• U.S. search ad revenues hit record $88.8 billion in 2023

    Search continues to account for the largest share of digital ad spending. Search revenue grew 5.2% year on year.

  • The 9 at 9: Monday

    Positive impacts when psychosis and addiction services partner, a new State park and the Spice Girls

  • The 9 at 9: Sunday

    Evictions in Donegal, bike baiting and the US approves funding for wars in Gaza and Ukraine.

  • The 9 at 9: Monday

    Report reveals ‘extreme risks’ posed to National Ambulance Service, body found in Naas and Israel and Iran trade accusations.

  • How Scammers Bilked $10 Billion from Americans in 2023

    Ten billion dollars. That is the reported amount Americans lost in 2023 to fraudulent activity. Remember this is the reported figure, think of the amounts stolen that went unreported. Technology has opened the flood gates to scammers. Consider 2.6 million Americans (roughly the population size of Chicago) reported losing the $10 billion to scammers last […]

  • 2024 NFL Draft: The top 9 receivers

    The 2024 NFL draft class of receivers is ridiculously deep, and there's every kind of receiver you could want. Here are the nine best. ()

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    Record-setting 6 QBs taken in the top 12

    This marked the first time five quarterbacks were drafted in the top 10 and matched the famed 1983 class with six first-rounders in all as teams throughout the league were in search of a big-time passer who can turn the fortunes of a franchise.

    • WCVB

    Record-setting 6 QBs taken in the top 12

    This marked the first time five quarterbacks were drafted in the top 10 and matched the famed 1983 class with six first-rounders in all as teams throughout the league were in search of a big-time passer who can turn the fortunes of a franchise.

  • Taylor Swift's 'TTPD' breaks Spotify streaming record

    It hasn’t been a full week since Taylor Swift released “The Tourtured Poets Department” but it’s already reached one billion streams in Spotify.

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    Premier League goals record: Why so many goals in 2023-24?

    The goalscoring record for a 20-team Premier League season has already been broken and we're still in April - BBC Sport looks at the reasons why.

  • Taylor Swift (and her tortured poets) just blew up her own Spotify records

    Taylor Swift has once again stolen a record from herself—which must be a nice change of pace, after all that shit that went down with her masters a few years back—with Spotify announcing today that Swift’s latest album, The Tortured Poets Department, has already smashed the record for most streamed albums in a single day. A record previously held by one Taylor Swift, for 2022's Midnights, which just barely managed to fend off a challenge last year from 1989 (Taylor’s Version) by Swift, T. ...

  • ADL: Reported antisemitic incidents up 140% in 2023, shattering records

    (JNS) — In part due to the unleashing of Jew-hatred in the aftermath of Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre, antisemitism in the United States spiked by a record 140%, according to figures released by the Anti-Defamation League on Tuesday. Nearly 9,000 incidents of assault, harassment and vandalism—including more than 5,000 in the post-Oct. 7 period—were reported […]