Myspace wants a comeback
The site's owners have promised a relaunch before, and failed. Now, with X, TikTok and even Facebook all stumbling, they think the moment for a platform with no algorithm at all has finally arrived.
Nielsen to buy DoubleVerify for $2.15 billion
Combining audience measurement with ad-quality verification tests whether either signal can still be called neutral once one company owns both.
Indiana ranked 30th state in the nation by U.S. News & World report
The state climbed three spots this year, but the number hides a bigger split: top-20 in opportunity, dead last in natural environment.
The new gatekeeper
84% of buyers now trust an AI's first answer. Most businesses have no idea what that answer says about them.
Wally’s, Wawa and Buc-ee’s are all building along Indiana’s I-65, and Sheetz says it’s next
Three travel center chains have landed on the same 100-mile stretch of highway, each betting big on the state's fastest-growing corridor, with a fourth now announcing plans to enter Indiana too.
The $100 billion ad fraud problem marketers and businesses aren’t being told about
Bots, fake audiences and unverifiable statistics are quietly draining digital ad budgets, and the companies reporting the numbers are often the same ones selling the fix.
Substack’s new AI detector is solving the wrong problem
The company wants readers to know who wrote what. That's not actually what anyone needs to know.
What a new AI report means for how you write a press release
A vendor-funded study says structure wins AI citations. The research it doesn't emphasize says something else wins more.
The noise problem
Small businesses have more ways to reach customers than ever before. Getting heard is a different question entirely.
Why every business needs a crisis communications plan
The companies that manage crises best don't communicate better under pressure; they prepare before it arrives.
The cheapest marketing is the kind that works
Main Street is outspending its uncertainty. Small businesses are boosting posts and buying leads while tariff eat their margins and most of them still can’t trace a dollar spent.

