EXCLUSIVE: Walmart Pulls Sam’s Club Deeper Into Its Ad Business
Chief growth officer Seth Dallaire outlines the the big-box retailer’s growth plan.
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Amazon Pushes Conversational AI Ads Onto the Open Internet
Amazon is releasing its AI-powered Sponsored Prompts ads across the open web.
Embracing The Spirit of Cannes Without Actually Being There
The real value of Cannes lies far beyond the Croisette
Indie Agency Dept Takes Aim at Holdco AI Stacks With Open Orchestration Layer
The indie agency is taking on the holdcos with an AI assistant that follows users across workflows and automates execution.
LinkedIn lets users set core brand rules
<p>Colors, fonts and even brand voice can all be created using the platform’s brand kit, which will then use these selections for artificial intelligence-generated content.</p>
Snapchat launches ‘House of the Dragon’ AR ad in New York City
<p>The interactive large-format experience in Times Square allows people to project themselves onto billboards while inserting themselves into fictional scenes.</p>
YouTube updates mobile UI and channel membership pricing
<p>Like, dislike, share and ask icons got a new format and channel managers will be able to factor in foreign exchange rates when setting membership prices.</p>
Snapchat launches AI-powered ad creation tools
<p>Updated features include a chatbot-guided set-up and Snap Creator Network, which is designed to help advertisers find the right creator partners. </p>
Google adds AI bot to Ad Manager
<p>The in-stream assistant provides personalized answers to campaign-related questions and is powered by Gemini’s artificial intelligence model.</p>
Show HN: Convert your landing pages to powerful visuals for social media
launchreel.devBeing a solo founder focused on building products, content creation to evangelize was not easy. Making videos meant taking screen captures, writing captions, converting text to voice overs and assembling them into frames took hours. This being a repetitive exercise, it was becoming a bottleneck.So I built launchreel.How it works:you paste a URL (up to 3, plus up to 6 images/videos). It applies vision apis to extract visual references, text and LLM weaves a story. It writes ca
Show HN: Timestamp and provenance records for AI-assisted creative work
hey guys, I have been chronically online for quite a couple of months now, and honestly, a lot of content that keeps on going viral happens to be AI-assisted. This became more prominent when Seedance 2.0 came. AI work from Seedance 2.0 models are especially really good, that it is so hard to know if they were done by AI or a Hollywood-level production studio, they are that good! Cat videos, to now world cup anime videos are going viral on social media. Being that these videos are just all AI, a
Instagram Users Under 18 Will Soon Be Blocked From Seeing Posts Promoting Certain Cosmetic Surgery And Diet Products
A spokesperson for Instagram said that it's about reducing the pressure that people can sometimes feel using social media.
Here Is Exactly What's Going Down Between UMG And TikTok, And Why It’s Not As Clear-Cut As You Might Think
While UMG has argued that artists deserve more compensation for their music being on TikTok, others have called the record label “greedy” and claimed that the promotional value of the social media app is priceless.
Trump Just Absolutely Lost It On Social Media After People Criticized His Peace Deal With Iran, And Wow
The president returned home and immediately attacked critics of his Iran deal.
Tom Holland And Zendaya Are Once Again Proving To Be The Internet's Most-Loved Couple
Tom Holland has sparked a social media storm after seemingly confirming he and Zendaya are married in a new interview.
Jenna Schilstra: In defense of emojis
A simple emoji can help clarify and amplify subtext so that we can better understand each other, but their benefits extend far beyond enhancing our daily texts and emails. Marketing analyst and avid emoji-defender Jenna Schilstra demonstrates how these pictograms are being used in new ways, like helping abused children describe complex emotions,...
7 Things That Hit This Week: Meta’s Next Stab at Commerce, New Hires at Sephora and Lowe’s, and Pinterest Goes Deep on AI
Plus, how much it costs to sponsor a retail upfront.
Ads of the Week: 11 Campaigns That Caught Our Eye, From Nike to Etsy
Absolut, Nike, Liquid Death, Etsy, and more are behind the week’s most notable ads.
6 Top Local World Cup Ads: Adidas Backs Scotland, Brahma Dreams Big For Brazil and More
Some of the tournament’s top creative taps into national culture and regional nuances.
An Inside Look at the Ad Experience at a World Cup Match
ADWEEK was on hand to see the brands at a recent match between France and Senegal.