Marketing

Advertising Week Briefing: An inflection point for gaming, even if the hype has subsided

Gaming’s presence at Advertising Week 2024 was less all-encompassing than in past years — but the presence of key industry players at this year’s conference shows that gaming companies still view advertising as a key potential growth area for 2025. After bonanza years fueled by the COVID-19 lockdown, ad industry excitement around gaming has subsided somewhat in

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Brands are cautious about Google and Meta’s generative AI holiday ad push

This story was first published on sister site, Modern Retail. Major advertising platforms are pushing marketers to use generative AI to make holiday ads. Agencies and brands, however, are still unsure about integrating such technology into their playbooks. Meta’s holiday marketing guide encourages advertisers to use its generative AI creative features within its Advantage+ ad

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AI Briefing: Why Walmart is developing its own retail-specific AI models

The world’s long list of large language models now includes a macropod. On Wednesday, Walmart debuted a new set of retail-specific AI models to help power the company’s “Adaptive Retail” era of personalized shopping and customer service. Called Wallaby, the LLMs were trained on decades of Walmart data with company-specific knowledge about customers, employees, Walmart

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