Amazon is ready to interrupt Prime Video programming to bring commercial breaks to its streaming shows and movies, the company announced Friday. Amazon joins a growing list of streamers giving… Read More
Amazon, the pet friendly tech giant where employees get to bring their dogs to work, scored high among Super Bowl advertisers with an ad about a dog that’s left at… Read More
In between the beer, Doritos, mayonnaise, Pepsi, Pringles and more beer, make sure to leave some room for the tech. Ahead of Super Bowl LVII on Sunday, the crop of… Read More
The crisis around homelessness in Seattle — and in cities across the country — is nothing short of a source of daily conversation among those experiencing it, witnessing it, or working… Read More
Amazon’s Alexa is the target of a new lawsuit alleging that the company is using information gathered from users of its smart speaker devices to serve them targeted advertising without… Read More
One year ago, the last question put to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos during his final shareholder meeting as the company’s CEO was an important one. It was, in essence: Has… Read More
iSpot, the Seattle-area startup that measures the reach and impact of television advertising, has made its third acquisition in the past 14 months, picking up Tunity, a company that tracks… Read More
The focus of a lot of the Super Bowl LVI ads released ahead of Sunday’s games seems to be the stars who show up in the commercials. In many cases,… Read More
Microsoft reached a deal to acquire AT&T’s advertising technology division, Xandr, seeking to strengthen its own advertising business as the industry shifts away from online tracking technologies. AT&T has reportedly… Read More
Macy’s is suing a real estate company to prevent Amazon from taking over the iconic billboard next to its landmark department store at West 34th Street and Broadway in Manhattan,… Read More
Amazon’s advertising business continue to grow rapidly as it is now one of the company’s key sources of revenue. In the company’s second quarter earnings report, Amazon said its “Other”… Read More
“I wonder what unit profitability was in 2017 without advertising?” That seemingly mundane question, posed by Jeff Bezos during a meeting of Amazon’s senior leadership team, won’t get as much… Read More
Plenty of people switch between Mac and PC for their computing needs. Apple’s one-time “I’m a Mac” guy is switching his entire persona. In a new ad campaign from Intel,… Read More
The most important part of Sunday’s Super Bowl is already watchable as advertising for a variety of companies and products has hit the internet ahead of the big game. Tech… Read More
The Goat got baaaaaaannnnned. T-Mobile’s Super Bowl ad featuring Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady (Greatest Of All Time?) won’t air during the big game on Sunday so the Bellevue,… Read More
The disembodied voice of Amazon’s Alexa may have finally found a vessel suitable for helping with recipes, turning on the lawn sprinklers, or reading an audio book in the bathtub.… Read More
As Apple looked to the “future of the Mac” at its “One more Thing” event on Tuesday, the tech giant reached into the past to take another dig at the… Read More
“The show must go on” for Amazon as the tech giant gears up for a huge holiday shopping season in the midst of the pandemic. That also happens to be… Read More
USAFacts, the nonpartisan, not-for-profit civic data initiative founded by former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, is launching a $10 million ad campaign to illustrate the power of data and facts. The… Read More
A new ad from Zillow is a sign of shifting sands in the housing market. Called “Ready for a Change,” the ad features a composite street with single-family homes, an… Read More
Microsoft has paused advertising on Facebook and Instagram worldwide due to concerns about content surfaced alongside ads, according to Axios. The software giant is not participating in a broader Facebook… Read More
There’s no crying in baseball, Tom Hanks once said. But there will be tears in football, especially for those who view Google’s Super Bowl LIV commercial. The 90-second tear-jerker called… Read More
Rock and Rocky. Seems like Facebook picked a good way to roll into the Super Bowl ad game for the first time. The social media giant turned to comedian Chris… Read More
Plenty of people turn to Alexa for answers to random questions and assistance in launching everything from favorite songs to the day’s news report. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos turned to… Read More
Microsoft has struck a nerve over the past several years with Super Bowl ads that convey its mission and message around empowering individuals to achieve more. A new spot for… Read More
It’s been a couple weeks since the demise of Seattle-based Vicis, the high-tech football helmet maker that laid off all of its employees and was placed into receivership by its… Read More
It’s one thing to leave a note for Santa and hope for some sort of reply. It’s quite another to use technology to try to speak to some reindeer. But… Read More
For the third year in a row, the Amazon boxes are singing to ring in the holiday shopping season. The new advertising spot from the tech giant features the smile… Read More
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced Wednesday his company will stop accepting political advertising on the platform. The surprise decision is an apparent swipe at Facebook, which is currently embroiled in… Read More
Mark Zuckerberg defended Facebook’s decision to continue running political ads this week, despite concerns about disinformation, in a passionate speech about free expression at Georgetown University. But a legal crackdown… Read More
