NMS Editorial Team

NMS Editorial Team

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Your AI Assistant Wants Full Access to Your Ad Accounts. Think About That for a Second.

A 55-comment thread on r/PPC this week asked a simple question: what is the best way to get AI tools pulling data directly from Google Ads and Meta without going through the API the normal way? The answers were revealing. Not because of the workarounds people suggested, but because

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OpenAI Bought a Talk Show. The Ad Revenue They Are Killing Is the Part That Matters.

OpenAI acquired TBPN today. The Technology Business Programming Network is a daily three-hour live show hosted by founders John Coogan and Jordi Hays that has become one of the most influential media startups in Silicon Valley. It’s OpenAI’s first media acquisition, and most of the coverage is leading

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AI Visibility Tools Cost $500 a Month. The Entire Stack Costs $100 to Build Yourself.

The AI search visibility category has a pricing problem, and it is not the one the vendors want you to think about. If you are tracking how your brand shows up in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google's AI Overviews, you are probably paying between $200 and $500 per

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The Publicis-Trade Desk Split Isn’t About Hidden Fees. It’s About Who Owns the Pipe.

By Notice Me Senpai Editorial Three of the world’s largest agency holding companies have turned against The Trade Desk in the space of two months. Dentsu and WPP pulled back from OpenPath in February. Publicis leaked an internal memo on March 18 advising clients to stop using the platform

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$92K in Ad Spend Says AI Creative Works. The Catch Is Where It Does Not.

Most of the AI creative debate sounds like two people arguing about whether a hammer or a screwdriver is "better." The answer obviously depends on whether you are looking at a nail or a screw. And yet the advertising industry keeps having this argument in the abstract, as

The Paleontologists Say VML’s Dinosaur Leather Is Fake. That’s Exactly Why the Campaign Works.

By Notice Me Senpai Editorial VML unveiled a handbag made from lab-grown T. rex leather at Art Zoo Museum in Amsterdam this week. Paleontologists immediately called the science misleading. And somewhere in a WPP office, Bas Korsten probably smiled, because the debate is the campaign. This is the third time

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AI Was the No. 1 Reason for U.S. Layoffs Last Month. The Actual Number Is Much Larger.

The Challenger, Gray & Christmas report dropped this week and the headline number is clean: 15,341 job cuts in March cited AI as the primary reason, making it the top driver of layoffs for the first time since the firm started tracking in 2023. That is 25% of all