NMS Editorial Team

NMS Editorial Team

Earned Media Arbitrage: How to Turn One Stunt Into a Month of Coverage

Earned media arbitrage is the practice of treating one PR stunt as the raw material for 30 days of follow-on coverage, not a 72-hour spike. Most brands capture the initial wave of articles, then watch the story die by Friday. Teams that plan the second and third waves on day

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The Economist Is Pre-Building a Second Web for AI Agents

The Economist is building two parallel versions of its web: one for human readers, one structured for AI agents, with Q&A-formatted text replacing carousels and feature art. VP of generative AI Josh Muncke told Digiday the publisher is preparing for "a world with two versions of the

DIRECTV Bought the Sidewalk Around Upfront Week Instead of Renting the Stage

DIRECTV Advertising deployed seatback spots on inbound flights, custom-wrapped SUVs, LED trucks, branded carts, and Times Square digital boards across New York from May 10 through 14, 2026, while eight competitors paid for traditional Upfront stage presentations. The campaign needed no rented theater, no programmer slate to defend, and no

Publicis Paid $2.5B for the Identity Layer Three Holdcos Were Quietly Renting

Publicis Groupe agreed on May 17, 2026 to acquire LiveRamp in an all-cash deal worth $2.5 billion in equity value, paying $38.50 per share. That price is a 29.8% premium over LiveRamp's prior closing price of $29.66. The deal folds RampID, LiveRamp's

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Google-Agent Ignores robots.txt. The Only Real Block Is at Your Firewall.

Google launched Google-Agent on March 20, 2026, a new user agent for AI systems running on Google infrastructure that browse pages on behalf of human users. Unlike Googlebot, it ignores robots.txt because Google classifies it as a user-triggered fetcher, meaning the only reliable way to block it is server-side

OpenAI Bolted Custom Audiences Onto ChatGPT Ads Mid-Upfront Week

OpenAI added a custom audience upload to ChatGPT Ads on May 14, 2026, accepting CSV or TXT files up to 512MB of raw or SHA-256 hashed emails and phone numbers. A 512MB file holds roughly 7.8 million identifiers. The feature landed three days into the $30.99 billion TV

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OpenAI Just Put ChatGPT Between Consumers and Their Bank Balances

OpenAI launched a personal finance tab inside ChatGPT on May 15, 2026, letting Pro subscribers in the US connect bank, credit card, and investment accounts through Plaid across more than 12,000 institutions. ChatGPT now sees balances, transactions, subscriptions, and portfolio performance directly. For fintech marketers, the funnel between consumer