How Jersey Mike’s demonstrated incremental value with AI-powered programmatic CTV

Matt Wasserlauf, CEO, Blockboard

There is no bigger buzzword in the world than AI. Right now, investments in the hundreds of billions of dollars are rolling in to pay for chips, data centers and people to build out artificial intelligence. NVIDIA, the leading AI chip-maker, just became the first five trillion-dollar company. Many on Wall Street are calling this development a bubble that could take down the entire economy. The stakes are very high.

Yet amid the hype cycle and market volatility concerns, marketers are increasingly asking themselves how — and where — AI will tangibly move the needle for advertising performance. 

Despite the promise of AI-powered optimizations, advertisers still face major inefficiencies throughout the digital ecosystem. For many brands, the unanswered question isn’t whether AI matters, but whether it is actually eliminating waste or simply automating it at scale. 

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Amazon rebuilds its ad machine for the mass market

Amazon is remaking the center of its ads business. 

What began as sponsored product placements tied closely to its retail marketplace has grown into a full-scale media network spanning streaming TV, audio, display and third-party publisher inventory. Now, the company is reorganizing how advertisers access and operate across that ecosystem. 

At this year’s unBoxed conference, Amazon introduced a unified Campaign Manager that collapses the Amazon DSP and the Ads Console into a single buying tool. It also rolled out agentic AI tools that can generate creative, build campaigns, recommend targeting and write complex Amazon Marketing Cloud queries using natural language. 

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