Ads of the Week: 9 Campaigns That Caught Our Eye, From Beats to Peloton
Chase, Peloton, Target, Beats, and more are behind the week’s most notable ads.
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Podcasts Are Becoming More Programmatic. But Now Advertisers Have To Keep The Ad Load In Check
The digital audio market is becoming more programmatic, with dynamically inserted podcast ads leading the way. But, as programmatic buying becomes more common in audio, marketers and audio platforms are falling into the same habits that have long been decried…
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Future of Marketing Briefing: Imagining the ad business hiding inside Meta’s Muse
Meta's Muse is ad-free for now. Don’t expect that to last.
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Rising CPC? You’re Funding The Competition. Here’s How To Trace It.
Strong affiliate numbers can hide brand bidding. Learn how to define violations, build a search test list, capture ad evidence, and match it to partners.
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Buying CTV In The WarnerMount World
Let's talk acquisitions! The WarnerMount merger is close to being in the clear, after California and 11 other states settled their antitrust lawsuit against the merger. Plus: Taboola bought Dianomi. Infillion bought Foursquare. We get into what all three of…
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M&M’s candy mascots hop genres in ads tapping into film, TV tropes
Crime thrillers, telenovelas and “Survivor” get a humorous spin in spots supporting a creative platform the Mars brand launched last year.
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YouTube refuses to join Meta settlement on teen harms
CEO Neal Mohan told CNN this week that YouTube has invested heavily in safety measures for young users and will continue to do so.
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Bing tests Read more button for organic results
Bing is testing a 'Read more' button for organic results, following a similar feature Google rolled out globally this year.
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DMexco ’26 Briefing: From scaling AI operations to teaching the next generation of ‘bold’ CMOs
DMexco 2026 media partner Digiday hosted two panels that outlined the challenge of AI at scale and the CMO of the future.
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Bing tests AI Mode tab in its search menu
Bing is testing an 'AI Mode' tab in its search menu, mirroring Google's own AI Mode tab and suggesting Bing may be exploring similar ways to push users toward AI-powered search.