GameStop Wants to Buy eBay, Parker Card Dies Overnight & Every Platform Goes API-First | ADSN Ep. 18

This week on ADSN: Ryan Cohen drops a bombshell eBay acquisition bid on CNBC and shares zero details. Parker Card — a $200M-funded fintech — vanishes overnight leaving founders stranded. OpenAI launches a full ads manager (Capi, Pixel & Self-Service). Shopify lets you run your entire store from ChatGPT. Meta launches its connector library so you never need Ads Manager again. Mercury Banking ships a CLI for agentic banking. Stripe Atlas data shows new companies are 2x bigger than a year ago. Unilever scales its creator network to 300K. Plus: why the UI is dead and APIs are the only product that matters. Sponsors: AdQuick, Thrad, Beehiiv, The Farm LLP 00:00 – Ryan Cohen / GameStop eBay Bid 03:10 – Parker Card Collapse 05:45 – OpenAI Ads Manager Launch 07:10 – Build APIs, Not UIs (Darmesh + Brian Halligan) 11:00 – Shopify x ChatGPT Integration 13:00 – Meta Connector Library 14:40 – Spotify & AppLovin Follow 16:00 – Mercury Banking CLI 18:48 – Creative Strategists Need Research (Cody, Jonesward) 20:06 – Stripe Sessions: Atlas 2.3x Growth 21:30 – Unilever Creator Network at 300K 22:40 – Media as Negative CAC (Jason Yanowitz) 24:15 – Consumer AI Needs Culture, Not Tech 26:44 – Fitness Variety = Longevity Subscribe to our newsletter: https://adsn.beehiiv.com/ Follow us on X: @ADSNpod