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Roblox partner Super League, a metaverse production company, today has acquired fellow Roblox specialist Supersocial, for an undisclosed sum, as it seeks to scale up brand world-building for advertisers.

As Roblox and its ecosystem of studios continue to grapple with proving its advertising potential to brands, analysts and observers believe the deal could signal a coming wave of consolidation among these types of companies.

Super League and Supersocial are members of the Roblox Partner Program, essentially serving as influencer marketing agencies for the Roblox ecosystem. Both companies build custom-branded Roblox worlds and manage brands’ integrations into popular pre-existing experiences on the metaverse platform. 

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This week’s Media Briefing looks at The Washington Post’s deal with OpenAI to use the news org’s content in its ChatGPT search product, and what it says about the future of licensing deals between AI companies and publishers.

• Deals between AI companies and publishers are subtly moving toward content for search.
• Trump’s first 100 days battling the press, news outlets’ shift to podcast videos and more.

The evolution of AI content licensing deals

The Washington Post has become the latest major publisher to strike a licensing deal with OpenAI, joining a growing cohort that now spans more than 20 news organizations. 

It’s part of a familiar pattern: every few months, OpenAI locks in another publisher to bolster its content pipeline. But the terms of these agreements seem to be quietly evolving — subtly shifting away from the explicit language around training data that defined earlier deals, and raising fresh questions about what these partnerships now mean.

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