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YouTube touts Gemini-infused creator tools suite at NewFronts
If there were three takeaways from YouTube’s 2026 NewFronts announcements this year, we’d boil it down to this: creators, creators, and creators. Which is not to be confused with last year’s YouTube NewFronts which were also about…creators.The Rise of the Creator may sound like a new Star War, but it’s clear that “creator” has entered big-business territory, and something marketers…
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Google Shakes Up Its Browser Agent Team Amid OpenClaw Craze
Google is shaking up the team behind Project Mariner, its AI agent that can navigate the Chrome browser and complete tasks on a user’s behalf, WIRED has learned. In recent months, some Google Labs staffers…
How Ancestry is using America’s 250th birthday as a ‘backdrop’ to tell lesser-known stories
American history is rife with stories of important figures. Some of those stories are legends, told so many times that it’s impossible to hear a historical figure’s name without thinking of a tale that goes…
Why Walmart and OpenAI Are Shaking Up Their Agentic Shopping Deal
The chatbot also is intentionally flexible, with the new integrations in mind. “It can take on slight tweaks to the look and feel, to make it feel like a natural part of other environments,” Danker…
LinkedIn’s NewFront pitch was part ad updates, part ‘swagger’
At their second-ever NewFront on Monday evening, the execs at LinkedIn attempted to do the (nearly) impossible: make B2B marketing cool.“LinkedIn is showing up with some swagger in the market,” Matthew Derella, VP of LinkedIn…
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Anthropic Sues Department of Defense Over Supply-Chain-Risk Designation
Anthropic filed a federal lawsuit against the US Department of Defense and other federal agencies on Monday, challenging its designation…
Want your brand to stand out? Consider breaking a world record
It’s generally frowned upon to create ad campaigns or fudge campaign numbers with the primary purpose of winning industry awards.…
Meta Ramps Up Efforts to Disrupt Industrialized Scamming
With organized, industrial-scale scamming causing a multibillion-dollar crisis around the world, Meta announced new account protections on Wednesday aimed at…
‘The tide has turned’: Why the era of the Madison Avenue holding company is on its way out
Is it time to ring the death knell for the holding company model?It’d be easy to think so. Last month,…
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Yann LeCun Raises $1 Billion to Build AI That Understands the Physical World
Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI), a new Paris-based startup cofounded by Meta’s former chief AI scientist Yann LeCun, announced Monday it has raised more than $1 billion to develop AI world models.LeCun argues that most human reasoning is grounded in the physical world, not language, and that AI world models are…
Why Hyundai locked up a jersey sponsorship with Boston Legacy FC early
Boston sports fandom is legendary, but it’s been almost a decade since women’s soccer fans in the city had a hometown team to root for.With a record-setting crowd of more than 30,000 at its debut game last weekend, it’s safe to say that fans are excited to welcome Boston Legacy…
Iran Warns US Tech Firms Could Become Targets as War Expands
Major US technology companies have been named as potential targets as the war between Iran, Israel, and the United States begins to spill into the digital infrastructure that powers modern economies.Iranian state-linked media this week published a list of offices and infrastructure run by US companies with Israeli links whose…
NWSL kicks off 14th season with new marketing strategy
The NWSL season kicked off on Friday with two new teams and a new approach to marketing.The league’s fourth annual marketing campaign, “Imagine Missing This,” will be targeted more narrowly than campaigns from previous years, though it’s still geared toward top-of-funnel goals like awareness and brand building as the NWSL…
‘Uncanny Valley’: Anthropic’s DOD Lawsuit, War Memes, and AI Coming for VC Jobs
Brian Barrett: The irony is my favorite part because I feel like venture capitalists have largely positioned themselves as immune to the effects of AI because they're very special and surely a machine can—Zoë Schiffer: It's art, not science.Brian Barrett: Yeah. It's art, not science. Machines can take every job,…
Creators were all over SXSW. What does that mean for the industry?
The line between creators and traditional Hollywood is so blurry these days that even those with perfect vision are squinting.At SXSW this year, creator chat wasn’t hard to come by. Whether it was at the Creator Academy activation hosted by Sam’s Club (a major sponsor of the festival), on a…
Google Is Not Ruling Out Ads in Gemini
Second is advertiser tools. If you’re a small business, you’re not thinking about all the queries people are going to type in. AI is great at figuring out which keywords to use, what’s the optimal creative, and generating all of that.The third piece is the most nascent: ads in new…
Coworking with Shane Norris
Each week, we spotlight Marketing Brew readers in our Coworking series. If you’d like to be featured, introduce yourself here.Shane Norris is head of sales at Fyllo, a contextual targeting platform. He has also worked at M3, Roku, and Funny or Die.How would you describe your job to someone who…
Nvidia Will Spend $26 Billion to Build Open-Weight AI Models, Filings Show
Nvidia will spend $26 billion over the next five years to build open source artificial intelligence models, according to a 2025 financial filing. Executives confirmed the news, which has not been previously reported, in interviews with WIRED.The sizable investment could see Nvidia evolve from a chipmaker with an impressive software…
Why Coca-Cola made March Madness a moment for BodyArmor
Powerade has been a sponsor of the NCAA for nearly every year since 2010. This year, though, that sponsorship, including the designation as the official sports drink of March Madness, is going to a sister brand instead.It’s a unique year in the world of sports, with both the Olympics and…
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When AI Companies Go to War, Safety Gets Left Behind
I’ve spent the past few days asking AI companies to convince me that the prospects…
How Togethxr helped change women’s sports in its first five years
Everyone knows the “Everyone Watches Women’s Sports” T-shirt.The original was introduced by media and e-commerce…
An AI avatar of Andy Cohen will start name-dropping brands on Peacock this summer
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A Former Top Trump Official Is Going After Prediction Markets
Mick Mulvaney wants to be clear: He really likes gambling. “You're talking to the only…
In a tougher market, the auto industry may need to change EV marketing messages
Actors Timothée Chalamet and Larsen Thompson are stranded on the side of a highway with…