Marketing technology should multiply your effort, not consume it. Automation systems and AI tools are reshaping what a lean team can accomplish, but only when implemented with clear intent.
The martech landscape has over 11,000 tools and counting. These resources focus on the ones that matter, how they connect, and how to build stacks that actually reduce workload instead of adding to it.
WPP, Publicis, IPG, Omnicom, and Dentsu are all racing to embed AI into their core advertising and media offerings. The differences between them are not cosmetic. The strategic bets each holding group has made reflect genuinely different theories about where AI creates value in advertising, and those choices will have commercial consequences for clients over…
The Coca-Cola AI ad controversy is less a story about artificial intelligence and more a story about expectations. When Coca-Cola released its AI-generated remake of its iconic 1995 “Holidays Are Coming” Christmas ad, the public reaction was swift and largely negative. Critics called it soulless, uncanny, and a cynical cost-cutting exercise dressed up as innovation….
IPG’s AI strategy is one of the more coherent plays to emerge from the holding company world. Rather than announcing a single AI product and calling it a transformation, IPG has been building AI into its media planning infrastructure, creative production workflows, and data capabilities in a way that reflects how agencies actually operate at…
Coca-Cola’s AI-generated advertising has become one of the most discussed experiments in modern marketing, and not entirely for the right reasons. The brand used generative AI to recreate its iconic 1995 “Holidays Are Coming” Christmas ad, and the reaction was swift, polarised, and genuinely instructive for anyone thinking seriously about where this technology fits in…
Agentic AI advertising refers to systems that can plan, execute, and optimise ad campaigns autonomously, making decisions in real time without waiting for human input at each step. Unlike generative AI, which produces content on request, agentic AI acts on objectives. You give it a goal and a budget, and it figures out the path….
AI in advertising agencies is changing how work gets done, but not always in the ways the vendor decks suggest. The shift is less about replacing creative talent and more about removing the low-value labour that surrounds it: briefing admin, asset versioning, performance reporting, audience segmentation, copy iteration. Agencies that understand this distinction are moving…
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