Report: Jeffrey Epstein Invested in AdTech Startup Ad/Fin
There’s always an adtech angle. According to a New York Times review of the “Epstein files” — documents…
OpenAI Researcher Quits as ChatGPT Begins Testing Ads
OpenAI has started testing ads inside ChatGPT this week and one of its former researchers is publicly criticizing…
iSpot Enters the Agentic Race With SAGE
TV ad measurement company iSpot is launching its own agentic AI platform. Today, the company announced SAGE, which…
OpenAI Begins Testing Ads Inside ChatGPT
OpenAI is officially starting to test ads within ChatGPT, according to a person familiar with the matter who…
TikTok Expands Access to AI Chatbot Tako — Are Ads Next?
It’s Tako time. In 2023, TikTok launched Tako, a gen AI chatbot in beta, positioning it as a…
IAB Proposes Legislation to Curb AI Scraping
The IAB is officially anti-scraping—at least when it comes to AI. That position was reinforced this week as…
YouTube Clears $60B as Q4 Ad Revenue Tops $11B
Google reported another strong quarter, with revenue up 18% year over year to $113.8 billion. One of the…
X Courts Advertisers for Grok Amid Regulator Scrutiny
Amid ongoing turmoil, X is looking for advertisers for Grok. Over the weekend, as Adweek reported on the…
5 Questions With Marketecture’s CEO: What’s Next After Funding
Advertising media is changing — and Marketecture Media is a great example of that. Timed to CES last…
Zombie Developer Accounts Fuel New Mobile Ad Fraud
These zombies prefer budgets over brains. Media effectiveness and measurement company DoubleVerify has uncovered a new mobile ad…
IAB: CTV, Social, and Commerce Media Will Drive Growth in 2026
Digital channels are still doing the heavy lifting for ad growth. That’s one of the clearest takeaways from…
MNTN Rolls Out New QuickFrame AI Tools
Family matters. But apparently, performance matters more. (This horrible joke will make sense in a second.) MNTN, the…