9+ hour, 41+ min ago   (638+ words) By Brian Quinn, AppsFlyer BMW recently placed a promotion for the new Spider-Man film on its vehicles’ dashboards. When drivers started the car, a banner appeared on the control display. Tapping it launched a 19-second animation with music and a…...

10+ hour, 12+ min ago   (769+ words) The twin forces of data and efficiency can be great. They can also lead one badly astray. AdExchanger has covered how retailers capitalize on locked store shelves (which reduce sales) by adding data-collection features. For example, customers can contribute a…...

4+ day, 2+ min ago   (884+ words) One implication of this progress is that pharma companies are using AI to unlock potential treatments for smaller and smaller patient populations, as in for rarer diseases and conditions that traditionally would not be a priority. Indeed, over the past…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago   (819+ words) Cable network MS NOW, previously MSNBC, launched a subscription app this week at $7.99 per month or $79.99 annually. News media has struggled to find its place in the mobile subscription economy. (CNN+, anyone?) Behemoths like Walmart, Uber and Amazon commonly bundle…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1202+ words) Like a kid playing dress-up in their parent’s clothes, OpenAI is trying to look all grown up. But it still has quite a ways to go. Earlier this week, OpenAI announced that its ads business hit a $1 billion annualized revenue…...

2+ week, 9+ hour ago   (901+ words) By Toni Poulain, Goodway Group The industry’s first reaction was to debate whether this is a cash grab. The more consequential question is why the buy side remains so smitten with the idea of handing maximum control to autonomous buying…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1567+ words) Meta alumni are on the move – and they’re bringing the world’s most successful ad playbook with them to the next generation of would-be ad platform greats. OpenAI, the newest ad platform of the bunch, has gone furthest fastest, hiring hundreds…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (912+ words) Here’s a short list of futuristic sci-fi tropes: flying cars, robotaxis, a genuinely useful AI assistant. Wanna guess which one might actually happen soon? Nope, not the assistant. It’s robotaxis. What started as Waymo’s city-by-city driverless taxi tests has now…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (785+ words) By Charlie Castell, PubRev+ When news broke that ICE had issued a request for information asking how ad tech providers could support its investigations, the industry reacted with alarm. Executives like Brian O’Kelley of Scope3 warned publicly about what it could…...

3+ week, 29+ min ago   (1359+ words) When everything is changing all around you, it’s a great time to recalibrate. Prebid.org, which oversees the open-source header bidding software of the same name, is confronting major change both internally and across the ad tech industry. In May,…...