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Taz Patel joined Perplexity in December as head of advertising, just a few weeks after the company began experimenting with ads on its platform.

Scope3’s new agentic AI platform can automatically filter out inventory that’s considered a high climate risk, including made-for-advertising content.

Naming a new product “Business AI” feels a bit on the nose for Meta’s current artificial intelligence efforts. But in this case, it’s certainly applicable.

There are many open questions for marketers who want to implement AI-driven ad tech – and for customers considering the new AI-powered Oral-B. What does it even mean when a vendor touts its AI capabilities?

On Tuesday, data platform Hightouch announced it closed $80 million Series C funding at a $1.2 billion valuation.

On Tuesday, software company Inuvo launched IntentKey, an audience insights platform that uses an advanced AI agent to create real-time models for targeting ads.

What makes fans tick? Media agency Elevate is using AI to try and answer that question with a solution for targeting specific sports and entertainment fandoms.

Nodals AI launches, with its own spin on the custom algorithm ad tech category.

Digital advertising’s potency has always come down to knowing what the audience is searching for and the sites they’re visiting online. But what if your audience isn’t looking at search results anymore? What if they’re seeking recommendations from ChatGPT instead?

Morgan Pomish, head of innovation solutions at Digitas, shares what brand leaders and advertisers should consider before jumping on a tech bandwagon.

Good news for the skeptics: 2025 will hopefully be a year of more practical AI use cases for advertising, especially as agencies get more hands-on with the tech.

Before first-party data can save us all from signal loss, advertisers need tools that make first-party data more accessible and easier to use, said fullthrottle.ai CPO Amol Waishampayan.

On Thursday, TV measurement company Samba TV announced its acquisition of audience data and contextual targeting solution Semasio.

Meta’s capex in 2024 will clock in somewhere between $38 billion and $40 billion, roughly $1 billion more than previously anticipated. Where’s most of that money going? AI, of course.

On Tuesday, self-serve CTV platform Vibe.co announced its new suite of four different AI-powered features, including a video ad generator.

On Monday, Pixability announced the launch of a product called GenAI Contextual Segments (CGS), with a goal to reach specific audiences across a wider range of YouTube content.

On Tuesday, mar tech company GrowthLoop announced the launch of its new customer data platform, called The Loop.

Many marketers are eager to learn what generative artificial intelligence products can do for their brands. But before everyone gets too preoccupied with “could,” the Brandtech Group believes it’s time to consider the “should.”

The inspiration for creating Actionable is right there in the company’s name. Its aim is to help companies predict whether their customers are satisfied and then take action on that information.

Artificial intelligence is often incorrectly touted as a one-size-fits-all solution to any problem. But Omnicom’s new generative AI virtual assistant, Omni Assist, is narrowing AI’s focus to solve for specific agency challenges.

These days it seems like there’s an AI tool for everything. Now there’s even an AI tool to manage your AI tools.

Admiral, a startup that first got its start with ad block recovery tools, announced the close of a $19 million growth equity and debt funding round on Wednesday.

Media teams and creative teams can sometimes butt heads. But Alli, an AI-powered analytics tool, suggests an alternative.

Most digital marketers know the importance of personalized ad creative. But even those brands often use a one-size-fits-all landing page. That’s the problem startup Fibr hopes to solve.

Many AI tools analyze and make decisions based on large amounts of data, or quickly generate creative content. AdCreative.ai, however, wants to do both.

Leaf, a UK-based challenger brand in the laundry space, doubled its sales by using AdSapiens, an automated creative optimization platform from digital advertising firm Adludio.

AdGPT, a startup that uses AI to automatically create hundreds of ads across Facebook, Instagram, Taboola, Outbrain, Google, LinkedIn and X, came out of stealth mode on Wednesday.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg cautioned that it will likely take years before Meta’s generative AI products, including Meta AI, are ready for monetization.

Digital media agency Hotspex Media’s emotional contextual tool, Reticle AI, analyzes the emotions an ad is trying to evoke and the context of where the ad might show up to find congruent ad placements.

Last year, eyeo partnered with a university student initiative in Munich to have students find new approaches to using AI in the company’s online ad filtering.