WPP expands AI capabilities to boost brand performance with Sightly partnership

WPP, Digiday has learned, has partnered with analytics firm Sightly to tap its brand mentality platform that suggests content targets based on what marketers want their brands to be associated with.

The move signals a era of agencies putting AI to use helping brands help themselves is upon us. And both holding companies and independent agencies are getting into the game. And similarly, in other breaking news, independent full service agency Zambezi has launched an brand performance gap tool that helps brands assess ways to improve brand-driven advertising to reach a $1 billion valuation threshold.

Both tools employ AI tools to help do the requisite digging on behalf of brands to evaluate gaps and harness opportunities in their campaign work.

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How AI is reinventing the holiday gift guide

This story was first published by Digiday sibling Modern Retail

The humble gift guide is taking on even greater importance this holiday season.

Beyond driving immediate sales, brands this year are angling to get into gift guides to help them with SEO and GEO, and build overall awareness in the long term. But, rather than taking a “spray and pray” approach, companies are getting more selective about who they pitch, and why, to increase the odds that they get into the most relevant gift guides for their brand. That includes pitching Substacks, developing relationships with human editors and finding the right niche audiences.

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