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Zara and Adidas Share the Stage at Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show

They made guest appearances alongside Lady Gaga, Ricky Martin, and More.

ADWEEK’s Picks for the 5 Worst Ads of Super Bowl 60

Of course, one viewer’s clunker of an ad might bring another to tears—so here’s a reminder that these are the editors’ picks alone.

GLP-1 Brands Enter Their Super Bowl Era

Twelve percent of American adults are now using GLP-1, with U.S. patients spending $40 billion on appetite-suppressing drugs in 2024—a figure that is projected to triple by 2030, according to […]

Media Buying Briefing: Why is Wall Street punishing Publicis – and maybe other holdcos?

Is it possible that Wall Street doesn't understand the value of a holding company anymore – or at least is missing the intangibles?

The Athletic invests in live blogs, video to insulate sports coverage from AI scraping

As the Super Bowl and Winter Olympics collide, The Athletic is leaning into live blogs and video to keeps fans locked in, and AI bots at bay.

Why Walmart is basically a tech company now

The retail giant joined the Nasdaq exchange, also home to technology companies like Amazon, in December.

The case for and against bringing programmatic in-house

As more advertisers beef up in-house media operations, some are looking to the "final frontier" of programmatic.

In Q1, marketers pivot to spending backed by AI and measurement

Q1 budget shifts reflect marketers’ growing focus on data, AI, measurement and where branding actually pays off.

In Graphic Detail: The scale of the challenge facing publishers, politicians eager to damage Google’s adland dominance

Last year was a blowout ad revenue year for Google, despite challenges from several quarters.

It’s A SaaS Selloff; ‘Integrity,’ As In, Integrated.

AdExchanger

Wall Street is falling out of love with SaaS; OpenAI has an “ads integrity” unit; and the Super Bowl is getting more personalized. The post It’s A SaaS Selloff; ‘Integrity,’ As In, Integrated. appeared first on AdExchanger.

Cleaning Up CTV Supply: A Publisher’s Guide To Reducing Ad Fraud

AdExchanger

Despite the massive shift of eyeballs from linear to streaming content, concerns over ad fraud have some major advertisers reluctant to commit large portions of their budgets to CTV. Meanwhile, with the rapid growth of streaming viewership, CTV publishers have had their hands full, managing everything from programming and production to distribution contracts and relationships […] The post Cleaning Up CTV Supply: A Publisher’s Guide To Reducing Ad Fraud appeared first on AdExchanger.

How OpenAI is using the Super Bowl to position ChatGPT as the Kleenex of AI

Ad Age

OpenAI shows how everyday people could code with ChatGPT’s new service called Codex. Its second Super Bowl commercial ran against those from several AI companies, including Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, Meta and Amazon.