artificial intelligence

Under Armour has tapped Liz Bacelar as its new head of AI and advanced analytics.Liz Bacelar


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AppLovin is Officially the New Target of Short Sellers

Update Feb. 26, 4:06 pm ET: AppLovin CEO Adam Foroughi has issued a response to various short seller reports, writing: “It’s disappointing that a few nefarious short-sellers are making false […]


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The Daily Mail Chases 1 Million Paying Subscribers With Its First US Paywall 

DailyMail+ includes an 80% reduction in ads, but the publisher has no plans of being a primarily paywalled site.

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Perplexity’s Next Bet? An AI-Driven Browser Called Comet

Perplexity has raised over $500 million and is valued at $9 billion.

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How Horizon Media Cut Carbon Emissions in Half While Boosting Performance

Horizon Media is all in on green media. Starting May 2024, the agency shifted all of the programmatic campaigns that were running through Equativ-owned Sharethrough to the supply-side platform’s green [...]

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Meta and X Approve AI Ads Referencing Nazi War Crimes Ahead of German Elections, Research Finds

Ekō has submitted the details of this research with the European Commission.

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X Rolls Out AI-Generated Ads in Push to Win Advertisers Back

The company is betting on AI to help recover some of the millions it has lost in ad revenue since Elon Musk's 2022 acquisition of the platform.

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Do Marketers Still Care About Brand Safety on YouTube and CTV?

Performance and measurement are taking precedence for the first time in years, report shows.

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Amazon Ups Transparency for Advertisers Following CSAM Scandal and Senator Pressure

Amazon will update its DSP to include new page-level reporting through its Traffic Events API.

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Report: TikTok Begins Laying Off Members of Trust and Safety Team

Platforms

TikTok head of operations and trust and safety Adam Presser sent a memo to the company’s staff Thursday alerting them to layoffs in the trust and safety unit as part [...]

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Elon Musk’s X Seeks Financing at $44 Billion Valuation

Platforms

The valuation is the price Musk paid for then-Twitter in 2022.

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3 Factors Behind AppLovin’s Meteoric Rise

The company’s AI advertising advancements and foray into ecommerce are generating investor optimism.

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Google Is Giving Buyers Thousands In Ad Credits to Spend On AI-Powered Demand Gen

Two of those sources were offered ad credits recently, with one offered $20,000-worth of free ad spend in credits to test Demand Gen over two months.

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The Ankler Partners with NAB Show to Debut Business of Entertainment Track

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The entertainment publisher The Ankler will debut a new, two-day track of programming at NAB Show.

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Advertisers Are Losing Trust In TAG and MRC After Damning CSAM Report

Certification groups are under fire for failing to uphold brand safety standards after a bombshell report found that certified vendors were placed ads on a known child sexual abuse material [...]

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WhatsApp Debuts New ‘Viewing Gallery’ Chat in Partnership with Offball

Media News

The sports-culture publisher OffBall is partnering with WhatsApp to help the messaging platform debut a new product feature.

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Apple, Google Restore TikTok to App Stores

Platforms

TikTok is back on both the Apple App Store and Google Play as of Thursday evening.