Adobe has spent two years bolting AI onto its software. This week it tried to become the AI layer underneath everything creative and marketing, in five announcements stretched across three days. The headline is an agent inside the apps. The rest of the…
Searches for “receipt photo booth” climbed more than 680% over the past year, and the category jumped from a niche TikTok trend to a real fixture in cafes, flagship stores, and brand activations. If you run a space or a marketing team, picking from the…
AI made content abundant. A 2026 survey of 16,000 creators shows voice and judgment, not volume, are now the scarce asset
Fox acquires Roku in a $22bn deal that drags the cable-reliant broadcaster squarely into streaming. Fox Corporation will pay $160 a share, in cash and stock, for the maker of the streaming sticks and smart TVs sitting in more than 100 million household…
The US Justice Department has cleared Paramount Skydance’s $110 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery without requiring any changes to the deal. The agency said the merger “is not likely to harm competition or American consumers” after an eight-mo…
Spotify is adding short-form videos from its editorial team to New Music Friday, its flagship weekly playlist for new releases. The videos feature Spotify’s curators sharing their picks, spotlighting rising artists, and explaining the stories behind so…
The music industry descended on New York this week for Indie Week and a flurry of parallel gatherings. The conversations kept circling back to the same handful of anxieties: generative AI, streaming fraud, underpaid songwriters, and the organisations m…
Reddit has launched video comments for all users. The feature lets any Redditor upload or record a short-form video reply directly in the comments of any post. It rolls out across all public, safe-for-work communities starting Thursday. A video icon no…
Deezer has built a free tool that will tell you how much of your music was made by a machine, even if you stream it somewhere else. The French service has opened its AI-music detector to the public, letting anyone scan their playlists on Spotify, Apple…
Paramount is unifying the tech stacks behind Paramount+, Pluto TV, and BET+ onto a single backend infrastructure by mid-2026. CEO David Ellison announced the consolidation earlier this year. It is designed to eliminate duplicate systems, improve the ap…