A retailer can see what customers buy from that firm’s online and offline channels. A bank with a large card portfolio can see spending across a much wider range of merchants. Payments networks and technology providers have other views of transactions and checkout. Financial services...
McDonald’s is testing placing ads from other brands on the digital menu boards in its drive-thrus and in its restaurants, Bloomberg reported Tuesday (Sept. 22). The ads are shown after customers place their orders and can be viewed while customers wait for their meals, according...
Ads inside ChatGPT are now bringing in money at a pace equal to $1 billion a year, OpenAI said in a Monday announcement, a milestone the company reached less than 200 days after launching the ad product. OpenAI is guiding toward $2.5 billion in booked...
OpenAI says its ChatGPT Ads business has reached $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate. “The platform is now used by tens of thousands of advertisers and continues to expand globally,” the artificial intelligence (AI) startup announced Monday (Aug. 31). “Starting later today, advertisers can...
June 26, 2026
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 ends two days later. U.S. online spending across retailers reached $8.3 billion on Prime Day’s first day, up 5.3% from a year earlier, Adobe Analytics said. But the discounts are […]
February 13, 2025
New models. New ads. New pricing tiers. The subscription economy has been active, to say the least, with YouTube CEO Neal Mohan revealing TV screens have now surpassed mobile as...
December 17, 2024
In the wine retail industry, where tradition blends with innovation, Full Glass Wine Co. is changing how consumers discover and purchase wine. Founded in 2023, the brand acquisition and management...
December 03, 2024
Dealers are letting artificial intelligence (AI) take the wheel in reshaping how Americans shop for cars, steering buyers from smart ads to digital showrooms. Car dealers embracing AI are seeing...
October 05, 2026
OpenAI says it is making advertisements within ChatGPT more visual and measurable. The company’s new visual ad format is designed to help users “imagine how products and services could fit into their lives,” as the artificial intelligence (AI) company said in a Monday (Oct. 5) news release. “Through images showing product inspiration, product usage, or the experiences […]
September 22, 2026
McDonald’s is testing placing ads from other brands on the digital menu boards in its drive-thrus and in its restaurants, Bloomberg reported Tuesday (Sept. 22). The ads are shown after...
August 31, 2026
OpenAI says its ChatGPT Ads business has reached $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate. “The platform is now used by tens of thousands of advertisers and continues to expand...
August 13, 2026
Fairground AI Creator TV is a channel that runs entirely artificial intelligence (AI)-generated video 24 hours a day, seven days a week, interrupted only by AI-generated commercials. That makes it...
