Topic
The practice of controlling what content a brand's advertising appears beside, and the buying rules and exclusion lists that follow from it.
OpenAI is testing visual ads beside ChatGPT image generations with 18 named outside partners for attribution, conversion data and brand safety. Marketers can then judge ChatGPT spend in the attribution tools they already run before they commit real budget.
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OpenAI, whose ChatGPT reaches 1.2 billion people a week, is connecting its ads to conversion data from Hightouch, Tealium and LiveRamp. For privacy teams, staff use of the consumer app now sits inside an advertising system built to tie ad views to purchases.
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Crocs-owned HEYDUDE tagged UF's Theta Chi chapter in a September 25 promo while two former members face sexual cyberharassment charges. The case had already set off a campus outcry, so for brands the partner check has to come before the shoot is booked.
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Callaway said it was not involved in producing the ad and that its own review process was inadequate. A person who worked with Good Good said they had seen ads leave the company with little oversight.
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CMO Tristan Pineiro says some advertisers disappeared after the DEI rollback. Grindr's response is to sell sponsorship of concerts and parties, where a brand reaches the same audience and its ad does not sit beside user content.
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