- OpenAI Turning ChatGPT Into Virtual 'Shopping Mall'
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, April 2, 2026
Smartly.io has become OpenAI's first creative ad-tech partner, allowing advertisers to pla ...
- Consumers Turn To AI For Advice, Less For Management
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, April 1, 2026
A study that examined how people feel about asking a chatbot f ...
- 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 ...
- PQ: AI So Far Having Negligible Effect On Consumer Time Spent With Media
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Tuesday, March 31, 2026
While the direct impact has been minuscule, the indirect effect is impacti ...
- Wikipedia Bans Most AI-Generated Content, Advertisers May Benefit
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, March 27, 2026
Despite immediate hurdles for advertisers and marketers relying on automated tools, t ...
- Meta Ad Veteran David Dugan To Head OpenAI Ads Team
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Monday, March 23, 2026
Dugan will begin by incorporating ads solutions within the ChatGPT consumer experienc ...
- 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 ...
- Meta Moltbook Acquisition Teases Fully Automated Future
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Wednesday, March 11, 2026
Meta has invited Moltbook's cofounders to join its AI research division wi ...
- Why Meta's Moltbook Acquisition Changes All
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, March 11, 2026
For Meta, this paves a path toward complete automation as the w ...
- ChatGPT More Likely To Criticize Brands Near Purchase
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, March 9, 2026
Google's AI Overviews and OpenAI's ChatGPT have very different ways to evaluat ...
- OpenAI Retreating From Agentic Commerce
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, March 5, 2026
OpenAI apparently no longer wants to handle commerce payments, cancellations, refunds a ...
- Ad Tech On Target, Now U.S. Government Wants It
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, March 4, 2026
AI model Gemini has been accused of coaching a man on h ...
- Criteo Named First Ad-Tech Partner For ChatGPT Ads Pilot
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, March 2, 2026
The integration enables brands to make ad buys through Criteo's commerce med ...
- When Google Changes Brand Websites To AI Pages In Dynamic Takeover
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, February 27, 2026
There has been so much discussion about the future value of websit ...
- Don't Be Dumb
Planning & Buying Insider, J. Walker Smith - Thursday, February 19, 2026
AI is dumbing down marketing like never before. Not dumb in ...
- Perplexity Backs Off Putting Ads In Chatbot Answers, Focuses On Subscriptions
Around the Net In Media, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, February 17, 2026
Perplexity is not seeking deals to place ads in chatbot answers, Busine ...
- Marketers Starting To Identify First ChatGPT Ads
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, February 18, 2026
Expedia ads have been spotted as one of the first sets ...
- Early ChatGPT Advertisers Are 'Aspirational'
Around the Net In Media, Ray Schultz - Monday, February 16, 2026
The first advertisers on ChatGPT have one thing in common: They a ...
- The Knot Tests ChatGPT Ads, Explores Options For Agentic
Data & Programmatic Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, February 16, 2026
As OpenAI began piloting ads in ChatGPT, The Knot began exploring h ...
- Albertsons To Test ChatGPT Ads
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, February 12, 2026
Albertsons Companies, the latest major brand to buy media on OpenAI ChatG ...
- 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 ...
- OpenAI Begins Testing ChatGPT Ads With Omnicom, WPP, Others
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, February 9, 2026
OpenAI began to roll out ads in ChatGPT to a portion ...
- Anthropic Unveils First Super Bowl Ad, Seeks SEO Expert
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, February 4, 2026
Anthropic, the startup behind Claude, took aim at rival OpenAI in i ...
- How AI-Supported Ad Targeting Is Like Real-Time, Successful Football Plays
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, February 5, 2026
Could brands make TV advertising more measurable through natural-language queries - a ...
- Microsoft AI Licensing Content Framework Gives Publishers Revenue Stream
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, February 3, 2026
U.S. publishers including Business Insider, Conde Nast, Hearst Magazines, People, The Associat ...
- The Great Lobster Invasion, And Why My Agent Isn't One Of Them
Media 3.0, Joe Mandese - Monday, February 2, 2026
This column is about a new bots-only social network, and why ...
- Google Gives Creators AI-Generated World Building
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, January 30, 2026
Google DeepMind began giving users access to "Project Genie" Thursday for Goog ...
- Anthropic Brings Interactive Apps To Claude Chatbot
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, January 26, 2026
Anthropic has introduced an extension to its Model Context Protocol, an open-sour ...
- OpenAI Addresses Monetization, Hires Ad Engineers
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, January 27, 2026
AI models have largely been trained on content funded by advertising, a ...