Brian Roberts

Generative AI is breaking established internet etiquette to sate a bottomless appetite for training data. Also: The streaming wars continue.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Whoever Attributes, Wins When people refer to the control that Apple and Google exert over the mobile ecosystem, they usually focus on onerous app store fees. Which, okay, fair enough. But “there’s a looming, more subtle, and much more esoteric form of control […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. To The Core Nielsen is trimming its workforce – again – and by quite a lot this time, Ad Age reports. On Wednesday, the TV ratings giant announced plans to cut its global personnel by around 9% “in an effort to bring costs […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Hot For Hulu Comcast is preparing to sell its 33% stake of Hulu to Disney. Disney CEO Bob Iger told investors last week that Comcast and Disney were in talks about Hulu’s fate. On Tuesday, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts confirmed “it’s more likely […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. EA Or Nay? EA Games is looking for a buyer, according to game news journal Puck. And the buyer will probably be a company with a streaming service.  After a (debunked) rumor saying Amazon intends to buy EA, its stock surged 15% in […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. A (Pro)cure For What Ails You Agencies and brand marketers are split over their view of procurement. Which is to say, marketers collaborate well with their own procurement departments while agencies begrudge the procurement folks.  At least, that’s the message in a new ANA […]