Marketing

As OpenAI’s ChatGPT ad delivery improves, the doubts it created aren’t so easily fixed

Advertisers treated OpenAI’s ad pilot like a bet on the future. The question now is how long they’re willing to wait for it to pay off. So far, it has not been an easy wait. Since the pilot launched in February, advertisers have reported chronic underdelivery — campaigns falling well short of their targeted impressions,

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WTF is viewbotting?

Imagine this: you’re an avid viewer of a rather small streamer jumping on to catch their daily video game session when you notice something odd. The streamer, who you’ve watched regularly for six months alongside a few dozen viewers, has nearly 10,000 viewers. The stream chat, usually populated by just a few engaged fans, isn’t

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Bleacher Report launches YouTube channel for its sports cartoon fanbase ahead of World Cup

Bleacher Report is betting on its animated content to break through all the sports coverage around the FIFA World Cup tournament kicking off next month. The Warner Bros. Discovery-owned sports publisher has launched a dedicated home for its cartoon shows on YouTube this week. The move is also about deepening audience engagement, by giving the

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Omnicom’s ‘fewer middlemen’ push is reaching publishers – just not their P&Ls

Omnicom’s drive to “reduce middlemen” is showing up in how its agencies talk to publishers – albeit mostly behind closed doors.  Buyers within the Omnicom holding group are being “heavily encouraged” to route more spend directly to publishers, rather than through layers of ad tech, according to two supply-side sources with knowledge of the situation. 

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