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Why OpenAI Ads Are a Wake-Up Call for Retail Media Networks (And What Happens Next)

A couple of weeks ago, OpenAI quietly made one of the most important announcements for the retail media industry, and I don’t think we’re fully reckoning with what it means yet. In this recap of my January 20 article for The Drum, I break down why OpenAI testing ads inside ChatGPT responses isn’t just an interesting experiment, but a signal that the foundations of retail media are already shifting.

Let me be clear: this isn’t a doomsday episode! Retail media isn’t dead, but it does need to evolve. I walk through why AI-enabled shopping is fundamentally different from past hype cycles, how…

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