AI agent developers have become adland’s in-demand role

As marketing agencies and brands embrace AI’s agentic era, demand for AI agent developers is rising. 

Following the emergence of the chief AI officer, both indie marketing agencies and holding companies are competing to hire staff with the skills and the attitude to put theory into practice. 

“We need to bring people in who are incredibly fluent and kind of early adopters of AI tools, and who can develop agents,” said Shannon Moorman, WPP’s global head of talent attraction. “Over time, we want everyone in the company to be fluent in developing agents and conversant in these tools. But we have to start somewhere.”

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Daily Mail says Google AI Overviews have killed click-throughs

When a Google AI Overview is triggered, the Daily Mail is seeing almost no clickthroughs from that search keyword.

The average clickthrough rate is 80-90% lower when an AI Overview is triggered (when Daily Mail ranks on the first Google search page), compared to when no AI Overview is present, according to Daily Mail director of SEO and editorial e-commerce Carly Steven. 

That’s a sharp drop from the 56% lower clickthrough rate Steven cited in May 2025 at the WAN-IFRA World News Media Congress in Poland.

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