At Digiday’s Media Buying Summit, challenges with talent recruitment bubble to the surface

There’s a talent problem in the media agency world, and it starts at the bottom — meaning the entry level. 

(There’s a whole different talent problem in the C-suite as well, as a steady dribble of executives leave one holding company for another — but that’s a story for another time.)

The rising use of AI for entry-level and sometimes menial tasks has started to jeopardize the ability of young people to break into the agency business. At a Town Hall discussion held during the Digiday Media Buying Summit in Nashville on March 12 — a meeting that was held under Chatham House Rules, which guarantees anonymity for the agency attendees — some media agency folks spoke of that very problem. 

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Scope3 aims to upend ad tech with an ‘agentic platform’ for ‘effective, responsible advertising’ 

Today, Scope3 used its inaugural Landscape conference hosted in New York City to launch its new AI-powered “agentic advertising platform” and a host of partnership announcements.

Scope3 CEO Brian O’Kelley — widely regarded as a godfather in the space — and partners hope the initiative will help light a touchpaper that will upend the status quo in ad tech. 

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Execs at Scope3 hope its “agentic advertising platform” will use AI to streamline the industry supply chain and address inefficiencies in the digital media buying space, such as brand safety concerns,

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