On X, Android ecosystem head Sameer Samat posted, “Your wish is our command. Disco icons available on Pixel as of today…Are y’all sure you still…
You can also add stations manually, which is useful if a station you like doesn’t come up in the built-in search. For this you’ll need to find a link to the PLS file used by the station—this is what allows Trdo to find the radio station. Many online radio stations offer these links freely on their websites, just look for the streaming links section.If you can’t find a link to the stream don’t worry: There are websites that collect them. I recommend checking out Public Radio Fan, a database of public radio stations from around the world, or InternetRadio, which…
Sports TV Ad Spending to Top $20 Billion in 2027 From 2026 to 2030, sports spending will grow 27%, nearly four times the 6.6% growth rate of the overall converged TV ad market. Cannes Lions is where the biggest ideas take center stage. Join ADWEEK for must-see conversations, top industry leaders, and the moments everyone will be talking about. Live sports advertising is set to become a more than $20 billion business in 2027, growing far faster than the broader television market even as audiences fragment everywhere else, according to a new report shared exclusively with…
Earlier this week, Google rolled out a completely new Search experience, foregrounding AI summaries and kicking the traditional “10 blue links” far down the page. But the sheer scale of Google Search means there are lots of edge cases that the company doesn’t seem to have considered. For instance, this is what you’ll now get if you type the word “disregard” into Google Search. Image Credits:Screenshot Google has been catching some flack on social media for this, and it’s easy to see why. As you’ll notice, the Merriam-Webster link is still in there, but you have to scroll past a…
I don’t make the rules. I just know them: The days leading up to Memorial Day are the best time to buy a grill (or a mattress, for that matter). That’s when the big grill and griddle makers are eager to show off their new line. It’s when they hope to lock you in for the whole grilling season—right before your big Memorial Day barbecue.And so, the lead-up to Memorial Day is also when grill manufacturers offer some of their best grill deals of the year. Every appliance listed here has been tested by either me or one of my…
The power of word-of-mouth and referral-based marketing takes on a whole new meaning in this episode of Marketing Vanguard. Tune in as Amica Insurance EVP and CMO Tory Pachis reveals how their Rhode Island-based challenger brand competes against massive incumbents by doubling down on empathy, service, and human-led experiences while building relevance with younger consumers.What you’ll learn: How to leverage brand heritage as a competitive moat Why share of voice matters more than market share in commoditized categories The “consumer as hero” creative framework How to use AI for product discovery, not just operational efficiency The player-coach leadership model for…
Spotify was a music app at one time. Then it added podcasts. Then audiobooks. Now the company is piling AI features into its app at a pace that can feel overwhelming. The latest wave, announced at its investor day, skews heavily toward using AI to generate content rather than using AI to help users find content they actually want. Until now, Spotify has been largely a platform for human-created content — music, podcasts, and audiobooks. As it adds AI-powered tools to generate all of those formats, the app is poised to look very different. That shift is also creating friction…
When you think of Memorial Day sales, you probably think of mattresses and other home goods. And while those items are definitely discounted, now is also a good time to purchase tech. Personally, I’m not buying anything right now unless it’s discounted—and fortunately many of our top picks are. Whether you’re shopping for a power bank, a new pair of headphones, or some other gadget, I’ve rounded up the best Memorial Day deals for your perusal. We’ll update this article again over the weekend.Check out our buying guides for more recommendations, including the best headphones, the best laptops, and the…
In Apple’s seemingly never-ending lawsuit with Fortnite maker Epic Games over App Store commissions, the iPhone maker is once again fighting a court’s ruling. Its latest tactic? Saying that Epic Games’ beef with Apple over its fee structure shouldn’t lead to an injunction that applies to all developers that publish on the U.S. App Store, including other tech giants like Microsoft and Spotify, which weren’t a part of this particular litigation. “…Epic never brought a class action and never attempted to show that enjoining Apple’s conduct against all other developers—like Microsoft or Spotify, who have nothing to do with Epic—was…
On Friday, the ultrafast-fashion giant Shein finalized its acquisition of Everlane, a US clothing retailer that made its name by promising “radical transparency” into how its clothes were made. Neither company disclosed the price of the deal, but Puck reported last weekend that it clocked in at $100 million.Founded in 2010, Everlane became synonymous with a certain strain of millennial consumerism that was supposed to be the exact opposite of Shein. It mainly sold elevated basics, and told a generation of anxious and high-minded shoppers that they could feel morally good about buying yet another pair of plain ballet flats…
OpenAI Is Hiring for a Top Marketing Exec to Promote Its Ads Business The platform is welcoming advertisers from the UK, Japan, Brazil, and elsewhere.NurPhoto via Getty Images The future of brands gets decided here. Join the industry’s top marketers at Brandweek for the ideas, insights, and connections shaping what’s next. Get your ticket. OpenAI is hiring for a senior marketing executive focused on advertisers and agencies, the latest signal that the company is ramping up its advertising ambitions.This week, OpenAI posted a job listing for a head of ads enterprise marketing role, a position described…
The merchandise website of FBI director Kash Patel was taken offline on Friday after reports that it had been hijacked by hackers trying to infect visitors with malware, as first reported by Straight Arrow News. As of this writing, the website of Based Apparel is offline. On Thursday, an X user who goes by Debbie posted that the brand’s website apparently had malware on it, in particular an infostealer, a type of malicious software designed to infect victims and steal their credentials and passwords. A security researcher later analyzed the malware. Brand Apparel could not be reached for comment. TechCrunch…
It’s been 17 years since I sat in on the iconic weekly search quality meeting in the Ouagadougou conference room at Google’s Mountain View campus. That Thursday morning, around three dozen engineers, product managers, and executives sat at a table or sprawled on the floor to discuss why certain search queries or categories didn’t yield a perfect result and to suggest fixes. In 2010 those meetings led Google to make 550 changes to its search algorithm, a number that seemed impressive at the time.That memory seems like a tintype. At Google’s I/O developer conference this week, a keynote speaker—head of…
Meanwhile…Life will have to go on after The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and its home for the past 11 years, The Ed Sullivan Theater, were sucked into an interdimensional wormhole after the show’s final episode on Thursday.Despite the sci-fi type conclusion, Colbert’s final episode was more of a real-world celebratory affair featuring celebrity cameos, musical numbers, and a sing-along featuring Late Show staff members.Music icon Paul McCartney was Colbert’s surprise final guest, during which he reminisced about The Beatles’ first time in the U.S., specifically at the Ed Sullivan Theater in 1964. McCartney recounted that the group used to…
At Google’s I/O developer conference this week, we had the opportunity for a brief hands-on with its upcoming AI-powered glasses — not the audio-only glasses that Google said will begin shipping this fall but rather the glasses that offer a combined audio and visual experience. First announced at last year’s event, these Android XR glasses offer an in-lens display that puts helpful information in front of you, overlaid on top of the real world. This includes widgets that could display things like the weather, walking directions, Uber pickup details, live translation, and more — even widgets you designed yourself using…