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How Kalen Allen navigates brand safety and cultural polarization in the creator economy

On this week's episode, digital creator and actor Kalen Allen talks navigating brand safety and the so-called culture wars in the creator economy (24:50). Plus, what WPP Open Pro launch says about the agency AI arms race, Reddit’s Perplexity lawsuit and the future AI framework, and the latest on the Warner Bros. Discovery possible sale.

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  Can a new CEO and massive AI bet turn WPP's sinking ship around?

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  How Black Friday could 'fast track' OpenAI's ad plan

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  The ‘is a hot dog a sandwich’ problem in AI advertising

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  How to build an AI-generated focus group

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  How brand-creator deal dynamics need to evolve

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  The Sora-TikTok U.S. era of short-form video

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  The Trade Desk under pressure

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  OpenAI’s ad plan, Meta’s Vibes + a day in the life of Eater’s Stephanie Wu

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  TikTok U.S., Disney-Kimmel + WTF is a chief AI officer with The Washington…

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  Ferrero's Danielle Sporkin breaks down the reality behind retail media’s f…

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  How AI rewrites search for publishers

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  The Summer Things Turned Messy

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  Why AI is agencies’ frenemy

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  Retail Media Godmother Kristi Argyilan: "It's going to be a reset"

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  Streaming reshuffling, Omnicom-IPGs's second green light + inside Reddit's…