Advertising Week New York, a four-day conference that draws nearly 20,000 of adland’s finest, is renowned for on-stage programming tinged with optimism and creator reps angling for their 15 minutes in the spotlight. However, out in the snaking lines outside the conference venue, nearby hotels and dive bars,…
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Compute is about to become the next big commodity in advertising. The economics demand it. AI has gotten expensive enough, fast enough, that holdco CEOs are now being asked outright how funding it won’t come at the expense of staying profitable. The IAB Europe’s chief economist Daniel Knapp…
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AI has sparked a new level of optimism in advertising, with many hoping that autonomous agents will solve long-standing issues around speed, efficiency and performance. But adding more agents is not the same as improving outcomes. In a fragmented system, more intelligence often creates more noise. The systems…
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People no longer trust what they see, and the ad industry hasn’t agreed on what honesty looks like in response. Does an AI-generated background warrant a label? What about a synthesized soundtrack? Or does the threshold only kick in when it’s a human face, a product claim or…
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The privacy debate in advertising is entering a phase where decisions will stick. Yes, the industry has heard that before. It heard it when the General Data Protection Regulation arrived and data privacy officers multiplied across Europe. It heard it when the California Consumer Privacy Act pushed privacy…
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Nearly a decade after it began acquiring agencies, Accenture’s marketing arm is now comparable to the largest ad agency holdcos — and is still aggressively expanding — while sitting outside many of the structural constraints that define them. Accenture Song generated roughly $20 billion in revenue over its…
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