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Marketers are using AI search concerns to argue for higher media budgets
Brands with long consideration journeys, like insurance and cars, are paying close attention to shifting search behaviors. They’re using that concern to make their case for more media dollars.
OpenAI's ads program matures
Media
Media Briefing: Publishers are rebuilding their newsrooms for the post-Google era
Publishers like USA Today Co. and NYT are reshaping audience teams and creating new roles to prepare for an AI search future.
How 11 retail media networks are trying to differentiate themselves to advertisers
With the launch of myriad retail media networks, these new divisions of various consumer-facing companies are now fighting for ad dollars.
WTF is a ghost creator?
Some companies are hiring creators not for their audience, but as a mouthpiece for a very specific brief. Think execution, not creativity. This is the ghost creator.
Marketing
Instacart launches custom AI assistants for retailers
Retail giants like Walmart, Kroger and Amazon have launched AI assistants allowing consumers to ask for recommendations or curated shopping lists. Now, Instacart has made it easier for other retailers such as regional grocers to follow in their footsteps.
AI reshapes agency economics, but their contracts are still scrambling to catch up
AI is changing agency work. Agencies are adding provisions to existing contracts instead of rewriting their MSAs.
Ad Tech Briefing: Regulatory storm clouds gather and scatter over Big Tech, and indies count the cost
The FTC’s Amazon charges presage Google’s second antitrust let-off in a year, while The Trade Desk sheds hundreds.
Future of TV
Future of TV Briefing: Where have all the cord-cutters gone?
This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at recent data indicating that people may be getting rid of their cable boxes but they’re not exactly getting rid of cable TV.
Future of TV Briefing: How strong are the fundamentals of the creator economy, really?
This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at signs that influencer marketing may be on the precipice of an economic correction.
Future of TV Briefing: Which agency team(s) should be responsible for YouTube Shorts?
This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at how agencies are sorting out which teams take the lead for buying YouTube Shorts ads.
Media Buying
‘Certainly a disappointment’: Omnicom CFO’s verdict on losing PepsiCo to Publicis
Speaking at the Goldman Sachs’ Communacopia and Technology Conference earlier today, Phil Angelastro gave a sobering take on PepsiCo’s decision to walk away after more than 25 years.
Amazon Ads brings advertisers to ChatGPT, extending its supply-chasing streak
Amazon has cut a deal to let its advertisers buy ads from the popular AI-powered chatbot, adding to a long list of premium supply its spent more than a year locking down.
Ad spend forecasts revised upward as more ad dollars are handled by AI tools
Forecasts show ad spend increasing faster than expected and share of ad dollars funneled through AI campaigns rising to more than a quarter of U.S. spend by end of decade.
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.
Live session: How the New York Post, Sports Illustrated and Tastemade use first-party data to build sustainable revenue
Traditional media brands are expanding beyond their core audiences to build revenue across new channels — but fragmented audiences, declining CPMs and platform constraints make those efforts complex. Publishers who leverage first-party data are deepening audience understanding and extending that reach across channels, unlocking additional revenue opportunities. On Tuesday, Sept. 22 at 1 p.m. ET, […]
This week, I chatted with the founders of some of beauty’s hottest brands on how they converted their expertise in makeup, skin and hair into their own lines. Additionally, Maison Crivelli joins the growing perfume row along Paris’s Rue Saint-Honoré, and Caudalie Group makes its first major acquisition.
This week, I chatted with the founders of some of beauty’s hottest brands on how they converted their expertise in makeup, skin and hair into their own lines. Additionally, Maison Crivelli joins the growing perfume row along Paris’s Rue Saint-Honoré, and Caudalie Group makes its first major acquisition.
Sproos, Made In and Trade Coffee are among the brands betting on customer-service phone lines to stand out in the AI age.
Sproos, Made In and Trade Coffee are among the brands betting on customer-service phone lines to stand out in the AI age.