During this year’s Cannes Lions, Advertising Week and Kindred joined forces to host Converge, a series of conversations about the future of mindful innovation in communications and creativity.

During this year’s Cannes Lions, Advertising Week and Kindred joined forces to host Converge, a series of conversations about the future of mindful innovation in communications and creativity.
The future of CTV advertising is rich with opportunity. With AI and blockchain at the helm, advertisers can expect more sophisticated targeting, enhanced fraud prevention, and greater contextual relevance.
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.
Ultimately, AI has brought about a revolution in how advertising is created and delivered. It is both enabling faster ideation and creation, inspiring new directions, and even making it possible for advertisers to leverage new channels that reach audiences who had previously become unreachable.
In the always-evolving domain of digital media, where the potential for mismatches between ad content and the environment that surrounds it has exploded, ensuring ad compliance and brand safety have never been more vital.
In a world where AI can churn out content in seconds and mimic nearly any tone, one thing remains irreplaceable: lived human experience. Emotion isn’t coded — it’s felt.
We sat down with Cindy Chow of Alibaba during Viva Tech in Paris, to discuss about the future of commerce and retail, in light of what AI does and can do. Here is our exchange.
The future of marketing leadership will depend on professionals who can assess AI output critically, flag hallucinations, and blend automation with human insight and judgment.
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.
Is technology going to help us all to be healthier and, especially, more caring, as we deploy advancements like GenAI and AI agents?
We are heading toward a future where a headless martech ecosystem, built on four to six interconnected platforms and orchestrated by AI agents, could run multi-billion-dollar campaigns with just two or three operators.
As ongoing interactions lead to higher levels of trust, AI companies can begin to come together and foster the synergy needed to develop effective security solutions.
The next wave of media buying won’t be layered on top of our tools. It’ll be built into their core.
Over the past decade, influencer marketing has grown from a fringe experiment to a cornerstone of brand strategy. The human element of this business is at risk of being overshadowed by the allure of AI.
AI will give us speed and knowledge. Brands need to decide how to use these super-powers. And that’s a profoundly human decision.
As AI will help us do our current job better and better, my wish for all of us, humans, is to be knowledge seekers, social capitalists and challengers. Always.
Though AI will never replace creativity, there are plenty of areas where it does excel over humans—like identifying patterns, predictive modeling, or processing massive amounts of data.