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Amazon Buried a $69 Billion Ad Business in a Single Sentence

Amazon's annual shareholder letter dropped yesterday. Ten pages. Andy Jassy covered AI infrastructure, custom chips, drone delivery, grocery, and why spending $200 billion in capex this year is "a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity." He mentioned AWS 46 times. Advertising got one sentence. The full quote: "Our Advertising

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Estée Lauder Moved 150 Markets to One Agency. The Real Reason Is Retail Media.

Estée Lauder just handed WPP a global media account worth roughly £500 million (about AUD $987 million), according to B&T, consolidating media planning and buying for MAC, Clinique, La Mer, Jo Malone London, Bobbi Brown, Aveda, Origins, and the flagship label across an estimated 150 markets. The pitch

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HubSpot Put TikTok Inside the CRM and Nobody Is Talking About the Lock-In

On April 3, HubSpot and TikTok announced a native integration that lets marketers sync contact segments, manage paid campaigns, publish organic content, and tie TikTok interactions back to closed revenue without leaving HubSpot. On paper, that sounds like a welcome upgrade for anyone tired of stitching TikTok Ads Manager to

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The FTC's 5-Year Plan Reads Like a Marketing Audit. Most Teams Won't Notice.

The FTC spent two weeks telling everyone it was going to stop burdening legitimate business. Chairman Andrew Ferguson restored the phrase "without unduly burdening legitimate business activity" to the agency's mission statement and framed the whole rewrite as a course correction from overregulation. Then on April

OkCupid's 12-Year Cover-Up Ended With Zero Fines and a 20-Year Leash

The FTC settled with Match Group and OkCupid on March 30 over a 2014 photo transfer the dating app spent twelve years trying to keep quiet. Nearly three million user photos went to Clarifai, a facial recognition startup. No money changed hands. No user was told. And the order the

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OpenAI Just Reshuffled Every Executive Who Touches the Ad Business

OpenAI’s ad business crossed $100 million in annualized revenue in under six weeks. By any measure, that’s one of the fastest ad platform launches in recent memory. And as of Friday, the company lost or moved every senior executive who had a hand in building it. Three departures,

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Omnicom’s $70 Million CEO Package Tells You Exactly Who the Customer Is

By Notice Me Senpai Editorial John Wren, chairman and CEO of Omnicom, took home $69.9 million in total compensation last year. His base salary was $1. That is not a typo, and it is not humility. It is the clearest signal a holding company has ever sent about how