Author: Geek Planet

OPPO is preparing to expand its flagship ambitions beyond China with the upcoming Oppo Find X9 Ultra, the successor to one of 2025’s most camera-focused smartphones. The company has confirmed that the new Ultra model will launch in select global markets later this year, marking the first time a Find-series Ultra device will receive an international release. The announcement signals a major shift for OPPO’s premium smartphone strategy. Historically, its Ultra-tier devices have been reserved for the Chinese market, with global users receiving slightly toned-down variants. With the Find X9 Ultra, however, the company appears ready to compete directly with…

If you were to sum up the first 100 days of Trump’s presidency — a milestone we just passed on April 30 — with one word you’d likely use “uncertain” to do so. And for marketers, well, uncertainty is toxic.There’s been an expectation of chaos this time around, but that expectation doesn’t make the reality any easier to manage — it’s hard for marketers not to get caught in the slipstream of President Trump’s economic — specifically on tariffs — policy whiplash.  So far it’s been a matter of figuring out what his policies are affecting when it comes to…

YouTube just added a new parental control that lets you put a hard limit on how long a supervised teen account can scroll Shorts. If you’re trying to rein in swipe fatigue without banning the app, this is a direct YouTube Shorts time limit for teens, built around the feed itself. The timer is available now, and YouTube says it’s also working on a setting that lets you set the Shorts feed limit to zero. That’s the closest thing to a Shorts off switch for times when you want YouTube for homework videos or subscriptions, not endless scrolling. Some important…

The 4A’s has overhauled the Multicultural Advertising Intern Program (MAIP) and Vanguard — two of the marketing industry’s cornerstone diversity initiatives, revamping the curriculum for both and expanding access to applicants. It’s a push for more inclusivity, per the non-profit foundation, in response to industry demand. But as diversity, equity and inclusion policies have shifted particularly under President Trump’s term, the change has sparked concerns from former MAIP fellows.“I look at it as just the ongoing evolution of how we’re always trying to improve, but also meet the shifting needs of our members,” said Marla Kaplowitz, CEO of the 4A’s.…

If your AI assistant keeps dropping specifics or talking past the question, you don’t need a new model to get better results. Small changes to better chatbot prompts can clean up a lot of the mess. One fix is mechanical. A Google Research paper highlighted by VentureBeat points to a dead simple move, paste your exact request twice in the same message. It’s meant to raise accuracy on straightforward work like extraction, short answers, and basic rewriting, not long, multi-step reasoning. The other fix is human. Separate research from Northeastern University suggests people get stronger outputs when they prompt with…

TikTok’s fate may be uncertain in the U.S. but many advertisers are simply shrugging and spending anyway, according to a Digiday+ Research survey of brand, retailer and agency professionals.Nearly halfway through its second 75-day countdown to being banned, the platform is still seen as a dependable partner — proof that, in advertising, consistency can sometimes outweigh certainty. More than half (58%) of the 144 survey respondents agreed that they’ll continue spending while TikTok remains in limbo, while just over a quarter (26%) said they are undecided about spending on the platform during this period of uncertainty. “The support we’ve received…

I’m going to be blunt: this shouldn’t have happened. For weeks, the assumption, actually, the understanding, was that the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra shipped with a 10-bit display. That’s not some luxury extra in 2026 for an “Ultra” flagship; it’s a baseline expectation. And yes, even Samsung’s messaging leaned in that direction. Reviewers believed it. Customers believed it. Only after mounting pressure from the community did Samsung finally confirm the panel is, in fact, 8-bit. And that timing? It matters. This wasn’t a clearly spelled-out spec from day one. The clarification came after users dug through documentation, ran side-by-side comparisons,…

This article is a WTF explainer, in which we break down media and marketing’s most confusing terms. More from the series → AI-powered chatbots are scary smart, thanks to the large language models undergirding them. But they’re only as smart as the data they’re trained on. Two major factors can inhibit the AI chatbots being created by brands and publishers: the timeliness of the bots’ training data and the inclusion of proprietary information in that data set. In the first case, a company would need a way to pass information in real time to an LLM powering its chatbot. And…

Google has quietly reworked Gemini‘s usage limits, splitting the shared pool and boosting the individual caps for the Thinking and Pro models. At launch, both models had the same daily quota, meaning every prompt used for complex reasoning or advanced math and code counted against a single limit. But that’s no longer the case. According to 9to5Google, Google has now split the useage limits, giving each model its own separate allowance. For subscribers on the Google AI Pro plan, the Thinking model now has a limit of 300 prompts per day, while the Pro model remains capped at 100 prompts…

Marketers are adding yet another item on their growing honey-do list for smaller and mid-sized retail media networks. They’re pushing for real-time bidding, a form of programmatic advertising that allows ads to be bought and sold in real time. Instead of retailers setting a fixed cost-per-click or CPM, marketers bid on individual ad impressions and the winner gets the ad space. It’s a push for more control in the retail media ecosystem. Marketers have been spending more and more on retail media, even in light of economic uncertainty. By the end of 2025, retail media is expected to account for…