Your phone isn’t secretly listening to you for ad targeting, part 2 Last month, the FTC fined Cox Media Group (CMG) and two other companies to settle allegations that the firms deceived… June 3, 2026
Meta’s subscriptions and the advertising narrative blind spot Meta announced last week that it is rolling out its Facebook Plus, Instagram Plus, and WhatsApp Plus subscriptions globally. There… June 1, 2026
The generative RecSys revolution The application of generative methodologies to recommendation systems infrastructure ("RecSys") is an exciting area at the frontier of ML research.… May 27, 2026
Podcast: The New Economics of Building an Audience (with Danny Frankel) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j06HrjH-0ek On this week's episode of the podcast, I am joined by Danny Frankel, the founder of Punchup Live, a… May 27, 2026
Introducing DeCANT, a context-conditioned, attention-based multimodal architecture for creative pre-testing The underlying mechanics of modern digital advertising systems have become increasingly opaque to advertisers. In testimony during an antitrust trial… May 25, 2026
AppLovin publishes Gist, a social media app AppLovin has published a social media app called Gist (see the US App Store product page here). The app is… May 22, 2026
Google’s Gambit, Part 4: The end of Static Search Google announced a major overhaul to Search at its Google I/O developer event yesterday. From a blog post titled A… May 20, 2026
Amazon’s advertising advantages Amazon's advertising advantages have always been somewhat obvious: as a retail platform, and through its Prime subscription, it benefits from… May 18, 2026
Components of AI-enabled advertising AI is being applied to digital advertising in so many disparate and meaningful ways that the concept has been diluted… May 12, 2026
Spotify, Roblox, and the conditions for a walled garden Spotify revealed a noteworthy data point on its Q1 2026 earnings call two weeks ago: the company's advertising platform, which… May 11, 2026
