Jonathan Roberts

Roberts spoke to AdExchanger about finding the balance between blocking and monetizing AI. Plus, the AI backlash that no one wants to talk about.

Rather than fighting the rising tide of AI search engines and agentic tools, Microsoft AI’s Nikhil Kolar says publishers and retailers should license access to their sites and create content that speaks directly to AI crawlers.

Raptive and others aren’t convinced that the insights gleaned from Chrome’s current state, with some 30 million users sans cookies, will reflect the final state of targeted advertising on the web.

Dotdash Meredith bet on contextual with its launch of D/Cipher, but it remains to be seen whether it can turn its revenue numbers around.