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Week of April 6 Evening News Ratings: WNT Stays on Top

Week of April 6 Evening News Ratings: WNT Stays on Top

ABC World News Tonight with David Muir was America’s most-watched newscast in total viewers and the Adults 25-54 demo for the week of April 6. However, WNT, NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas, and CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil did not register any week-to-week gains in either measured category for the just-concluded week. In

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Why Mullet Madjack’s retro VHS-era anime art style still stands out

Why Mullet Madjack’s retro VHS-era anime art style still stands out

Over the years, especially if you’re not a deep cut anime fan, there’s a version of cyberpunk we’ve all been trained to expect, it’s neon glow, glassy surfaces and hyper-clean UI, but PC-shooter Mullet Madjack, coming to Switch on 30 April, isn’t interested in that version at all, instead it tears the genre back to

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The Complete Guide To Agentic Commerce

The Complete Guide To Agentic Commerce

For 30 years, checkout has been a page. A form with fields for name, address, credit card number. Whether it was Amazon’s one-click patent or Apple Pay’s fingerprint, the innovation was always about making that form faster to get through. The form itself never went away. Now it is. This is the final article in

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Reclaiming the power of the story — fueled by data and AI

Reclaiming the power of the story — fueled by data and AI

The pressure to produce content at an unrelenting pace often leaves marketing teams feeling like they’re running a marathon on a treadmill — moving fast, but losing the human connection that actually drives results. At the May 6th MarTech Conference, we’re hosting a session called, “Marketing’s moment: Reclaiming the power of the story — fueled

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Horizonfilms :: Behance

Horizonfilms :: Behance

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Search Ad Growth Slows As Social & Video Gain Faster

Search Ad Growth Slows As Social & Video Gain Faster

Search advertising is one of the largest digital ad categories, but its growth is slowing as social media and video post faster gains, according to IAB’s annual report, conducted by PwC. What The Data Shows In 2025, digital advertising revenue reached $294 billion, reflecting a 13% increase from the previous year. The report uses self-reported revenue

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The M&A lag was attributed to macroeconomic uncertainty

The M&A lag was attributed to macroeconomic uncertainty

The last two weeks witnessed separate mergers and acquisitions in the ad tech sector, a stark contrast to the opening three weeks of the year, according to statistics from LUMA Partners released this week. The deals in question were Viant’s intended $40 million purchase of TVision, an announcement made a day after True Anthem’s takeover

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Nao Lee’s posters are digital terrains that hide small and unruly treasures for you to find

Nao Lee’s posters are digital terrains that hide small and unruly treasures for you to find

Often in graphic design, whether consciously or not, we learn to make things match, to keep things uniform enough to look like they all come from a cohesive whole. But Nao Lee (a.k.a undefinedtomato) is an expert in overriding this inherited instinct – she’s the kind of designer that just loves juxtaposition. That might be

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AI Agents Are Here And Your Website Isn’t Ready, Says No Hacks Podcast Host

AI Agents Are Here And Your Website Isn’t Ready, Says No Hacks Podcast Host

AI agents are already here. Not as a concept, not as a demo, but shipping inside browsers used by billions of people. Every major tech company has launched either a browser with AI built in or an extension that acts on your behalf. Anthropic’s Claude for Chrome can navigate websites, fill forms, and perform multi-step

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Artemis II Coverage Lifts Cable Nets

Artemis II Coverage Lifts Cable Nets

This is TVNewser’s basic cable network ranker and cable news report for the week of April 6, 2026. The Friday return of Artemis II’s 10-day excursion around the moon and the latest news in the War with Iran helped deliver week-to-week gains for all three cable news networks in primetime across total viewers and the

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Designers! You ALL need to come to OFFF Barcelona

Designers! You ALL need to come to OFFF Barcelona

Though I’ve been editor of Creative Bloq for a number of years now, I’m almost embarrassed to admit I’d never come to OFFF Festival, Barcelona. I watched merrily as team members came along, and didn’t realise what I was missing out on. To help you avoid making the same mistakes I have, I’m here to

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Dive Into The Stanford Report Data

Dive Into The Stanford Report Data

Stanford’s Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Institute published its 2026 AI Index Report. The report runs over 400 pages across nine chapters covering technical performance, investment, workforce effects, and public sentiment. The number getting the most attention is that Generative AI reached 53% adoption among the global population within three years of ChatGPT’s launch. That’s faster than

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AI’s shortlist is the new B2B battleground

AI’s shortlist is the new B2B battleground

\ AI search is quickly becoming a gatekeeper in B2B software buying. New research found that 71% of buyers rely on AI chatbots at some point in the software research process, and 51% now start their research with an AI chatbot more often than with Google. In G2’s report, “The Answer Economy: How AI Search

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House of Chappaz Publications :: Behance

House of Chappaz Publications :: Behance

House of Chappaz Publications An editorial system for House of Chappaz House of Chappaz, the Barcelona-based contemporary art gallery, commissioned Toormix to design the gallery’s new line of publications, embarking on the creation of the 2024–2025 season catalogue: a piece that needed to document the gallery’s programme, serve as an archive, raise the profile of

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Your AI Visibility Strategy Doesn’t Work Outside English

Your AI Visibility Strategy Doesn’t Work Outside English

This series has been written in English, tested in English, and grounded in research conducted primarily in English. Every framework discussed here (vector index hygiene, cutoff-aware content calendaring, community signals, machine-readable content APIs) was conceived by an English-speaking practitioner, stress-tested against English-language queries, and validated against benchmarks that, as this article will show, are themselves

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ChatGPT ads are getting cheaper

ChatGPT ads are getting cheaper

Advertising in ChatGPT is already getting cheaper. The rate advertisers pay to reach every thousand users has fallen from $60 at launch nine weeks ago to as low as $25 now — and counting. It’s early days, but marketers quoted Digiday a range of prices. Ad agency Jellyfish is currently onboarding its first client into

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A classic John Lennon and Yoko Ono track gets a mesmerising music video made from never-before-seen home movies

Initially, the team tried different styles for the video, using graphic and visual representatives of musical waveforms, but ultimately what felt the most authentic to the song was to visually show the love John and Yoko felt for one another. “There were a couple of reels of old Super 8 film from when they first

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Google’s Product Feed Strategy Points To The Future Of Retail Discovery

Google’s Product Feed Strategy Points To The Future Of Retail Discovery

For years, many advertisers treated product feeds as a channel task tied mainly to Shopping campaigns. If you were running Shopping ads, feed optimization likely got attention. If you weren’t, it often slipped behind priorities for the PPC campaigns you were running. Now, that approach is starting to show its age. Google’s recent Ads Decoded

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Brian Williams Teams With Netflix for New Podcast Series

Brian Williams Teams With Netflix for New Podcast Series

Top of the Ticker: “Unscripted, unhurried, and utterly himself.” That’s how Netflix describes Brian Williams ahead of his new podcast series, We’re Back! With Brian Williams. The new Netflix podcast, which debuts later this year, is billed as Williams having conversations with interesting figures shaping popular culture, including actors, writers, musicians, athletes, journalists, and unexpected

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Why Metro 2039 is doubling down on tightly curated, story-first level design

Why Metro 2039 is doubling down on tightly curated, story-first level design

There are a lot of reasons why the announcement of Metro 2039 was important, not least because the game has been made in the shadow of the Ukrainian war with Russia (developer 4A Games is Ukrainian-Maltese studio, founced 20 years ago in Kyiv), but because it also represents a pushback against recent game dev trends;

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