2026 Midyear Outlook

I’ve been cooking professionally for most of my life. But if you’d told the teenager peeling potatoes after school that one day he’d have his own pizzeria —and operate it out of a Smart car, no less — I’m not sure he would have believed you. As a sophomore in high school, I wasn’t running…

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Amazon Ads has announced a partnership with OpenAI, letting select U.S. advertisers extend their existing Amazon campaigns directly into ChatGPT, Amazon said. How does it work? Advertisers buy the placements through Amazon DSP, Amazon’s programmatic ad platform, without having to negotiate directly with OpenAI, and Delta Vacations is among the first brands testing the pilot….

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Often we see headlines touting direct indexing’s growth rate—assets doubling, adoption curves bending upward, analysts projecting trillions in the category within a decade, etc. I don’t dispute those numbers or those trends. But after nearly three decades of building this business, I’ve come to believe that the growth number isn’t the story with direct indexing….