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While teens retain digital habits from childhood (such as a strong preference for YouTube), their newfound independence and desire to connect with peers has led them to new habits.

Meta pays creators for traffic, Spotify wins in-app freedom post-Epic ruling, and Amazon鈥檚 Zoox expands robotaxi testing despite software recalls.

Last year, the EU鈥檚 Digital Markets Act forced Apple to let Fortnite run on iPhones through Epic Games鈥� third-party app store. Now, the game is blocked from being distributed in the EU on iOS, though it鈥檚 still available for Android devices. Our take: Despite some EU concessions, Apple appears ready to keep defending its walled App Store garden with strict platform control.

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They can take on tasks like online shopping, writing code, booking flights, managing your investments for you. And so the more autonomous they are, the more tasks they can take on without you needing to say, "Do X, Y and Z.". Marcus Johnson:.

Many believed reporting and tone differed greatly from what consumers and creators expressed online. The deplatforming of journalists by TV news outlets has also contributed. Left- and right-wing media outlets have recently lost or fired news personalities who then set up shop independently.

So it's interesting that that whole area just has taken over when people think about the digital evolution of their brand. Sara Lebow (05:01):. Yeah, that's fascinating for American girl because people have been making YouTube content of American Girl dolls since I was a kid, since YouTube started existing, I guess.

Nearly three-fourths of Gen Zers discover new media content on social media (72%) and on YouTube (71%), according to December 2024 data from Toluna, Coraly Partners, and Halford Media Advisory.

Spotify showed resilience with strong Q1 gains: Still, margin pressures and licensing costs could challenge momentum ahead.

Fifty-eight percent of Americans prefer to get their news on a digital device, per Pew Research, and only 5% prefer print publications. Turning search results into audio could appeal to multitaskers who want to stay updated on news without swiping through their phone. And news podcasts are the most popular genre among 38% of registered US voters, second only to comedy podcasts, per Voxtopia.

On today's podcast episode, we discuss which media types we will be using more or less, how to build a real online community, and which groups will benefit from the digital economy the most in 2025. Tune in to the conversation with Senior Director of Podcasts and host Marcus Johnson, our Senior Analyst Max Willens, and Chief Revenue Officer at Vox Geoff Schiller. Listen everywhere and watch on YouTube and Spotify.

Retailers looking to capitalize on retail media鈥檚 growth opportunities need to understand the market developments, formats, and challenges shaping ad spending in Latin America.

But to really grow the revenue for their streaming platforms, they're going to have to embrace more small advertisers, which is what these digital services like YouTube and Facebook have been doing for a long time. You're going to see more YouTube application of streaming. Marcus:. Okay. And when you say the scales amounts of power is going to shift, are we talking from 90/10 to 50/50? Ross Benes:.

I think they've, because everything's so digital these days, there's been sort of this backlash in going anti-digital for certain habits and they save by putting wads of cash into envelopes. It's called cash stuffing, and that's also like one of their budgeting tactics. So they really do care about being able to get their hands on cash. Grace Broadbent (04:45):.