Amazon’s biggest rival for programmatic ad dollars is once again waving off the comparison. For the second quarter in a row, The Trade Desk CEO Jeff Green told analysts that Amazon isn’t a direct threat to his business. To some, that might sound even more outlandish this time round. After all, Amazon is leaning harder […]
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Reuters is experimenting with using an AI agent to speed up its video production process. This week, Reuters hired its first AI video producer to, in part, help oversee the initiative. Typically, Reuters’ newsroom has used AI technology to accelerate its text-based workflows. But Rob Lang, newsroom AI editor at Reuters, said he saw an
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The Associated Press has quietly retooled for the AI era – structuring its archive so enterprise LLMs can reliably ground, cite and pay for decades of reporting. The news organization has spent the last nine to 12 months making its tens of millions of content assets across text, video, photos and audio formats, machine-readable for
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The phrase “Google it” may not hold the same weight in the age of AI-powered search engines. Increasingly, shoppers are turning to AI platforms like Google AI Overviews, Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT to discover, research and even purchase products. The shift is reshaping brand visibility. In response, marketers are testing everything from revamping frequently asked
Interested in sharing your perspectives on the media and marketing industries? Join the Digiday research panel. Amazon is in the midst of making a bigger push in the DSP space. In a recent pitch deck, the company made its intentions clear: It wants advertisers to see its demand-side platform as more than just a place
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Earlier this year, Amazon added AI-generated audio product summaries to some product pages on its app, where AI hosts summarize product details, customer reviews and other information. Now, Walmart is following suit. Walmart has added such audio summaries to product pages on its app for more than 1,000 premium beauty products. The company said the
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A clear theme at last week’s Digiday Publishing Summit Europe was skepticism about agents. Executives see the upside but fully autonomous systems still feel distant. For now, many say they’re relying on more human judgement in their organizations, not less. It was a useful check on where things actually stand. The industry may be calling
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Meta is aware of the situation and penalizes some scammers with higher ad rates, according to internal documents reviewed by Reuters.
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It’s been a turbulent year for AppLovin. The Securities and Exchange Commission launched an investigation last month into its data collection practices, which include allegedly using device fingerprinting to target ads. Short-sellers accused the company of violating app store policies by extracting proprietary IDs from platforms without user consent. Meanwhile, multiple state attorneys general have
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