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As stiffer competition between social media companies shuts out publishers that depend on social traffic, BuzzFeed’s ad revenue drops 35%.

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IPG is floundering. The agency holding company was roughed up in the first two quarters of 2023, and its organic revenue growth declined by 0.4%, with a 1.2% decrease in the US, according to an earnings report on Friday.  

Scam ads featuring AI-generated celebrities are catching the FTC’s attention. Hear what the creator economy fears about generative AI. Plus: the latest on the US v. Google trial.

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After attending the Federal Trade Commission’s virtual roundtable about the impact of generative AI on creative fields last Wednesday, all I can wonder when I see an AI-generated creation is whose work it’s based on.

Meta is starting the process of rolling out three of the AI-powered tools that it’s been incubating within its AI Sandbox so advertisers can implement them for ad campaigns.

Marketing analytics and ad ops teams are overwhelmed with data, which is compounded by the accelerated pace of generative AI-produced content.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Apple’s Bite Apple will now let paid subscription apps (think The Economist or meditation app Calm) offer audio content exclusively for their subscribers, a trendy tactic in Podcast Land. Spotify has a similar idea, but it partners with the subscription service Patreon. And […]

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Einstein 1 is a new Salesforce platform that makes it easier for companies to build AI-powered apps and experiences, including through a conversational AI assistant. Because talking to your data is a thing now.

Su Kwon of Publicis Media on where DOOH is today and where it’s going. Kwon will speak at AdExchanger’s Programmatic IO conference Sept. 26–7 in New York.

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Enterprise generative AI company Typeface and martech company GrowthLoop draw on Google Cloud’s BigQuery to help marketers launch personalized campaigns in hours, not weeks.

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Publicis Groupe Chief Commerce Strategy Officer Jason Goldberg talks commerce trends, how he got into commerce and his podcast, “The Jason & Scot Show.”

The rapid growth, nearly ubiquitous use, and public interest around generative AI – alongside a shifting social media landscape and divisive political issues – will present new challenges for voters, platforms, media and marketers.

Communications API provider Twilio’s product road map is a direct reflection of the growing role AI is playing in digital marketing.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Results Are In YouTube told clients earlier this month about plans to start billing some of its video inventory based on its own co-viewing numbers starting in January. Now the buy-side backlash is rolling in, Ad Age reports. This plan “contradicts the […]

Brands need to start preparing for a contentious election season, crafting strategies for how they’ll deal with hot-button issues.

How will gen-AI content resonate – or not – with consumers? That’s the big question, according to Todd Hassenfelt, Colgate-Palmolive’s ecommerce director.

Instreamatic releases a product for connected TV that generates multiple audio variations for the same creative.

PubMatic reported meager YOY revenue growth in Q2, up just a smidge to $63.3 million from $63 million in Q2 of last year.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A Slow Slide WPP reported lackluster Q2 results during its earnings call on Friday.  The agency holding company saw a “shortfall” in the US, accounting for about 37% of WPP’s biz, which “took us a little bit by surprise,” CEO Mark Read told […]

Buying AI ad tech startup Scibids is a logical move for DoubleVerify as it continues to move beyond measurement into media activation and campaign optimization.

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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Do We Ever Not Kick The Can? After Google Chrome first committed to third-party cookie deprecation, big advertisers and Google partners frankly didn’t expect the initial deadlines to remain. Google Ads and Chrome weren’t ready, not to mention needing the UK data regulator’s […]