Top marketers at Tinder and Hinge will be sharing their insights at Brandweek from Sept. 23-26 in Phoenix, AZ. Follow along here. Dating apps are giving the TikTok generation the ick -- and that sentiment shows in declining use. A 2023 Axios / Generation Lab survey revealed that 79% of college and graduate students in...

The signs outside Blockbuster video stores were designed to look like a movie ticket, torn on one end. A paper movie ticket? Torn by...a ticket taker? Those things are obsolete, of course, but Blockbuster isn't (not entirely, anyway). There's one remaining location--a family-run operation in Bend, Oregon--that serves as a community hub and retro wonderland....

TelevisaUnivision has a new CEO. The Spanish-language media giant said Wade Davis stepped aside. Daniel Alegre, former president and chief operating officer of Activision Blizzard and CEO of Yuga Labs, became CEO effective Thursday. (THR) TelevisaUnivision confirmed Davis' departure from the top job late Wednesday, hours after The New York Times reported...

The Federal Trade Commission said Thursday that it found that several social media and streaming services engaged in "vast surveillance" of consumers, including minors, collecting and sharing more personal information than most users realized. (NYT) The report, which stretches more than 100 pages, details the data, advertising, and recommendation-system...

Axel Springer struck a deal that will see its media assets--which include Politico, Business Insider, and newspapers Bild and Die Welt--hived off into a private company with the aim of building an international digital news media powerhouse. (The Guardian) Axel Springer's profitable classifieds businesses are to become separately held entities under...

Lance Frank was named head of communications for CBS News, Stations & Media Ventures. His promotion was announced Thursday by CBS News president and CEO Wendy McMahon and executive vice president of communications Chris Ender. (TVNewser) TikTok's global head of marketing, Kate Jhaveri, is leaving the company at the end of September, according to...