The banner years are over: The fall of online display advertising

The glory days of banners and sponsored content are well and truly over , according to the latest Internet Advertising ...

Advertising made the internet accessible. Will it do the same for AI?

Is advertising the only viable way to fund AI at scale? Will it quietly dictate what these systems optimize for? Advertising in generative AI systems has become a fault line. Last month, OpenAI ...
adexchanger

Programmatic I/O: How Programmatic Platforms Can Capitalize On The Open Internet

Is the open internet in trouble? Open programmatic ad spend has only grown 3% since 2021, according to equity research firm Wolfe Research. Walled gardens have grown 10% in the same time frame. This ...
Fast Company

I helped build the internet’s ad economy. Now I want to save it

If you’ve noticed that the internet feels different lately—more cluttered, harder to navigate—you’re not imagining it. The system is breaking down in real time, and by 2026, researchers predict that ...

‘Growing Market’: Internet Ad Spend Increases 11.5% In 2025

The Report also includes results for the December 2025 quarter, with total internet advertising expenditure of $4.9 billion, up 14.4 per cent compared to the December 2024 quarter. Video advertising ...
Managingip.com

Unfair competition in internet advertising blocking in China: part one

In the first article of a two-part series, Charles Feng, Lian Xue, and Runjing Wang of Tahota Law Firm consider the different perspectives on whether China’s Anti-Unfair Competition Law should ...