Jim O’Leary’s departure from Weber Shandwick to lead Penta’s North America operations signals a sharp pivot away from bloated agencies toward lean advisory models amid the Omnicom-IPG merger fallout.
Lauren Weinberg of Supergoop exposes the AI marketing hype and champions human-centered teams as the real secret to success in 2026.
As AI agents take over programmatic advertising, marketers are pushing back, installing guardrails to maintain transparency and control in an industry addicted to automation hype.
Byron Allen’s $120 million acquisition of BuzzFeed is the brutal confirmation that the platform-era media bubble has burst, exposing the rot beneath viral scale fantasies.
Ad tech’s latest quarter offers mixed results, with AI and CTV fueling investor hype but underlying structural issues dragging the industry down.
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