Marketing Budget: How Much Should Your Team Spend in 2023? [By Industry]

As a marketer, you’re always pitching new ideas to your team. And you’ve also faced a consistent follow-up question, “How much from our marketing budget do we need to execute?” Ultimately, being a successful marketer isn’t just about thinking strategically. It’s also about adhering to a strict budget, achieving new levels of growth, and choosing…

How the Potential Recession is Already Impacting Hiring Plans in Marketing [New Data]

Early this year, conversations surrounding an upcoming recession started making headlines. Then, we saw mass layoffs and hiring freezes happening, particularly in the tech world. According to our 2023 Marketing Strategy Report, 48% of global marketers say the potential for an economic downturn or recession has affected their company’s hiring plans in 2022. The report…

Twitter hit with wave of porn and spam obscuring tweets about China protests

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter search results for major Chinese cities have become filled with tweets about escort services, porn, and gambling that are obscuring legitimate reports about a wave of protests that have gripped the country, Washington Post and TechCrunch are reporting. Searches for “北京” (Beijing) or “上海” (Shanghai) are filled…

DuckDuckGo’s anti-tracking Android tool could be “even more powerful” than iOS

Enlarge / DuckDuckGo says its App Tracking Protection automatically blocks many kinds of known trackers, while Apple’s App Tracking Transparency only blocks IDFA (Identifier for Advertisers) and asks developers to block others. (credit: DuckDuckGo) Privacy-focused search site DuckDuckGo has added yet another way to prevent more of your data from going to advertisers, opening its…

UK expands Online Safety Bill to criminalize encouraging self harm

The UK government has said it will further expand the scope of online safety legislation by criminalizing the encouragement of self-harm — in a bid to tackle what it describes as “tragic and avoidable deaths caused by people seeing self-harm content online”. The latest amendment to the controversial but populist Online Safety Bill will mean…

Merriam-Webster’s word of the year will intentionally mislead you

As misinformation, fake news, deepfakes, and conspiracy theories continue to roll around in their own primetime spots on our tech platforms, it’s no real surprise Merriam-Webster’s word of the year for 2022 is “gaslighting.” According to the dictionary, gaslighting or “the act or practice of grossly misleading someone especially for one’s own advantage” saw a…