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OpenAI acquisition of TBPN as distribution and marketing spend

April 2, 2026TechCrunch, Aakash Gupta, KP

Aakash Gupta, KP, rat king, and others frame OpenAI buying TBPN as a distribution play and marketing expense, with discussion of TBPN revenue growth and sponsor dollars reallocating after ads wind down.

OpenAI just bought its own media company one week after killing Sora.
Most people are treating the @tbpn acquisition as a media story. It’s actually a distribution story.
i see this as a marketing expense
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