AI licensing has gone from niche to crowded fast: Meta, Microsoft and Amazon have entered the fray in the last six months, and publishers are now juggling a growing menu of deals — each with different ...

Meta quietly made an unusual addition to its Ads Manager toolset last month, by incorporating an AI agent tool called Manus. It’s intended to help plan and execute ad campaigns on Facebook and ...

Though the Christmas party season is just around the corner, CMOs and agency partners are hard at work plotting out budgets and media plans for 2026. Ammunition for next year’s best laid plans can be ...

Artificial intelligence has a trust problem and companies — particularly those like Amazon, Microsoft, OpenAI and others — are facing an uphill battle trying to solve it. Amazon made more deliberate ...

Nike yesterday revealed that it expects $1.5 billion in gross incremental costs, on an annualized basis, because of tariffs. That’s a 50% increase from Nike’s last estimate, provided in June, of $1 ...

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The Super Bowl — arguably the industry’s most coveted ad opportunity — is back this Sunday. Already, advertisers have shelled out up to $8 million for a 30-second spot. Notably this year, marketers ...

Even before Snapchat fully scales its newly unveiled creator subscriptions program, high-earning creators on the platform say it provides a reliable revenue stream with minimal content lift — ...

Following the ubiquitous nature of short-form video, it’s no surprise that short stories, otherwise known as micro dramas, are now attracting attention. These mobile-first shows run just two to three ...

Over the past two years, clipping has quietly become a staple in some advertisers’ media mix. The term “clipping” refers to the practice of sharing short clips from longer content such as podcasts, ...

AI bots scraping publishers’ sites for real-time information are now scraping publishers’ sites more than the bots used to train large language models. And they’re harder to detect. That’s according ...

While publishers worry about the impact of AI search on web traffic, brand marketers are seeing a different picture altogether. Takeup of AI search tools is on the rise, disrupting user behaviors and ...