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Thursday 17 September 2026
Digiday
Perplexity is betting big on creatorsAI platforms like Perplexity are courting creators, much as social networks once poured money into TV advertising.
Digiday
'It's hard to be a $7 billion company': The investment banker's diagnosis for ad tech's public woesAn investment banker explains why public ad tech companies are disappearing.
Wednesday 16 September 2026
Digiday
Ad Tech Briefing: AI is reinforcing Big Tech's grip on advertising growthThe advertising AI boom favors Google, Meta and Amazon even as marketers say they are uneasy about it.
Digiday
Electronic Arts is bundling its games to make a bigger pitch to advertisersEA is betting that giving brands multiple franchises in one buy wins bigger advertising budgets.
Tuesday 15 September 2026
Digiday
As Google's ad tech case nears its end, the antitrust fight moves to AIFurther reading from the day's section on Media and Marketing When the Customer Is a Bot.
Advertising · Antitrust · AI
Marketecture
From Circulars to Shopping AgentsMarketecture traces advertising's shift toward AI shopping agents, noting 73% of parents planned to use AI in back-to-school shopping.
Digiday
Marketers face a dilemma around rising bot and AI web trafficBot and AI-agent traffic is poisoning advertisers' retargeting pools, with one agency reporting an 80% rise for e-commerce clients.
Sunday 13 September 2026
Status
The McClatchy MassacreFurther reading from the day's section on media's candid moment and ad tech's blind spot.
Status
USA Today's Palantir ProblemFurther reading from the day's section on media's candid moment and ad tech's blind spot.
Friday 11 September 2026
Digiday
"Google avoided (yet another) breakup…"Google avoided a breakup in the ad tech case and faces behavioral remedies, with the next thirty days deciding what Google Ad Manager looks like.
Business Insider
streaming ad loads rose 18% between January and AugustFurther reading from the day's reading list.
Wednesday 9 September 2026
Digiday
Google divestiture is dead — and publishers are fine with thatGoogle's adtech divestiture is dead, with behavioral remedies instead of an AdX breakup, and publishers appear fine with it.
Tuesday 8 September 2026
Digiday
Google divestiture is dead — and publishers are fine with thatA court declined to force a breakup of Google's ad exchange, and publishers reacted with relief mixed with resignation.
Saturday 5 September 2026
Digiday
Why Google's ad business escaped a breakupBrinkema rejected the structural remedies against Google's ad tech business and accepted the behavioral ones.
Friday 4 September 2026
Digiday
"Ad Tech Briefing: A Google breakup sounds ideal, but the realities are more complicated"Google escaping a breakup of its ad business is the third such outcome in a year, after the Chrome decision and Meta keeping Instagram and WhatsApp.
CNBC
"FTC says Amazon secretly juiced its ad auctions"The FTC and 22 state AGs sued Amazon over an undisclosed 2019 soft reserve price, possibly extracting $20B+ from advertisers.
Thursday 3 September 2026
Digiday
In Graphic Detail: How AI search has impacted the web traffic of over 50 advertisersFurther reading from the day's section on the Google ad tech ruling and antitrust.
Marketing Brew
The in(box) crowdAdvertisers are reaching for black-and-white film and behind-the-scenes footage of human labor, per Marketing Brew.
Wednesday 2 September 2026
Digiday
"WTF is the Amazon ad surcharge lawsuit?"The FTC and 22 state AGs sued Amazon over allegedly overcharging search advertisers for seven-plus years.
Saturday 29 August 2026
Digiday
The IAB is developing a framework to tackle AI advertising measurementThe IAB's framework for the unsolved problem of measuring ads that influence AI agents.
Friday 28 August 2026
Digiday
"The case for and against the 'programmatic-ification' of the creator economy"Further reading from the day's section on authorship, AI slop and the surveillance backlash.
Digiday
"In Graphic Detail: How AI search has impacted the web traffic of over 50 advertisers"A quantification of the zero-click future across more than 50 advertisers.
Wednesday 26 August 2026
Digiday
How AI search has impacted the web traffic of over 50 advertisersFurther reading from the day's reading list.
Tuesday 25 August 2026
Marketecture
"What Does Ad Tech Consolidation Look Like?"Ari Paparo argues economics, not logo clutter, drives ad tech M&A, citing shrinking open-web supply, holdco rivals, AI costs and impatient boards.
Axios
"NBC News taps Taboola for programmatic display"Taboola taking over NBC's banner inventory is Ari Paparo's evidence of shrinking open-web ad supply.
Digiday
"OpenAI is sharpening its focus on enterprise advertisers"OpenAI is hiring to position itself as 'a premium advertising platform for the world's marketers.'
Digiday
"The IAB is developing a framework to tackle AI advertising measurement"The IAB is building a framework for crediting ads that influence an AI agent rather than a person.
Digiday
"OpenAI moves to automate ad creative"Automated ad creative is one of OpenAI's earlier moves into advertising, alongside SMB advertisers, before its push toward enterprise marketers.
Friday 21 August 2026
Axios
"NBC News taps Taboola for programmatic display ads"Taboola became NBC News' exclusive programmatic display vendor.
Tuesday 18 August 2026
Puck
"YouTube: The Most Trusted Name in News?"Julia Alexander reports YouTube doubled the bar creators must clear to earn ad revenue, its biggest monetization change in nearly a decade.
Friday 14 August 2026
Digiday
By the numbers: Wall Street's tough assessment of ad techAppLovin grew revenue 53% and lost nearly a fifth of its market value, while The Trade Desk grew 3% and dropped 22%.
Thursday 13 August 2026
Digiday
"Walmart finally lets advertisers exclude certain search terms"Further reading from the day's section on ad tech consolidation and AI monetization.
Tuesday 11 August 2026
Marketecture
The Week the Open Web DiedAri Paparo declared the open web finished, citing lost AI search traffic, Q2 earnings that favored walled gardens, and ad tech consolidation.
Digiday
OpenAI is coming for SMB advertisersSix live job postings show OpenAI building a dedicated SMB ads unit aimed at the long tail of advertisers.
Digiday
Why Georgia-Pacific bet the future of programmatic on supply, not demandFurther reading from the day's section on the collapse of the open web and ad tech consolidation.
Thursday 6 August 2026
Digiday
"Sony is scaling up its PlayStation advertising ambitions"Further reading from the day's section on media companies stuck in merger limbo.
Digiday
"The Rundown: Google's legal woes with ad tech rivals"Further reading from the day's section on media companies stuck in merger limbo.
Tuesday 4 August 2026
Semafor
"Amazon hits $3 trillion valuation"Amazon crossed $3 trillion in market cap and posted $19.8 billion in Q2 ad revenue.
Friday 24 July 2026
AdExchanger
"Why beehiiv is betting on programmatic"Further reading from the day's section on a media industry contracting on every front.
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