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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Future of Marketing Briefing: AI’s branding problem is why marketers keep it off the label

At this point in the Super Bowl ad post-mortem, a pattern has emerged: AI — both the companies selling it and the brands leaning on it — did not resonate as strongly as more familiar creative territory. Viewers gravitated toward the tried and tested, from nostalgia plays to celebrities in deliberately oddball scenarios, while many

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‘A brand trip’: How the creator economy showed up at this year’s Super Bowl

Brands turned in-person activations into a new playground for creators at this year’s Super Bowl, giving wider talent exposure while finding more cost-efficient ways than previous years to scale creator participation. There were more activations from a wider variety of brands, two creators (and their corresponding agencies) told Digiday anecdotally. They said a bevy of

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From feeds to streets: How mega influencer Haley Baylee is diversifying beyond platform algorithms 

In the wake of TikTok transition issues and algorithmic upsets, established creators are looking to de-risk platform dependence to ensure they can expand outside of traditional creator spaces.  Haley Kalil, aka Haley Baylee, wants to continue to add to the millions of followers she has amassed across several social media platforms (10 million on Instagram,

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