21 · Business Insider
Silicon Valley's new obsession with cigarettes hints at a darker trend
Why it matters
Business Insider's Aki Ito reads Silicon Valley's cigarette revival as AI fatalism: it will fix or destroy everything, so why not.
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22 · Stratechery
Do You Trust Apple?
Why it matters
Ben Thompson argues Apple's HomeView rests on trust in integration and privacy, but the real question is whether buyers will commit their homes to Siri AI.
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23 · Apple Newsroom
Introducing Apple Home Collection
Why it matters
Apple's new smart-home accessories, built with LG Electronics and Schneider Electric, set up with one tap and run through the Home app with no separate account.
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24 · FouAnalytics Practitioners
Apple blocked ID vendors. That will make your digital advertising better. How?
Why it matters
Augustine Fou cites three studies showing ad-targeting identities are often attached to bots or wrong, so Apple's Safari block costs advertisers less than feared.
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25 · WebKit
Blocking identity resolution infrastructure
Why it matters
Apple explains that Safari blocks identity resolution vendors at the domain level because they are "just there to track you."
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26 · Refacto AdTech
Messer on AI killing DSPs, OpenAI targets by email, Google reworks search
Why it matters
Refacto weighs Scott Messer's case that agents could gut DSP and SSP fees against the Prebid auction flip, and flags OpenAI's email targeting in ChatGPT.
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27 · PPC Land
Meta's new terms let it crawl business websites to train AI from Oct 30
Why it matters
From October 30, Meta's terms let it crawl and train AI on websites linked from its platforms, with no opt-out short of leaving its ad tools.
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28 · Marketecture
Agentic Commerce Round-Up
Why it matters
Marketecture finds most top shopping sites blocking AI agents, with travel the one category where agentic buying is taking hold.
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29 · The AI Commerce Brief
Shoppers and retailers have AI agents. What about brands?
Why it matters
Brands may need to "win twice," with the shopper and with the shopper's agent, as brand agents emerge to represent products to other AI agents.
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30 · The Desk
Fox expands AI-powered linear TV ad buying with agencies
Why it matters
Major agencies are now booking live linear TV deals with Fox through AI agents.
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31 · Marketing Week
Lloyds' top marketer on AI implementation
Why it matters
Lloyds' chief customer officer admitted the bank's AI-generated horse videos were damaging the brand.
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32 · Digiday
How Amazon turned its Thursday Night Football into a two-pronged pitch to capture ad dollars
Why it matters
Amazon uses Thursday Night Football both to win brands that don't sell on Amazon and to upsell sellers that rarely buy sports ads.
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33 · Digiday
The Verge switches up its audience team to prepare for Google Zero
Why it matters
The Verge reorganized its audience team around loyal readers to prepare for a future without Google search traffic.
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34 · Status
Amanpour bids adieu to CNN
Why it matters
Christiane Amanpour is leaving CNN after more than 43 years, with her show ending in May.
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35 · Front Office Sports
NFL says Paris game still on as French protests escalate
Why it matters
The NFL says its first Paris game, Saints versus Steelers, is still on despite escalating protests and curfews in France.
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