Marketing

How AI is moving more ad production in-house

Some global companies are expanding AI ad production in-house, while analysts say agencies continue to provide strategy, creative direction, and specialist support. Executives from Kimberly-Clark, Catalyst Brands, and Target India told Reuters that their teams in India are using AI across parts of the marketing process. These include creating product images and videos, choosing influencers,

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Publishers quietly cut ‘six-figure’ deals via Snowflake’s AI licensing platform

Publishers are quietly cutting six-figure AI licensing deals on Snowflake, as the data giant positions itself as matchmaker-in-chief between locked-down news content and enterprises keen to plug reliable publisher content into their own internal AI tools via retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). For publishers, the cloud platform’s Cortex Knowledge Extensions act as a monetized RAG pipe: a

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Overheard at IAB Tech Lab Summit: Tim Berners-Lee on the agentic web

Digiday readers need no reminder that the internet’s infrastructure, not to mention its funding, is in flux, causing equal amounts of trepidation and excitement among those earning a living in the digital economy. Amid this dynamic, IAB Tech Lab, the body responsible for setting tech standards in the ad industry, hosted its annual summit this

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Future of Marketing Briefing: OpenAI is working with Skai to bring retail and commerce advertisers into ChatGPT

OpenAI may be telling marketers to treat ChatGPT as a test channel rather than a performance one but its partner deals, tech builds and measurement moves tell a different story about the advertiser it actually wants.  The latest is a deal with commerce media platform Skai, according to two sources with knowledge of it.  This

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