Author: Geek Planet

TikTok really wants advertisers to see it as a place to drive full-funnel results — not just boost brand awareness but deliver on performance too.“We’ve been listening and building alongside our partners to create tools that drive full funnel growth on TikTok from that first scroll to the final purchase,” TikTok’s global head of product solutions and operations, David Kaufman said during TikTok World, the platform’s fifth annual global ad product summit. It’s been pushing this message for a while. Chief strategy officer Ben Dutter at Power Digital, an agency that has worked with TikTok since November 2023 confirmed as…

The memory crisis has already forced several PC and laptop manufacturers to adjust their retail pricing since the beginning of the year. However, a new report from China Times suggests that major Taiwanese graphics card manufacturers will increase prices for AMD and Nvidia RTX 50 series cards. According to the report, MSI has already announced the second round of price revisions for the Nvidia RTX 50 series, while Asus and Gigabyte could announce new pricing by the end of the month. Moreover, this could mark the “beginning of a price increase cycle for AMD and Nvidia graphics cards,” reads the…

Usually it’s sanitized – committee-approved, consultant-scripted and delivered too late to shape real creativity.  Oatly, the oat milk brand, however, is taking a different approach – one that’s looser, more intuitive and built to serve the people actually shaping the brand. It’s less about rigid frameworks and more about staying closer to culture, listening in real time.  And it’s doing this through its work with cultural intelligence platform CultureLab – tapping into live conversations, media narratives, emerging behaviors and other messy, unfiltered signals that traditional research often misses. Some of that data comes from social platforms, sourced through various partners.…

Google rolled out the first Android 17 beta for eligible Pixel devices earlier this month, and other smartphone makers are now starting to follow suit. In a somewhat unexpected move, Motorola is among the first to announce its own beta program, giving users with select devices a chance to experience the OS upgrade ahead of its wider public release. According to GSMArena, the company has opened registrations for a limited number of devices across different regions. In the US, Moto Edge (2025) users can sign up for the beta. Meanwhile, users in select European, Middle Eastern, and African markets with…

If you thought the hype around AI was receding, think again. Generative AI applications have become the key battleground between marketing services companies of all stripes, from creative to strategic consulting, to media planning and buying. The American public believes generative AI will have a negative impact on U.S. society, according to recent polling by Pew and Forrester. But advertising clients clearly think the tech is a solution to their woes. Two-fifths of CMOs are already using AI for creative automation, and 37% report using agents to manage their media spending, according to Gartner’s latest CMO survey. Which brings us to…

Samsung’s Galaxy S26 series is now up for pre-order, but this year’s launch feels a little underwhelming. The devices bring only minor upgrades over last year’s models, yet they come at higher prices, and even the early bonuses are less generous than in previous years. If you’re still planning to upgrade, though, there are a few worthwhile pre-order deals that can help soften the blow. Samsung.com Galaxy S26 series pre-order deals While Samsung is not offering a free storage upgrade with pre-orders this time, there are still some solid deals available if you place your order before retail availability begins…

Most laptop deals are on entry-level configs that look good on paper and then slow you down the moment your workload grows. This one is aimed at people who actually push their machines. The 16-inch MacBook Pro with the M4 Pro chip is down to $2,599.00, saving you $300 off the $2,899.00 compared value. The key detail is the 48GB of memory, which is the kind of spec that keeps a laptop feeling fast when you’re juggling serious multitasking or heavier creative and technical work. What you’re getting This is a 16-inch MacBook Pro with an Apple M4 Pro chip,…

If you were betting on Samsung finally baking built-in magnets into the Galaxy S26 series this year, well — you lost. For the second year running, Samsung has skipped native Qi2 magnetic hardware across the entire S26 lineup. No MPP (Magnetic Power Profile), no satisfying snap onto your wireless charger. Just a phone that sits on a pad and hopes for the best with alignment. The reason? Space, apparently. Samsung didn’t include wireless charging magnets due to “space constraints” At the Unpacked event, when asked why the Galaxy S26 still misses out on magnets, a Samsung executive told GeekPlanet that…

Despite a parade of problems, the market hasn’t blinked. Ad buyers are saying it, and the latest forecast from Madison & Wall backs them up. For now, the money is still moving.  Specifically in the U.S. where ad spending (excluding political ads), is expected to grow 6% in the second quarter, and for the full year. That’s a notable jump from Madison & Wall’s March forecast, which pegged growth for the year at just 3.6%.  “Coming into the first quarter things seemed like they would be softer [compared to the same time the previous year, and it turned out they…

Of all the things Samsung announced at the Galaxy Unpacked event on February 25, 2026, a quiet little feature might actually be my favorite, and for good reasons. Remember Samsung’s Audio Eraser that showed up with the Galaxy S25 series? You’d shoot a video, open it in the Gallery app, tap the AI button, and it would scrub out whatever background noise had crept in during recording. Wind, crowd roar, a lawnmower three houses down — gone. It worked well enough that people noticed, and Samsung clearly noticed people noticing. Samsung’s new Audio Eraser can make your live sports broadcasts…