Marketing

Hot Takes From FTC Commissioner Mark Meador On Cookies And The Limits Of Self-Regulation

“Private eyes They’re watching you They see your every move” That was FTC Commissioner Mark Meador’s rather droll choice for walk-on music when he spoke at the Marketecture Live event in New York City earlier this week. Nothing like a little Hall & Oates to get you in the mood to talk about cookie-based opt-out

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Lay’s uses WhatsApp to create a group chat for World Cup fans

Against a saturated — and more expensive — sports marketing landscape, Lay’s is trying to recreate one of the internet’s most intimate spaces: the group chat. The PepsiCo-owned snack brand is hosting a FIFA World Cup watch party through Meta’s WhatsApp. The group chat features celebs like Lionel Messi, David Beckham, Alexia Putellas, Thierry Henry,

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A new studio is betting Hollywood talent and first-party data will reshape creator monetization

Linden Lane Films, a self-described next-generation content studio, is betting that the creator economy’s next move isn’t more followers — it’s a full ad business. The new venture is one company, among others, pairing Hollywood talent with top creators and building the ad-tech data layer beneath them to compete for brand budgets that have historically gone

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Shopify says purchases are coming ‘inside ChatGPT’ through agentic storefronts as OpenAI retreats on Instant Checkout

This story was first published by Digiday sibling Modern Retail. Shopify told merchants their products will soon be discoverable and purchasable inside ChatGPT through its new “agentic storefronts” feature as OpenAI shifts how checkout works inside the chatbot. “Coming later in March: ChatGPT in Agentic Storefronts,” Shopify said in an email sent to merchants Wednesday

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