Zillow Gone Wild is, indeed, going wild.The cross-platform social media account, which highlights some of the weirdest and most extravagant home listings on the real-estate platform Zillow (like this castle in Southlake, Texas, or this AI-looking house in Victoria, British Columbia), has accumulated an audience of nearly 5 million across social media and its newsletter. Now, it’s also a TV…
As Congress once again considers legislation that would regulate how kids can use tech platforms, Meta is making a renewed push to advertise its safety features for teens.Last week, the platform started running ads promoting Instagram Teen Accounts, a product the company introduced last fall. The update makes accounts belonging…
As if 162 regular-season MLB games per team weren’t enough, every February, players head to Florida and Arizona for two months of spring training before the official start of the season.They’re not the only ones packing their bags. Some teams bring along their content, creative, and social media crews to…
For advertisers, privacy is stuck in purgatory—at least on the federal side.Lina Khan, an advocate for consumer privacy, is no longer leading the Federal Trade Commission. And even though some federal privacy legislation has made its way through Congress, legislators on the Hill have yet to pass any such bill.What’s…
First Best Buy sold plasma TVs. Now it’s selling Facebook ads.Last week, the electronics retailer announced a tool called Social+ that will let advertisers target Best Buy customers on Facebook and Instagram.So what? In recent years, retailers have turned their troves of first-party data into billion-dollar advertising businesses. Retail media…
The Masters Tournament is played down south in Augusta, Georgia, but this year, the golf championship is getting a bit of a northern attitude.For the past six years, ESPN has promoted its broadcast coverage of the Masters by creating ads set to covers of Ray Charles’s “Georgia on My Mind”…
The social media juggernaut famously founded in a Harvard dorm room in 2004 can finally buy beer.Over the last quarter-century, Facebook, which turned 21 on February 4, has evolved from a social networking tool for college students and a place to poke your middle school crush into a social media…
Ad breaks might come as a jump scare to consumers who are shelling out for streaming subscriptions.Nearly 80% of consumers “expect to see no ads at all” if they’re paying for a streaming service, according to new research from free streaming service Tubi and The Harris Poll. Around the same…
More than two decades ago, the online service provider AOL bought Time Warner for $183 billion, marking what was then the largest merger in American business history. The goal—to bring a traditional media company into the digital age—was ahead of its time.It was also, for all intents and purposes, an…
The March Madness rankings have been released, and not just the No. 1 seeds.The University of Connecticut Huskies, a No. 2 seed in this year’s tournament, were the most marketable women’s team, according to the NIL platform Out2Win.The team scored 96 out of 100, according to Out2Win’s 2025 March Madness…
Ahead of YouTube’s annual Brandcast upfronts event later this spring, the video giant is touting new ways for creators to connect more directly with brands.Through a new feature called “creator-initiated video linking,” creators in YouTube’s partner program can now send requests to brands to partner on sponsored content videos they’ve…
In a declining economy, startups face an uphill battle when it comes to securing funding.…
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A while back, I took a couple of my grandchildren on a tour of the…
Startups face numerous challenges on their journey to success, and failing to overcome any one…
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