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  • The Chatbot Ad Platform

    OpenAI launched its ad platform on Monday, making ChatGPT the newest canvas for advertising. The rollout marks a pivotal moment in generative AI, in which conversational platforms could become a new battleground for ad dollars. But how will the ads affect the chat experience? To head off concerns, OpenAI said ads will only appear after […]

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  • When Conversation Becomes Inventory: How OpenAI Could Reshape Digital Advertising

    For decades, digital advertising has relied on proxies for intent: demographics, behaviors, cohorts and fragmented signals inferred from clicks and cookies. As of this week, that model is being tested. OpenAI has begun experimenting with ads in ChatGPT, matching sponsored messages to the topics and prompts within a user’s conversation. In a prompt-driven environment like […]

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  • How GEO Startup Evertune Found Its Way Back To Programmatic Targeting

    Evertune’s new feature allows advertisers to run programmatic ad campaigns directly on the sites and pages most often cited by AI chatbots.

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  • In Platforms We Trust?

    The future of measurement is automated, but can marketers trust the black box? Kantar Chief Product Officer Ty Ahmad‑Taylor shares his take.

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  • Say Hello To SAGE, The Latest Agentic AI Platform

    Agentic AI is gaining popularity as a tactic for media buyers and sellers striving to simplify workflows, including in streaming TV advertising. Ad measurement firm iSpot introduced SAGE, an agentic AI platform with a “ChatGPT-like interface” that media buyers can use to generate campaign planning ideas.

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  • AI Made A Record Play During Super Bowl LX

    Bad Bunny’s halftime show aside, AI companies stole the spotlight on Super Bowl Sunday. Anthropic, OpenAI, Salesforce, Meta, Amazon-owned Ring and a smaller company called Genspark.ai all used Super Bowl spots to promote their products as AI tools meant to help boost productivity and inspiration – rather than replace, annoy or deceive. “A lot of […]

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  • IAB’s New AI Regulations Give Advertisers A Starting Point – But Plenty Of Questions Remain

    The IAB’s new framework aims to standardize when AI in ads should be disclosed, but a lot is still left up to interpretation.

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  • For Super Bowl First-Timers Manscaped And Ro, Performance Means Changing Perception

    Direct-to-consumer grooming brand Manscaped is about to make its Super Bowl debut, as is Ro, a challenger telehealth startup and, as of 2024, a GLP-1 provider. Both also share a common goal behind their Super Bowl investments, which is to grow their audiences by expanding the perception of their brands beyond their origin stories and more […]

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  • LiveRamp’s Q4 Earnings Defy Wall Street’s SaaS Skeptics

    An emerging consensus among Wall Street investors, based on the earnings reports of companies like Meta and Alphabet, is that subscription software is on the way out. AI may not replace Hollywood writers, electricians, nurses or many other professions. But it will replace SaaS software developers. Or so the story goes. LiveRamp, which reported its […]

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  • The Publisher Path Through AI

    At the IAB Annual Leadership Meeting this week, IAB CEO David Cohen demanded publishers receive payment from AI companies who are taking their content. As publishers grapple with AI redirecting the attention they receive from consumers, what’s their path forward?

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