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As it grew into a tech behemoth over its first two decades, Amazon was regarded as a sleeping giant in the digital advertising business, largely ceding the market to the duopoly of Facebook and Google. It is now very much awake, and CEO Andy Jassy believes it has “barely scraped the surface” of the…

CBS takes the crown for Week 7 of the NFL regular season, with a little help from the Kansas City Chiefs. The NFL on CBS late national window hosted the team’s defeat of the Los Angeles Chargers in a majority of markets, averaging 24.38M viewers. Not only was it the most-watched NFL game this week…

Kelly Clarkson is clearing things up in regard to the comments she made about the coverage the NFL has given to the Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce romance. The singer made some remarks on her daytime talk show about the wall-to-wall reporting every NFL broadcast has whenever the “Shake It Off” singer…

A senior marketing executive at the NFL maintained that the league had nothing to do with helping to engineer Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce’s ultra-viral courtship of pop superstar Taylor Swift. Marissa Solis, SVP of global brand and consumer marketing for the NFL, addressed the…

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s contract has been extended through March 2027. The 64-year-old Goodell has been league commissioner since 2006. The re-up is his fourth. No financial terms were given by the league, which announced the move in a terse press release. Related…

UPDATED: The Philadelphia Eagles are undefeated no more, after the team lost to the New York Jets on Sunday. About 26.09M people tuned in to watch that matchup on Fox, scoring the broadcaster the biggest audience of the week and of the NFL season. In fact, this game marks most-watched program on any…

It’s that time of year again — football is back, and the broadcast networks are cheering. Viewership across broadcast television increased nearly 13% in September, according to Nielsen’s latest state of TV report, The Gauge. Among the 18-49 and 25-54 demographics, there was an even higher increase…

The NFL is serious about expanding the American version of football’s influence to the international market. So serious, it’s seriously thinking about a Super Bowl in London Commissioner Roger Goodell spoke to a fan forum in London last week to promote the Baltimore Ravens/Tennessee Titans regular…

Travis Kelce made a surprise appearance on Saturday Night Live in a Fox NFL Sunday parody over the excessive coverage of Taylor Swift attending the Kansas City Chief games. Kenan Thompson appeared as Curt Menefee, Mikey Day was Howie Long, James Austin Johnson was Jimmy Johnson, Devon Walker as…

Reality-show personality Rachel Lindsay.stopped by The View’s companion podcast, Behind the Table on Thursday. She made it clear that Swifties annoy her with the current hoopla over Taylor’s Travis Kelce obsession. “Yeah, hate it. Hate it. There’s no other emotion that comes out of me than hating…

Fresh off the Los Angeles red carpet for her The Eras Tour concert film, Taylor Swift headed to Missouri on Thursday to cheer on Travis Kelce as the Kansas City Chiefs’ took on the Denver Broncos. It looks like, once again, the NFL benefitted from her presence at Arrowhead Stadium. About 13.83M…

Walt Garrison, who won a Super Bowl with the Dallas Cowboys and competed as a rodeo cowboy, has died at 79. The NFL team posted the notice on its website Thursday that Garrison died overnight. It did not give a cause of death. Garrison played nine years in Dallas and retired in 1974 as the No. 3…