Private equity firms are aggressively acquiring ecommerce and payments companies, with Stripe and Advent jointly bidding $53 billion for PayPal, Criteo receiving a buyout offer at a 50% premium, and K…
Q2 2026 marked an inflection point for AI media as OpenAI launched advertising in ChatGPT across eight countries and built a supporting ecosystem of buying tools, measurement, agency partnerships and …
Intuit is reviewing its US media investments amid a stock decline, while maintaining high marketing spend. OpenAI expands its ChatGPT ads pilot across Europe with new custom audience features and ad e…
OpenAI is expanding its advertising pilot to France, Germany, and Ireland, hiring regional managers and client partners in Paris, Munich, and Dublin. The move follows its UK launch and aims to cover E…
OpenAI is hiring engineers to develop new image, video, native, and conversational ad formats for ChatGPT, expanding beyond the standard sponsored unit tested since February. The roles, part of a new …
OpenAI's global ads boss David Dugan said the company is building its ad platform rapidly by embracing agency holding companies and technology partners rather than controlling all client relationships…
Albertsons Media Collective integrated Criteo's commerce platform to place sponsored products within its AI-powered conversational search carousels, aiming to connect brands with shoppers during explo…
NVIDIA partners demonstrated production-ready AI infrastructure for advertising and marketing at Cannes Lions, including causal AI, real-time bidding, and agentic workflows. Alembic deployed causal AI…
At Cannes Lions 2025, NVIDIA partners including Alembic, AWS, Criteo, Higgsfield, KERV.ai and Taboola are showcasing AI-powered advertising and marketing solutions. Alembic uses NVIDIA DGX systems for…
Adyen trained a Transaction Foundation Model on 51 trillion tokens using Ray, while Xoople, Criteo, and BMW shared their own scaling AI stories at Anyscale's Ray Day London event. The event highlighte…
OpenAI's ad partner Criteo cut its minimum ad spend requirement from $50,000 to $10,000 and will match client spending dollar-for-dollar to lower barriers for ChatGPT advertising. The incentives come …