Obviously, OpenAI will monetize with ads Last week, OpenAI announced that it has hired Fidji Simo, the CEO of Instacart, to become the CEO of its… May 16, 2025
OpenAI’s advertising opportunity The Financial Times reports that OpenAI is exploring advertising as a potential new source of revenue (emphasis mine): OpenAI is… December 3, 2024
Unpacking Instacart’s $1BN advertising business Maplebear, Inc., which operates the grocery shopping app Instacart, went public in September 2023. The event marked the end of… November 27, 2024
Small platform syndrome The Everything is an Ad Network dynamic, and the increasingly restrictive digital privacy environment that catalyzed it has led to… November 6, 2024
Unpacking Reddit’s $1BN advertising business Reddit, the link-based social network, went public in March 2024, nearly 19 years after being founded. As Reddit disclosed in… October 30, 2024
Unpacking Uber’s $1BN advertising business Uber, the ride-hailing and transportation company, officially launched an advertising division -- as well as a new, in-app advertising format… October 16, 2024
How vulnerable is Google on Search? The Wall Street Journal reports that Google may see its share of the search advertising market drop below 50% in… October 9, 2024
Podcast: Understanding the retail media landscape (with Andrew Lipsman) https://open.spotify.com/episode/1XVTU8mAo1wr9GbVLhLd9I?si=da3f84bf30224181 In this episode of the Mobile Dev Memo podcast, I speak with Andrew Lipsman, an independent analyst who covers… October 2, 2024
PayPal’s advertising business PayPal announced this week that it has hired the former head of Uber's advertising unit to lead a new PayPal… May 30, 2024
Chase and the consumer finance advertising opportunity Chase Bank is launching a retail media network called Chase Media Solutions that will allow advertisers to target its 80MM… April 12, 2024
