Adobe lifted its ad spend 30% to $1.4 billion to sell its AI story, signaling a future where marketers must sort real AI innovation from flashy features.
Gemini turns search into dialogue, feeding richer intent into auctions and tightening Google’s end-to-end ad loop.
The jeweler aims to protect margins and reduce reliance on a single volatile metal.
Legacy measurement overlooks gaming, commerce, and creators—fueling billions in misallocated ad spend.
IoT devices like connected cars, wearables, and smart home speakers generate behavioral data and create moments where marketing messages can reach engaged audiences.
Marketing technology (martech) has entered a new era defined by AI agents, composable architectures, and the rise of buyer-side AI assistants that are fundamentally changing how customers discover brands and B2B vendors.
Amazon’s strong Q4 results were tempered by uncertainty as a $200 billion 2026 spending plan rattled investors.
Ralph Lauren and Coach proved brand building can fuel growth even as demand stays selective.
45% of US employees used AI at work at least a few times a year in Q3 2025, more than double the 21% who said the same in Q2 2023, according to a December report from Gallup.
Retail executives are largely aligned on one point: Artificial intelligence is no longer experimental, but is central to how retailers expect to drive growth, improve customer experience, and build more resilient operations.
Publicis shows strong growth as AI takes center stage, but advertisers should monitor which holdcos prove AI-driven gains across planning, activation, and outcomes.
TikTok reliably draws strong results that make it a must-have for short-form social advertising, even amid uncertainty.
The European Commission is probing Google’s AI data practices to stop its search dominance from hardening into AI ad power.
AI is entering prime TV ads, automating complex sponsorships that programmatic pipes were never built to handle.
The Post’s layoffs show how generative search is accelerating divergence among publishers—and suggests that AI-driven discovery is breaking legacy news.
Anthropic says it prioritizes trust over monetization; the company says ads inside AI chat would undermine credibility in work, health, and reasoning contexts.
The Milan Cortina Winter Olympic Games will begin on February 6 with an opening ceremony that will also kick off advertisers looking to make the most of the global event.
Consumers accept AI, not wasted effort. Seamless AI-to-human handoffs in customer service drive spend and brand affinity.
Smaller beauty brands are shaking up the retail space by achieving faster-growing sales than their big name competitors. Independently owned and operated brands with under $300 million in revenue, called "indie beauty brands" by NielsenIQ in a new report, are rising fast online and outpacing their conglomerate competitors in-store.
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