- TikTok Gamifies DMs With Emojis, Pixelated Alligators
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Thursday, April 2, 2026
Tok has launched a simple mobile game designed to be played casual ...
- Why Simple Drives ChatGPT Ads Forward, Creativity Takes Backseat
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, April 3, 2026
ChatGPT ads seem to favor clarity over creativity, which may mean ma ...
- Perplexity, Meta, Google Hit With Privacy Suit
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, April 1, 2026
A Utah man is alleging in a new lawsuit that artificial intelligen ...
- Sycophantic AI Might Make Advertising More Engaging...And More Dangerous
Research Intelligencer, Rob Williams - Wednesday, April 1, 2026
As AI follows digital advertising's playbook by optimizing for engagement, constant validati ...
- Snapchat Launches Holistic Ad Feature To Boost Brand Exposure
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Tuesday, March 24, 2026
Building on its "Sponsored Snaps" offering, the holistic ad feature is design ...
- Chatbots Are Great Listeners. Maybe Too Great, Says Study On Synthetic Relationships
Research Intelligencer, Rob Williams - Friday, March 20, 2026
People who linger longer with chatbots reported higher loneliness, less interaction wi ...
- Shoppers Let AI Pick The Shoes But Not The Price Tag
Research Intelligencer, Rob Williams - Wednesday, March 18, 2026
About 38% of Americans say they have already completed a purchase direct ...
- Roblox Tackles Profanity With AI, Child Safety Suits Multiply
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Thursday, March 5, 2026
Roblox has announced its effort to safeguard its chat feature using ...
- X Adapts 'Everything App' Vision: Tests 'Chat,' Money' Variants
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Wednesday, March 4, 2026
X has begun running new tests of X Chat and X Mone ...
- Simo: How OpenAI Ads, Adult Mode Will Work
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, February 11, 2026
The feature launched on Monday in test mode on free and ...
- Service Trifecta: How Email, Chat, AI Agents Interact
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Thursday, January 22, 2026
Brands need multiple reports to cope with three customer service channels. B ...
- Encryption In A Nutshell: Service Allows Brands To Bundle Data In One Place
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Monday, January 19, 2026
ProtonMail's new Projects service is an encrypted space where firms can unifo ...
- Roblox Age-Verification Faces Widespread Criticism
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Thursday, January 15, 2026
Roblox is under fire from players, developers and child safety experts f ...
- OpenAI To Begin Testing Ads In Chat As Execs Challenge Publishers To Do More
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, January 16, 2026
Publishers have been pushing the industry to monetize AI chat. Today th ...
- AI Needs To Stop Rewarding Guesses
Data & Programmatic Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, January 12, 2026
Deadly errors related to health information have forced Google to remove answe ...
- Shopify, Google Co-Develop Agentic Shopping Standard
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Sunday, January 11, 2026
Shopping across Google's platforms will soon roll out supported by the "Univers ...
- Google Moves Agentic Shopping Across Search, Gemini With Retailers
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Sunday, January 11, 2026
Open standards and tools announced this week will solve problems in real-ti ...
- Roblox Enforces Global Age Checks For Chat Access
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Thursday, January 8, 2026
After testing proprietary facial-recognition technology in December, Roblox has announced it ...
- Healthcare AI: Dangerous Mistakes, Deep Privacy Risks
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, January 8, 2026
While OpenAI designed ChatGPT Health to help users better understand their heal ...
- Threads Reportedly Testing Chat-Based Gaming
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Tuesday, January 6, 2026
As Threads continues to grow, it is experimenting with a gaming featu ...
- Amazon Brings Voice Assistant To The Web, Expanding Ad Reach
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, January 6, 2026
Amazon brought Alexa+ to the web in an effort to bypass t ...
- Stagwell Unveils 'NewVoices' Agent-Driven Workflow Platform
MAD, Steve McClellan - Wednesday, December 10, 2025
According to the company, it is built as an end-to-end operating syst ...
- WhatsApp Gives Microsoft, OpenAI, Perplexity The Boot
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, December 2, 2025
Access to Copilot via WhatsApp will end on January 15, 2026. WhatsA ...
- Data, Metrics Once Unattainable Now Possible With AI
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, December 1, 2025
As AI opens more sophisticated methods to reach intended audiences, the go ...
- Chatbots Help With Holiday Purchase Decisions, Adobe Data Shows
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, November 26, 2025
Consumers have already spent nearly $79.7 billion online this holiday season ...
- Google Takes AI Into Advanced Reasoning, Discards 'Flattery'
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, November 19, 2025
The latest Google Gemini 3 AI models mark a significant change wi ...
- X Launches Feature To Compete In Direct Messaging Economy
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Monday, November 17, 2025
X has announced the launch of "Chat," an encrypted direct-messaging feature th ...
- All The Private Chats Fit To Sift
Media 3.0, Wendy Davis - Thursday, November 13, 2025
"Anyone in the world who has used ChatGPT in the past thr ...
- Adobe Makes Play To Be The Concierge Of AI Brand Services
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Adobe has further developed its agentic commerce strategy by creating a multimoda ...
- Waiting For Search, LLMs' Obvious Appeal
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, November 7, 2025
Marketers are signaling that conversion and click rates are lower with AI-driv ...