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As athletes embrace owned media properties, they’re pushing for more involved brand deals
The NBA player’s union is pushing for stars to have a bigger say in brand deals. It highlights a larger shift in sports and creator marketing.
OpenAI's ads program matures
Media
In Graphic Detail: AI visibility is no longer about referral traffic
New data shows why publishers are developing strategies around agentic traffic and brand visibility in AI answer engines.
‘It’s a CEO conversation,’ Accenture and Whalar on their playbook for the creator economy
Brian Yasko, managing director at Accenture and Emma Harman, co-CEO of Whalar, on the massive creator economy acquisition and future plans.
WTF is LLM honeypotting?
Publishers and e-commerce brands under siege from AI crawlers are starting to fight back with an old security trick updated for the LLM era: “LLM honeypotting.”
Marketing
Nike versus Adidas: Which brand won the World Cup?
We sift through data from AdClarity, Meltwater, Sprout Social and MediaRadar to work out which brand had the best World Cup performance.
Five things the World Cup taught marketers about creators
The World Cup has wrapped, which means it’s time for the obligatory marketing takeaways piece.
Walmart reveals soccer fans’ World Cup shopping habits
New data is from Walmart is showing that consumer shopping habits shifted during the 2026 World Cup.
Future of TV
Future of TV Briefing: The M&A match game (summer 2026 edition)
This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at the M&A deals that should be in the offing after an active first half of 2026.
Future of TV Briefing: The 5 biggest news stories of 2026 so far
This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks back at the most significant developments — or non-developments– in the TV, streaming and digital video industry during the first half of 2026.
Walmart buys ‘the Google Ads of streaming’ Vibe in a deal tipped at a $1 billion-plus valuation
The deal would bring Vibe’s 10,000 SME advertisers to the platform, equipping Walmart to better compete with Meta and Pinterest.
Media Buying
W3C Attribution API prompts debate over the future of web measurement
The proposal aims to provide a browser-based mechanism for measuring advertising performance without relying on cross-site tracking.
‘We’re starting to wonder’: Ad industry chases AI value as usage outpaces proof
The ad industry wants more from its AI spend but usage is outpacing proof of value.
WTF: W3C’s Attribution API?
What marketers, publishers, and ad tech companies need to know about some of the latest proposals in browser-based ad measurement.
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 state of agentic storefronts: How AI agents guide shoppers on frictionless, full-funnel journeys
This State of the Industry report, sponsored by Swap, explores how brands, retailers and agencies are adopting agentic commerce, including agentic storefronts, to enhance shopping experiences. Artificial intelligence is the new entry point in e-commerce, as more shoppers rely on AI-powered summaries and assistants to discover products. Beyond discovery and product recommendations, AI agents are […]
For Canadian brands, the new wave of tariffs adds to the continued instability of the lucrative U.S. market and expedites plans for moves like establishing local distribution.
For Canadian brands, the new wave of tariffs adds to the continued instability of the lucrative U.S. market and expedites plans for moves like establishing local distribution.
Whatnot believes its recommendation systems — which now refresh in just minutes — are what set the company apart from competitors. Whatnot chief product officer Tom Verrilli spoke with Modern Retail about what makes recommendations uniquely challenging in live commerce.
Whatnot believes its recommendation systems — which now refresh in just minutes — are what set the company apart from competitors. Whatnot chief product officer Tom Verrilli spoke with Modern Retail about what makes recommendations uniquely challenging in live commerce.