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Daily reporting on the deals, launches, and policy shifts redrawing the advertising industry as AI moves to the center.

Agencies June 24, 2026

WPP signs multi-year deal to embed OpenAI models across all creative units

The world's largest ad holding company will roll out a private GPT instance to 110,000 employees, with bespoke fine-tunes per client.

Platforms June 23, 2026

Google upgrades Performance Max with autonomous campaign agents

The new 'Campaign Director' agent can pause, reallocate, and rewrite ads without human approval — a first for the platform.

Creative June 22, 2026

Meta opens generative video ads to all advertisers

Advertisers can now describe a 15-second spot in text and have Meta generate, A/B test, and serve it within the same hour.

Regulation June 20, 2026

FTC opens inquiry into AI-generated celebrity endorsements

The commission is asking platforms how synthetic likenesses are disclosed and what consent mechanisms are in place.

Ad Tech June 19, 2026

The Trade Desk's Kokai bidder now optimizes for incrementality by default

A quiet update shifts the DSP from last-touch ROAS to causal-uplift bidding for any campaign with enough data.

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Retail Media June 18, 2026

Amazon Ads launches an LLM-powered campaign assistant for sellers

Third-party sellers can describe goals in plain English and have campaigns built, launched, and optimized automatically.

Creative June 17, 2026

Criteo says generative banners now drive 22% lift in CTR over static

The retargeting giant published the first large-scale study of fully AI-generated display creative in the wild.

Standards June 15, 2026

IAB Tech Lab proposes a standard for AI-generated ad disclosure

The new metadata flag would let publishers, browsers, and consumers identify which ads were created or scored by AI.