Agentic AI intelligence for advertising executives
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ChatGPT ads represent a new advertising channel powered by LLMs, creating novel opportunities and challenges around brand safety and control. The article examines how this emerging surface reshapes the customer journey and advertising ecosystem as impressions and transactions shift from traditional web properties to conversational AI platforms.
Read →Hershey has developed an AI-enabled media mix modeling (MMM) system to optimize media investment decisions, with the company's programmatic chief indicating further agentic AI applications are planned. The confectionary advertiser is actively exploring how AI agents can inform and automate media planning and buying decisions across the organization.
Read →A State of the Industry Report examining agentic advertising adoption across publishers, advertisers, and agencies, covering investment levels, organizational readiness, implementation barriers, and business impact. The report positions agentic AI as the latest optimization approach transforming media buying and selling operations.
Read →The IAB's 2026 NewFronts event highlights the streaming and CTV marketplace's evolution toward real-time, AI-driven operations including agentic execution, creative expression, and measurement. The event signals industry recognition that agentic AI is becoming central to video buying, selling, and optimization across the digital video ecosystem.
Read →Taboola reports that 76% of advertisers are seeing improved performance from agentic AI solutions, with growing interest in deploying these capabilities across open web ecosystems beyond walled gardens. The research indicates strong advertiser adoption of AI-powered performance tools and expansion of agentic AI use cases in the advertising ecosystem.
Read →Target's Roundel launches Precision Plus, an AI-powered performance engine designed to optimize retail media campaigns for both efficiency and growth. The agentic tool leverages AI to improve audience targeting and campaign optimization within Roundel's retail media network.
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