An undercover investigation, aired during China Central Television's annual consumer rights gala on March 15, examined how fabricated online content can shape AI-generated responses. According to the South China Morning Post, the report exposed a system called Liqing that was used to automatically publish large volumes of expert reviews, industry rankings, and user feedback for a non-existent fitness tracker called the Apollo-9.
The clever and stylish ad, which debuted in October 2025, was for the Google Pixel 10 phone and Google's partner on the release, T-Satellite from T-Mobile. And it was written, codirected, edited, and starred in by Cooper, host of the wildly popular podcast Call Her Daddy and founder and CEO of the millennial- and Gen Z-focused media company Unwell.
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Essendon Mazda was interested in fortifying their existing programmatic display campaign with the addition of digital audio advertising to reach consumers at several touchpoints throughout the day with higher frequency. Coupled with the display campaign, this aimed to close the loop on prospects with consistent messaging targeted to customers that intend to purchase automobiles.
This is an opportunity for marketers to change the narrative that marketing is a cost center. Most enterprises today see marketing as a tax, not an investment, and I think we can flip that model.
The Microsoft Advertising Regional Partner Awards is a prestigious event that aims to recognise and reward outstanding, creative, effective, and passionate work by search advertising individuals, teams, agencies, channel partners and technology partners working with Microsoft Advertising in Europe.
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Forethought was co-founded by Deon Nicholas, who serves as executive chairman, and Sami Ghoche, who became CEO in 2024 after previously serving as CTO. The pair founded the company when they were 24, and by 2025 the platform was handling more than a billion customer interactions per month for clients including Upwork, Grammarly, Airtable, and Datadog.
