How InStyle is reaching the next gen with its original social series

Marketing 9 Min Read

This story is the latest in a series exploring how brands craft standout social media strategies. If you’d like to chat about how your brand is approaching social, Katie Hicks wants to hear about it. Reach out to her at [email protected] mouse in the office. A fish fillet in the microwave. An employee locked in a closet. All of these

Wake up with our popular morning roundup of the day's top startup and business stories

Stay Updated

Get the latest headlines, discounts for the military community, and guides to maximizing your benefits
Startups 5 Min Read

Apple Still Plans to Sell iPhones When It Turns 100

Apple is allergic to nostalgia. In 2008, when the Macintosh was about to turn 25, I mentioned it to Steve Jobs and he instantly shut down the discussion. “If you look backward in this business,

Marketing 8 Min Read

Hockey-stick growth: The year of the PWHL

Women’s hockey found massive success on the international stage this year, with record-breaking viewership of the overtime Olympic gold-medal game between Team USA and Team Canada.But until last weekend, the Professional Women’s Hockey League (PWHL)

Marketing 10 Min Read

Tech companies are churning out agentic AI tools, but agencies are still scratching their heads

Super Bowl viewers who were able to peel their eyes away from the spectacle of a brunette Guy Fieri in the Bosch ad may have noticed a trend in the commercials this year. Not that

Startups 4 Min Read

‘Uncanny Valley’: Nvidia’s ‘Super Bowl of AI,’ Tesla Disappoints, and Meta’s VR Metaverse ‘Shutdown’

This week on Uncanny Valley, hosts Brian Barrett and Zoë Schiffer discuss the highlights from Nvidia’s annual developer conference, and why Tesla recently got in trouble with some of its most loyal fans online. Plus,

Top Picks

- Advertisement -
Ad imageAd image

Special Features

Livestream Replay: The War Machine

The defense tech industry has been supercharged under President Trump. Our panel of experts will help make sense of Big

To no one’s surprise, AI was everywhere at SXSW—but some industries seem more ready for it than others

Ay yi yi…or shall we say, AI, AI, AI?That’s how pervasive artificial intelligence was at South by Southwest this year—and

Arm Is Now Making Its Own Chips

Arm, one of the world’s leading chip design firms, announced Tuesday that it is producing its own semiconductors. The move

YouTube touts Gemini-infused creator tools suite at NewFronts

If there were three takeaways from YouTube’s 2026 NewFronts announcements this year, we’d boil it down to this: creators, creators,

More Stories

Startups 3 Min Read

A New Game Turns the H-1B Visa System Into a Surreal Simulation

More than half of the nine developers who worked on the game have either obtained a US visa or tried and failed to do so. Most of them are from China, but the team also intentionally recruited talent from other countries in the hopes of incorporating more diverse immigrant perspectives.“Everybody

Marketing 5 Min Read

NewFronts leaned into CTV performance offerings this year

While performance marketing is being souped up with generative AI, it’s suffering from a lack of robust measurement of CTV marketing spend, which only continues to grow.That can make proving performance marketing’s worth a challenge. Many companies at this year’s IAB NewFronts, like Comcast Advertising, DoubleVerify, and Future Today, touted

Startups 5 Min Read

Google Shakes Up Its Browser Agent Team Amid OpenClaw Craze

Google is shaking up the team behind Project Mariner, its AI agent that can navigate the Chrome browser and complete tasks on a user’s behalf, WIRED has learned. In recent months, some Google Labs staffers who worked on the research prototype have moved on to higher-priority projects, according to two

Marketing 4 Min Read

How Ancestry is using America’s 250th birthday as a ‘backdrop’ to tell lesser-known stories

American history is rife with stories of important figures. Some of those stories are legends, told so many times that it’s impossible to hear a historical figure’s name without thinking of a tale that goes with it. George Washington and the cherry tree myth. Benjamin Franklin and his kite. Others,

Startups 4 Min Read

Why Walmart and OpenAI Are Shaking Up Their Agentic Shopping Deal

The chatbot also is intentionally flexible, with the new integrations in mind. “It can take on slight tweaks to the look and feel, to make it feel like a natural part of other environments,” Danker says.Shopping ShiftThe new Walmart experience is part of a broader pivot for OpenAI to focus

Marketing 4 Min Read

LinkedIn’s NewFront pitch was part ad updates, part ‘swagger’

At their second-ever NewFront on Monday evening, the execs at LinkedIn attempted to do the (nearly) impossible: make B2B marketing cool.“LinkedIn is showing up with some swagger in the market,” Matthew Derella, VP of LinkedIn Marketing Solutions, told Marketing Brew the day after the presentation, which was closed to the

Startups 6 Min Read

At Palantir’s Developer Conference, AI Is Built to Win Wars

It’s a chilly March morning in the undisclosed mid-Atlantic hotel hosting Palantir’s developer conference. The defense contractors, military officers, and corporate executives in attendance are unprepared for the weather; they’d assumed the previous day’s mid-70s temperatures would hold. A cold rain turns to steady snowfall, and Palantir passes out heavy

Marketing 6 Min Read

How the Atlanta Braves are fostering fandom across six states

In New York, there are only about 10 miles separating Yankee Stadium in the Bronx from the Mets’ Citi Field in Queens. In the Southeast, the Atlanta Braves are the only MLB team for hundreds of miles. That leaves the Braves’ marketers with the Southern-sized task of fostering a hometown

Marketing 5 Min Read

Coworking with Tara Corey

Each week, we spotlight Marketing Brew readers in our Coworking series. If you’d like to be featured, introduce yourself here.Tara Corey is SVP of marketing at Optimizely, a software company that provides AI-powered digital experiences. She has also served in senior marketing roles at Ellucian, Qlik, and SAP.How would you

Startups 5 Min Read

The War on Iran Puts Global Chip Supplies and AI Expansion at Risk

South Korean officials have warned that the US-Israel war with Iran could hit the global semiconductor supply chain if it disrupts the flow of critical industrial materials from the Middle East.South Korea’s semiconductor sector, led by giants like Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, produces about two-thirds of the world’s memory

Most Popular

Is creator TV the next era of television?

TV has transformed before our eyes: A medium that was first dominated by networks and

Anthropic Sues Department of Defense Over Supply-Chain-Risk Designation

Anthropic filed a federal lawsuit against the US Department of Defense and other federal agencies

Want your brand to stand out? Consider breaking a world record

It’s generally frowned upon to create ad campaigns or fudge campaign numbers with the primary

Meta Ramps Up Efforts to Disrupt Industrialized Scamming

With organized, industrial-scale scamming causing a multibillion-dollar crisis around the world, Meta announced new account

‘The tide has turned’: Why the era of the Madison Avenue holding company is on its way out

Is it time to ring the death knell for the holding company model?It’d be easy