Beasley Media Group has deployed Futuri’s TopLine Enterprise AI revenue intelligence platform across all of its markets under a multiyear agreement aimed at enhancing the company’s sales process and providing local advertisers with more data-driven marketing strategies. The companywide rollout gives Beasley sellers access to AI agents supporting prospecting, account research, outreach, meeting preparation, proposal development

BIA Advisory Services has raised its 2026 U.S. Local Advertising Forecast to $186.1 billion, an increase of $1.6 billion from its April projection of $184.5 billion, with higher political advertising and continued mobile growth driving the revision. BIA’s April forecast had projected $184.5 billion in total local advertising, including approximately $8.4 billion in political spending. The

Timothy “Buc Wild” Joseph, the former HOT 97 New York personality best known as co-host of the “Star & Buc Wild” radio show, has died at age 47. His longtime friend and former co-host Star announced Joseph’s death during a YouTube livestream on Wednesday. Star said Joseph died Sunday at the Pink Houses apartment complex

Need something to talk about that will happen in real time Friday night? This is a first, two Blacks in the US Open Finals. American fans are in for a treat with an all-American men’s semifinal at the US Open. One American will be in the final. But which will it be? Frances Tiafoe is

From Marsha Washington George I’m reaching out to share news of the passing of Atlanta entrepreneur, restaurateur, entertainment pioneer, and community leader James L. “Mr. V” Virgil, who died in 2026 at the age of 85. Mr. V was the founder of Mr. V’s Figure 8, the legendary Atlanta nightclub on Campbellton Road, as well as V’s