It’s deal-making time for generative AI model builders and publishers who can provide them with quality data. Germany publishing giant Axel Springer is trading access to its data for Microsoft adtech, AI, and Azure hosting solutions. Meanwhile, The Financial Times has struck a deal with OpenAI to license its content with attribution of summaries and quotes.
Only 10% of respondents to a Pew Research survey of over 10,000 U.S. adults viewed social media’s impact on America positively; 64% took the negative view. A whopping 78% say the platforms have too much influence on politics. More than half believe that major tech companies should face more government regulation.
High profile adtech DSP MedaMath, which filed for bankruptcy in 2023 and was acquired by Infillion, has been relaunched within Infillion’s global media buying platform. Infillion will deploy MediaMath’s AI performance model, omnichannel inventory segments according to advertiser verticals and KPIs, and the MediaMath Academy for adtech certification. Infillion will provide performance measurement and attribution.
Adobe has announced a new solution within its GenStudio suite, GenStudio for Performance Marketing. This self-service application is aimed at accelerating the creation of display and social ads, emails and banners using approved, on-brand content. The solution will leverage Adobe Firefly as well as third-party LLMs.