Marketing

The Chatbot Ad Platform

OpenAI launched its ad platform on Monday, making ChatGPT the newest canvas for advertising. The rollout marks a pivotal moment in generative AI, in which conversational platforms could become a new battleground for ad dollars. But how will the ads affect the chat experience? To head off concerns, OpenAI said ads will only appear after

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EU Probes Google Over Ad Auction Tactics (Again); Consumers Say Ads Should Pay For The News

The AdExchanger team will be off for Presidents Day on Monday, February 16. We’ll see you back here on Tuesday, February 17, with the next Daily News Roundup. Enjoy the long weekend! Google’s Cozy Couch Google faces yet another EU antitrust probe, this time over allegations that it rigged search ad auctions by “artificially increasing

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How Boll & Branch leverages AI for operational and creative tasks

This story was first published by Digiday sibling ModernRetail Direct-to-consumer brands are figuring out their AI playbooks in real time. One such company is bedding brand Boll & Branch. At Digiday Media’s AI Marketing Strategies event on Wednesday, Katia Unlu, chief commercial officer at Boll & Branch, laid out how the company uses generative AI

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While holdcos build ‘death stars of content,’ indie creative agencies take alternative routes

Two signs this week remind us that the ad industry’s largest businesses are getting out of advertising as we know it. Firstly, there’s the news that WPP is set to embark on yet another restructure of its creative agencies, this time on the advice of McKinsey consultants, per the Financial Times. The second came from

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