Mashable • April 29 2025

E-ZPass toll scams are back. What to do if you're targeted.

You might've heard of those scam texts about tolls. Heck, at this point, you've likely gotten a text pretending to be from E-ZPass or some such entity.

We covered these scams at Mashable back in January, and they're back, if they ever left at all. The main points remain the same: Do not click any links and do not engage with potential scammers. If you get a text claiming to be from E-ZPass, FasTrak, or some other toll service, be very skeptical, as this has only become a more pervasive scam.

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Adweek • April 29 2025

Week of April 21 Morning News Ratings: Pope Francis’ Passing Drives Viewers to the Morning Shows

We deliver! Get curated industry news straight to your inbox. Subscribe to Adweek newsletters. The passing of Pope Francis had viewers tuning into the morning shows during the week of April 21.  ABC News’ Good Morning and NBC News’ Today avoided experiencing any viewership loss in total viewers or the Adults 25-54 demoGMA remained the No. 1 show in total viewers, while Today continued to finish first in the demo. Meanwhile, CBS Mornings—which experienced a ratings boost courtesy of co-host Gayle...

Adweek • April 29 2025

Week of April 21 Evening News Ratings: World News Tonight Leads in Coverage of Pope Francis' Passing

ABC World News Tonight with David Muir was the only only evening newscast to record positive movement in total viewers and the advertiser-coveted Adults 25-54 demo for the week of April 21.During a week that saw extensive coverage of Pope Francis‘ passing, WNT ranked as the most-watched weekday program in all of broadcast and cable news in both measured categories.NBC Nightly News was the only newscast to lose viewers in total viewers and the A25-54 demo compared to the previous week, while CBS...

Adweek • April 29 2025

Jim Cramer Talks SpinCo, John Oliver, and 20 Years of Mad Money

It was 20 years ago today(ish) that Jim Cramer taught the CNBC audience to play. The stock market that is. On Tuesday, the Mad Money host rang in his signature show’s platinum anniversary by ringing the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange alongside his longtime senior executive producer, Regina Gilgan.And Cramer will continue making stock calls—the good, bad, and the ugly—for the CNBC audience for years to come. Speaking with TVNewser ahead of their NYSE appearance, Cramer and Gilgan con...

Adweek • April 29 2025

Latin America’s Top Beauty Brand Taps DAVID for Major U.S. Growth Push

We deliver! Get curated industry news straight to your inbox. Subscribe to Adweek newsletters. Natura, the largest beauty brand in Latin America, is getting ready to launch a major brand campaign from new U.S. agency of record DAVID as it eyes growth in the American market.DAVID won the Natura account in December following a competitive review involving three agencies that kicked off last October; the agency declined to share who else participated. While Brazil-based Natura had previously worked...

Adweek • April 29 2025

REPORT: Brands Are Divesting From the NYC Pride March

We deliver! Get curated industry news straight to your inbox. Subscribe to Adweek newsletters. Mastercard, Nissan, PepsiCo, and Citi will not sponsor the 2025 New York City Pride March.According to a report from The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, Mastercard is not renewing its sponsorship of the NYC Pride March this year, but still plans to participate in the event. The financial services giant has previously served as a “platinum,” or high-level, parade sponsor, as well as the March’s go-to pa...

Adweek • April 29 2025

Ammunition Launches Venture Studio to Help Brands and Agencies Scale

We deliver! Get curated industry news straight to your inbox. Subscribe to Adweek newsletters. Ammunition, an Atlanta-based creative agency, is launching a venture studio to help both emerging brands and creative agencies scale, it shared exclusively with ADWEEK.Ammunition Ventures will offer both capital investment and agency services to early-stage startups across industries, as well as creative agencies looking for growth. The agency plans to make two to three strategic investments over the n...

Adweek • April 29 2025

Mississippi Station to Air Documentary About Black Farmers During Jim Crow Era

A documentary directed by WLBT executive producer Kayla Thomas that tells the story of Mississippi’s African American farmers land ownership struggles after enslavement.The doc, Farming Freedom, is an independent production not affiliated with WLBT that will air in May. It’s a story told through the lens of Thomas’ grandfather, Henry Harris, a retired second-generation farmer whose father, John Harris, managed to buy and keep farmland while Jim Crow laws were still in effect.“It’s awesome. I’m g...

Adweek • April 29 2025

Reinventing Impulse Marketing for the Digital Age With Perfetti Van Melle

We deliver! Get curated industry news straight to your inbox. Subscribe to Adweek newsletters. In this episode of Brave Commerce, Sylvia Buxton, president and CEO of candy company Perfetti Van Melle Americas, joins hosts Rachel Tipograph and Sarah Hofstetter to explore how impulse brands like Airheads and Mentos are thriving in a digitally transformed retail landscape.Sylvia shares how her team is reimagining impulse marketing for both ecommerce and brick-and-mortar environments, adapting tradit...

Adweek • April 29 2025

Former KATU Anchor Lincoln Graves Updates His Old Station on His Cancer Journey

Former KATU reporter and anchor Lincoln Graves came back to the station to talk about his cancer journey.Saying he had surgery in March, he told anchor Helen Raptis that he is hopeful “it’s gone forever” and that he has to monitor his health to make sure it doesn’t return.Graves said it all started when got a prostate infection in 2019. Some of the symptoms didn’t go away and his PSA test remained elevated. He got a clean bill of health and moved to Salt Lake City. After checking with doctors, a...

Adweek • April 29 2025

Zapier CEO Wade Foster Is Rewriting the Rules of Automation in the Age of AI

Automation isn’t just streamlining tasks—it’s reshaping entire industries. As businesses grapple with rapid digital transformation, no-code automation platforms like Zapier are empowering millions to innovate effortlessly. In this episode of The Speed of Culture podcast, Matt Britton talks with Wade Foster, CEO and co-founder of AI-powered automation platform Zapier, about the rise of AI-driven automation, innovative strategies behind Zapier’s massive growth, and why empowering creativity with t...

Mashable • April 28 2025

4chan is back up, but not all features are returning

4chan is finally back up and running — mostly. The infamous imageboard initially went down two weeks ago, scattering its anonymous denizens to the winds. It has now been largely restored, with users flocking back to their familiar fetid stomping grounds. However, not all of 4chan's boards will be returning.

In the first substantial post to its official blog in eight years, 4chan's team confirmed speculation that the outage was due to a hacker, and that the source code had been compromised. Spec...

Adweek • April 28 2025

NBCU Expects 'Monumental' Year in TV Upfront Despite Tariffs

NBCUniversal is looking to have a Super upfront, even amid the current economic uncertainty.In this year’s annual advertising showcase, the Comcast-owned company is touting the 20th year of Sunday Night Football, the return of the NBA to NBC, and the return of BravoCon, as well as traditional holiday events like the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.NBCU will also have a busy February that will feature the 2026 Winter Olympics (starts Feb. 6), Super Bowl 60 (Feb. 8), and the NBA All-Star Game (week...

Adweek • April 28 2025

$100M Paid to Podcasters by Spotify Since January

We deliver! Get curated industry news straight to your inbox. Subscribe to Adweek newsletters. In a bid to bring more podcasters into its stable, Spotify has reportedly paid them $100 million since January.The payout comes as video podcasting has become a big draw, with YouTube being the primary beneficiary of this shift.According to The New York Times, YouTube claims to reach 1 billion monthly podcast consumers. Spotify, which introduced video podcasts in 2019, has 170 million monthly podcast l...

Adweek • April 28 2025

Olympian Tara Davis-Woodhall Will Headline Alexis Ohanian's Athlos Event

We deliver! Get curated industry news straight to your inbox. Subscribe to Adweek newsletters. Olympic athlete Tara Davis-Woodhall, who snagged the gold medal in women’s long jump at the 2024 Paris Games, is on a mission to expand support for women’s track and field—a historically under-invested area of the sporting world. A partner in this effort is Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian, who last September founded Athlos, a female-only track and field meet in New York. Davis-Woodhall and Ohanian spoke...

Adweek • April 28 2025

60 Minutes Addresses Bill Owens' Exit: 'It Was Hard on Him and on Us"

We deliver! Get curated industry news straight to your inbox. Subscribe to Adweek newsletters. The turmoil surrounding Bill Owens‘ exit from 60 Minutes went public on Sunday night.CBS News’ flagship newsmagazine threw its support behind its former executive producer, with correspondent Scott Pelley addressing Owens’ depature at the end of the broadcast. Tanya Simon will oversee the news program as it searches for a new leader. “Bill resigned Tuesday. It was hard on him and hard on us. But he did...

Adweek • April 28 2025

UK Channel 4 Boss Alex Mahon to Step Down After 8-Year Stint

We deliver! Get curated industry news straight to your inbox. Subscribe to Adweek newsletters. Alex Mahon, Channel 4’s CEO, will step down from her role this coming summer.Mahon joined the U.K. outlet in 2017 and was the network’s first woman CEO. She will be replaced in the interim by Jonathan Allan, Channel 4’s chief operating officer, while the board begins a search for the next leader.Under her stewardship, Channel 4 saw a digital expansion resulting in the network becoming one of the U.K.’s...

Adweek • April 28 2025

Here's How the News Networks Are Covering Trump’s 1st 100 Days

We deliver! Get curated industry news straight to your inbox. Subscribe to Adweek newsletters. Tuesday marks the end of President Donald Trump’s first 100 days back in the Oval Office. News outlets are planning various programming initiatives to mark the occasion. (All times Eastern.)The 100-day period has produced a number of newsworthy moments, and ABC News’ senior national correspondent Terry Moran will have a chance to question the president regarding some of his policies. The network scored...

Adweek • April 28 2025

EXCLUSIVE: Jenni Kayne's VP of Growth Marketing Exits

We deliver! Get curated industry news straight to your inbox. Subscribe to Adweek newsletters. Clothing brand Jenni Kayne’s vp of growth marketing, Laura Savage-Finch, has left the company, ADWEEK has learned.A brand spokesperson confirmed that Savage-Finch’s last day was April 11 and her role will not be backfilled.She joined the California-based women’s clothing brand in 2023 after leading media strategy and paid social at Wpromote.The eponymous brand was founded in 2002 by California native J...

Adweek • April 28 2025

OpenAI Rolls Out AI-Powered Shopping, Taking on Perplexity and Giants Like Amazon

We deliver! Get curated industry news straight to your inbox. Subscribe to Adweek newsletters. OpenAI is taking aim at ecommerce.The company is rolling out a new, AI-powered shopping experience within ChatGPT that lets people find, compare, and buy products. The feature shows visual details, pricing, and reviews of products with shoppable links to retailers like Walmart.The updates are rolling out to ChatGPT’s Plus, Pro, and Free users. According to OpenAI, product results are chosen independent...

Adweek • April 28 2025

Chris Jansing Shares Her Experience Covering Pope Francis’ Funeral

For the past week, the news industry’s attention has been concentrated on Vatican City as the world mourned Pope Francis.All the major news networks offered live coverage of the Pope’s funeral, which took place during the early morning hours on Saturday. MSNBC anchor Chris Jansing was among the reporters on the ground, having covered the papacy for many years. Beginning May 5, she’ll anchor a two-hour edition of MSNBC Reports at noon ET as part of MSNBC’s revamped daytime lineup.Following the fu...

Adweek • April 28 2025

Chattanooga Station Names Perry Pace News Director

Perry Pace will lead all local news operations for Chattanooga, Tennessee NBC affiliate WRCB.Pace was the news director at WOI in Des Moines, Iowa. He’s also worked as an assistant news director at stations in Birmingham and Indianapolis and as an executive producer in Houston.“Local news is more important than ever. It’s the thread that connects neighborhoods, informs families, and drives meaningful change,” said Pace. “I am honored to join a station and family-run broadcasting company with suc...

Mashable • April 26 2025

Trump online store: 2028 campaign hats, branded USB drives and a skincare line

Earlier this week, President Donald Trump unveiled a new line of presidential swag, including a bright red cap emblazoned with the words "Trump 2028." Pundits and journalists honed in on the new swag immediately, as the president and his allies have previously alluded to poking at presidential term limits. In March, Trump said he was "not joking" about a third term, citing unspecified "methods" for winning another term in the White House.

The hat, dropped unceremoniously on the Trump Organizati...

Adweek • April 25 2025

What Media Rights Deals Mean to the Future of Women's Sports

Media rights deals indicate the increasing value of women’s sports, but they’ve also illustrated the need for salaries, amenities, and benefits in line with that premium price.The impact of the ongoing influx of media investment was evident in the lineup at the Deep Blue Business of Women’s Sports Summit on Tuesday in Manhattan, which included the presence of new, developmental leagues like League One Volleyball (LOVB) and the United Soccer League (USL) Super League as well as the WNBA’s Golden...