Media agencies are finding new uses for AI while AI-generated creative still lags

Media agencies are finding more uses for AI to automate routine campaign tasks, but when it comes to creative content, the technology still fails to impress.

At the Digiday Media Buying Summit in Nashville, agency leaders said generative AI still falls short in delivering high-quality creative output, even as more companies leverage AI to optimize and streamline media operations.

David Dweck, svp of paid media at Wpromote, shared how his media agency leverages AI from companies like EDO — co-founded by actor Edward Norton — to analyze spot-by-spot search and conversion uplift based on ad creative and network programming. Wpromote also uses AI from Google to analyze display and YouTube assets, refine creative across social and search and then feed weekly optimizations into a large language model for insights. While it’s improving measurement and reporting efficiency, Dweck still finds AI-generated creative underwhelming.

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TikTok ban looms closer, leaving more questions than answers in its wake

The halfway point for the looming TikTok ban has passed, leaving more questions than answers – not only for users, but for advertisers, marketers and creators alike. 

Back in January, TikTok was temporarily banned in the U.S. before President Trump signed an executive order extending the ban deadline for 75 days, marking April 5 as the new deadline (T-Day, if you will) for ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent company, to divest from the company. 

Since then, Trump has said his administration is working with parties interested in purchasing TikTok, but it’s still unclear who the new parent company will be. Meanwhile, TikTok competitors like YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels are using TikTok’s flailing as an opportunity to lure in the platform’s creators and advertisirs. 

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