Social media has been another nail in the slowly closing coffin of traditional media. The primary force behind four generations of advertising, outlets like television, newspapers, and radio are seeing a dwindling share of marketing budgets, hastening their decline. Last year, industry watchers projected more than 77 percent of ad spending in the United States - roughly $302.8 billion - would go to digital channels, according to EMARKETER analysts. In contrast, only $86.7 billion went to legacy media outlets. Nearly 80 percent of financial services advertising went to digital media, versus 20 percent to traditional channels.
Compared to the S&P 500, Amazon shares have floundered in 2025. Investors are weighing the company's heavy infrastructure spending against its improving profitability in cloud, ads, and retail, trying to figure out if the company's aggressive investments will pay off or weigh on the business. Over the long term, I believe the former will be true. The company, which operates a global e-commerce marketplace, a leading cloud-computing platform
Digital tools have helped to level the playing field: 82% of small businesses attribute their revenue growth directly to digital ads, and 79% say these tools help them compete with much larger companies. Through tools like Google Ads, Business Profile and Merchant Center, we can bring the best of AI to support these businesses by streamlining their advertising efforts and helping them to stand out to customers.
Incorporated in 2016 and based in Cologne, Germany, Ströer SE & Co. KGaA provides out-of-home (OOH) media and digital advertising services in Germany and internationally. The company operates through three segments: Out-of-Home Media, Digital & Dialog Media, and DaaS & E-Commerce. The company offers traditional poster media and advertisements at bus and tram shelters, and on public transport. The company also provides local marketing of digital products to small and medium-sized customers.
But over its first 20 years, YouTube didn't just survive-it revolutionized media, redefining what TV could be. By letting anyone upload video for free, it empowered a new generation of creators to cater to every imaginable audience and attract fan bases in the millions. It taught marketers to appreciate the value of reaching these viewers, and it used technology to give rights holders control over their content. The platform conquered PCs and then smartphones and was eventually available on nearly every new TV set.
It's the classic deserted desert island scenario: I have to pick just one stock that I would buy today and then hold forever. I can't move the goalposts by picking an exchange-traded fund (ETF) and I'm not planning to build a portfolio around this name. It's just one stock, and it will be my only investment for all time. All alone.
If your home is your templethe last place where you can escape the blasted outside landscape of billboards, screen ads, bus ads, train ads, and TV adsknow that the Mongol horde of advertising is looking to break down your fortress walls. Samsung's new agenda for its smart home includes sticking ads into its ultra-expensive refrigerators with screens. Don't worry, you can dismiss some of those ads, but the only way to get rid of them completely is to disconnect your fridge from the internet.
"Why should they choose you to either talk at conferences or talk on a webinar and, from the patient standpoint, why should they trust you with their family?" Kemp, an account manager with Marketing4ECPs, said in this Healio video. "It's OK to talk about yourself online, making sure you're focused on the key elements of what makes you unique and different."
Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, said in May that web publishing is not dying. Nick Fox, VP of Search at Google, said in May that the web is thriving. But in a court document filed by Google on late Friday, Google's lawyers wrote, "The fact is that today, the open web is already in rapid decline."
Google entered a $45 million advertising contract with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office in late June to promote government messages about Gaza, according to government documents obtained by Drop Site News. The six-month campaign uses YouTube and Google's Display & Video 360 platform to distribute videos denying famine in Gaza, according to the report. One Foreign Ministry video declaring, "There is food in Gaza. Any other claim is a lie," garnered over 6 million views, largely through paid promotion. Government contracts describe the campaign as "hasbara," a Hebrew term for public relations or propaganda, according to Drop Site News.
Vox Media sold Outsports, which covers LGBTQ+ athletes, to Q.Digital last March in an "acqui-hire" deal (a non-cash transaction where Q.Digital took over Outsports' operations and revenue costs while keeping the team intact). It was part of Vox Media's reorganization to focus on its core brands last year. Under its new owners - which have other LGBTQ+ focused titles like Queerty and Gay Cities in its portfolio - Outsports has grown revenue by about 50% year over year,