The Trade Desk is giving brands a new way to serve contextual sponsored product ads. The ad tech firm announced a new integration with startup Shopsense AI on Thursday to bring sponsored product ads to publisher content across the open internet. The deal, made through The Trade Desk’s OpenPath supply integration, lets advertisers place shoppable ..
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The numbers $50.1 billion: Meta’s ad revenue, up 26% YoY. Overall revenue was $51.24 billion, up 26% YoY +14%: YoY increase in ad impressions delivered across Meta’s Family of Apps. 10%: Increase in average price per ad. $15.9 billion: a one time, non cash income tax charge on deferred tax assets as a result of ..
Starting next year, PayPal’s payment technology will be embedded in OpenAI’s ChatGPT, where users can make purchases within the AI chatbot using their PayPal wallets. PayPal will also bring its merchants into OpenAI’s burgeoning commerce offering and help merchants process payments through OpenAI’s checkout tools, the companies announced Tuesday. The arrangement is expected to help ..
People are increasingly using chatbots to answer questions, solve problems, and find products—all things that could disrupt the growing ad businesses that retailers and ecommerce players have built on top of their shopper data. OpenAI released its open-source agentic commerce protocol (ACP) at the end of September, laying out its plan to bring shopping directly ..
This article is part of ADWEEK’s Marketing Vanguard program and was written in collaboration with one of its members. For the last two years, every marketing conference has focused on the same topics: ‘AI for Efficiency,’ ‘AI and ROI,’ ‘Will AI Replace Creatives?’ But while the industry obsesses over automation and cost savings, they’re overlooking ..
Advertisers are increasingly putting their digital ad spend into Reddit, drawn by the platform’s growing audience and its influence on AI-powered search results, according to buyers and a slide deck viewed by ADWEEK. Five ad buyers told ADWEEK that brands are increasing their spend on Reddit, but also exploring creative ways to extend their reach ..
In Andrew Cuomo’s latest AI-generated ad, his mayoral rival Zohran Mamdani sprints through the New York City streets before cutting to a scene of him eating rice with his hands—an image many online called a racist caricature. The ad then shifts to a montage of AI-generated clips, including a Black man wearing a keffiyeh and ..
British advertising titan WPP is rolling out a self-serve version of WPP Open, its AI-powered marketing platform. Unveiled Thursday, WPP Open Pro is a platform marketers can use to build campaigns, develop creative assets, and activate on their own, with the help of AI. The platform is designed to streamline the entire marketing process, from ..
Reddit sued AI startup Perplexity and three data-scraping firms Wednesday, alleging they collected and resold Reddit posts without permission. According to the complaint filed in Manhattan federal court, Oxylabs, AWMProxy, and SerpApi scraped Reddit data via Google search results, and Perplexity purchased it from at least one of the vendors. The lawsuit claims the defendants ..
OpenAI’s ChatGPT has been nipping at Google’s search dominance for months. Now, the AI startup is taking Google head-on with an AI-powered browser that can shop, schedule, and search on behalf of users. Launched globally on Tuesday, Atlas has a ChatGPT agent that can navigate the web and complete tasks—from booking reservations to adding groceries ..


