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Audacy continues its focus on sports as a productive venue for advertisers. Following up its study titled Audio and Podcasts: Best Venues for Consumer Engagement in Sports, the company now announces a webinar event on March 23 at 2pm ET. As with the previous release, 'avidity' will be discussed as the most important currency in sports marketing.

Subscription & Support, which generates 95.5 percent of the company's total revenue with $10.7 billion, saw 13 percent growth on an annual basis. Each segment within this division is now called Agentforce, a clear move to place AI even more centrally in external communications. However, expectations for the coming year ($45.8 to $46.2 billion) are on the low side compared to the $46.06 billion predicted by analysts.

We are raising fiscal year 2026 revenue guidance to $41.45 billion to $41.55 billion, and Q3 cRPO was exceptional, up 11% year-over-year at $29.4 billion, signaling a powerful pipeline of future revenue.

This week: Anthropic released an update that seems to have tipped the scales against Software as a Service companies, erasing billions in market value. Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, and Emily Peck, unpack why there was such a massive market response to such a small AI plugin, and what it says about the future of tech investment. Then, Disney has finally named a new CEO in Josh D'Amaro.

Leading the pack has been the rise in agentic coding tools. These tools, such as Gemini Jules, Claude Code, and OpenAI Codex, are capable of writing entire programs and products. I put both Codex and Claude Code to the test, creating four plug-in add-on security products for WordPress using Codex, as well as a full-featured iPhone app using Claude Code.

Despite how modern it seems to be, the truth is that the subscription economy has been around for some time, surprisingly dating back to around 1800, with the first magazine subscriptions, or the subscriptions for fresh British milk, around 1860. Over the years, the of subscription-based companies has turned the subscription model into an ideal business strategy since it provides unique benefits. In the same way, the adoption of this model across multiple industries has led to negative repercussions for the general public.

The AI investing boom (or perhaps bubble) is something Silicon Valley has seen many times before: a gold rush of VC money thrown at the Big New Thing. But one aspect of it is completely unique to these times: startups rocketing from $0 to as much as $100 million in annual recurring revenue, sometimes in a matter of months. Word on the street is that many a VC won't even look at a startup that's not on the ARR superhighway, aiming for $100 million in ARR before their Series A funding round.

Beyond their spending, high-value clients typically engage regularly, remain loyal over time, and align with the company's core offerings. For example, a high-value client that engages regularly could be a regular shopper who purchases often but also always likes and comments on the business's social media posts. These comments and likes on social media can have a positive impact on the business, showing other potential consumers that the business is reputable and valued by others.

Let's say in drug discovery, if we licensed our technology, you have a breakthrough. The drug takes off, and we get a licensed portion of all its sales,

At the beginning of the year, I looked more closely at one particular statement than I had before. I was shocked by the number of transactions I didn't recognize. They turned out to be subscriptions. My 17-year-old daughter told me that she'd been offered a special deal at the Verizon store: access to Apple Music for up to six people for $10 a month. She was desperate to take advantage of the promotion and said the streaming service had an amazing selection of songs.

Big TV networks and studios are finally shifting toward programmatic advertising - even for their linear TV spots. And this shift is attracting a new wave of advertisers and transforming what a typical TV ad break looks and feels like. For example, as reports, Comcast is starting to see net-new ad revenue growth from first-time TV advertisers. "The people coming in the door are small performance advertisers, but they've been doing social ads forever," says Travis Flood, Comcast Advertising's director of insights. "They don't have a TV ad."

Earnings-call word usage shows increased emphasis on growth in Q3 versus Q2, decreased mentions of tariffs and uncertainty, and slope of highlighted words represents change in usage between quarters.

Revenue -- $78.9 million, up 4.2% year over year and 5.2% quarter over quarter, surpassing the high end of the $76 million to $78 million guidance range. Adjusted EBITDA -- $13.7 million, representing 17.4% of revenue; exceeded guidance of 14%-15% margin and marks the ninth consecutive quarter of positive adjusted EBITDA. Active Subscribers (Quarter-End) -- 129,073, a decline of 6.2% year over year; average active subscribers were 137,455, down 2.8% from the prior year.

Oracle ( NASDAQ:ORCL) has already been punished harshly by the market, thanks to its heavy debt load and OpenAI exposure. That said, the punishment just seems to keep coming for the fast mover in AI data centers. The stock shed another 2.2% on Thursday, sinking below the $170 per-share mark. Undoubtedly, the stock has already lost more than half of its value, but the same fears that have weighed down the stock for the past couple of months have continued to drive shares lower.