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Parkdean jobs up for grabs in North East - with one role having a salary of £48k
A holiday firm has a range of jobs available at its sites across the North East. Parkdean Resorts is advertising positions at its parks in Northumberland and North Tyneside, along with roles at its headquarters in Newcastle. There is a mix of...

Crozet Gazette Wins Eight Virginia Press Awards
The Virginia Press Association announced the winners of its annual journalism contest in April, honoring journalists and publications throughout Virginia for excellence in writing, photography, design, and advertising during the calendar year...

Work smarter, not harder: six lessons from Newsrewired
From user needs frameworks to community-driven subscription campaigns, we uncover practical strategies that help publishers achieve remarkable growth despite shrinking resources And check out the Journalism.co.uk podcast on Apple Podcasts and...
PRSA Announces 2025 Anvil Award Winners
PRSA announced the winners of the 2025 Anvil Awards, recognizing the highest standards of performance in the profession, during a ceremony at New York’s Edison Ballroom this evening. Silver Anvil Awards acknowledge the best strategic public...

Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads
On an average day, you might unlock or look at your phone dozens of times, which makes the lock screen a hot property for advertising. Ad tech company Glance has been taking advantage of that for years with its ad-laden lock screen experiences,...

AI Agents Are Helping PMG Run Ads on Fox News Without Freaking Out Clients
AI agents are helping brands rethink news content as an ad channel. News has long been a no-fly zone for advertisers who are skittish of landing next to stories about war, mass shootings or polemical political figures. But now, agentic AI—the...

uniqFEED’s virtual advertising approved for use in Bundesliga
uniqFEED, the Swiss advertising solutions and sports rights firm, has received league-wide approval from the DFL German soccer league to deploy its AI-powered AdApt virtual advertising technology across the top-flight Bundesliga. The approval...

Triple-I: New Research Suggest Link Between Litigation Funding, Attorney Ads
According to research from the American Tort Reform Association (ATRA), legal service providers spent more than $2.5 billion on 26.9 million ads in 2024 alone—with significant increases in television, radio and outdoor advertising since 2017. The...

Criminal proceedings begin on 36 smuggling, trade fraud, false advertising cases
HÀ NỘI — Authorities launched legal proceedings on 36 cases involving 119 individuals for offenses such as smuggling, trade fraud, production and sale of counterfeit goods, and false advertising across 24 localities from May 15 to June 3,...

Meta Provides Additional Parameters To Guide AI-Powered Ads
Meta has announced that it's expanding its AI ad control options, which will give Meta advertisers more ways to define their specific ad goals to its automated systems, helping to drive variable response to your AI-powered promotions. Which is all...
Criminal proceedings begin on 36 smuggling, trade fraud, false advertising cases

Missing zebra in Rutherford County inspires cakes, songs, ads, more
There's an old phrase popularized by Dr. Theodore Woodward from the University of Maryland in the 1940s that says, "if you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras." In Rutherford County, the sound of hoofbeats could actually be an escaped zebra...

Esports World Cup Foundation signs Amazon Ads for 3-year collaboration
The Esports World Cup Foundation (EWCF) announced a strategic three-year collaboration with Amazon Ads. The deal will combine the Esports World Cup’s (EWC) premier esports and gaming event, returning to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from July 7 to August...

‘We’re here to learn’: EY’s Lou Cohen on AI, advertising and the compliance catch
Lou Cohen doesn’t just teach marketing – he’s trying to rewire it. As chief digital officer for EY Americas and a professor at NYU, Yeshiva University and Baruch College, Cohen sits at the crossroads of theory and practice. And at the ANA Masters...

Foreign acquisition of Pakistan’s advertising, media firms
ISLAMABAD – The Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) has granted approval for three separate merger transactions. Berkeley Square Holding BV has been allowed to acquire 50 percent shareholding of Ogilvy & Mather Pakistan (Private) Limited,...

'Why are they so greedy': Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 players are in disbelief to find bundle ads but Activision claims it's simply a 'UI feature test' that was published 'in error'
Over the weekend a Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 player noticed something different about the weapon select menu: for some reason there were bundle ads embedded into it. This feature has since been taken down by Activision, which claims it was just a...

Yango Ads and Dr Nutrition partner to personalise health retail through AI-powered ad solution
Yango Ads, the ad tech division of Yango Group, has announced a strategic partnership with Dr. Nutrition, one of the Middle East’s leading health and wellness retailers. The collaboration brings Yango Ads’ 360° Retail Media platform to Dr....

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Lock Screen Ads Are Coming to Your Galaxy Phone
Samsung is partnering with Glance to bring “a new AI Commerce platform” to the lock screens of Galaxy phones in the United States. It won’t be enabled automatically, but it’s still not great to see lockscreen advertisements coming to phones that...

Bing Ads Bag Icon Tests On Shop Now Button
Microsoft is testing putting a shopping bag icon on its "Shop Now" Bing Ads layout. I cannot replicate this but normally Bing shows a button that says "Shop Now" and that is it, but in this test, Bing is adding a bag icon before the "Shop Now"...