What publishers are wishing for this holiday season: End AI scraping and determine AI-powered audience value

If publishers had one Christmas wish, it’d be for the chaos to end. 

That means an end to the unscrupulous AI scraping that’s made even the notorious Wild West of ad tech in the mid to late 2010s look like small fry.  

Naturally, the toothpaste is out of the tube when it comes to AI companies training on publishers’ archives, but now the industry is fighting to shape what comes next. Publishers want a fair, structured, regulated AI environment that involves AI companies not just splurging on chips and computing power, but actually coughing up for the information their large language models (LLMs) churn out. 

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Starbucks hires first-of-its-kind marketing role heading up fashion and beauty collabs

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Starbucks has poached a senior manager from E.l.f. Cosmetics as part of its ongoing quest to re-energize the Starbucks brand through cultural collaborations.

Neiv Toledano has joined Starbucks as its senior marketing manager of fashion and beauty. While Starbucks has always had employees who have worked on collaborations, including in the fashion and beauty spaces, this is a first-of-its-kind dedicated role and a signal that Starbucks is placing a bigger premium on these types of partnerships.

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