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Brand marketers are adopting fan-first social media strategies
Bigger brands are picking up a social playbook perfected by startup and scaleup marketers, having seen the results. But can it work at scale?
OpenAI's ads program matures
Media
Perplexity blocks Time’s ads served to AI agents, calling them ‘deceptive’
Perplexity has blocked Time’s markdown agent ads from influencing its AI system.
Meet the interior design creator who made a reluctant pivot that paid off
Julie Sousa had an interior design company and viral content, but after hiring a manager, was pressured to pivot. It worked.
Why brands like Gap Inc. and Staples are inviting their employees to be creators
Companies are scrambling for creators. Turns out they already employ them.
Marketing
Lifestyle brand Stanley 1913 adapts its marketing for the AI search era
The marketing it was doing worked well, but only for a human audience. The brand needed different approaches to ensure it was picked up by the AI platforms.
Walmart finally lets advertisers exclude certain search terms
Walmart Connect said it would give advertisers the ability to exclude specific search terms for sponsored-products campaigns through “negative keywords.”
Build or buy: Inside indie agency Mod Op’s AI infrastructure
Mod Op is betting that building its own AI infrastructure can deliver more value than simply licensing off-the-shelf tools.
Future of TV
Future of TV Briefing: In TV ad market’s swing to streaming, cheap inventory is in demand
This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at how TV and streaming companies’ advertising businesses fared in the second quarter of 2026.
Future of TV Briefing: Why Aéropostale is investing in creator-led episodic shows
This week’s Future of TV Briefing features a Q&A with Catalyst Brands evp and chief customer and marketing officer Marisa Thalberg about Aéropostale’s recent creator-led episodic series.
D+ Research: Marketers navigate a changing CTV landscape
As CTV matures, the streaming ad industry is entering a period of change.
Media Buying
Moloco launches an agency partner program, in part to expand beyond mobile programmatic
Although not a pure-play DSP, Moloco is expanding beyond into CTV and other media realms, building on its mobile and app base.
Ad Tech Briefing: More take-private deals are on the horizon, here’s what to look out for
The largest public names on the public markets are plateauing, prompting further speculation.
Experian retires the Audigent brand, folding it into Experian Marketing Services
The Audigent brand is gone. So, increasingly, is the idea of curation as a category.
Annual research reports
Podcasts
Research
Upfronts
Future of TV Briefing: The upfront is overtaking streaming’s programmatic marketplace
This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at how major TV and streaming ad sellers are seeing upfront deals represent a larger share of their programmatic businesses.
Why Amazon and YouTube pitched operating systems, not just TV inventory at this year’s upfront
Negotiations over identity, infrastructure, AI-driven buying take place as much as programing.
The most complete signal in advertising is hiding in plain sight
For the past few years, the ad tech industry has been focused on what it stands to lose: cookies, IDs, third-party signals. However, there’s a genuine signal front and center that the industry has consistently underutilized: carrier data. Partner insights from Blis.
With the launch of its new Intense Perfume Mists, the Brazilian-inspired body and fragrance brand aims to speak to the demand for both affordable body mists and higher-concentration perfumes.
With the launch of its new Intense Perfume Mists, the Brazilian-inspired body and fragrance brand aims to speak to the demand for both affordable body mists and higher-concentration perfumes.
In conversations with executives this summer, one consistent theme has been that everybody is trying to court a new demographic that’s in a slightly higher income bracket than their core customer. Or, they’re grappling with how to get their highest spenders to spend more. Here’s what’s driving seemingly every brand to try to position themselves as a premium brand.
In conversations with executives this summer, one consistent theme has been that everybody is trying to court a new demographic that’s in a slightly higher income bracket than their core customer. Or, they’re grappling with how to get their highest spenders to spend more. Here’s what’s driving seemingly every brand to try to position themselves as a premium brand.