Marketing

This week’s Media Briefing looks at what ads coming to ChatGPT means for publishers, who fear they’ll be underwriting OpenAI’s ad business while losing control over distribution and dollars. ChatGPT’s ads are “a bitter pill” for publishers. The Washington Post reportedly closing its sports desk, Yahoo launches AI answer engine, and more. ‘A bitter pill’ […]

Any thin hope marketers had that 2026 might calm the turbulence of last year didn’t survive January, as political shocks, platform upheaval and fresh economic jitters piled new uncertainty onto an already fragile market. Nobody expected serenity to be clear. The hope was for a more predictable kind of chaos: slower regulatory fights, fewer sudden

This story was originally published on sister site, Modern Retail. When Nadya Okamoto launched her pajama brand Matching this past summer, selling on TikTok Shop felt like an obvious choice. The platform had already played a major role in the growth of August, her period-care brand, which boasts more than 410,000 TikTok followers and has

Peacock’s coverage of next weekend’s Super Bowl will provide advertisers with a key Big Game subplot.  While creatives and CMOs watching at home will focus on the celebrities, needle drops and ad gags, media buyers will be keeping a close eye on the quality of Peacock’s stream and scrutinizing peak viewership figures – as they

Meta’s Q4 2025 earnings call with investors on Wednesday was brought to you by the letters “A” and “I.” And also by the numbers $115 billion and $135 billion. That’s the range for Meta’s planned 2026 capital expenditures – including major AI investments. In other words, Meta is using the cash from its ads business

Ads show mannequins dancing to life and growing more human as the footwear marketer encourages real-world experiences over digital drudgery. 

Ad operations don’t always get easier when a publisher has a strong first-party data foundation to build on. In some cases, the strength of the underlying data can actually make monetization decisions more complicated. Ancestry’s ad ops team has a wealth of deeply personal user data to draw from, including user-submitted DNA tests. But subscriptions—not