Podcast Episodes

The Trade Desk under pressure

This week’s episode unpacks OpenAI’s launch of the Sora app and what it reveals about the company’s push into advertising (2:39). We also dive into Meta’s plan to use AI chatbot data for ad targeting…

Published on 8 hours ago

OpenAI’s ad plan, Meta’s Vibes + a day in the life of Eater’s Stephanie Wu

This week’s episode recaps OpenAI’s latest steps towards launching an advertising business (2:25), new details about ByteDance’s reported involvement in TikTok U.S. (10:21) and Meta’s introduction of…

Published on 1 week ago

TikTok U.S., Disney-Kimmel + WTF is a chief AI officer with The Washington Post’s Sam Han

This week’s episode recaps the deal for a U.S.-only version of TikTok (4:15), Disney’s Jimmy Kimmel controversy (10:27) and Meta’s talks to license content from publishers (18:21). Then The Washingto…

Published on 2 weeks ago

Ferrero's Danielle Sporkin breaks down the reality behind retail media’s full-funnel promise

Retail media networks have been striking deals and inking partnerships with social and streaming platforms to open up ad inventory across the internet. It’s a push to get advertisers to see RMNs as f…

Published on 3 weeks ago

How AI rewrites search for publishers

This week's episode goes inside the search wars. More people are starting their online search with AI-powered chatbots and publishers are feeling the effects. To breakdown what AI search means for pu…

Published on 4 weeks ago

The Summer Things Turned Messy

This week’s episode recaps what ended up being a messy summer, from corporate changeovers and AI existentialism to fresh competition for Google and a return to the TV bundle for streaming. Oh, and ta…

Published on 1 month ago

Why AI is agencies’ frenemy

This week’s episode recaps xAI’s lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI (3:58), retail media’s recent boom that could be a bubble (11:11), and publishers’ push to usage-based pricing in their AI deals (15:…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Retail Media Godmother Kristi Argyilan: "It's going to be a reset"

On this week's episode, AI startup Perplexity puts in its bid to buy Google Chrome and The Trade Desk loses exclusivity with Walmart DSP, signaling another tough loss for the tech titan.

Then (19:00…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Streaming reshuffling, Omnicom-IPGs's second green light + inside Reddit's bet on becoming a search engine

On this week's episode, Disney phases out Hulu and launches ESPN streaming service, and that's just one part of streaming's current reshuffling. Meanwhile, the Omnicom-IPG d eal gets another go-ahead…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Meta’s superintelligence, Amazon’s NYT deal, upfronts + publishers’ & IAB Tech Lab’s AI summit

This week’s episode recaps Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s personal superintelligence memo, the reported price Amazon is paying to license The New York Times’s content and a check-in on the TV and streami…

Published on 2 months ago