Marketing

‘Trust becomes the product’: Marketers grapple with Google’s new suite of AI-powered ad agents

First comes innovation, then comes transparency. At least that seems to be Google’s approach as the tech behemoth enters its agentic era. At Google Marketing Live (GML) yesterday, Google announced a new souped up suite of agentic ad tools backed by its LLM, Gemini. Google plans to roll out more ads in AI Mode in […]

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Snap Stops Grading Its Own Homework

Advertisers don’t always trust the measurement they get directly from ad platforms. Snap gets it. Buyers need third-party measurement and a system with checks and balances to “assign credit where credit is due,” Fintan Gillespie, Snap’s global director of ad partnerships, told AdExchanger. On Wednesday, Snap announced a new product called Unified Attribution that aligns

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Three Takeaways From POSSIBLE That Signal Where CTV Is Headed Next

Coming back from POSSIBLE last month, one thing stood out to me: Streaming TV has entered a much more operational phase. The conversation has evolved from where streaming is headed to how marketers drive better performance today. The content and conversations focused on how AI can improve campaign execution, how data can sharpen targeting and

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Google expands AI Search, shopping, and content verification tools

Google has announced new AI features across Search, shopping, payments, and content verification, covering consumer products and Google Cloud. The updates, announced at Google I/O 2026, cover Search, Gemini, YouTube, Gmail, Chrome, Pixel, Google Wallet, and Google Cloud. They include changes to product discovery, checkout, task management, and media verification. Google updates AI Mode in

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Are Chatbots Replacing Search?; AI Is Muddying How Ad Tech Describes Itself

Chat To Cart As more people use AI chatbots for, well, everything, advertisers need to blow up their old playbook. Take product research. Brands have a tremendous opportunity to get in front of consumers as they move away from classic Google Search in favor of recommendations from AI, according to Debra Aho Williamson, founder of

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