On today’s news digest: Open AI Testing Search to Rival Google; NBA Signs Deals with Disney, Amazon and NBCUniversal; Douyin Misses E-Commerce Sales Goal  In an attempt to outpace rival Google, OpenAI is testing a new online search tool prototype: SearchGPT. [...]

This week on The Stack: Google’s Cookie U-Turn; Latest Company Earnings; Amazon Prime Day Breaks Records; Today’s MadTech Daily Podcast  The biggest industry news this week was, of course, Google’s cookie U-turn. Google announced that finally, it will not be deprecating [...]

First, we had the delay. Then, the abandonment. On Monday, Google announced via a blog post that it was shelving the deprecation of the third-party cookie, and would instead, “introduce a new experience in Chrome that lets people make an [...]

John Snyder, Grapeshot co-founder, joins us to discuss the future of contextual advertising, and how contextual tech solves some of the industry’s trickiest challenges. I was deeply saddened to hear that Oracle Data Cloud is closing its advertising data services, including [...]

Forget sipping rosé as you promenade in your summer finery down La Croissette. Forget the end of year awards festivities as you wrestle with the choice of lamb or chicken. Forget even Google’s u-turn on the deprecation of the third-party [...]

On today’s news digest: Informa Acquires Cannes Lions Owner Ascential; YouTube Earns £6.7bn in Q2 Ad Revenue; UK Streaming Market Loses 300k Subscribers Informa, the UK based and world’s biggest international events group, has agreed to acquire Ascential, owner of global [...]

After what feels like half a lifetime discussing how best to prepare for a cookieless future and arming ourselves for the great third-party cookie demise, Google has abandoned its deprecation plan for Chrome. Surprising? We’ll let you be the judge [...]

On today’s news digest: BBC Earnings Dip; Spotify’s Ad-Supported Revenue Grows 13%; Forbes Threatens Perplexity with Legal Action  BBC Commercial, the arm of the broadcaster which generates revenue, has revealed a dip in sales and earnings for the past financial year. [...]

As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to reshape industries worldwide, publishers face an array of challenges that threaten to redefine their traditional roles and operations. The age of AI brings with it a myriad of opportunities for innovation and efficiency, but [...]