By Kimeko McCoy • December 31, 2024 • Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Spotify 2025 is expected to be a hell of a year, if you ask the Digiday staff. After the whirlwind that was 2024, the new year seems to promise a cocktail of chaos and topics the industry can’t escape. Or as Digiday managing…
By Marty Swant • December 31, 2024 • Ivy Liu In 2024, generative AI proved itself to be far more than just a buzzword. From the flurry of AI-powered gadgets to the potential regulations, the second year of a massive innovation race advanced alongside scrutiny, with questions about transparency, copyright, and ethical use. As a…
By Sam Bradley • December 31, 2024 • Sports marketing spend shot up in 2024. Amid soaring viewership figures for last year’s Olympic Games, worldwide ad spend on sports-related advertising rose to $60.9 billion, according to WARC. But sports marketing doesn’t always just mean chasing the largest audience possible. In 2025 brand marketers are set…
University of Cambridge research suggests most of the freight moved around the UK to serve retailers, hospitality and other sectors is carried on trucks – it reportedly accounts for circa 80% of the 200 billion tonne km in 2022. It also states that 20% of the UK’s domestic transport greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2021…
Among the many extraordinary surveillance, journalism and encryption stories this year, revelations of covert and unlawful monitoring of journalists and their confidential sources by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) and the Metropolitan Police attracted the most attention. Five years ago, journalists Barry McCaffrey and Trevor Birney filed a complaint to the Investigatory Powers…
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