Dentsu strikes Meta deal to build plumbing for mass influencer activation

Major advertisers marshal increasingly large hosts of influencers to support their marketing goals. But many lack the necessary internal scaffolding to connect creators with campaign briefs quickly enough to make that scale count.

Agency holding group Dentsu is attempting to build up that scaffolding via a partnership announced today (July 7) with Instagram, Threads and Facebook parent firm Meta.

The Japanese-owned holding company is set to integrate the tech firm’s Creator Marketplace and Partnership Ads into its operating system Dentsu.connect through an API partnership. In plain English, it’s allowing users of its internal systems to manage social listening, creator selection and paid activation within the same dashboard, blending Dentsu’s own data with Meta’s platform.

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Ad Tech Briefing: Corporate America finally buys into soccer as a mainstream sport; shadier elements of the ad industry are obliging

The FIFA World Cup 2026, co-hosted across North America for the first time, has spelled out what some in U.S. media circles have known for some time: association football, or “soccer” to use local parlance, is now big in America, and it’s time for corporations to cash in at pace — one hydration break at a time. 

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The fact that the U.S. Men’s National Team has consistently generated live audiences in and around the 30 million mark and has warranted presidential intervention, per media reports, underlines an already popular notion: sports is one of the last big live audience mass-market TV networks advertisers can reach.     

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