OpenAI

Paramount Global finally agreed to merge with Skydance Media, but it’s not out of the woods yet. Plus, is YouTube really worth $455 billion?

AdExchanger caught up with Joy Robins, NYT’s global chief advertising officer, in Cannes for real talk on the top issues facing publishers, from overzealous keyword blocking to balancing subscriptions with ad monetization.

RAG is a recently developed process to ingest, chunk, embed, store, retrieve and feed first-party data into AI models. Here’s how to use these tools to inject first-party data into your next AI-enabled campaign.

In today’s newsletter: Companies looking to sell data target the US market; which media companies to bet on at TV upfronts; and generative AI data licensing is the new publisher revenue stream.

Dotdash Meredith previewed plans for how its OpenAI partnership could provide incremental traffic and scale its contextual targeting capabilities across a wider network of sites and media types.

Business Insider released a new targeting tool called SAGA reACT that analyzes the emotional reactions its content produces to create actionable, emotion-driven audience segments.

AdGPT, a startup that uses AI to automatically create hundreds of ads across Facebook, Instagram, Taboola, Outbrain, Google, LinkedIn and X, came out of stealth mode on Wednesday.

In today’s newsletter: Roku and The Trade Desk expand their partnership; Instagram changes its content recommendation system; and the European Commission investigates Meta for potential Digital Services Act violations.

In today’s newsletter: The CMA still has a bone to pick with the Chrome Privacy Sandbox; the FCC fines mobile carriers for selling customer location data to data brokers; and the Financial Times is the latest publisher to strike a licensing deal with an AI company.

Last year, eyeo partnered with a university student initiative in Munich to have students find new approaches to using AI in the company’s online ad filtering.