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.
Chan shares new research on consumer trust and explains why the brands that put people first will have the advantage.
On this episode, I sit down with Steve Bevilacqua, Principal Consultant at Cella by Randstad Digital, for a candid conversation about what AI is actually doing inside marketing organizations today.
The future of media activation is undeniably moving toward greater automation and agent-led execution.
Chan shares new research on consumer trust and explains why the brands that put people first will have the advantage.
I’m already seeing some of the least engaging advertising of my life out in the world because someone who doesn’t know better—or in some cases, should know better– thinks it looks “good enough”.
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.
By Hugo Welkers, CEO, Refinery89 The classic list of blue links is an afterthought in Google’s new vision for search. In its most recent annual I/O conference, the tech giant made it…
By Dharmesh Patel, Global Curation Strategy Lead at OnAudience As agentic AI systems take on…
The most interesting creative businesses right now aren’t the giant monoliths.
Technology alone does not create value. Only a solid data foundation can turn AI from a costly experiment into a genuine growth engine.
The next decade of AI is being built right now, in decisions happening this quarter inside companies whose leaders are reading this piece.
By Julian Diep, Paid Acquisition Consultant, Blue Grid Media Only 11% of cited domains overlap between AI engines. That changes everything about how you measure brand visibility. For two decades, marketers had…
This is the part to keep saying out loud to your teams, your CFO, and your board: the foundation we’ve all been operating in is different now, and more changes are coming.
The future of marketing is unlikely to belong to either humans or machines alone. Instead, it will belong to organizations that understand how to combine the strengths of both.
On this episode, I sit down with Steve Bevilacqua, Principal Consultant at Cella by Randstad Digital, for a candid conversation about what AI is actually doing inside marketing organizations today.
The AI referral moment will not be won in the answer box alone.
If the existing model continues to deteriorate, the answer cannot be to simply hope that the market corrects itself.
What Google quietly taught marketers about quality control, and the lesson goes well beyond local search.
The marketers who win the zero-click era won’t be the ones with the best schema markup.
Google may lose its crown, and search and marketing, plus story-telling, may become easier and less costly for the small and the bif enterprises.
Daily use of custom-built, AI-enhanced workflows and processes will be standard practice across our global workforce by year-end, and EMEA is tracking nicely against the ambition.
The real question is not whether AI will make advertising more efficient. It almost certainly will. The real question is whether the industry can prevent “better performance” from becoming a euphemism for worse markets, weaker trust, and bigger external costs.
At the end of the day, AI stands for different things to different people and, in my experience, it is artificial and its “intelligence” is debatable.
Search marketers must also become experts in the evolving effect of AI on search.
Much of the fragmentation that defines digital advertising today exists because humans are stitching together dozens of tools, intermediaries and data layers.
The question isn’t whether your brand is ready for AI. It’s whether your operating model is ready for anything at all.
The audience isn’t going anywhere. The targeting, measurement and self-serve tools will get built because OpenAI can’t scale a real ads business without them.
This is retail media’s own MACH moment, and this shift into open and transformative technologies is essential for those who are serious about making retail media work to its full potential by cutting costs and speeding up innovation.
It’s tempting for large, established brands to believe they’re insulated. History suggests otherwise.
The $1 trillion question isn’t how to make more. It’s how to finally know what works.
If your AI strategy is not designed to deepen what your organisation uniquely knows, it is not a strategy. It is an efficiency programme looking for a narrative.
Publishers may be getting the legal framework, but what they still lack is the measurement layer that tracks what actually happens to their content once it enters an AI system.