The uproar over OpenAI’s luxury creator trip to New York — in which around 30 creators stayed at a high-end farm resort, ate farm-to-table meals and learned beekeeping — has died down. The backlash exposed that brand trips can work, but the format needs to change. If brands continue to
Mickey Mouse will celebrate his 100th anniversary in 2028, but first Disney‘s going back even further into its history. As announced at the D23 fan convention alongside Pixar’s Ghost Market, the studio’s reviving its oldest cartoon character with a nostalgic 2D animation style. Before Mickey, there was Oswald the Lucky
Anthropic announced how its watermark works, confirming virtually all of the details previously reported about a similar watermarking method called MirrorMark. Similar to MirrorMark, the watermark is the randomness pattern itself which mirrors the randomness of the LLM when it generates text. How The Watermark Works Contrary to what some
When a measurement company pays $2.15 billion in cash for a verification provider whose revenue grew 3% last quarter, it is not buying growth. It is buying a strategic position. Nielsen is acquiring DoubleVerify at $13.60 per share, a 30% premium to the 60-trading day average, with a close expected
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Welcome to the Pulse: updates impact who can crawl your site, what an AI index records about your pages, and how Google will compare your campaigns with similar businesses. Here’s what you need to know for your work. Cloudflare’s AI Blocking Will Cover Googlebot In September Starting September 15, 2026,
The ad tech public era is over. Not literally, of course. A handful of scaled, still-growing platforms remain public. There just aren’t many of them, and the slower-growth, utility-margin names are dropping out one by one. Nielsen agreed to buy DoubleVerify for $2.15 billion in cash last week (August 6),
It could be argued that imperfection is more important than ever – a notion that Hudson wholeheartedly agrees with. Despite being a perfectionist himself, he explains, “the whole reason I’m full-time at Clay is because I bring imperfection to the brand,” or, at least, an organic, natural imperfection. “As the
ChatGPT’s page-fetching bot is disallowed by more sites than any other AI bot of its kind. It also reached disallowed pages on more sites than any other bot. OpenAI says robots.txt rules may not apply to it because a person asked for the page. TollBit’s latest State of the Bots
The ex-WPP executive suing his former employer for retaliation in a high-profile case alleging he was fired after trying to expose an illegal media rebate scheme now alleges that WPP client Sony came to the same conclusions after conducting an independent investigation. In 2023, Chinese authorities detained (and later convicted)
