What Even Is Madison Avenue?; Next Up: Airport RMNs
Kimberly-Clark didn’t hire a new CMO, and it doesn’t intend to. Plus, now airport bookstores are also ad networks.
Kimberly-Clark didn’t hire a new CMO, and it doesn’t intend to. Plus, now airport bookstores are also ad networks.
Google plans to create an “AI Mode” for its web search engine users. Plus, the social media vultures now circling the air above TikTok.
Publisher C-suite drama has been making headlines recently. Plus, there are now 27 different active lawsuits against various AI content generation companies.
OpenAI may be opening up to the idea of serving ads. Plus, Television for toddlers is quietly powering streaming media ratings.
Black Friday ecommerce continues to surge, mainly on mobile; social platforms pull optimization features for health and beauty brands; and Google’s antitrust lawyers subpoena info about rival AI search startups.
Driverless vehicles could become the next hot media channel; FDA reveals new ad guidelines for drug manufacturers; and artists come up with new ways to sabotage generative AI.
Walmart’s latest data play: an app for unlocking barricades on store shelves; training generative AI may rely more on scraping big-name sites than previously thought; and tracking the issues that mattered most to Trump and Harris, based on ad spending.
OpenAI’s ChatGPT will launch a web search engine. Plus, this year’s $12-billion-plus deluge in political advertising has priced brands out of certain markets.
Fertility companies are having their ads blocked on Google, TikTok and Meta. Plus, will the digital dark ages soon be upon us?
In today’s newsletter: Digital twins are marketers’ cool new AI tool; Netflix pulls a Prime Video and defaults lapsed subscribers to the ad-supported tier; and California compromises with Big Tech on two journalism bills.