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  • Marketers Embrace AI, Just Not For Media Buying; Holdco Gen Z Summer

    Not On My Dime Marketers are increasingly using AI, but mostly for low-stakes tasks, not media-buying decisions.  A Digiday survey of more than 100 marketers names data analysis and content creation as the most popular AI use cases. Advertisers surveyed also prefer AI for social and retail media compared to other channels. One could argue […]

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    AI SEO Has Brands Astroturfing Reddit; Outcomes Obsession Fuels Principal Media

    Search and web traffic is getting replaced by AI, so earned media placements don’t quite look the same. Plus: More scrutiny on principal media.

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    Be-wear More Ad Networks!; CES Is Much Ado About AI

    Ring In The New Year The “everything is an ad network” trend will live forever.  There are always new advertising canvases and data sources to be plumbed. For instance, consumer wearables are primed to go off in 2026, Bloomberg reports, especially accessories and rings. That said, smart watches remain the top wearables choice by far, […]

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    Why Google’s Small AI Creative Step Is A Big Leap; The News Is … Not Good

    Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Black Boxes All The Way Down Unsurprisingly, Google’s first AI-generated creative, which forms custom imagery and copywriting by prompt, was built into Performance Max, Google’s AI-operated advertising product. In a way, creative generation is the black box inside the black box of campaign optimization, […]