Marketing

Amazon’s latest ad format offers a glimpse of advertising’s agentic future

AI recommendations are becoming the new digital shelf as people search and shop within LLM chatbots. The change has left the ad industry scrambling to determine what an ad strategy looks like without clicks, landing pages or traditional search results. At the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity this year, Amazon announced what it’s calling

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At Its First-Ever Cannes, OpenAI Says ‘We Are Clearly In The Advertising Business Now’

OpenAI didn’t make its Cannes Lions debut from a Croisette rooftop or in a branded beach club. Instead, the company summoned a small group of reporters late Monday morning to a semi-secluded outdoor patio located a roughly 15 minutes walk from the festival’s main center of gravity. It was a rather sedate way to unveil

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Cannes Briefing: Cannes is selling AI transformation. Off stage the talk is about the bill

Ask anyone on the Croisette this week what’s transforming the industry and you’ll get the same words, delivered with the same confidence, regardless of who’s talking. AI. Efficiency. Agentic. Orchestration. Spend a few hours listening to the version of the conversation that happens after the panel ends — at dinner, over a second bottle of

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Ad Tech Briefing: Agentic AI, interoperability and control dominate Cannes Lions announcements

The 2026 Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity coincided with a “red weather warning” to note dangerously high temperatures across much of continental Europe, a climatic phenomenon that reflects the pace of competition as the ad industry meets at its annual flagship gathering. Of course, it wouldn’t be a trade show without a host of announcements

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