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Can ChatGPT be a $100 Billion Ads Business?
The chatbot service is scaling its ads business at an unprecedented rate, and industry executives say the hype is real.
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Can ChatGPT be a $100 Billion Ads Business?
Opinion
How the $7 Dorito’s Bag Explains the Economy
Frito-Lay’s recent earnings shows us again how snacks are a bellwether for consumer spending.
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How the $7 Dorito’s Bag Explains the Economy
Opinion
Field of Streams: Baseball’s Distribution Strategy Delivers Opening Day Audience Hits
MLB’s new media rights deal scattered Opening Day games across Netflix, NBC, and Fox generated the strongest first-week audiences in nearly a decade. But advertisers must now rethink how they reach fans across platforms rather than relying on single broadcast windows.
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Field of Streams: Baseball’s Distribution Strategy Delivers Opening Day Audience Hits
Opinion
Outcomes Are the New Standard for Advertising Measurement — Even for TV
The shift to outcomes constitutes a massive contraction of the marketing funnel.
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Outcomes Are the New Standard for Advertising Measurement — Even for TV
Opinion
What Will Agentic AI Do To Programmatic Advertising?
Industry experts predict agentic AI will shift media buying processes from manual optimization to autonomous execution, collapsing the divide between media allocation and production while elevating strategy, governance, and creative resonance as the true competitive differentiators.
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What Will Agentic AI Do To Programmatic Advertising?
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Out-of-Home Proves Itself a Valuable Ad Channel Despite its Analog Roots
Advances in measurement have helped out-of-home become a steadily growing ad channel.
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Out-of-Home Proves Itself a Valuable Ad Channel Despite its Analog Roots
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Super Bowl Advertisers Played It Safe — But Performance Demands Are Changing the Game
Celebrity-driven humor dominated Super Bowl LX as brands paid upward of $10 million for 30 seconds to reach a potential audience of more than 125 million viewers. Still, companies like Salesforce and Doritos signal a shift toward measurable performance and second-screen activation over traditional brand-building.
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Super Bowl Advertisers Played It Safe — But Performance Demands Are Changing the Game

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