Dutch startup Innercrowd raises €750K to turn festival fans into marketers

Innercrowd has raised €750,000 in fundingto accelerate its international expansion as festivals across Europe look fornew ways to drive ticket sales. The company already works with more than ahundred …

OpenAI launches visual ads that appear alongside image generation results

OpenAI said the new visual ads will show up after your image generation results appear in the U.S. only for now.

Adlyse wants AI agents managing ad campaigns 24/7

Engineering has accelerated dramatically because AI can now help build products, but advertising hasn’t changed at the same pace. AI promised to free marketers from operational work, and advertising p…

Google will now disclose which ads are made with AI

While Google prohibits misleading and deceptive ads, an ad can still leverage AI to create some type of synthetic or digitally altered content. Until now, that’s something Google only required election ads to disclose.

X announces a rebuilt ad platform powered by AI

X is rolling out a rebuilt ads platform powered by AI as it works to grow revenue again.

Ads are coming to Apple Maps, as Apple expands its business offerings

Apple Maps will launch ads this summer in the U.S. and Canada. Plus, a new suite of Apple Business offerings arrives April 14.

X is testing a new ad format that connects posts with products

An ad test on X promotes Musk’s Starlink beneath original content.

X ads ‘Paid Partnership’ labels for creators so they can ditch the hashtags

The new labels comply with regulations and allow creators to be more transparent with their followers.

X tries wooing advertisers by letting them reuse creative assets from other platforms

X has launched an expanded set of aspect ratio support for both image and video ads, so advertisers can now reuse assets they’ve created for other platforms.

From Svedka to Anthropic, brands make bold plays with AI in Super Bowl ads

From the first AI-generated Big Game ad courtesy of Svedka to Anthropic’s beef with OpenAI, here are the biggest ads from Super Bowl LX.