Flint uses AI to autonomously generate complete websites based on a single, user-provided page. They call their product “autonomous websites” and say it’s faster than coordinating teams of humans. They just announced $5 million seed funding.
B2B marketing analytics platform Dreamdata has raised a $55 million Series B. it provides a complete view of go-to-market data and lets users sync back to ad platforms for better targeting. The plan for the new funding is to expand AI-driven activation capabilities.
Consumers who won’t watch advertising for fun might still watch it for money. That’s the simple logic behind ‘rewarded advertising,’ which EMARKETER and Discord report will be used by 52.9% of marketers in an upcoming campaign. Even more – 64.4% – said their interest in the format would increase if they saw case studies or success metrics.
Meta has announced agreements with USA Today, People Inc., and other news publishers to pay for access to their content and link to their articles in its AI chatbot. It’s a sharp contrast to Perplexity, which the Chicago Tribune and New York Times are separately suing for allegedly scraping content and bypassing paywalls. Despite this deal, Meta apparently still opposes compensating publishers for news links in social media posts.