- What Google's Purchase Of Spirit Airlines Data Means For Advertisers
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, August 19, 2026
Consumer data has become more than a record of historical transactions. ...
- ChatGPT Serves Ads In Results On Irrelevant Topics, Data Shows
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, August 11, 2026
OpenAI's conversational engine found places to serve ads, deliver traffic and genera ...
- AI Market Is Starting To Look Suspiciously Like Streaming Video
Research Intelligencer, Rob Williams - Monday, August 3, 2026
If you thought the AI race would produce dozens of equally importa ...
- X, Visa Launch Payments App For U.S. Subscribers
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Tuesday, July 28, 2026
Paid X subscribers based in the U.S. now have access to ...
- Bots And Brains For Brands Are Fed By AI-Readable Data
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, July 27, 2026
Adobe has created a feature that makes it easier for LLMS ...
- OpenAI Licenses Content From Yelp, Looks To Be Building Ad Network
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, July 23, 2026
OpenAI does not operate an ad network, but some believe it ...
- OpenAI Seeks Dismissal Of Privacy Suit
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Friday, July 17, 2026
OpenAI says a ChatGPT user consented to the alleged disclosures of h ...
- What AI Engines Want From A Brand
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, July 17, 2026
Here's what happens when ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews cite Facebook ...
- When AI Needs A Kill Switch
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, July 1, 2026
The shift from chatbots to more capable agentics that can complete comple ...
- OpenAI Goes Through High-Stakes Evolution While Trying To Balance All
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, June 22, 2026
As OpenAI tries to control its future in a precarious balancing a ...
- Google VP Engineering, Gemini Co-Lead Leaves For OpenAI
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, June 18, 2026
Noam Shazeer also co-founded and served as CEO of Character.AI before returni ...
- When AI Chatbots Become The Trusted News Source
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, June 16, 2026
When chatbots become the preferred, trusted news source for readers, they al ...
- Substack Gives Creators More Control Over How Users Respond
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Wednesday, June 3, 2026
Substack is launching a new feature that enables content creators to deci ...
- 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 ...