- AI Has A Trust Problem That Advertisers Are Somehow Still Expected To Fix
Research Intelligencer, Rob Williams - Friday, May 15, 2026
Nearly two-thirds of Americans now distrust AI, and yet, usage keeps climb ...
- Amazon Shifts Strategy, Replaces Rufus With Alexa Shopping Agent
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, May 13, 2026
Amazon has added Alexa to search results across its marketplace. A ch ...
- ChatGPT Hitch-up: Link Allows Brands To Work On Email, SMS Directly In AI Platform
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, May 12, 2026
Omnisend Launches Model Context Protocol for linking to ChatGpt. 2 ...
- Instagram Ends End-To-End DM Encryption
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Friday, May 8, 2026
Instagram users will no longer be able to send and receive end-to-e ...
- OpenAI To 'Promote' Own Products Via Your Browser Cookies
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, May 1, 2026
The shift moves OpenAI beyond organic growth to a commercialized ad/marketing strateg ...
- Snapchat Brings Chatbot Ads To DMs
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Tuesday, April 28, 2026
Snapchat is building on its "Sponsored Snaps" offering, inviting brands to r ...
- X Launches Ad-Free 'Private' Messaging App
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Monday, April 27, 2026
X has launched X Chat, an encrypted messaging app that has t ...
- Google Tests 'Ask YouTube' AI Search
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, April 28, 2026
An experimental feature announced in YouTube Labs enables site visitors to a ...
- Will ChatGPT Develop Its Own Media-Buying Price Model?
Data & Programmatic Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, April 27, 2026
ChatGPT has begun serving ads to non-logged in users, expanding available invento ...
- Threads' Live Group Chat Feature Aims For Real-Time Discussion
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Wednesday, April 22, 2026
Threads is rolling out "Live Chats," a new way for brands, creato ...
- Don't Forsake Humans To Appease Bots: Flywheel's Camarota
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, April 13, 2026
Advertisers may think agentic creates another audience they need to reach onlin ...
- 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 ...