Albertsons Media Collective has brought first-party shopper data to YouTube and third-party inventory in Display & Video 360 with Keurig Dr. Pepper as launch partner.
Meta is forming a team of "elite AI researchers" led by Yang Song, a former TikTok executive now in charge of making Meta's social apps even more engaging and profitable.
Meta is reportedly planning a round of layoffs that could potentially impact 20% or more of the company's 80,000 employees.
Perplexity seems to have abandoned its ad model in February to focus on optimizing results for search queries and AI agents and software for enterprises - despite the court ruling it must stop using
its web browser agent to make purchases on behalf of shoppers on Amazon's online marketplace. That's not the case.
Almost a year in the making, the report provides an "intelligence framework" that establishes five key capability categories that will shape which players become primary sources of intelligence for
business and consumers by 2030.
Disney+ ad revenue is estimated to rise by double-digit percentages, but viewing growth will move more slowly in the next two years. Disney+ is not the only streamer to see slower-moving, low
single-digit percentage gains in viewing engagement data.
The agency is "gathering information to better understand how the industry's commercial Big Data and ad tech providers can directly support investigations activities."
The only net decrease in ad-spending plans among media in Mediaocean's just-released survey of marketers is for TV and print.
Data richness, while critical for targeting and performance, increasingly sits alongside regulatory risk, consumer scrutiny and platform-level privacy controls.
xAI announced that it has exceeded its initial targeted round size, securing $20 billion in an effort to launch new consumer and enterprise products, build data centers and advance Grok 5, its newest
AI model.
It may have started with vision and sizzle, but the year evolved into a sophisticated, methodological framework for rearchitecting advertising and media on the road to 2030.
The question: What share of your ad budget will be spent targeting bots, not humans, in 2030? The responses ranged from 0% to 100%, but as the year progressed, the higher number seems more likely.
Three separate reports from PayPal, Deloitte and Measure Protocol show how AI has increasingly become the influencer when consumers are ready to make decisions on how much, where and when they will
spend their dollars.
Movies in 2024 contributed nearly 50% of streaming revenue - up from 27% in 2022, per Parrot Analytics.
A new Bain & Co. report finds 65% of gamers say "ads interrupt my gaming experience." The research also shows gamers are making more in-game purchases based on in-game ads - 46%, up from 40%.
The good news is Americans say they are regularly consuming news. The bad news is they are increasingly getting their "news" from social media apps, especially X, TikTok and Facebook.
BrightEdge's data gives the industry a reality check. Here's why AI search owns the research phase of the purchase process, and why traditional search still owns the conversions.
WPP Media's updated Advertising in 2030 report highlights trends as well as the future of media, technology and commerce as viewed by industry experts. Much of it revolves around biometrics and GAI.
Ryan Jones, marketing manager at UK-based SEOTesting, has been providing valuable insights on LinkedIn during the past few days.
Recent data compares the cosmic Big Bang to events in advertising such as the AI chatbot explosion that is reshaping the ways humans interact with technology.
The more data SparkToro founder Rand Fishkin gathers, the more he believes the " 'AI vs. Search' narrative is largely made up by media and influencers seeking attention, rather than an accurate
reflection of reality."
Advertisers concerned about using too much energy or harming the environment through searches or media buys may want to consider another way to connect with potential and existing customers.
When a user asks about the best CRM for startups, a brand page typically responds with "Schedule a demo," while Reddit has a thread comparing options. This is why Reddit gets cited in ChatGPT. Here
are more examples.
Data, analysis, and analytics are a major part of safeguards. A research paper describes multistep reasoning and how Claude thinks before it gives a response.
As OpenAI released reasoning LLMs on Tuesday, some publishers have once again begun locking down content. WalletHub CEO believes Google went from organizing the world's information to stealing it,
taking a sledgehammer to the contract the open web relied on.
As long as consumers are willing to share personal information with AI agents, AI from companies like Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic will plan their trip, pick out and purchase
wardrobe and automatically tell them how much it will cost to plan and complete the trip.
Google scrapes profit from advertisers through heavy use of hidden search terms, as advertisers continue to see a decline in search query data.
OpenAI's latest ChatGPT model disobeyed human instructions to shut down during a test by researchers, and I wondered "what if" AI refused to alter ad campaigns based on data the models believed could
produce better results.
A Nielsen marketing survey finds 42.4% of ad-supported viewing time is now on streaming platforms, with ad spend estimated to increase 25% this year to over $20 billion.
The expansion boosts the number of international markets covered to 30 and integrates "bespoke," panel-based health data to generate new consumer insights.