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May 5-11, 2025:
• Expanding employers’ options: Appcast launches programmatic search advertising solution;
• Replacing humans with smart machines has begun: Is Duolingo the face of an AI jobs crisis?;
• Helping manage candidates better: Despite slower hiring, Humanly is growing faster than ever;
• Remembering what happened to AT&T: US DOJ asks court to breakup Google ad businesses;
• Laying the foundation: Megarounds, global expansion and AI doubled investment in 10 Years.
• TAtech North America & The World Job Board Forum, June 3-5, 2025 in Oceanside just north of San Diego, California. For job board and talent technology company CEOs, senior execs and rising stars.
• TAtech Europe & The EMEA Job Board Forum, November 11-12, 2025 in London, England. For job board and talent technology company CEOs, senior execs and rising stars.
Seating is limited at all events, so register today!
Appcast, the leading recruitment marketing platform powered by programmatic, announced the launch of Appcast Search Ads, the recruitment industry’s first programmatic search solution. Building on over a decade of pioneering programmatic technology for the job board ecosystem, Appcast is now expanding its capabilities into search advertising. Appcast Search Ads enables employers to reach high-intent audiences for hard-to-fill roles and pay only for completed applications. Appcast Search Ads is a new lever within AppcastOne, Appcast’s talent engagement platform, and represents an evolution of the company’s existing search solution.
Duolingo announced plans this week to replace contractors with AI and become an “AI-first” company — a move that journalist Brian Merchant pointed to as a sign that the AI jobs crisis “is here, now.” In fact, Merchant spoke to a former Duolingo contractor who said this isn’t even a new policy. The company cut around 10% of its contractor workforce at the end of 2023, and Merchant said there was another round of cuts in October 2024. In both cases, contractors (first translators, then writers) were replaced with AI.
It may seem a bit counterintuitive that Humanly is thriving as many companies pull back on hiring plans amid broader macroeconomic concerns. But the Seattle-based recruiting software startup is coming off its best two quarters since launching in 2018. Annual revenue is up 3X year-over-year. And it just raised $7 million to capitalize on recent momentum.
The U.S. Department of Justice is calling for Google to break up its digital advertising empire after a federal judge ruled the tech giant illegally maintained monopoly power in the ad exchange market. The DOJ’s proposal to force Google to sell off AdX and DFP strikes the core of Google’s multibillion-dollar ad tech stack. A sale of AdX and DFP could disrupt how digital ads are bought and sold, potentially impacting the costs and efficiency of ad campaigns.
Startup investment has doubled over the past 10 years to roughly $300 billion globally per annum, Crunchbase data shows. Now the question remains: As the AI wave plays out, creating more value over the next decade, could that figure double or more again? Since 2014, three major trends have pushed venture capital investment higher.
• TAtech North America & The World Job Board Forum, June 3-5, 2025 in Oceanside just north of San Diego, California. For job board and talent technology company CEOs, senior execs and rising stars.
• TAtech Europe & The EMEA Job Board Forum, November 11-12, 2025 in London, England. For job board and talent technology company CEOs, senior execs and rising stars.
Seating is limited at all events, so register today!
