For rights holders seeking to future-proof their sponsorship strategy, the AI Experience Room may represent the next generation of monetizable sponsorship assets.
For rights holders seeking to future-proof their sponsorship strategy, the AI Experience Room may represent the next generation of monetizable sponsorship assets.
In an industry where loyalty often depends on understanding as much as visibility, giving consumers a space to ask questions, explore ideas, and discover products in their own way may prove to be one of the most meaningful innovations of all.
Artificial Intelligence is no longer the future of marketing—it’s the now. From boosting productivity and precision to enabling smarter, more human-centered experiences, AI is revolutionizing how brands operate.
From privacy and data ethics to job disruption and creative dilution, AI in marketing is not without its complications. Here’s a closer look at the challenges marketers, businesses, and society at large must grapple with as this technology evolves.
Ryan Gavin, CMO of Slack at Salesforce, unpacks the shift from Slack as a collaboration platform to something far more ambitious: a conversational operating system where humans, data, and AI agents work side by side.
We sit down with Johann Wrede, Chief Marketing Officer at UserTesting, to explore what happens when AI summaries become the new brand front door.
Although we are not leaving optimisation behind, brands must make a more conscious effort to identify the messages that travel across content.
Every new targeting signal follows the same curve. Early movers get premium performance at low competition. Then the market catches up.
AI may industrialise advertising, but it will not automate taste.
The “Deepfakes, TikTok and Political Ads: Media Influence on the Upcoming Election” session, hosted by Advertising Week in partnership with Cint, dove into the powerful role media plays in shaping voter behavior ahead of critical elections.
The industry will need new frameworks and better technology to help clarify what “real” engagement actually means, and it needs them today, not tomorrow.
For rights holders seeking to future-proof their sponsorship strategy, the AI Experience Room may represent the next generation of monetizable sponsorship assets.
Agents, with buyers and sellers as their masters, provide an opportunity to reshape all facets of the digital advertising market in the interests of its participants, not its gatekeepers.
Everyone has an AI agent now. Very few have one that actually knows what it’s looking at. That distinction is the whole game.
In 2026, production isn’t a scarce resource, but perspective can be.
AI-built models are designed specifically to take advantage of correlations between a brand’s audience and behaviors exhibited within a database, no matter how counterintuitive those correlations may seem on the surface.
There’s an irony buried in the AI revolution that nobody wants to talk about.
Commerce media is a growth engine. But it is system intelligence, not isolated optimization, that determines how powerful that engine becomes.