By Kayleigh Barber • April 5, 2024 • 3 min read • Ivy Liu This article is part of Digiday’s coverage of its Digiday Publishing Summit. More from the series → By the end of 2023, Semafor’s first full calendar year, the company’s co-founder and CEO Justin Smith told Digiday that it achieved two profitable months — a…
By Kimeko McCoy • April 5, 2024 • 4 min read • Ivy Liu The retail media network landscape is burgeoning to say the least, with every retailer from Walmart to most recently Chase Bank as of this week, looking to cash in on their first-party data and ad opportunities. It’s a trend that’s not expected to…
Publishers are testing generative AI technology to update a rather boring function on their sites that hasn’t been updated in a while: search. Forbes and the Financial Times have debuted their own AI chatbot search products over the past few months. Snopes will launch an AI-powered on-site search product by the end of this month,…
By Seb Joseph • April 5, 2024 • 5 min read • Ivy Liu You’ve been inundated with talk of M&A in ad tech. You’ve seen the headlines hyping up the next wave of deals. Now, let’s break down the key factors driving it all. First, let’s set the stage: There’s a growing buzz about a resurgence…
By Julia Tabisz • April 5, 2024 • 4 min read • Ivy Liu This research is based on unique data collected from our proprietary audience of publisher, agency, brand and tech insiders. It’s available to Digiday+ members. More from the series → Interested in sharing your perspectives on the media and marketing industries? Join the Digiday…
Image: Friemann/Shutterstock.com Windows 11 had a rocky start, but it’s been getting better lately — good enough that PCWorld’s March Hachman can finally bear it, in fact. But there are still plenty of good reasons to stay on Windows 10 if you’re comfortable with it. Unfortunately, security isn’t one of them. The OS will stop…
Image: Sesame Workshop/Google Cookies aren’t just something sites have to annoy you about every single #$%&ing time you visit them because of the GDPR. They’re one of the most basic ways for sites to identify specific users, for better and worse. Stealing and spoofing those cookies is a popular vector for identity theft attacks, which…
Image: Rob Schultz/IDG Our PC storage drives won’t last forever and that’s why it’s always a good idea to use backup software to keep your data safe. The best Windows backup software can keep us covered when our primary drive finally croaks. While Apple’s Time Machine provides users with an effective, set-it-and-forget-it recovery system, Microsoft…
Image: Mattias Inghe OLED monitors are the cream of the crop when it comes to gaming, and Samsung makes one of the biggest, widest ones out there. The Odyssey OLED G9 is 49 inches of super-saturated, perfect-black glory, but it doesn’t come cheap, with a regular retail price of $1799. But today Amazon is offering…
Image: Acer/Adult Swim It’s strange that while 4K resolution rapidly became ubiquitous in televisions, showing up even in the cheapest Walmart TVs stacked by the door, it’s still considered a premium feature for computer monitors. Well if you’ve been looking for a 4K upgrade on the cheap, Acer has your back. Today Amazon is listing…
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