AGP Executive Report
Last update: 6 hours agoChristmas Campaigns: Morrisons enters the UK festive ad race with a Goldilocks-inspired film built around its in-store food teams. South Africa’s Chicken Licken is turning its takeaway rubber bands into a Guinness World Records bid, inviting customers to join in for a chance to win R100,000. Media & Adtech: Fox’s $22 billion acquisition of Roku sharpens its push into streaming advertising. Google is adding ads to AI Mode, while Reddit tests search ads as it grapples with falling referral traffic from Google. Media Funding: Croatian digital publishers say a proposed tax on Google and Meta’s local ad revenue could raise €12 million a year to support journalism. Sky’s CEO, meanwhile, argues that a Sky-ITV combination would help free-to-air TV compete for ad revenue and fund programming. Political Ads: Record midterm spending and a flood of attack ads put campaign advertising under scrutiny, as new rules target deceptive AI-generated ads in the US and Europe.
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