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Two things drive creator spending now. Whether they move audiences and whether they move algorithms inside AI platforms. The second piece is moving fast enough that marketers are already building it into briefs, even though it hasn’t touched pricing yet. Right now, the focus is narrower. Understanding how a creator’s content shapes what an AI […]

It feels like déjà vu all over again. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and 22 state attorneys general are suing Amazon, the commission announced Monday. The FTC claims Amazon’s ad platform introduced a change in late 2018 that allowed it to secretly inflate prices for Sponsored Product ads on its ecommerce site. As a result

NIQ and Similarweb are developing a measurement system designed to connect product discovery through AI assistants with website traffic, conversions, and sales. The first version is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2026 and will initially cover a limited set of product categories and markets. The companies are focusing on shopping journeys that begin or

Like a kid playing dress-up in their parent’s clothes, OpenAI is trying to look all grown up. But it still has quite a ways to go. Earlier this week, OpenAI announced that its ads business hit a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate. For those less trained in finance-bro vocabulary, “annualized revenue run rate” is

This week, I caught up with a startup from outside the world of data-driven advertising, but with an interesting position when it comes to ecommerce advertising. That’s Clearco, a Canadian fin tech company founded in 2015, which, earlier this month, raised a $100 million in financing from the bank Macquarie Group. The digital-native ecommerce brand

Halo Collar, a dog collar brand with direct-to-consumer origins, is preparing for its retail expansion by honing its first-party data strategy and incrementality measurement. The post How Halo Collar Uses Data And Incrementality To Raise Both Awareness And Sales appeared first on AdExchanger.