The Brief – Friday 9 January – Discord to go public, Pinterest moves to CTV space, IPG staff moving

🎮 Chat platform Discord has confidentially filed for an IPO. The company could go public as soon as this March. (Bloomberg)

📌 Pinterest has developed a shoppable connected TV series that allows users to move from watching to shopping via Pinterest and its integrated brand partners Wayfair, Eos and Michaels. Debuting in March on Roku’s streaming platform, the series will include six 22-minute episodes focused on creators’ “inspiration to realisation” journey. (Adweek)

🏢 Former IPG staff, including at media and creative shops IPG Mediabrands, MullenLowe UK and FCB London, will be leaving their Old Bailey London headquarters and moving into Omnicom’s Bankside office this month as part of the holding groups’ merger. (Campaign)

💉 OpenAI has announced ChatGPT Health, a chatbot that “securely brings your health information and ChatGPT’s intelligence together” to give health advice. OpenAI says the feature is designed to “support, not replace” actual healthcare and that it “is not intended for diagnosis or treatment”. It also claims medical data uploaded by users is “protected and secure” by operating as a “sensitive space” with “enhanced privacy”. (OpenAI)