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A look at the 2026 Super Bowl ads from Anthropic, Amazon, OpenAI, and others, as AI continued to take center stage in ad creations and AI product promotion (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/08/super-bowl-60-ai-ads-svedka-…

From Svedka to Anthropic, brands make bold plays with AI in Super Bowl ads | TechCrunch
From the first AI-generated Big Game ad courtesy of Svedka to Anthropic's beef with OpenAI, here are the biggest ads from Super Bowl LX.

A look at the 2026 Super Bowl ads from Anthropic, Amazon, OpenAI, and others, as AI continued to take center stage in ad creation and AI product promotion (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/08/super-bowl-60-ai-ads-svedka-a…

From Svedka to Anthropic, brands make bold plays with AI in Super Bowl ads | TechCrunch
From the first AI-generated Big Game ad courtesy of Svedka to Anthropic's beef with OpenAI, here are the biggest ads from Super Bowl LX.

This Year’s Super Bowl Ads Were Dominated by AI Companies https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/business/dealbook/super-bowl-ads-ai.html

How I block all online ads
— by @…
🚫 https://troubled.engineer/posts/no-ads/
…and use this browser add-ons for more privacy on web
:mastodon:

yahoo_ads: Yahoo! advertisement words
A network of words extracted from phrases on which advertisers bid, in Yahoo! advertisements. A node is a word and a directed edge (i, j) denotes word i comes after the word j.
This network has 653260 nodes and 2931708 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted
https://

OpenAI says ads in ChatGPT are not eligible to appear near "sensitive or regulated topics like health, mental health or politics" (Madison Mills/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/09/chatgpt-ads-testing-go-free

OpenAI tests ads in ChatGPT
OpenAI says it is starting to test ads for its Free and Go subscription tiers.

OpenAI says ads in ChatGPT are not eligible to appear near "sensitive or regulated topics like health, mental health or politics" (Madison Mills/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/09/chatgpt-ads-testing-go-free

OpenAI tests ads in ChatGPT
OpenAI says it is starting to test ads for its Free and Go subscription tiers.

PubMatic partners with Kontext to let advertisers choose the chatbots they'd like to appear in and use Kontext's tech to generate ads that fit the chatbot chats (Kendra Barnett/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/programmatic/pubmatic-deal-…

PubMatic Strikes Deal With Startup Kontext to Inject Ads Into AI Chatbots Via Programmatic Auctions
The integration enables advertisers to buy ads across a range of AI interfaces through PubMatic or their DSP of choice.

yahoo_ads: Yahoo! advertisement words
A network of words extracted from phrases on which advertisers bid, in Yahoo! advertisements. A node is a word and a directed edge (i, j) denotes word i comes after the word j.
This network has 653260 nodes and 2931708 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted
https://

PubMatic partners with Kontext to let advertisers choose the chatbots they'd like to appear in and use Kontext's tech to generate ads that fit the chatbot chats (Kendra Barnett/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/programmatic/pubmatic-deal-…

PubMatic Strikes Deal With Startup Kontext to Inject Ads Into AI Chatbots Via Programmatic Auctions
The integration enables advertisers to buy ads across a range of AI interfaces through PubMatic or their DSP of choice.

I have no problems with a site showing ads. I DO have a problem with the damned invasive scripts and them demanding I turn off the blocker so they can grab all of my information to resell.
HOW DO YOU KNOW I AM RUNNING AD-BLOCKERS. Any site that does that and demands I turn it off gets ignored.
Another block...

Spotify Confirms ICE Recruitment Ads Are No Longer Running on Platform (Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/spotify-confirms-ice-recruitment-ads-are-no-longer-running-1236626243/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260108/p123#a260108p123

OpenAI says it has started testing ads in ChatGPT in the US for logged-in adult users on the Free and Go tiers and that the ads do not change ChatGPT answers (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/testing-ads-in-chatgpt/

I miss when SuperBowl ads were just trying to turn you into an alcoholic or a degenerate gambler. Now it's AI ads.

#OpenAI is looking for money. Subscription fees and selling ads is not enough.
Now they try to get a cut from the money you make thanks to #AI.
This also implies that any promises ever made not to look into your prompts and answers may be moot.

Shopify launches Product Network, an ad tool that lets merchants recommend and advertise products on other merchants' storefronts (Lauren Johnson/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/commerce/shopify-product-network-merchant-ads/

Shopify Rolls Out Ad Network for Millions of Merchants
The e-commerce giant is opening up search and post-checkout ads in storefronts.

OpenAI says it has started testing ads in ChatGPT in the US for logged-in adult users on the Free and Go tiers and that the ads do not change ChatGPT answers (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/testing-ads-in-chatgpt/

I've been watching ADS-B traffic for the past few weeks (will reveal more soon) and the low quality of that data is really surprising to me.
- incorrect equipment category: fixed wing light aircraft identifying as hang gliders
- incorrect callsigns: like XX238 identifying as XX00238 and also XX694 identifying as only 694 (no prefix)
- I saw a plane squawk 7500 (HIJACK) momentarily, like the operator scrolled through that option
- there is an Air Canada A330 at YUL ri…

Any time someone says that don't care about being tracked by advertisers...
https://www.washington.edu/news/2017/10/18/for-1000-anyone-can-purchase-online-ads-to-track-your-location-and-app-use/

For $1000, anyone can purchase online ads to track your location and app use
New University of Washington research finds that for a budget of roughly $1000, it is possible for someone to track your location and app use by purchasing and targeting mobile ads. The team hopes to...

Zu unbedeutend: Apple Maps und Apple Ads keine Gatekeeper in der EU
Für Apples Kartendienst und Werbeplattform sollen in der EU keine verschärften Wettbewerbsregeln gelten – zumindest fürs Erste.
https://…

Every year, Craig Wills analyzes faculty search ads to assess current and future CS faculty needs
https://web.cs.wpi.edu/~cew/papers/CSareas26.pdf

Exposomics is an important "new" science. As it matures, it will require medical AI and database analyses. Genetics CANNOT be separated from the environment. Genetic expression is inherently environmental.
Here's a short article explaining the Exposome. (Though gods help you if you can't suppress ads and pop-ups. It works fine in Safari's Reader Mode, e.g.)

#Privacy (or lack thereof): #Lyft has added a setting in the app that allows them to monetise your data for targeted ads. It is *on* by default and has to be turned off manually.

Shopify launches Product Network, an ad tool that lets merchants recommend and advertise products on other merchants' storefronts (Lauren Johnson/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/commerce/shopify-product-network-merchant-ads/

Shopify Rolls Out Ad Network for Millions of Merchants
The e-commerce giant is opening up search and post-checkout ads in storefronts.

Sources: Google has told advertisers that it plans to bring ads to Gemini in 2026; Google's VP of Global Ads says there are no plans for ads in the Gemini app (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/google-gemini-ads-2026/

EXCLUSIVE: Google Tells Advertisers It’ll Bring Ads to Gemini in 2026
The discussions mark the first time advertisers have heard directly from Google about monetizing its Gemini AI chatbot

Amsterdam Bans Ads For Meat And Fossil Fuels In Public Spaces #Amsterdam

Amsterdam Bans Ads For Meat And Fossil Fuels In Public Spaces
Amsterdam has just banned all ads for high-carbon meat and fossil fuels, despite last-minute lobbying from the advertising industry

«L’attitude du gouvernement, et principalement de Christelle Luisier, est très problématique. Nous constatons qu’il n’y a aucune ouverture et que les négociations ne sont pas possibles. Dans ce cas, on ne voit pas pourquoi on soutiendrait un deuxième débat immédiat.»
https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/vaud/nous-ne-pouvons-pas-continuer-a-ce-rythme-l-heure-de-verite-approche-pour-le-budget-vaudois?shouldPreventPurchase=true&inAppView=3.19.0&didomiConfig.user.externalConsent.value={"purposes":{"consent":{"enabled":["abtesting-p6FL2BYL","audiencem-hJxaeGrR","cookies","create_ads_profile","create_content_profile","device_characteristics","geolocation_data","improve_products","market_research","measure_ad_performance","measure_content_performance","parselyne-Ya2EC4dG","select_basic_ads","select_personalized_ads","select_personalized_content","use_limited_data_to_select_content"],"disabled":[]},"legitimate_interest":{"enabled":[],"disabled":[]}},"vendors":{"consent":{"enabled":["amazon","c:aws-cloudfront","c:bannerwise-EeHwBjLT","c:chartbeat","c:cloudflare","c:echobox-GqD96L9K","c:forecast-ZRJPAUT7","c:googleana-4TXnJigR","c:hotjar","c:jsdelivr-xdD77X6w","c:jw-player","c:kameleoon-experiment","c:kameleoon-personalization","c:keycdn","c:linkedin","c:magnitein-ePEpbCQ7","c:meta-43HDmFRa","c:microsoft","c:nonli-jnWf8kqD","c:pianohybr-R3VKC2r4","c:pinterest","c:spyri-XAtBPx3i","c:tapadinc-VDTUUcKw","c:tiktok-KZAUQLZ9","c:unrulygro-nKyLqdKi","c:youtube","facebook","google","twitter",1,10,1020,1021,1028,1046,1069,108,109,11,1126,12,120,1269,128,13,130,131,1310,132,136,137,138,142,143,1449,154,156,16,164,202,209,21,211,23,238,24,241,243,25,253,264,28,284,290,30,301,32,36,39,4,412,422,45,469,475,493,50,519,52,559,58,61,612,617,68,684,69,73,76,77,783,790,793,80,81,811,84,85,855,898,91,92,95,965,98],"disabled":[]},"legitimate_interest":{"enabled":[],"disabled":[]}},"user_id":"36B03261-8BC8-4FB4-A026-0543FF748710","created":"2025-05-28T08:36:56.058Z","updated":"2025-11-08T21:05:15.048Z","source":{"type":"app","domain":"ch.letemps.LT"},"action":"webview"}

Sources: Google has told advertisers that it plans to bring ads to Gemini in 2026; Google's VP of Global Ads says there are no plans for ads in the Gemini app (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/google-gemini-ads-2026/

EXCLUSIVE: Google Tells Advertisers It’ll Bring Ads to Gemini in 2026
The discussions mark the first time advertisers have heard directly from Google about monetizing its Gemini AI chatbot

Sources: Google has told advertising clients that it plans to bring ads to Gemini in 2026, separate from ads in AI Mode (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/google-gemini-ads-2026/

EXCLUSIVE: Google Tells Advertisers It’ll Bring Ads to Gemini in 2026
The discussions mark the first time advertisers have heard directly from Google about monetizing its Gemini AI chatbot

It's really depressing to see so many people and/or job ads talking about how they're using React so heavily for things that don't need React.
Why are we so committed to making things more complicated, and harder to learn, and having fewer skilled people?
And if you're talking about migrating JS frameworks on the front-end, at least *think* about HTMX/etc. for server-controlled rendering. Don't replace one bloat with another.

Did you know that there’s a streaming movie and TV show app that costs nothing and has no ads, just need to log in with your library card (if you don’t have one you can probably get one instantly online from your local library).
Available in tons of countries as well.
https://www.kanopy.com/

You know what I gather from the AI ads?
They’re real fucking desperate.
Good.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@aboutsignal/115858874292985975
Good! Fuck WhatsApp! 💀 It has ads now! Need say more? 😐

Sources: Google has told advertising clients that it plans to bring ads to Gemini in 2026, separate from ads in AI Mode (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/google-gemini-ads-2026/

EXCLUSIVE: Google Tells Advertisers It’ll Bring Ads to Gemini in 2026
The discussions mark the first time advertisers have heard directly from Google about monetizing its Gemini AI chatbot

[OT] US National Security Strategy 2025 https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-National-Security-Strategy.pdf Can someone publish the Russian original please? Thank you! 🧠🇪🇺
BBC News: New US security strategy aligns wit…

Ukraine's state postal service under fire for ads that appear to sexualize minors: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/07/ukraines-state-postal-service-under.html

Eines der plakativen Wechselrezepte für #diday ist (auf deren Webseite), die Suchmaschine von Google zu Ecosia zu wechseln. Das sind die mit dem Bäumchen pflanzen. Wenn man dann mal nachschaut, wo Ecosia ihre Suchergebnisse her hat: "Search results and related ads on Ecosia come from our partners Microsoft Bing, Google and EUSP."
Quelle:

Best Super Bowl commercials of all-time: Ranking the top 25 ads as Seahawks vs. Patriots unfolds

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/super-bowl-commercials-top-25-all-time-ranked/

Analysis: despite AI ads outnumbering traditional Super Bowl ad categories like beer, nostalgia-driven ads from Budweiser and Dunkin' dominated social media (Patrick Coffee/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

I’ve learned to effectively not see most of the ads that appear on web pages and videos that I look at. I really don’t see them somehow. I’ve been doing it since ads first appeared on the web, lo these many years ago. But I wonder occasionally if I might be missing something that’s not an ad that I probably should be seeing, or might want to see. Oh, well. There’s always trade-offs, I guess.

"Amsterdam Bans Ads For Meat And Fossil Fuels In Public Spaces"
#Amsterdam #Food #Climate #ClimateChange

Amsterdam Bans Ads For Meat And Fossil Fuels In Public Spaces
Amsterdam has just banned all ads for high-carbon meat and fossil fuels, despite last-minute lobbying from the advertising industry

New reporting by
"The Information" has revealed some recent topics of conversation between #OpenAI employees as they work to supply #advertisers with a teeming new audience to manipulate.
The plans are not final, though they give us a look at what soon may become the norm for

OpenAI’s Ads Push Starts Taking Shape
OpenAI executives have kept a tight lid on how the company could show advertisements to users of its popular ChatGPT chatbot, leaving the broader digital ad industry eager for clues. Behind the scenes, staff are working through key details. Employees have discussed ways to tweak AI models to ...

"Get your domain name before you lose it"
At *any* domain registrar for the TLD you want. 🤷‍♂️
#SuperBowlAds #ads #SuperBowl #truth

EU’s top court rules that online marketplaces are responsible for processing of data in ads https://therecord.media/eu-top-court-rules-online-marketplaces-responsible-for-data-processing-ads

Gatekeeper-Dienste: EU prüft Apple Karten und Apple Ads
Apple Maps und Apple Ads erreichen in der EU jetzt offenbar genug Nutzer, um unter striktere Wettbewerbsregeln zu fallen. Brüssel prüft, Apple widerspricht.
ht…

Tech Oversight Project: ahead of a landmark social media addiction trial, Meta paid for 3,500 ads on CNN, Fox, and others to promote Instagram's Teen Accounts (Annie Bang/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Honey Cone:
🎵 Want Ads
#HoneyCone
https://airnoise.bandcamp.com/track/honey-cone-want-ads-airnoise-rework
https://open.spotify.com/track/76lrpneaFuAxiMAbnNc6Hu

The problem with the Apple Watch campaign, is that it's clearly just a sanitised version of the Reebok nightmare "belly's gonna get yer" advert from about twenty years ago.
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/29/apple-watch-motivation-ads/

Apple Shares New 'Quit Quitting' Apple Watch Ads
Ahead of 2026 and associated New Year's resolutions, Apple has started sharing new social media ads focused on the Apple Watch as a motivational...

Analysis: despite AI ads outnumbering traditional Super Bowl ad categories like beer, nostalgia-driven ads from Budweiser and Dunkin' dominated social media (Patrick Coffee/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

yahoo_ads: Yahoo! advertisement words
A network of words extracted from phrases on which advertisers bid, in Yahoo! advertisements. A node is a word and a directed edge (i, j) denotes word i comes after the word j.
This network has 653260 nodes and 2931708 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted
https://

Uber launches Uber Intelligence, an insights platform that lets advertisers tap into Uber's data about customer trips and deliveries (Lara O'Reilly/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-ads-launches-intelli…

Uber is turning trip and takeout data into insights for marketers
Uber has said its ad business is on track to generate $1.5 billion in revenue in 2025. It's hoping a new insights platform will encourage more spend.

Eines der plakativen Wechselrezepte für #diday ist (auf deren Webseite), die Suchmaschine von Google zu Ecosia zu wechseln. Das sind die mit dem Bäumchen pflanzen. Wenn man dann mal nachschaut, wo Ecosia ihre Suchergebnisse her hat: "Search results and related ads on Ecosia come from our partners Microsoft Bing, Google and EUSP."
Quelle:

Sarkozy et Le Pen, même combat.
https://www.letemps.ch/opinions/chroniques/drole-de-cadeau-de-nicolas-sarkozy-sous-le-sapin?shouldPreventPurchase=true&inAppView=3.19.0&didomiConfig.user.externalConsent.value={"purposes":{"consent":{"enabled":["abtesting-p6FL2BYL","audiencem-hJxaeGrR","cookies","create_ads_profile","create_content_profile","device_characteristics","geolocation_data","improve_products","market_research","measure_ad_performance","measure_content_performance","parselyne-Ya2EC4dG","select_basic_ads","select_personalized_ads","select_personalized_content","use_limited_data_to_select_content"],"disabled":[]},"legitimate_interest":{"enabled":[],"disabled":[]}},"vendors":{"consent":{"enabled":["amazon","c:aws-cloudfront","c:bannerwise-EeHwBjLT","c:chartbeat","c:cloudflare","c:echobox-GqD96L9K","c:forecast-ZRJPAUT7","c:googleana-4TXnJigR","c:hotjar","c:jsdelivr-xdD77X6w","c:jw-player","c:kameleoon-experiment","c:kameleoon-personalization","c:keycdn","c:linkedin","c:magnitein-ePEpbCQ7","c:meta-43HDmFRa","c:microsoft","c:nonli-jnWf8kqD","c:pianohybr-R3VKC2r4","c:pinterest","c:spyri-XAtBPx3i","c:tapadinc-VDTUUcKw","c:tiktok-KZAUQLZ9","c:unrulygro-nKyLqdKi","c:youtube","facebook","google","twitter",1,10,1020,1021,1028,1046,1069,108,109,11,1126,12,120,1269,128,13,130,131,1310,132,136,137,138,142,143,1449,154,156,16,164,202,209,21,211,23,238,24,241,243,25,253,264,28,284,290,30,301,32,36,39,4,412,422,45,469,475,493,50,519,52,559,58,61,612,617,68,684,69,73,76,77,783,790,793,80,81,811,84,85,855,898,91,92,95,965,98],"disabled":[]},"legitimate_interest":{"enabled":[],"disabled":[]}},"user_id":"36B03261-8BC8-4FB4-A026-0543FF748710","created":"2025-05-28T08:36:56.058Z","updated":"2025-11-08T21:05:15.048Z","source":{"type":"app","domain":"ch.letemps.LT"},"action":"webview"}

OpenAI VP of research Jerry Tworek is leaving, sources say after OpenAI sided with Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki in a dispute over its research direction (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-amazon-operating-system-ai-apps-ads/

AI Devices Are Coming. Will Your Favorite Apps Be Along for the Ride?
Tech companies are calling AI the next platform. But some developers are reluctant to let AI agents stand between them and their users.

Anthropic is running Super Bowl ads criticizing ads in chatbots, prompting a public response from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman defending plans for ads in ChatGPT (Hadas Gold/CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2026/02/06/tech/anthropic-openai-super-bowl-ads

Two of the biggest AI companies are feuding over a Super Bowl ad. It’s bigger than you think
A long-simmering rivalry between two of the world’s biggest AI companies was on public display this week as Anthropic and OpenAI took swings at one another online.

Uber launches Uber Intelligence, an insights platform that lets advertisers tap into Uber's data about customer trips and deliveries (Lara O'Reilly/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-ads-launches-intelli…

Uber is turning trip and takeout data into insights for marketers
Uber has said its ad business is on track to generate $1.5 billion in revenue in 2025. It's hoping a new insights platform will encourage more spend.

Anthropic Claude took out an ad to mock OpenAI ChatGPT for including, *checks the news again*, ads.
#irony #ads #advertisement #SuperBowl #technology #business #AI #LLM

Meta proposal for less data sharing is approved by European Commission https://therecord.media/meta-less-data-sharing-european-commission

View public domain films for free. No ads, no login, no algorithms, just movies. Maintained by wikimedia folks.
https://boingboing.net/2026/01/27/wikiflix-is-like-netflix-for-public-domain-films-with-no-ads-n…

yahoo_ads: Yahoo! advertisement words
A network of words extracted from phrases on which advertisers bid, in Yahoo! advertisements. A node is a word and a directed edge (i, j) denotes word i comes after the word j.
This network has 653260 nodes and 2931708 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted
https://

Sam Altman says the Anthropic Super Bowl ads are funny but "dishonest", and Anthropic serves a "product to rich people" while OpenAI is committed to free access (Sam Altman/@sama)
https://x.com/sama/status/2019139174339928189

Sam Altman (@sama) on X
First, the good part of the Anthropic ads: they are funny, and I laughed. But I wonder why Anthropic would go for something so clearly dishonest. Our most important principle for ads says that we won’t do exactly this; we would obviously never run ads in the way Anthropic

yahoo_ads: Yahoo! advertisement words
A network of words extracted from phrases on which advertisers bid, in Yahoo! advertisements. A node is a word and a directed edge (i, j) denotes word i comes after the word j.
This network has 653260 nodes and 2931708 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted
https://

Amazon Ads announces the open beta of its Model Context Protocol, which lets advertisers connect AI agents to Amazon Ads through a single integration (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/amazon-agentic-ads-model-context-protocol/

Amazon Opens Its Ad Stack to AI Agents With MCP Rollout
At IAB ALM, the retail giant pitched MCP as infrastructure for AI agents to run advertising workflows more efficiently.

ChatGPT head says screenshots of ChatGPT ads are "either not real or not ads"; OpenAI's research head says "anything that feels like an ad" is now turned off (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/openai-insists

OpenAI insists its shopping suggestions shouldn't be seen as advertising
Paid ChatGPT users recently reported seeing a prompt labeled "Shop for home and groceries. Connect Target," which appeared to ask them to link their ChatGPT account to OpenAI's retail partner Target. For many users, the message looked like an ad.

yahoo_ads: Yahoo! advertisement words
A network of words extracted from phrases on which advertisers bid, in Yahoo! advertisements. A node is a word and a directed edge (i, j) denotes word i comes after the word j.
This network has 653260 nodes and 2931708 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted
https://

Internal memo: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declares a "code red" to shift more resources into improving ChatGPT amid rising competition, delaying other plans like ads (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/op

OpenAI CEO Declares ‘Code Red’ to Combat Threats to ChatGPT, Delays Ads Effort
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Monday told employees he was declaring a “code red” to marshall more resources to improve ChatGPT as threats rise from Google and other artificial intelligence competitors, according to an internal memo. As a result,OpenAI plans to delay other initiatives, such as ...

WPP Media expects global ad revenue, excluding US political ads, to grow 8.8% YoY in 2025 to $1.14T, and says AI investment drives more spending than expected (Megan Graham/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

Beehiiv CEO Tyler Denk says the newsletter company plans to double the size of its ad product and operations team in H1 2026; its full staff is now ~110 people (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/beehiiv-ad-sales-newsletter-programmatic/

Beehiiv Doubles Ad Sales Team, Scaling Newsletter Ads Business
The expansion comes as advertiser demand grows for email-native inventory and creators look for passive revenue streams

yahoo_ads: Yahoo! advertisement words
A network of words extracted from phrases on which advertisers bid, in Yahoo! advertisements. A node is a word and a directed edge (i, j) denotes word i comes after the word j.
This network has 653260 nodes and 2931708 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted
https://

OpenAI says it is asking select advertisers to commit at least $200K as it rolls out beta ads on ChatGPT; two sources say their firms were pitched lower amounts (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/exclusive-openai-confirms-20…

EXCLUSIVE: OpenAI Confirms $200,000 Minimum Commitment for ChatGPT Ads
For some brands, ad testing starts as early as February 6.

Meta plans to expand ads on Threads to all users globally starting next week; Threads began testing ads in the US and Japan a year ago (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/21/threads-rolls-out-ads-to-all-users-worldwide/

Threads rolls out ads to all users worldwide | TechCrunch
Ads on Threads will roll out gradually to users over the coming months, Meta says.

OpenAI says it is asking select advertisers to commit at least $200K as it rolls out beta ads on ChatGPT; two sources say their firms were pitched lower amounts (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/exclusive-openai-confirms-20…

EXCLUSIVE: OpenAI Confirms $200,000 Minimum Commitment for ChatGPT Ads
For some brands, ad testing starts as early as February 6.

yahoo_ads: Yahoo! advertisement words
A network of words extracted from phrases on which advertisers bid, in Yahoo! advertisements. A node is a word and a directed edge (i, j) denotes word i comes after the word j.
This network has 653260 nodes and 2931708 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted
https://

Meta plans to expand ads on Threads to all users globally starting next week; Threads began testing ads in the US and Japan a year ago (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/21/threads-rolls-out-ads-to-all-users-worldwide/

Threads rolls out ads to all users worldwide | TechCrunch
Ads on Threads will roll out gradually to users over the coming months, Meta says.

Source: OpenAI targets ~$60 per 1,000 views for ChatGPT ads, on par with live NFL broadcasts and above Meta's sub-$20 CPM, while offering little conversion data (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-seeks-premium-prices-early-…

OpenAI Seeks Premium Prices in Early Ads Push
In its initial rollout of ads, OpenAI is charging prices that rival those for coveted video programs like the NFL, and well above what rivals such as Meta Platforms’ social media apps charge. But unlike Meta or Google, OpenAI won’t be providing detailed information about the query responses ...

Demis Hassabis says there aren't "any plans" to put ads in Gemini and, in response to OpenAI testing ads, says "maybe they feel they need to make more revenue" (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/googles-ai-boss-no-plans-for-ads

Google's AI boss: No plans for ads in Gemini
During our convo in Davos, Demis Hassabis and I chatted about ads in AI, Google's new deal with Apple, humanoids, and Gemini 4.

Demis Hassabis says there aren't "any plans" to put ads in Gemini and, in response to OpenAI testing ads, says "maybe they feel they need to make more revenue" (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/googles-ai-boss-no-plans-for-ads

Google's AI boss: No plans for ads in Gemini
During our convo in Davos, Demis Hassabis and I chatted about ads in AI, Google's new deal with Apple, humanoids, and Gemini 4.

Two studies suggest AI chatbots can shift political views more effectively than TV campaign ads, especially by presenting many claims, regardless of accuracy (Will Oremus/Washington Post)

Voters’ minds are hard to change. AI chatbots are surprisingly good at it.
New research suggests AI chatbots can shift people’s political views more effectively than campaign ads on TV.

NBCU plans to add Arrival Ads, live ads that play when users turn on Peacock, and use AI to search live sports events for the optimal moment to place ads (Cynthia Littleton/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/nbcuniversal-arrival-ads-peacock-1236610766/

NBCUniversal Unveils 'Arrival Ads' for Peacock
NBCUniversal will incorporate 'Arrival Ads' for those who sign on to Peacock, among a host of other new ad-tech elements unveiled by the company.

Sources: OpenAI begins offering its chatbot ads to dozens of advertisers, initially charging per ad view, not per ad click, and asks them for <$1M commitments (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-lines-adver…

OpenAI Lines Up Advertisers, Reveals Key Details Ahead of Ads Launch
OpenAI has started offering its new chatbot ads to dozens of advertisers, according to two people familiar with the matter. To start off, the company is charging on the basis of ad views as opposed to per-ad clicks that are typical at large sellers of search ads like Google and Amazon, the ...

Source: OpenAI targets ~$60 per 1,000 views for ChatGPT ads, on par with live NFL broadcasts and above Meta's sub-$20 CPM, while offering little conversion data (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-seeks-premium-prices-early-…

OpenAI Seeks Premium Prices in Early Ads Push
In its initial rollout of ads, OpenAI is charging prices that rival those for coveted video programs like the NFL, and well above what rivals such as Meta Platforms’ social media apps charge. But unlike Meta or Google, OpenAI won’t be providing detailed information about the query responses ...

Sources: OpenAI staff discussed prioritizing sponsored content in ChatGPT when users ask relevant queries and created mockups with ads in sidebars or as pop-ups (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-ads-push-starts-taking-shape<…

OpenAI’s Ads Push Starts Taking Shape
OpenAI executives have kept a tight lid on how the company could show advertisements to users of its popular ChatGPT chatbot, leaving the broader digital ad industry eager for clues. Behind the scenes, staff are working through key details. Employees have discussed ways to tweak AI models to ...

Source: the NFL won't allow prediction-market ads during Super Bowl LX on February 8, but sports betting ads are allowed, reportedly limited to six total ads (Ben Horney/Front Office Sports)
https://frontofficesports.com/nfl-wont-allow-prediction-ma…

NFL Won’t Allow Prediction-Market Super Bowl Commercials
Prediction-market platforms have exploded in popularity and raised billions of dollars. But they’re not allowed to buy Super Bowl ads.

AdImpact: Meta spent $6.4M in November and December 2025 to run TV ads in eight US state capitals and DC, aiming to change negative opinions about data centers (Eli Tan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/technol…

Meta Campaigns to Change Opinions on Data Centers
The tech giant has spent more than $6 million on TV ads in state capitals and Washington, with the message that data centers create jobs.

Google starts rolling out ads in AI mode; the ads look similar to the citations in AI answers but with a "sponsored" label (Mayank Parmar/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/g…

Google begins showing ads in AI Mode (AI answers)
Google has started rolling out ads in AI mode, which is the company's "answer engine," not a search engine.

Sensor Tower: Reels accounted for 50% of all Instagram ads in 2025, up from 35% in 2024; Reels accounted for 46% of time spent on Instagram in the US in 2025 (Zach Vallese/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/20/most-of-instagrams-ads-ran-on-reels-i…

Most of Instagram's ads ran on Reels in 2025, data shows
More than half of all ads on Meta's Instagram ran in the service's short-form video Reels product in 2025, up from 35% in 2024, according to Sensor Tower.

Sources: OpenAI begins offering its chatbot ads to dozens of advertisers, initially charging per ad view, not per ad click, and asks them for <$1M commitments (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-lines-adver…

OpenAI Lines Up Advertisers, Reveals Key Details Ahead of Ads Launch
OpenAI has started offering its new chatbot ads to dozens of advertisers, according to two people familiar with the matter. To start off, the company is charging on the basis of ad views as opposed to per-ad clicks that are typical at large sellers of search ads like Google and Amazon, the ...

OpenAI will match ads to conversation topics using some personalization data, but claims it will not sell user data or expose user conversations to advertisers (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-testing-ads-us/

Ads Are Coming to ChatGPT. Here’s How They’ll Work
OpenAI says ads will not influence ChatGPT’s responses, and that it won’t sell user data to advertisers.

Streaming-only Super Bowl ads gain traction among advertisers; source: NBCUniversal charges around $3M for a 30-second ad rather than $7M-$10M for a TV ad (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/streaming-only-super-…

Streaming-Only Super Bowl Commercials Open Ad Tier for Smaller Players
Streaming-Only Super Bowl Commercials Open New Tier for Marketers With Smaller Budgets

Apple says it will roll out more App Store ads in 2026 "to increase opportunity in search results"; Apple's website says 800M users visit the App Store weekly (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/17/apple-announces…

Apple announces more ads are coming to App Store search results - 9to5Mac
Apple is expanding the number of ads that appear in App Store search results. In an update on its Apple...

How journalism co-ops Defector, Hell Gate, Aftermath, Coyote, Sequencer, and Range practice horizontal governance, structure their newsrooms, manage ads, more (Neel Dhanesha/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/journalism-coops-seem-utop…

Journalism coops seem utopian. What’s it like working in one?
"If I was less self-directed, I'd probably be freaking out."

OpenAI will match ads to conversation topics using some personalization data, but claims it will not sell user data or expose user conversations to advertisers (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-testing-ads-us/

Ads Are Coming to ChatGPT. Here’s How They’ll Work
OpenAI says ads will not influence ChatGPT’s responses, and that it won’t sell user data to advertisers.

Ampere Analysis: UK streaming subscribers on ad-supported tiers will reach 26.5M by the end of 2025, surpassing the 23.1M ad-free subscribers for the first time (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/dec/26/t…

Adobe ramped up its ads in 2025, spending $1.4B amid AI competition and Wall Street skepticism, representing a significantly higher share of sales than rivals (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…

Apple says it will roll out more App Store ads in 2026 "to increase opportunity in search results"; Apple's website says 800M users visit the App Store weekly (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/17/apple-announces…

Apple announces more ads are coming to App Store search results - 9to5Mac
Apple is expanding the number of ads that appear in App Store search results. In an update on its Apple...

Anthropic plans a 30-second ad during the Super Bowl parodying the prospect of intrusive ads in AI conversations, and will also air a 60-second pre-game ad (Suzanne Vranica/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/bus…

The UK's countrywide ban on TV junk food ads before the 9pm watershed and an online ban for high fat and sugar products officially takes effect (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jan/05/ban-tv-junk-food-advertis…

Alphabet reports YouTube's Q4 ad revenue rose 9% YoY to $11.38B, vs. $11.84B est., and YouTube's annual revenue surpassed $60B across ads and subscriptions (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/youtube-q4-2…

YouTube Ad Revenue Hits Record $11.38 Billion in Q4, but Falls Short of Expectations
YouTube had its biggest-ever ad sales to date for Q4 2025, but revenue of $11.38 billion came in under Wall Street forecasts.