X upgrades its ad platform in long overdue overhaul

OpenAI isn’t the only platform rethinking its ads manager. X just rolled out what it’s calling the biggest overhaul of its advertising tools in the platform’s history.

The revamp, framed invariably as an AI-powered upgrade, is already being deployed globally, with features including retrieval and ranking systems being updated on a rolling basis, as the platform shifts toward contextual and semantic ad delivery.

While X has not detailed the full scope of specific features or system-level changes expected, the team does expect that the full ads platform should be ready “later this year,” X’s global head of advertising Monique Pintarelli said. It’s a direct extension of X’s broader integration with xAI, and is currently in testing with a select group of advertisers.

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The Rundown: Google expands AI Max as automation shifts upstream

The agentic era of the internet is well and truly underway, with the accompanying quest on how to monetize it, i.e., the AI ad wars, occurring simultaneously.

OpenAI’s advertising pilots in ChatGPT have garnered much of the recent headlines, although the biggest company in adland — that’s still Google, BTW — is likewise evolving its offering.

Google is widening the scope of its AI Max ad product, extending it beyond search into shopping and travel, while introducing new controls designed to make automation more steerable for advertisers. 

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