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OpenAI ads boss David Dugan on third-party measurement: ‘it’s a natural step’
Since OpenAI refuses to share chat data, as it goes against its principles, external proof may be the only way to win advertiser trust.
OpenAI's ads program matures
Media
Forbes tests a creator-led audience play to grow off-platform reach
Forbes is yet another publisher tapping creators and their audiences to drive off-platform growth – with a slightly different structure.
How Lipton Ice Tea is using local creators instead of building in-house social teams
Lipton worked with Billion Dollar Boy to activate local creators across six different markets; a new approach to global marketing
How a German publisher JV is turning LLM visibility into a premium brand buy
Germany’s BCN, the joint-venture commercial arm of three major publishing houses – Hubert Burda Media, Funke and Klambt – is rolling out a commercial product that helps brands get properly surfaced and described inside ChatGPT, Gemini and other AI assistants, not just on traditional search results pages.
Marketing
Google’s World Cup brand counterattack highlights shifting search behavior
The tech giant is running ads intended to reintroduce its search engine to users, as it begins to feel competitive heat in the AI era.
The hunt for a post-LiveRamp successor is already underway
Prospects are less interested in replicating LiveRamp than securing identity, data and infrastructure.
Cannes Briefing: Creators didn’t come to Cannes for parties this year. They came for briefs.
At a festival where one company’s absence from a patch of sand can be read a dozen different ways, creators are giving Cannes Lions a different kind of energy.
Future of TV
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.
Future of TV Briefing: The ad-supported streaming landscape in graphic detail
This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at a spate of recent studies that highlight the growing predominance of ad-supported streaming and the risk in how brands are managing streaming campaigns.
Future of TV Briefing: Fox finds its programmatic identify in Roku
This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at how Fox’s acquisition of Roku bolsters the former’s streaming — specifically, programmatic streaming — advertising business.
Media Buying
At Cannes, Omnicom Media and NBCU say they’re crafting dynamic contextual ads for content
Metadata from NBCU is key to adapting Omnicom clients’ creative be dynamically contextual to the shows in which they run.
Omnicom Media and Paramount partner on dynamic fixed ad units in the streamer’s premieres
Sponsor units in the media company’s streaming premieres are dynamically adapted to enable advertisers to tell a sequential story in those ad breaks, the first time Paramount has added a dynamic insertion capability to streaming.
Agencies look to AI agents for edge, but must fend off brands looking to in-house with the same tech
AI agents are at the core of Dentsu and Dept’s market offerings, but a Hyundai agentic media pilot highlights threat of in-housing.
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 advertising
This State of the Industry Report, sponsored by Optable, examines agentic advertising and how publishers, advertisers and agencies are interacting with the medium — from investment and readiness to barriers and impact. Agentic AI is the latest optimization tactic across media, supporting initiatives like agentic advertising. However, because agentic AI is described as “a situation […]
This week, I checked in on how niche fragrance brands like Ex Nihilo are driving hype and creativity with limited-edition scents. Additionally, Bath & Body Works joins Ulta, and Sephora expands its quiet hours.
This week, I checked in on how niche fragrance brands like Ex Nihilo are driving hype and creativity with limited-edition scents. Additionally, Bath & Body Works joins Ulta, and Sephora expands its quiet hours.
Measuring how often your company gets recommended by AI engines — and, subsequently, how often those recommendations lead to website visits and sales — is starting to become a bigger topic of discussion for brand executives
Measuring how often your company gets recommended by AI engines — and, subsequently, how often those recommendations lead to website visits and sales — is starting to become a bigger topic of discussion for brand executives