
Agentic AI in Advertising and the Case for Human Oversight
Introduction On April 25, 2026, an AI coding agent called Cursor deleted the entire production database of PocketOS, a software company serving car rental businesses. One routine...
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May 28, 2026

AI Disclosure in Advertising | IAB Framework Guide (2026)
AI is everywhere in advertising right now, and audiences are starting to notice. Trust is taking a hit across the board, not because AI is inherently untrustworthy, but because...
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May 4, 2026

Google and Walmart are Teaming Up!? The Latest from NRF and CES 2026.
News from the NRF’s Big Show 2026 Google Announces Universal Commerce Protocol Google is taking a big step toward standardizing how AI Agents can interact with generative AI...
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February 11, 2026

The Biggest Advertising Takeaways from 2025
2025 will likely be remembered as the year when all the predictions, noise, and media shifts became too big to ignore. For years, advertisers heard about looming disruption – AI,...
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January 7, 2026

Programmatic Audio is Turning Up the Volume; Two Years of Growth and Innovation
It’s been a couple years since Genius Monkey dove into the Flexibility of Modern Audio Ads, and it’s time to check in with programmatic’s most underrated medium. In the last two...
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September 10, 2025

Programmatic Trends and Highlights 2025 - What We Have Seen So Far
The last year has seen many shake-ups to the advertising world; big platforms shutting down, Google losing multiple advertising-related court cases, and the ever-evolving...
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August 13, 2025

Is AI Taking Over Search? What Advertisers Need to Know
AI continues to expand into every facet of the tech industry and life in general, but could the expansion eventually hurt some of its biggest proponents? A report detailed on...
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July 30, 2025

The Advantages and Dangers of AI in Advertising
The tech industry is barreling toward a future powered by AI, and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop it at this point. What advertisers CAN do is make sure they’re using new...
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June 18, 2025

Amazon Cancels a Cookie-less Targeting Tool; Privacy Ever More in the Hands of Advertisers
As reported by AdWeek on May 8th, 2025 – just a week after emailing publishers asking them to adopt the new product – Amazon has killed their privacy program that would allow...
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May 14, 2025

Is it a Bad Idea to Advertise Next to News?
Pew research reports that around 86% of Americans consume news on smart devices like phones and tablets at least some of the time, while 57% do so “often.” Though television,...
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February 19, 2025