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Author: Rakuten Advertising
Agency AI pitches are starting to face harder questions
Despite the ubiquity of artificial intelligence in marketing materials over the past three years, its application within advertising is arguably much more established than many industry observers realize.
However, what has changed is not the existence of AI itself, but the prominence of the language surrounding it (you may have noticed).
Since the early 2020s, terms such as “AI-powered,” “end-to-end,” “transparent,” “open ecosystem,” and, more recently, “agentic” have become near-universal fixtures in agency marketing — almost to the point where the use of the term “AI” in a pitch or conference stage has become meaningless.
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