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Amazon removes AI-generated anime dubs after uproar

Amazon has quietly removed its AI-generated English dubs for several anime after days of vicious ridicule. Voice actors and anime fans alike slammed the Banana Fish, No Game No Life: Zero, and Vinland Saga AI dubs, calling them "soulless," "disrespectful," and "hilariously bad."

Clips of Amazon's AI-generated anime dubs began circulating on social media after they were added to Prime Video last month. Labelled as "AI beta" under Prime Video's audio language options, the laughably awful AI-gener...
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Spotify Wrapped 2025: Everything you need to know

Spotify Wrapped 2025 is here, dropping in the early morning hours on Wednesday. And after 2024's version received decidedly meh reviews, a lot has been changed and added.

The company referenced that, let's say, constructive feedback at a press event for Wrapped 2025, promising this year's product was jam-packed with cool stuff. We've got the details on everything you want to know about Wrapped 2025, including new features like Listening Age, Wrapped Party, and more.

Spotify went with a retro l...
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Spotify Wrapped 2025 is here! Here's everything you need to know

Spotify Wrapped 2025 is here. The fan favorite was released on Wednesday morning — that's Dec. 3, 2025, the exact date we expected at Mashable — setting off the annual tradition of everyone sharing their musical taste for the year.

Here are the details you need to know to get yours.

Started in 2016, Wrapped is the annual year-end product from Spotify that details users' listening habits — things like their top songs and artists — in a shareable, presentation format. It's become an annual trad...
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When does Spotify Wrapped start tracking for 2026? What we know.

Every year in December, Spotify releases Wrapped: a full wrap-up (as it were) of all of the music you listened to that year. But what dates does it actually cover?

Spotify gives users their listening data in shareable screenshots meant for social posts that show off their top genres, artists, and songs, and are given an accompanying playlist that showcases their top listens.

This year, users are getting even more, with a listening age, top albums, top audiobook genres, clips from authors and p...
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Spotify Wrapped clubs: What they are, what they mean.

Spotify Wrapped 2025 is here — and we've all got badges.

Spotify noticed the underwhelming reviews for last year's Wrapped and jam-packed its latest offering with features and updates. We've got you covered on all those details at Mashable. But perhaps the most prominent of those updates are the new clubs in 2025 Wrapped. You might be confused about what those things actually are, but we'll explain.

In short: The clubs are a clever, cute way to group your musical taste.

"Clubs show off your l...
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2025 Wrapped thrills the internet compared to Spotify's 2024 mess

Last year's Spotify Wrapped was widely received online as a boring, plain mess. By that standard, Wrapped 2025 has been a stark raving success.

In case you missed it, Wrapped dropped on Monday and Spotify loaded it with updates in changes. (We've got all the details at Mashable.) Spotify added new features like Listening Age, Clubs, Top Albums, and much more. Spotify itself noted during a press event this week that it had seen pushback to the 2024 Wrapped heading into this year. So far, it seem...
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Apple was a role model for LGBTQ people — until it wasn't

Apple shaped how entire generations think about technology. For many of us, its products symbolized creativity and progress. The company taught us to “Think Different” and to believe technology could make life better. But today, Apple’s actions tell a different story — when ethics collide with revenue, Apple folds.

In 2014, Tim Cook came out as gay and positioned it as a moral stand. Apple wrapped itself in Pride flags, marketed inclusion, and sold us the idea that it stood for something bigger...
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Spotify Wrapped 2025: When it comes out, how to view it

Do you even have good taste in music if you can't share it online?

If you're a Spotify user, of course, that's not really a concern: It's become a yearly tradition to share your music taste with Spotify Wrapped. As we inch toward the end of October, Wrapped should be coming soon. That means you'll be able to share your taste, top songs, favorite albums, and most beloved artists with all of your friends, whether they want to see it or not.

To be clear, the 2025 version of Wrapped hasn't been re...
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New White House video has a Sabrina Carpenter connection, and the singer is furious

The White House X account on Monday posted a video showing migrants being arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, set to a soundtrack of Sabrina Carpenter's hit song "Juno."

Carpenter responded to the ICE video on Tuesday with an X post of her own, calling the White House's video "evil" and "inhumane." The singer replied to the video with the comment, "this video is evil and disgusting. Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda."

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After an AI Backlash, Spotify Wrapped Returns With a More Human Touch for 2025

After sparking backlash over its use of AI in last year’s Wrapped, Spotify is returning to a more human-centered approach for the 2025 edition.Today (Dec. 3), Spotify unveiled the 11th iteration of Wrapped, its annual analysis of users’ listening habits. This year’s campaign blends classic features with new additions, including a retro-inspired design, a refreshed user experience, and immersive fan destinations around the world.Over the past decade, Wrapped has evolved into a highly anticipated...

Exclusive: Brian Brenberg Named Co-Host of Fox Business' The Bottom Line

Fox Business Network announced on Wednesday that Brian Brenberg will join Dagen McDowell as the new co-host of its 6 p.m. ET program, The Bottom Line.Brenberg begins his new assignment on Monday, December 8. He will continue his midday co-hosting duties on The Big Money Show, alongside McDowell, Jackie DeAngelis, and Taylor Riggs.“It’s been great to work with Dagen on The Big Money Show, and I am excited to join her on The Bottom Line,” said Brenberg. He added that, in joining The Bottom Line, t...

New ChatGPT Code Points to Early Ad Framework Inside OpenAI

OpenAI may be building the architecture for ads within its Android mobile app, according to code reviewed by ADWEEK.The Nov. 27 beta build of the ChatGPT Android app, version 1.2025.329, shows several newly added code strings that reference ads features, including “search ad,” “search ads carousel,” and .”bazaar content.” None of these strings appeared in previous versions of the ChatGPT Android app, according to an ADWEEK review.The change was first spotted on Nov. 29 by Tibor Blaho, lead engin...

URL Media Raises $5 Million to Expand BIPOC Network, Revenue

The publisher network URL Media has secured a $5 million grant from the Knight Foundation, a transformative investment for the startup that will enable it to grow its business, build new revenue infrastructure, and expand support for the communities it serves.Founded in 2021 by media veterans Sara Lomax and S. Mitra Kalita, URL Media operates a network of independent publishers serving Black, Latino, Asian, Indigenous, and immigrant audiences, helping monetize the publishers and providing additi...

Amid Sociopolitical Headwinds, Activist Group Clean Creatives Appoints New Executive Director

Clean Creatives, the five-year-old climate advocacy campaign pressuring advertising and public relations agencies to drop fossil fuel clients, has appointed a new leader. Laura Ranzato, currently the group’s director of community, will succeed Duncan Meisel as executive director on Dec. 12.A longtime environmental organizer, Ranzato brings experience from climate advocacy group 350.org, reproductive rights nonprofit NARAL, and the Sierra Club to her new role. She began her career as a sixth grad...

Freelancers Who Worked for the Mill Claim at Least $280,000 in Unpaid Fees

Freelancers who once worked for the storied production studio The Mill say they’re owed at least $280,000, but see little hope in ever getting the funds.When The Mill relaunched under new owner TransPerfect in October, some industry observers celebrated the return of a venerated creative institution.On Oct. 20—one week before TransPerfect unveiled plans to revive some of The Mill’s operations—freelancers received a letter, seen by ADWEEK, from Colortech, the third-party assignee overseeing the l...

EXCLUSIVE: ‘There Are a Lot of Haters’: Inside Omnicom Media’s First Town Hall Post-IPG Takeover

On Wednesday, Omnicom Media hosted its first company-wide town hall meeting following its parent company’s $13 billion acquisition of former rival IPG, in which leaders explained the company’s new structure and expressed confidence in its future. The two-and-a-half-hour meeting was live streamed on Omnicom Media’s private Vimeo account; however, ADWEEK was able to access the meeting, as the link was unencrypted. After the meeting ended, the video was barred from public view.Florian “Flo” Adamski...

NFL Thanksgiving Games Record Blockbuster Viewership for Networks

CBS Sports, Fox Sports, and NBC Sports will be truly thankful this year, as their NFL Thanksgiving games all set historic viewership ratings records.The matchup between two juggernaut franchises, the Kansas City Chiefs vs. the Dallas Cowboys on CBS Sports, became the most-watched regular-season game in NFL history, reaching 57.23 million total viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research.The 4 p.m. ET game was up +47% compared to last year’s game between the New York Giants and the Cowboys, whic...

Cooking Apps Are Publishers’ New Secret Ingredient

This story was originally published in On Background with Mark Stenberg, a free, weekly newsletter that explores the key themes shaping the media industry. You can sign up for it here.Given that I am writing about recipe websites, it’s only fitting I start with a meandering personal anecdote before giving you the content you actually came to read.Last Thanksgiving, I went upstate with a group of friends for the week, where we divided up cooking duties amongst the twelve of us. My friend Max and...
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'Rage bait' named word of the year

Every December, Oxford University Press encapsulates the previous year with one word and crowns it word of the year. This year, the winner of that honor is not so much one word as it is two words: rage bait.

You might be familiar with rage bait if you've spent any time at all online this year, but in case you need a refresher, it's defined as "online content deliberately designed to elicit anger or outrage by being frustrating, provocative, or offensive, typically posted in order to increase tr...
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Kim Kardashian brain scan sparks internet theories

The Kardashians' reality TV show — which was rebooted in 2022 and is already on its seventh season — has documented a lot of personal moments for the powerful Hollywood family. Several marriages, divorces, and births were recorded for millions to watch at home, along with a harrowing overdose, and even an armed robbery.

In a recent episode, however, the program broke new ground, revealing that Kim Kardashian, the wealthiest of the bunch, has holes in her brain.

Speaking to celebrity psychologi...
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Viral Thanksgiving grandma and guest spend 10th holiday together

Thanksgiving has a special significance this year. It's been 10 years since Wanda Dench and Jamal Hinton first spent the holiday together, sparked by a wrong number and a viral text message exchange. Now the internet's favourite grandma and guest have issued their annual update, and as expected, it looks as though their unlikely friendship is still going strong.

Now 68 and 26, Dench and Hinton first met in 2016 after the former attempted to invite her grandson to Thanksgiving dinner via a text...
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Rococo revival: how Labubus and whimsy took over the world

You might know Rococo as the late Baroque-period art style from 18th-century France. It's known for ornate, playful, and lighthearted qualities, often expressed through pastel colors, asymmetry, intricate curves, and shell or flower motifs. Basically, whatever makes you think, "Wow, that's whimsical."

Rococo lacks the grandeur of Baroque, instead incorporating more intimate and decorative elements without appearing too delicate. Think: the Catherine Palace in Russia, or Sabrina Carpenter.

If y...
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Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade: Mr. Fantasy shows up, the internet melts down.

Depending on who you ask, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is either pure holiday magic or three hours of televised torment. Truly a choose-your-own-adventure situation that remains a deeply rooted part of Thanksgiving tradition regardless of where you land on the topic.

This year’s parade actually delivered some solid entertainment, especially if you’re an elder millennial. We got performances from Busta Rhymes, Lil Jon, and Shaggy — basically the soundtrack of every early-2000s house party....
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