Marketing

Mondelez overhauls its $3.5 billion digital commerce strategy in era of AI search

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Spotify When Mondelez learned their retail partners were expecting 30% of their site traffic to be agentic by 2028, the company stopped and paid attention.  AI was upending the way people searched for products online, and the CPG brand was faced with a decision to make: overhaul its digital presence or […]

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What OpenAI’s TBPN deal reveals about branded entertainment’s limits

Brands are building in-house entertainment studios on the promise that great content earns the audiences advertising can’t buy. OpenAI just revealed what that promise actually costs.  Last week the AI company acquired TBPN, a daily tech talk show that streams live on YouTube, X and other platforms, in a deal the Financial Times reported in

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Keyword Blocking Demonetized More Than Half Of Reuters’ Brand-Safe Stories

Can 2026 be the year advertisers finally let go of their keyword blocklists? News publishers sure hope so. Even brand-safety platforms want advertisers to abandon the antiquated practice of keyword blocking, which is the blunt instrument often blamed for preventing ads from appearing in the news. Arbitrarily avoiding URLs that contain words like “shoot” or

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