The standoff between Publicis Groupe and The Trade Desk is widely viewed as a transparency dispute, but that’s only the surface; deeper analysis shows it’s indicative of tectonic plates shifting. Away ...

YouTube is releasing a Gemini-powered Creator Partnerships suite of tools designed to help brands more easily find the right creators to work with and automate parts of the process like matching and ...

Meta quietly made an unusual addition to its Ads Manager toolset last month, by incorporating an AI agent tool called Manus. It’s intended to help plan and execute ad campaigns on Facebook and ...

AI licensing has gone from niche to crowded fast: Meta, Microsoft and Amazon have entered the fray in the last six months, and publishers are now juggling a growing menu of deals — each with different ...

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After more than a year in limbo, TikTok can finally put the threats of a U.S. ban to bed, now that the deal between the American and Chinese governments has officially been ratified. On Jan. 22, ...

Amazon’s biggest rival for programmatic ad dollars is once again waving off the comparison. For the second quarter in a row, The Trade Desk CEO Jeff Green told analysts that Amazon isn’t a direct ...

Urban Outfitters last week rolled out ME@UO, its latest bet on micro-creators, joining brands like American Eagle, Express, Home Depot, Lowe’s, and Sephora that are reworking affiliate marketing into ...

This article is part of an ongoing series for Digiday+ members to gain access to how platforms and brands are pitching advertisers. More from the series → OpenAI and its first ad tech partner Criteo ...

While publishers worry about the impact of AI search on web traffic, brand marketers are seeing a different picture altogether. Takeup of AI search tools is on the rise, disrupting user behaviors and ...

The lawsuit between former GroupM executive Richard Foster and WPP is full of competing allegations. But buried in the court filings is a set of numbers — drawn largely from GroupM’s own internal ...

For better or worse, AI is changing the industry, which means even influencer marketing and creators are going to have to adapt. Which is why Digiday has charted what influencer marketing is expected ...