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Wow, 2025 was quite a year for advertising, wasn’t it? It felt like brands were really trying new things, pushing boundaries, ...

IAB Tech Lab's Jill Wittkopp reviews the state of streaming ad tech innovation and emerging ad formats and discusses evolving definitions and standards for squeezebacks, side-by-sides, double boxes, ...

It was the classic “take out the trash” move. On Friday, Jan. 16, late in the afternoon before the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend, OpenAI confirmed what industry insiders have long suspected: ...

In early December of last year, OpenAI mentioned the possibility of adding advertisements to ChatGPT. Now, the AI company has confirmed that it’ll soon start testing display ads in the AI chatbot. To ...

The next scam you run into may not arrive by email. It is more likely to show up as an online ad. That is the takeaway from The Media Trust’s 2026 Intelligence Report, which found that ad-delivery ...

Earlier this week, Criteo confirmed it is the first ad tech partner to integrate with OpenAI’s advertising pilot in the U.S., available in ChatGPT’s free and Go tiers. The move formalizes what the ...

Following last year’s trend of showcasing AI in multimillion-dollar ad spots, the 2026 Super Bowl advertisements took it a step further by leveraging AI both to create the commercials and to promote ...

This Ad Tech Briefing covers the latest in ad tech and platforms for Digiday+ members and is distributed over email every Tuesday at 10 a.m. ET. More from the series → The great disruption promised by ...