MediaPost Weekend Editions for January 2026
MediaPost Weekend - Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026
2025 Ends Flat, December Climbs Just 0.2%
IAB Issues New, Far More Bullish 2026 Ad Spend Forecast
Ad Spend Is Back, AI Is In Charge And No One's Quite Sure Who's Driving
Benchmarking The Chatbot Ad Market: How About $3.5B This Year?
OpenAI Addresses Monetization, Hires Ad Engineers
Senators Probe DHS 'Surveillance Technology'
ICE Issues RFI For 'Ad Tech Compliant' Data
Meta Blocks Links To Site Listing ICE Agent Identities
CBS News Disruptor Weiss Busy With Town Halls, New Hires
Amazon Spends $35M To Promote 'Melania'
Going, Going, Gone: MRC Finalizes Ad Auction Standards
PubMatic Must Face Suit Over Online Profiling
NFL Bans Prediction Market Super Bowl Ads
JCPenney's Comeback Secret? A Good Laugh
eBay Blocks 3rd-Party Agents, Eyes New Attribution Models
SCOTUS To Rule On Reagan-Era Video Privacy Law
Google Gives Creators AI-Generated World Building
WPP Media Taps Mediabrands Vet Suarez To Run LATAM Ops
MediaPost Weekend - Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026
This Super Bowl, The Tease Is The Thing
Postal Service Issues RFI, Taps JLB To Study Ad Market
NewsGuard Fights FTC's 'Retaliatory' Demand For Information
Mag's Anonymous Attacks On Weiss Only Make Her More Likable
NewsNation Goes All In With 'News For All Americans'
FCC Pushes Late Night For Equal Time Laughs - Politically Speaking
CIMM Finds Market Can Financially Support Two Ad Currencies
White House Closes TikTok Deal, Readies National App
Political Buyers Even More Bullish On Spending To Reach Bots
Beta Brands Begin Testing ChatGPT Ads, Budgets = $1M Each
Microsoft Names 'AI CMO,' Pushes Intelligence Into Ads
Rebooting Ad Ethics For The Era Of AI
Most Marketers Plan More Principal Media Buying In 2026
From One Trade Acronym To Another: MRC Accredits ARF
IAB's AI Disclosure Rules Seek To Calm Regulators, Consumers
Meta Pauses Teen Use Of AI Companions
Microsoft Exposes AI Bot Site Traffic
Whistleblower Of The Year: Erez Levin
Call For Entries: Best In Automotive Marketing
MediaPost Weekend - Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026
Dentsu Reportedly Fails To Attract Bidders For International Ops
Ads Are Coming To, Well, Me With Strict Guardrails, Search-Like Format
The Boy Who Prompted Wolf
Google Will Power Apple's Siri In Multi-Year Deal
Roblox Age-Verification Faces Widespread Criticism
Mattel Offers First Autistic Barbie Doll
Performance Max Beta Enables Advertisers To Split-Test Assets
Dove Launches 'Let Them Talk' Just In Time For 'Bridgerton'
Target Under Fire After ICE Detains U.S. Citizens
Wikipedia Secures AI Deals With Amazon, Meta, Microsoft As Human Traffic Declines
YouTube To Allow Parents To Block Kids From Watching 'Shorts'
Thinking Of Joining The Amish? Get Ready To Milk A Few Cows
The First - And Probably Last - Omnicom Media Global Landscape
EDO Found Liable For iSpot Breach, $18.3M Awarded
CBS Comedians Lambast And Lampoon CBS News Woes
My Take On Advertising, From Crackling Cold Ukraine
Levi's Teaching Gen Z To Sew On Buttons, Patch Holes
Budweiser Teases New Character For Super Bowl LX Ad
YouTube Opens Ad Rev Monetization For Dramatized Controversial Content
If Your Agent Doesn't Read This Blog, We'll Kill It
MediaPost Weekend - Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026
Media Agency Of The Year: MRM's AI Relationship Management
Holding Company Of The Year: WPP Media
Independent Agency Of The Year: PMG
Executive Of The Year: Horizon's Bob Lord
NBCU Sells Out Winter Olympic Games, 'Highest Grossing' Ever
Stagwell Unifies Media, Commerce Ops Under Samardzija
WPP Media Taps Publicis' Steele For New Client Role
With Colbert In Final Months On CBS, 'TV Blog' Asks: What Happened?
Omnicom Reveals New Big 3 Influences: People, AI, Influencers - In That Order
WBD To Ellisons: Just Go Away Already
Who Would Have Predicted This: Google Opens Once-Prohibited Ad Market
VAB Pushes Broader Guarantees Based On Households, Persons 2+
Arrival Of Golden Globes Marks Start Of 3-Month Awards Season
X Loophole: Why Google Ads May Still Appear There
Agency Tech Giants Mediaocean, Basis Announce 'Foundational' Partnership
The 2.8% Solution
Reddit Uses AI To Personify 'Top Audiences' For Advertisers
Omnicom-Interpublic Merger Accelerates Power Shift Toward Media, Data: Bank of America
Happy New Epoch
Obit: Bruce Crawford, Longtime Omnicom Leader, Dead At 96
MediaPost Weekend - Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026
ICE Plans $100M Recruitment Campaign
U.S. Migration Grows More Fragmented, Reshaping Media Planning Strategies
Court Bars Nielsen From Anticompetitive Radio Rates, At Least Temporarily
Shake Shack Launches 'Good Fit' Menu
2025 Ad Market Came In Like A Lion, Going Out Like A Lamb
Stagwell Partners With Cannes On New 'Lions Sports' Forum
From The Sublime To The Ridiculous: The Year In Content
Nice Merger You've Got There, It Would Be A Shame If Something Happened To It
TV Blog's New Year's Plea: Butt Out Of The TV Biz, Mr. Trump!
Pew: TikTok Most Popular Social News Source For Gen Z
2025: A Year In Social Media 'Slop'
Unilever's Influencer Embrace Causing A Ripple Effect With Other Brands
NY Governor Signs Law Requiring Social Media Warnings
2025's Most-Read '3.0' Was About A Question I Asked Agency Honchos About 2030
Death, Synthesis, Precision: Most-Read Posts Of The Year
The Most Red - Er, I Mean Read - White & Blogs
Trump Smartphone Rollout Faces More Delays
In Memoriam: Who And What We Lost In 2025