Advertising
Streaming Reaches Historic TV Milestone, Eclipses Combined Broadcast and Cable Viewing For First Time
Nielsen
"This trend could continue into the summer months, but the balance will likely shift back—at least temporarily—as football kicks off and a new broadcast season returns."
How Digital Pros Are Thinking About AI-Driven Advertising
Campaigns & Elections
"But Wilson also said that there are clear challenges that the industry will have to grapple with: the patchwork of state laws regulating the use of AI in political advertising and the difficulty of having candidates and committees approve ads that are hyper-personalized for individual users."
Content
The Political Gap in Americans’ News Sources
Pew Research
"Republicans and independents who lean Republican get news from a fairly concentrated group of sources, and one rises to the top: Fox News. A majority of Republicans (57%) say they regularly get news from the cable network, at least double the share who say they turn to any other news source we asked about."
Fundraising
RNC Sued Over WinRed's Constant 'ALL HELL JUST BROKE LOOSE!' Fundraising Texts
404 Media
"The Johnsons claim that the RNC sent Samantha 17 messages from 16 different phone numbers, nine of the messages after she demanded the messages stop 12 times. Cari received 27 messages from 25 numbers, they claim, and she sent 20 stop requests."
International
What makes online political ads unacceptable? Interrogating public attitudes to inform regulatory responses
Nature
"Our findings revealed that ads appearing to contravene existing regulatory standards (being legal, decent, truthful and honest) were more likely to be deemed unacceptable. This supports the idea of extending existing regulatory oversight to include online political ads, adding weight to calls for applying the system of commercial advertising oversight to the regulation of online political ads."
Social Media
For the first time, social media overtakes TV as Americans’ top news source
Nieman Lab
"These creators are also attracting audiences that traditional media struggle to reach. Some of the most popular personalities over-index with young men, with right-leaning audiences, and with those that have low levels of trust in mainstream media outlets, seeing them as biased or part of a liberal elite."
Technology
Apple’s iOS 26??? Digital Outreach just got a HUGE wake-up call
MRSS
"Text messages from numbers not in a user’s contacts will be automatically sorted into a separate 'Unknown Senders' folder in the Messages app."
Are You Ready for the AI Election?
FWIW
"And people will inevitably build chatbots that convincingly simulate speaking directly to political leaders. One question is whether campaigns will embrace these or whether these bots will be created outside of campaigns’ control."
Chatbot-Driven Voting Aid Applications Increase Knowledge about Party Positions but Do Not Change Party Evaluations
APSA
"The findings provide evidence that the VAA Bot improves knowledge of party stances. However, we observe weaker effects on downstream outcomes such as vote preferences and party evaluations. These findings contribute to ongoing debates about the role of political information in shaping behavior and underscore both the promise and the limitations of LLM-based tools for civic learning."
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