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TikTok On Why Brands Can’t Buy Its New Ad Formats Programmatically
Not unlike last year, the mood during TikTok’s NewFronts presentation last week felt like cautious optimism, if not outright relief.
Meta’s NewFronts Message To Advertisers: Embrace The Noise
Can a good sales presentation offset the impact of a very bad news week? That’s a question for Meta, which collected two guilty verdicts in court this week for failing to protect children and creating additive products.
AI Helps Manscaped Trim Social Chatter Down To The Bare Essentials
Meet Clamor, a new social listening product that pulls cultural insights from online conversations in real time. Clamor helped Manscaped freshen up its marketing, including for this year’s Super Bowl.
How Red Roof Is Bringing In More Customers With Zeta’s Voice-Activated AI Agent
Hotel chain Red Roof is using Zeta’s new voice-activated AI agent to guide its campaign creation, deployment timing and audience development.
Why Ad-Blocking Browser Brave Introduced Its Own Ads
Brave’s chief of ads Jean-Paul Schmetz on competition in the search and browser markets, the fallout from the Google Search antitrust ruling and whether AI search will help smaller upstarts compete with Big Tech.
Vizio Helps Walmart Cut A Bigger Slice Of The CTV Ad Pie
Walmart and Vizio announced at NewFronts that unified account logins are coming to smart TVs using Vizio’s operating system.
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AdMarketplace’s Sam Cox On AI Search: ‘This Is A Time For Betting – And Betting Hard’
AdMarketplace’s new chief product officer, Sam Cox, wants to rethink how ads fit into AI chat and search – without losing user trust.
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Meta’s NewFronts Message To Advertisers: Embrace The Noise
Can a good sales presentation offset the impact of a very bad news week? That’s a question for Meta, which collected two guilty verdicts in court this week for failing to protect children and creating additive products.
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The 2026 NewFronts Experience: Performance TV, Creators and Pause Ads
Now that we have not one but two reporters covering the CTV advertising space, we thought we’d try something different and share the roundup newsletter this week!