- Why Simple Drives ChatGPT Ads Forward, Creativity Takes Backseat
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, April 3, 2026
ChatGPT ads seem to favor clarity over creativity, which may mean ma ...
- Perplexity, Meta, Google Hit With Privacy Suit
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, April 1, 2026
A Utah man is alleging in a new lawsuit that artificial intelligen ...
- OpenAI Turning ChatGPT Into Virtual 'Shopping Mall'
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, April 2, 2026
Smartly.io has become OpenAI's first creative ad-tech partner, allowing advertisers to pla ...
- Sycophantic AI Might Make Advertising More Engaging...And More Dangerous
Research Intelligencer, Rob Williams - Wednesday, April 1, 2026
As AI follows digital advertising's playbook by optimizing for engagement, constant validati ...
- AI Threatens Ad Quality, Rewrites The Internet
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, March 30, 2026
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman outlined the company's new labeling system for bot ...
- Google Ventures Europe Mostly Invests In AI-Related Start-ups
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, March 20, 2026
Eighty percent of Google Ventures Europe investments in Europe are in ...
- Chatbots Are Great Listeners. Maybe Too Great, Says Study On Synthetic Relationships
Research Intelligencer, Rob Williams - Friday, March 20, 2026
People who linger longer with chatbots reported higher loneliness, less interaction wi ...
- Shoppers Let AI Pick The Shoes But Not The Price Tag
Research Intelligencer, Rob Williams - Wednesday, March 18, 2026
About 38% of Americans say they have already completed a purchase direct ...
- Meta Tests Shopping Recommendations In Chatbot Browser
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Wednesday, March 4, 2026
Meta is expanding ecommerce opportunities within its AI chatbot, testing new shoppi ...
- Simo: How OpenAI Ads, Adult Mode Will Work
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, February 11, 2026
The feature launched on Monday in test mode on free and ...
- OpenAI To Begin Testing Ads In Chat As Execs Challenge Publishers To Do More
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, January 16, 2026
Publishers have been pushing the industry to monetize AI chat. Today th ...
- AI Needs To Stop Rewarding Guesses
Data & Programmatic Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, January 12, 2026
Deadly errors related to health information have forced Google to remove answe ...
- Shopify, Google Co-Develop Agentic Shopping Standard
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Sunday, January 11, 2026
Shopping across Google's platforms will soon roll out supported by the "Univers ...
- Healthcare AI: Dangerous Mistakes, Deep Privacy Risks
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, January 8, 2026
While OpenAI designed ChatGPT Health to help users better understand their heal ...
- OpenAI Supports Agentic, Voice Conversation Interface For Zeta
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, January 5, 2026
Imagine having a verbal conversation with an AI chatbot, brainstorming for ...
- AI Chatbots Join Social Media In Teens' Digital Lives: Pew
Research Intelligencer, Rob Williams - Wednesday, December 17, 2025
Nearly two-thirds of teens ages 13 to 17 say they use ...
- Disney Strikes $1B Deal With OpenAI, Licenses Iconic Characters
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, December 11, 2025
Disney's $1 billion deal with OpenAI would allow fans to create short-fo ...
- WhatsApp Gives Microsoft, OpenAI, Perplexity The Boot
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, December 2, 2025
Access to Copilot via WhatsApp will end on January 15, 2026. WhatsA ...
- Chatbots Help With Holiday Purchase Decisions, Adobe Data Shows
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, November 26, 2025
Consumers have already spent nearly $79.7 billion online this holiday season ...
- Waiting For Search, LLMs' Obvious Appeal
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, November 7, 2025
Marketers are signaling that conversion and click rates are lower with AI-driv ...
- Divulging Brand Secrets Rises With AI Agent Concerns
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, October 31, 2025
AI agents have become popular as they link consumers with brands, b ...
- Bipartisan Bill Would Ban Chatbot 'Companions' For Minors
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Senators Josh Hawley and Richard Blumenthal said Tuesday they are introducing ...
- OpenAI Restructures, Microsoft Takes For-Profit Stake
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Microsoft will hold a 27% stake in OpenAI Group PBC, which wi ...
- Google Holding On To Market Share In Search
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Google recently reversed a trend that had been dragging down the company ...
- Marketers Vs. Machines: What The Skills Gap Means For Brands, Retailers
Marketing Daily - Top of the News, Sarah Mahoney - Tuesday, October 21, 2025
Generative search is rewriting the rules of visibility -- and CMOs w ...
- Agents As Brand Influencers Collapse Consumer Buying Journey
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, October 17, 2025
The collapse of the customer buying journey into a couple of ta ...
- Apple's Newly Appointed AI Search Lead Leaves For Meta
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, October 16, 2025
Ke Yang, who had recently been appointed to lead Apple's ChatGPT-like sear ...
- OpenAI Moves Into Erotica, Behind Age-Gated ChatGPT
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, October 14, 2025
OpenAI plans to roll out an age-gated ChatGPT for "erotica" in Decemb ...
- ChatGPT Becomes Creative Partner For Marketers, Study Finds
Research Intelligencer, Rob Williams - Monday, October 13, 2025
Tasks include help with copy revisions, campaign ideation, email tone and ev ...
- How To Report On Conversions, Not Just Traffic
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, September 5, 2025
Ryan Jones, marketing manager at UK-based SEOTesting, has been providing valuable insigh ...