Dollar Shave Club’s bet: AI makes agencies optional, not obsolete

Dollar Shave Club already makes 90% of its advertising in-house. Its new brand boss wants AI to close the rest of the gap.

“We are 90% in-house,” said Dollar Shave Club’s chief brand and innovation officer Laura Higgins, when asked how much of the brand’s advertising is done internally. Asked if that figure could climb further as AI becomes more embedded in how her team works, she said: “I hope so.”

It’s not because she believes agencies are heading for extinction. On the contrary, the former Procter & Gamble marketer thinks they still have plenty to offer — just less for a challenger brand of Dollar Shave Club’s size that leans on being nimble and fast rather than farming out its “irreverent” voice. AI, in her telling, just compounds that advantage.

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Ad Tech Briefing: Corporate America finally buys into soccer as a mainstream sport; shadier elements of the ad industry are obliging

The FIFA World Cup 2026, co-hosted across North America for the first time, has spelled out what some in U.S. media circles have known for some time: association football, or “soccer” to use local parlance, is now big in America, and it’s time for corporations to cash in at pace — one hydration break at a time. 

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The fact that the U.S. Men’s National Team has consistently generated live audiences in and around the 30 million mark and has warranted presidential intervention, per media reports, underlines an already popular notion: sports is one of the last big live audience mass-market TV networks advertisers can reach.     

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