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Walmart Wants to Turn the Living Room Into a Storefront

Walmart Wants to Turn the Living Room Into a Storefront
Walmart Wants to Turn the Living Room Into a Storefront
June 26, 2026  |  Retail

Amazon and Walmart are spending this week is summer sale mode. Amazon’s four-day Prime Day runs June 23 through June 26, while Walmart Deals started a day earlier and...

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OpenAI Touts Progress in 19-Week-Old Ad Business
OpenAI Touts Progress in 19-Week-Old Ad Business
June 24, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI is promoting progress in what it expects to become a $100 billion ad business. The artificial intelligence (AI) startup is making its inaugural appearance...

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Walmart Plans Vibe.co Acquisition to Court Smaller Advertisers
Walmart Plans Vibe.co Acquisition to Court Smaller Advertisers
June 23, 2026  |  Retail

Walmart plans to expand access to connected TV advertising by acquiring Vibe.co. By acquiring Vibe.co’s self-serve, connected TV advertising platform and integrating it into the Walmart Connect commerce media...

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83% of ChatGPT Ad Triggers Don’t Exist in Traditional Search
83% of ChatGPT Ad Triggers Don’t Exist in Traditional Search
June 18, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Move over, Google. Digital data research platform Similarweb found that 83% of the queries triggering ads inside OpenAI’s ChatGPT would never have activated a Google...

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Target Tests Shoppable TV to Pitch Summer Products
Target Tests Shoppable TV to Pitch Summer Products
June 12, 2026  |  Retail

Viewers of a new Bravo digital series will be able to discover and shop curated Target products while the series’ hosts discuss fashion, entertaining, travel, swim, beauty and summer trends. The series, “Shop What Happens,”...

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Google Wants Ads to Talk Back in AI Search
Google Wants Ads to Talk Back in AI Search
May 26, 2026  |  News

Searching for something online used to mean typing a few words and scanning a list of links. Google’s replacing that with a conversation and monetizing...

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Publicis Aims to Create Smarter AI Agents With $2 Billion LiveRamp Deal
Publicis Aims to Create Smarter AI Agents With $2 Billion LiveRamp Deal
May 18, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

French advertising company Publicis has acquired artificial intelligence data platform LiveRamp. The $2.2 billion deal is aimed at making Publicis a “leader in data co-creation,...

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Google AI Automates Ad Bidding and Budget Pacing
Google AI Automates Ad Bidding and Budget Pacing
May 08, 2026  |  News

Google has unveiled some soon-to-be-released artificial intelligence (AI)-powered bidding and budgeting tools for Search and Shopping. “By pairing smarter bidding strategies with flexible budgets, you...

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