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The biggest agentic AI announcements from CES and NRF
January always starts off with a bang for marketers and brand execs getting back into office after the holidays, with both CES and the National Retail Federation (NRF) annual show held in the first two weeks of the month.During this year’s conferences, innovations around AI were inescapable, and agentic AI in particular, which could have big implications for the ways…
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AI’s Hacking Skills Are Approaching an ‘Inflection Point’
Vlad Ionescu and Ariel Herbert-Voss, cofounders of the cybersecurity startup RunSybil, were momentarily confused when their AI tool, Sybil, alerted them to a weakness in a customer’s systems last November.Sybil uses a mix of different…
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A Madison Avenue makeover capped off 2025, with Omnicom becoming the largest holding company in the world after acquiring IPG. At the first big ad industry event of the year, the company leaned on its…
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Dearest gentle reader, prepare your finest silverware, for your dessert spoons are soon to be graced with ice cream fit for Lady Whistledown herself.Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams recently collaborated with Netflix and Shondaland to produce…
Why Are Grok and X Still Available in App Stores?
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is being used to flood X with thousands of sexualized images of adults and apparent minors wearing minimal clothing. Some of this content appears to not only violate X’s own…
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At CES, what’s happening in the hotel suites above the conference is just as interesting as the panels happening below—perhaps even more so.But corralling execs to get to those meetings is no small feat, which is probably why companies like Netflix, Google, Instacart, Yahoo, and UTA typically opt to conduct…
Under the hood of the Williams F1 team’s 2026 rebrand
The F1 paddock is a colorful place—and we mean that literally. Ferrari is known for its iconic red. McLaren lives by papaya orange. And in 2026, the Williams team wants to become synonymous with its refreshed blue color palette.The team’s colors aren’t the only thing getting an update in the…
AI Labor Is Boring. AI Lust Is Big Business
I’m fully convinced a generative AI bubble will pop in the not-so-distant future. Not everything will be wiped out, but things will shift. My prediction? San Francisco’s techno-idealist vision of an economy overhauled by an AI workforce will fade away, but one queer byproduct of the great AI surge will…
Coworking with Steve Rotter
Each week, we spotlight Marketing Brew readers in our Coworking series. If you’d like to be featured, introduce yourself here.Steve Rotter is CMO of DeepL, an AI-powered translation service. He has also served as CMO at the software companies FourKites, OutSystems, and Acrolinx.Favorite project you’ve worked on? By far, it’s…
Why Blue Wire Podcasts shifted from influencers to athletes
In sports podcast company Blue Wire’s younger years, TikTokers and other influencer podcast hosts were integral in building the network’s audience and advertiser base.Now, a few years later, with about 20 million monthly listeners and viewers across dozens of shows covering everything from Nascar to fantasy football to women’s boxing,…
The Dollar Is Facing an End to Its Dominance
2026 will be the year when US dollar dilution—the quiet erosion of its global dominance as countries trade and pay in alternatives—starts to build momentum. The more Washington uses the dollar as a weapon, the more the world builds ways to circumvent it.America’s share of global trade has fallen from…
Our Third Place, a networking group, is courting women in media and advertising
Katherine Naylor Pullman knows the advertising world. She’s had advertising roles at the fan engagement platform Cameo, Reese Witherspoon-founded production company Hello Sunshine, and at the now-defunct streaming platform Quibi, where she spent roughly two years each.But in her experience, companies didn’t always have the time or resources to invest…
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Sports programming’s availability on subscription streaming platforms is leading to new sign-ups, but that doesn’t always translate to retention, according to new data shared in Antenna’s State of Subscriptions: Sports & Streaming report.During the NFL’s 2023 and 2024 seasons, Paramount+ saw an average of 117,000 daily sign-ups, a 41% higher…
Exclusive: Comscore rolls out expanded social reporting and streaming audio measurement
Comscore is wrapping up 2025 with a new set of capabilities: streaming audio measurement and expanded social reporting.The social reporting feature will include metrics from various Meta platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, and Facebook’s Audience Network, which will allow advertisers to see deduplicated reach across Meta’s platforms. The audio measurement tool,…
So Long, GPT-5. Hello, Qwen
On a drizzly and windswept afternoon this summer, I visited the headquarters of Rokid, a startup developing smart glasses in Hangzhou, China. As I chatted with engineers, their words were swiftly translated from Mandarin to English, and then transcribed onto a tiny translucent screen just above my right eye using…
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