Adobe to buy Semrush for $1.9 billion, sending marketing platform's shares up 70%
cnbc - Adobe said Semrush's search engine and marketing tools can help brands engage and grow customers, especially in the age of artificial intelligence.
Back to Top / Wednesday, November 19, 2025, 10:21 am / permalink 16109 / 10 stories in 3 months
Snapchat Launches Topic Chats for Public Discussions
Usman Qureshi / iphoneincanada - Snapchat is rolling out public Topic Chats so users can join open group discussions around trending events, interests and shared moments.The post Snapchat Launches Topic Chats for Public Discussions first appeared on iPhone in Canada.
Back to Top / Tuesday, November 18, 2025, 5:20 pm / permalink 16091 / 5 stories in 3 months
Apple reveals the most popular podcasts of 2025
Asma Hussain / ithinkdiff - Apple has released its annual Apple Podcasts Top Charts of 2025, giving listeners a clear look at the shows and creators that shaped audio this year. The rankings are now live in the New tab of the Apple Podcasts app...Read more at Apple reveals the most …
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As consumers ditch Google for ChatGPT, Peec AI raises $21M to help brands adapt
Anna Heim / techcrunch - With consumers increasingly asking questions to ChatGPT, not Google, product discovery is changing — and the promise to give brands visibility and control over this fast-growing search channel has made Peec AI one of Europe's hottest startups.
Back to Top / Monday, November 17, 2025, 11:20 pm / permalink 16057 / 6 stories in 3 months
Apple Invites Users to Design Digital Christmas Trees for Battersea Power Station Display
Hartley Charlton / macrumors - Apple today announced a campaign inviting people across the United Kingdom to design digital Christmas trees on iPad, with the winning artworks to be projected onto the chimneys of London's Battersea Power Station in December.The "Your Tree on Battersea" …
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Canva’s new ‘Creative Operating System’ is actually a marketing workspace
Jess Weatherbed / theverge - Canva is introducing new digital marketing and video-editing tools, built around what the company is calling a “world-first” design-focused AI model. These launches are part of an overhaul to the design platforms Visual Suite workplace products, which Can…
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Instagram adds a watch history for Reels
Will Shanklin / engadget - Instagram's latest feature should make it easier to resurface videos you've viewed. On Friday, Adam Mosseri revealed a new watch history for Reels. "Hopefully, now you can find that thing that you were trying to find that you couldn't find before," the In…
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HBO Max is getting even more expensive starting today
engadget - Yet another streaming platform is asking people to dig deeper into their wallets and pay more to keep using the service. Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) has jacked up the prices of all HBO Max plans, 16 months after the last increase to the ad-free offerings…
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Back to Top / Tuesday, October 21, 2025, 10:21 am / permalink 15272 / 16 stories in 4 months
Spotify now lets people follow venues to find out about concerts
Lawrence Bonk / engadget - Spotify just introduced a feature that lets users follow their favorite concert venues. This will provide people with updates and details about upcoming concerts.Once a venue is selected as a favorite, it gets saved in a user's library. Browsing each venu…
Back to Top / Monday, October 20, 2025, 11:20 am / permalink 15221 / 4 stories in 4 months
DirecTV will start replacing screensavers with AI-generated ads next year
engadget - DirecTV will begin replacing your TV's screensaver with AI-generated ads thanks to a new partnership. The entertainment brand is working with Glance, an AI company that has received backing from Google and developed an on-device AI tool alongside the tech…
Back to Top / Tuesday, October 14, 2025, 6:21 pm / permalink 15131 / 4 stories in 4 months
Google is making search ads more and less avoidable
engadget - Google is tweaking how sponsored results will appear in Search. Going forward, it will group any text ads on the Search page into a "Sponsored results" section that will appear at the top of the screen. The size of the ads is unchanged and Google says the…
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SEC Investigates Whether AppLovin’s Targeted Advertising Violated Platform Partners’ Service Agreements
PYMNTS / pymnts - Mobile advertising technology company AppLovin is reportedly being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission, which is looking into whether the company pushed more targeted advertising to consumers than was allowed by its platform partners’ s…
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Instagram introduces new ‘Ring’ award for top creators
Aisha Malik / techcrunch - The move comes as Meta has been scaling back its creator payout programs over the past few years.
Back to Top / Monday, October 6, 2025, 4:21 pm / permalink 14993 / 4 stories in 5 months
Threads is getting a 'communities' feature for better conversations
Karissa Bell / engadget - Now that Threads has grown to more than 400 million users, Meta is adding more features that could help the platform establish an identity. The company is testing a new "communities" feature that creates dedicated spaces for people to chat about specific …
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Meta plans to sell targeted ads based on data in your AI chats
Maxwell Zeff / techcrunch - Meta plans to use data from your interactions with AI products to sell targeted ads on Facebook and Instagram.
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Back to Top / Wednesday, October 1, 2025, 9:21 am / permalink 14941 / 18 stories in 5 months
Ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram are coming to the UK – for a price
Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson / betanews - Meta has announced that it is launching a subscription service in the UK that will let users of Facebook and Instagram pay to avoid ads. The plan has already been rejected by the European Union, but this does not affect post-Brexit UK. Separate subscripti…
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YouTube now lets you hide recommendation pop-ups at the end of videos
Aisha Malik / techcrunch - The decision to let users hide end screens is a welcome addition to the platform, especially since they can end up covering the last bit of a video and make it hard to see what's happening in some cases.
Back to Top / Wednesday, September 24, 2025, 4:20 pm / permalink 14843 / 3 stories in 5 months
Instagram hits 3 billion monthly users
Jess Weatherbed / theverge - Instagram now has 3 billion monthly active users, according to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. This milestone comes almost four years after Instagram reportedly hit 2 billion monthly users in December 2021, catching up to other Meta platforms. Zuckerberg announ…
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Jimmy Kimmel’s show will return after censorship outrage
Emma Roth / theverge - Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show is returning on Tuesday after Disney pulled it off the air over comments made about the assassination of Charlie Kirk. In a statement on Monday, Disney said it planned to resume production after having “thoughtful conve…
Back to Top / Monday, September 22, 2025, 5:21 pm / permalink 14805 / 9 stories in 5 months
Google’s Ad Monopoly Under Microscope as Judge Weighs Remedies
Katherine Blunt / wsj - A federal court will begin hearing testimony to decide what penalties the company should face for unlawful practices in its digital-ads software business.
Back to Top / Monday, September 22, 2025, 5:20 am / permalink 14783 / 7 stories in 5 months