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.

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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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Why Dove is betting on hundreds of creators for the World Cup

Dove Men is activating what could be considered a small army of content creators for the FIFA World Cup.

The Unilever-owned personal care line has hired hundreds of creators from mega creators, like Marshawn Lynch and Jordyn Woods, to micro talent tiers (creators with 10,000 and 100,000 followers) to get in front of at least 150 million potential viewers — at least that’s the hope of Jake Hirsch, head of Dove Men, U.S. at Unilever.

While the last FIFA World Cup final alone reached approximately 1.5 billion viewers, marketers are tasked with cranking out enough content to last the length of the World Cup — 48 teams and 104 games across North America.

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