Kargo, a leading ad tech firm bringing art and science together to orchestrate creative, context, and commerce across premium surfaces, announced an integration with ChatGPT, establishing Kargo as a technology partner within OpenAI’s emerging commercial ecosystem. As AI becomes a primary [...]

StackAdapt, the leading AI advertising and orchestration platform, today (6th May, 2026) shared that it is offering advertisers access to ads in ChatGPT. This capability helps advertisers deliver messages that are useful and timely as customers are exploring options, comparing [...]

In today’s Digest, we discuss ChatGPT beginning to show ads to logged-out users, and Norway planning an under-16 social media ban as Turkey passes an under-15 ban. We also look at Meta launching an Instagram spinoff app, ‘Instants’.

The AI advertising infrastructure company becomes one of the first to run its own sponsored campaign inside ChatGPT's suggestions programme Thrad, the advertising infrastructure provider for the AI ecosystem, has confirmed it is now live as an advertiser inside ChatGPT's sponsored [...]

Today we cover advertisers reporting prices dropping for ads on ChatGPT, Google holding discussions with the Pentagon for a Gemini deal, as well as the BBC and Bauer Media planning massive workforce cuts.  Price drops for ChatGPT ads  OpenAI is lowering the [...]

In today’s Digest, we discuss OpenAI extending its ad pilot as it tests a global rollout of sponsored ChatGPT responses, Elon Musk’s X ad boycott being dismissed by a US Judge, and Disney+ striking a landmark next-day streaming deal with [...]

This week, the digital ecosystem saw advertising formats evolve rapidly and tensions rise between platforms, regulators, and traditional media players. In today’s MadTech Daily, we look at a jury finding Meta and YouTube harmed young users, a judge dismissing publishers’ [...]

We examine the introduction of advertising to ChatGPT and what it could mean for advertisers, consumers, and the wider AI ecosystem...

They said it would never happen, but of course it was always going to - ads are coming to ChatGPT. Shirley Marschall takes a look at this little bit of history repeating...