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Brandweek 2026: The ‘Why’ Test Behind Mars’ Boldest Ideas ft. Rankin Carroll
How Mars takes big risks without getting reckless.
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AI Is Both Canva’s Biggest Bet and Its Biggest Threat
Rising AI costs, falling valuations, and a wave of AI-native rivals are converging on the design giant.
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Anthropic Strikes Its First Licensing Deal, With the AP, for Election Coverage
The arrangement marks the first time the artificial intelligence firm has paid a digital news publisher to license its content.
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Brandweek 2026: Can Too Much Attribution Make Marketing Worse? ft. Amanda Teder
Why you should stop treating lead generation like the finish line.
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The Trade Desk and Dstillery Link AI Agents to Reshape Audiences Mid-Campaign
While buyers see the appeal of faster audience creation, they question whether agentic integrations will meaningfully change media buying—and say the bigger value still lies in knowing which audiences are [...]
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The 2026 ADWEEK Innovator 50: Building Relevance for Tomorrow
Across agencies, brands, tech firms, and media companies, these leaders are moving at the speed of technological and cultural change.
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AI Ad-Placement Companies Rembrand and Whisper World Merge, Eye IPO
The merged company, WRLabs, pairs Rembrand’s AI with Whisper World’s decade of in-show ads across Asia, Africa and the Middle East
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Cash Flow, Not Capex, Is the Metric Investors Care About in Big Tech Earnings
In the first big tech earnings trickling in, investors are rewarding positive cash flow and penalizing cash burn. Is capex a less pertinent metric for the hyperscalers now?
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Google Stock Sinks as AI Mode Pressures Search Ad Growth
Google is pushing more ads into AI Mode and AI Overviews and weighing options for integrating ads in agentic experiences.
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AI Won’t Replace Creatives, But It Can Multiply Their Output
At The Clubhouse at Brandweek 2026, OpenArt hosted three workshops on AI-powered campaigns.
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Anthropic Goes for the Public Markets as Revenue Jumps Nearly 15-Fold
A 335-page IPO plan shows a profitable second quarter, a concentrated customer base, and compute deals that send hundreds of billions to Google and Amazon.
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Advertisers Pull Meta Ads That Had Unwanted AI Glow-ups
Under Meta’s new terms coming into play Oct 30, advertisers are “solely responsible” for whatever its AI creates
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Meta Beats Q3 Expectations With Strong Earnings
The company says its AI investments are already paying off for advertisers
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Pitch Deck: Cuttable Raises $20M to Turn Brands’ Photos and Videos Into Meta Ads
The Australian startup is betting that creative is the last part of ad buying left to automate.
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Robert Downey Jr. Trades Tony Stark’s Aviators for Snap’s AR Specs
The Iron Man star has joined Specs brand as chief customer experience officer, as the smart glasses wars ramp up.
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