First, YouTube subjected viewers to longer unskippable ads. Now, not even pausing your screen will let users escape. The Google-owned platform confirmed Thursday that it has “widely rolled out ...

Last month, Ars Technica went on a deep dive into the rapid growth of ads in TV software. Less than three weeks later, LG announced that it was adding advertisements to its TVs’ screensavers.

It’s been nearly six years since we warned you that ads were coming for your pause button and 18 months since Google revealed that YouTube would serve them up, too. Now, YouTube confirms ...

One of the more annoying things about Windows 11 is that the operating system displays ads in the Start menu for promoted apps and services from the Microsoft Store. The good news is, you can turn ...

But you may have noticed as you’ve scrolled through social media or read the news online recently that the ads you see are often impersonal and irrelevant to your interests. They are also ...

In an ongoing outreach effort to young male voters, Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris’s campaign bought advertising space on IGN, the world’s biggest games media outlet. Static and ...

Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign is launching a new digital ad campaign featuring two former Donald Trump administration officials criticizing the former president’s handling of ...

Over the past two weeks, Harris’s campaign and supporting groups spent nearly $73 million on almost 73,000 broadcast television ads promoting her White House bid, compared with nearly $45 ...

No viewer could miss the ad’s repeated connection of the vice president to “Bidenomics.” And as it portrays voters struggling to make ends meet, she is seen laughing gleefully. By Shane ...

As the government wraps up its case, it has built a picture of how Google has become dominant among companies that buy and sell ads online. By David McCabe David McCabe, who covers tech policy ...

Google wound down its defense in the US Department of Justice's ad tech monopoly trial this week, following a week of testimony from witnesses that experts said seemed to lack credibility.