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This year’s Cannes Lions was an inflection point where ‘AI stopped being the headline and simply became part of the creative process.’

He’s ditching businesses that make mud flaps and cheese samplers, outsourcing IT, and says the “wholesale slaughter of people” is over

Adtech’s agentic moment arrived at Cannes Lions 2026. Major players, including Nvidia, Yahoo, Palantir, Pinterest, and Fox, among others, unveiled foundational infrastructure that allows AI agents to connect with each other to perform marketing tasks previously done by humans. 

As agentic advertising gains momentum, publishers now face a familiar quandary in a new form. The promise of agentic advertising is appealing. If software can automate planning, packaging, forecasting, proposal generation and campaign execution, publishers should be able to operate more efficiently while connecting buyers and sellers more directly.  The question is whether the market

Apple abandoned its ad network; Did Cannes Lions abandon its creators?; and CMOs decide how much to abandon creative budgets. The post They Look Like Ants From Up Here; Watch Out For Confused Creators appeared first on AdExchanger.

Somewhere in Cannes over dinner, one ad exec asked the question nobody likes asking out loud: would anyone actually notice if they just didn’t turn up to any of this? They weren’t being cynical. If anything, they were being candid. They’d spent the week running from meeting to meeting and couldn’t point to a single

Last year, Unilever laid out an ambitious World Cup strategy, not long after declaring it would devote half of its media spend to social and creator marketing. As the official personal care brand of the FIFA World Cup 2026, the plans included activating tens of thousands of creators at home, at games and at branded

The topic of AI was inescapable no matter where you went during last week’s Cannes Lions, and very much was said on panels, along the Croisette and in the suites and meeting rooms of the big hotels. Digiday even hosted a video interview series whose primary topic was AI’s disintermediation effect on how CPG marketers

Signal loss used to be something the industry managed around. Now, with AI in the mix, it’s becoming something you can actually monetize. AdExchanger Editorial Director Sarah Sluis sits down with Fabrice Beer-Gabel, SVP of Strategy and Partnerships at Intent IQ, to unpack how publishers and advertisers are flipping the script on identity-less environments —

This post was created in partnership with GroundTruth  Younger consumers are changing retail by blending online viral trends with in-store shopping. During an ADWEEK House Cannes Lions panel co-hosted with […]