The bath and body care brand, which boasts 3 million followers across TikTok and Instagram, has spent the past year using an AI-powered community management tool to analyze comments, direct messages and other social interactions across its channels. What began as a way to respond faster to customers has evolved into a broader system for identifying product demand, measuring sentiment around launches and informing innovation decisions.
As first reported by The Wall Street Journal, Hagedorn is to take up the role of North American chief executive for Omnicom Media Group, which works with the likes of McDonald's and PepsiCo. Hagadorn will replace outgoing media boss Page Thompson, who is retiring after more than four decades with the holding giant. Having worked with the group for 15 years, Hagedorn has played a significant role in the scaling up OMG's data and analytics business.
From Nielsen's perspective, "we think this is a big opportunity to improve person-level measurement" and give buyers and sellers a more accurate picture of who's actually watching what, said Brian Fuhrer, SVP of product strategy and thought leadership at Nielsen.
The era when blockchain in marketing was seen merely as an expensive toy for PR departments has finally come to an end. Today, instead of expiring points and closed ecosystems, businesses are increasingly choosing the transparency and liquidity enabled by decentralized ledgers.
Intent IQ, a privacy-first identity resolution company, today (3rd February, 2026) announced a partnership with Raptive to deploy Intent IQ's Bid Enhancement offering across Raptive's publisher network. Through the partnership, Raptive will integrate Intent IQ's Bid Enhancement to improve bid performance and monetisation across both environments where traditional identifiers are present-such as cookie-based browsers like Chrome-and environments where identifiers are limited or unavailable, including iOS and other ID-less inventory.
Pro forma revenue (trailing twelve months) -- $6.2 billion generated by the combined fuboTV (NYSE:FUBO) and Hulu Live businesses in North America. Pro forma subscribers (period end) -- 6.2 million in North America, establishing the company as the second largest digital MVPD in the United States. Pro forma adjusted EBITDA (trailing twelve months) -- $77.9 million. North America pro forma revenue (Q1 2026) -- $1.68 billion, up 6% year over year.
The main challenges come from constant ecosystem shifts. Privacy regulation, signal loss, and platform changes are forcing ad tech companies to continuously adapt their technology and data strategies. At the same time, competition is intensifying, margins are under pressure, and investment in AI and infrastructure is no longer optional. Maintaining trust, transparency, and performance in this environment is increasingly complex.
Kinda like the rest of search, many things aren't permanent decisions that are never discussed. Things change - SEOs write about what changed - while I have nothing to announce, I can say for sure that very few things online are permanent. It's also good to have input from others, like you all.- John Mueller ( @johnmu.com) January 30, 2026 at 7:00 AM
They meet whatever half-formed idea they already associate with the category, and that idea ends up doing a lot more work than the product itself. Someone hears "AI tool for business" and immediately imagines Hollywood robots or their boss replacing half the team. Someone hears "blockchain platform," and their mind jumps to a chart going straight down. A buyer sees a proptech product and wonders whether it'll complicate an already stressful process.
The digital advertising world is entering a reset. As privacy laws tighten, cookies vanish, and platform fees rise, companies are reclaiming control. Avenga's Pedro Carrascosa reveals why 2026 will be the year of the custom adtech renaissance - a shift toward building and owning adtech infrastructure. For more than a decade, we've all seen how big brands, publishers, and media companies have relied on big adtech vendors to power their digital advertising. And it worked, until it didn't.
In-app is far from a lawless, unpopulated no man's land of advertising. In fact, the latest stats show it's actually where audiences are spending most of their time. In the UK for example, just over two and a half hours a day are spent in the in-app environment, compared with only 20 minutes on the mobile web. That's a staggering 90% of the time on mobile spent in apps - whether messaging, social media, music, or gaming. It's a huge opportunity.
"We use short videos to tell sustainable stories about our brands, and then we reward consumers for engaging with it," Conny Braams, Unilever's chief digital and commercial officer, told The Drum. "And what we've seen from the pilots that we've been doing is that it, first of all, builds brand power, which is really important. But also, it really changes behavior."
Meta Platforms has been a big winner in the AI era, up 8x since the stock bottomed out in 2022, and its latest results delighted investors. Revenue jumped 24% in the fourth quarter to $59.9 billion. Ramped-up spending weighed on margins, but investors had expected that, and net income still rose 9% to $22.8 billion, or $8.88 per share. Looking ahead, Meta also issued better-than-expected revenue guidance for the first quarter,
Ryanair stated that the scrapers provide shoppers with outdated or inaccurate information (such as little to no mention of Ryanair's infamous hidden charges which are at least outlined in the official website). Furthermore, the customer details are rarely passed onto the airline meaning it cannot contact them if there's any change in the flight manifest.
I spent years believing that being reasonable was a virtue. I thought that if someone I cared about - a partner, a colleague, a close friend - kept pushing after I said no, the burden was on me to be clearer. I believed that if I could find the right metaphor, stay calm enough or strike the perfect emotional note, they would finally understand. I wanted them to see my no as human, valid and final. But they never did. They were not listening.
ChatGPT can analyze your best campaigns and write new emails that match with AWeber's MCP. It saves drafts directly to an AWeber account. No tab-switching. No copy-pasting. Most people write emails, then hope they perform. AWeber MCP does the opposite. ChatGPT looks at your top campaigns-highest opens, most clicks-and uses those patterns for new emails. You get emails that sound like you and match what your audience responds to. Written in minutes, not hours.
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The company, backed by Blackstone, is targeting a valuation of nearly $5.2 billion for its IPO, and is looking to raise as much as $762 million in funding by selling more than 25 million shares. Share prices are expected to range between $26 and $30. It will trade under the ticker "LFTO."
