How Microsoft AI Agents In PCs Affect Advertisers by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer, August 19, 2025 When Bill Gates founded Microsoft, he envisioned more than a software company. He envisioned a “software factory, unconstrained by any single product or category.” That idea guided the company for decades, but today it’s no longer enough, Satya … Continue reading How Microsoft AI Agents In PCs Affect Advertisers
Google OS Merger: Implications For Advertisers by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer, July 15, 2025 Google’s plan to combine ChromeOS and Android into one platform has begun. It may not seem like a monumental task or one that will make a great difference to advertisers, but it will. Sameer Samat, president of Google’s Android ecosystem, … Continue reading Google OS Merger: Implications For Advertisers
AI Models Defy Shutdowns, Are Advertisers Ready To Give Up Control? by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, May 28, 2025 OpenAI’s latest ChatGPT model disobeyed human instructions to shut down during a test by researchers. I wonder… what if AI refused to alter ad campaigns based on data the models believed could produce better results? Advertisers … Continue reading OpenAI: Are Advertisers Ready To Give Up Control As Models Defy Shutdowns?
Decentralized Search Engine Gives Advertisers An Abundance Of Data by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, May 13, 2025 When Presearch could not guarantee user privacy with known advertising units, the decentralized engine designed a takeover ad to give advertisers insights on impressions, clickthrough rates, device types, and geography. Presearch Takeover Ads (PTAs), which launched in … Continue reading Decentralized Search Engine Gives Advertisers An Abundance Of Data
Apple, Mozilla, Advertisers Back Google by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, March 17, 2025 Google is receiving support from competitors, saying the U.S. Department of Justice’s proposed remedies would hurt competition rather than improve it. Earlier this month, Google urged the DOJ not to take a less aggressive approach other than breaking up the search … Continue reading Apple, Mozilla, Advertisers Back Google
Another survey found 66% of U.S. consumers want business to cut CEO pay in response to tariff-related inflation. Constantine von Hoffman on March 7, 2025 Nearly all U.S. advertisers (94%) are worried about the impact of tariffs on ad spending, according to an IAB survey. Of those, 57% are “extremely concerned” and 37% are … Continue reading 94% of advertisers concerned tariffs will lead to cut in ad spending: IAB
CTV offers better targeting and more performance metrics than linear TV, but those differences might be holding it back. Mike Pastore on March 4, 2025 Connected TV has the broad reach for brand building and the targeting capabilities for performance marketing, but advertisers are holding back for various reasons. That’s according to Samsung Ads’ … Continue reading 7 barriers advertisers need to overcome to grow CTV
Why DeepSeek Isn’t A Search Engine And What It Means For Advertisers, Google, Microsoft by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, February 26, 2025 OpenAI may have been the first to release a reasoning model and others followed. Search engines did not tell users why it would serve specific information, but that has changed with AI. … Continue reading Why DeepSeek Isn’t A Search Engine And What It Means For Advertisers, Google, Microsoft
Valentine’s Day Loves Advertisers by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, January 24, 2025 Phones are littered with flowers, chocolates and jewelry ads targeted to celebrate love on Valentine’s Day just weeks after advertisers spent months reaching out to consumers during the holiday season. Google and Microsoft have caught on and have been rolling out a … Continue reading Valentine’s Day Loves Advertisers
Meta Granted Exempt Content-Moderation Status To Top Advertisers by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, January 8, 2025 Meta did not want to mistakenly penalize top brands and risk advertising dollars, so it designated some advertisers as exempt from its content-moderation process to prevent its multibillion-dollar ad business from crumbling — like what happened to social … Continue reading Meta Granted Exempt Content-Moderation Status To Top Advertisers
