Today's quick tips for Friday, September 5:
* OpenAI’s deal with Shopify and AI’s unique “metacognition” is a catalyst for advertising.
* Developments in the LLM world: DeepSeek Prepping an AI Agent; Anthropic's ‘red team’; OpenAI's Fidji Simo on jobs; and Copilot vs. ChatGPT.
*…
Today's quick tips for Thursday, September 4:
* IAB released its “AI in Advertising Use Case Map.”
* Perplexity has faded at Apple as an acquisition target says Bloomberg.
* Answer engine referral performance isn’t as good as traditional search.
* AMP (agentic marketing…
Today's quick tips for Wednesday, September 3:
* Google Search trial remedies were handed down. The court noted AI’s impact.
* “Deprioritizing ads” is how Ad Age framed Perplexity's receding ad strategy.
* Anthropic raised new funding at 3x its March valuation; OpenAI made a $1…
Today's quick tips for Tuesday, September 2:
* Ad exec departs from Perplexity - what’s next?
* OpenAI’s CEO of Applications, Fidji Simo, gave her first published interview.
* Terence Kawaja said AI ads LUMAscapes are imminent.
* Read new developments: Anthropic, China AI law…
Today's tipsheet is an interview with @AdSkateInc co-founder Akaash Ramakrishnan.
We discussed his AI-enabled, ad creative tech startup including:
* What problem is AdSkate solving?
* How AdSkate’s AI works with ‘walled garden’ AIs
* Use cases
* Thoughts on AI and the need for…
Today's quick tips for Thursday, August 28
* Snap pitched its AI-enabled creative with performance data.
* Ad Age covered, ZeroClick, an AI ad network as agentic commerce evolves.
* The marketer needs to bring AI to its first-party data, not the other way around.
* When it comes…
Today's tipsheet interview is with @HorizonMedia President Bob Lord.
Mr. Lord spoke on a range of topics concerning his independent media agency yesterday including:
* Transition to Horizon Media: IBM
* Transition to Horizon Media: Democratization
* AI transformation and…
Google’s Gambit and the future of the open web
I’ve described Google’s ambitions with AI Overviews and AI Mode as Google’s Gambit: an attempt to utterly reform the core Search experience through AI functionality while not alienating users.
The Gambit appears to be paying off.…
Today's quick tips for Tuesday, August 26
* Meta’s Midjourney deal represents a move to a modular, open AI ecosystem.
* Marketers may want their own diffusion models for AI-generated creative.
* CEO survey says there's CEO agreement: AI is for marketing.
* Another ad tech…
Today's quick tips for Monday, August 25
* “Usage vs. training deals” with LLMs is making publishers think.
* Jonathan Roberts on People's deal with OpenAI and its LLMs.
* Last week’s MIT report on AI pilots and investment did not include ads.
* Agencies see a bright side in AI…
Today's quick tips for Friday, August 22
* Meta released holiday Advantage+ plans for marketers.
* Google extended its AI Mode agentic capabilities slightly, but no ads yet.
* See an AI data-readiness checklist for brands.
* A partnership brings together ad tech and two holding…
Today's quick tips for Thursday, August 21
* Report: OpenAI’s ChatGPT referrals are plummeting except for Reddit, Wikipedia and TechRadar.
* AI adoption in marketing is happening slowly.
* Internal marketing roles may be perfect for AI transformation “next steps."
* Less…
Reddit is double-dipping
Reddit is double-dipping: it is monetizing its vast corpus of data through data licensing deals while also utilizing it with a native chatbot that, in success, will increase engagement, drive impressions growth, and contribute to advertising revenue…
Today's quick tips for Tuesday, August 19
* How do AI agents shop... exactly? Read new research.
* Ad Age throws cold water on the notion that AI killing search referrals.
* eMarketer re-envisions Walmart’s unique AI survey data.
* Another day, another story about the use of AI…
Today's quick tips for Monday, August 18
* Signal engineering is the new frontier for marketers says analyst Eric Seufert.
* Developments in the LLM world: Funding, ChatGPT-5 consternation, Anthropic’s Claude release.
* Marketers need to wrap their heads around the Capability…
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