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5 receipts tracked • 88% industry hit rate
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RECEIPT #BEN-TH
OCT 29, 2024
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Ben Thompson“LLMs themselves will transform advertising, not just by generating copy and images, but by predicting the ads and content that people want to see.”
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Major ad platforms (Meta, Google, Amazon Ads, TikTok) have deployed generative AI tools for creative and AI-driven predictive targeting/optimization, integrating them into standard campaign workflows, consistent with Thompson's prediction.
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stratechery.comRECEIPT #LOU-PA
JUL 01, 2025
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Lou Paskalis““We’re finally at a point where technology has caught up with the aspiration of marketing when it comes to personalized experiences.” After a year of existential hand‑wringing about AI’s impact on jobs, Paskalis believes the industry is finally ready to move past fear and embrace AI as a tool for efficiency and creativity.”
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By late 2025 and into 2026, AI-driven personalization became widely deployed, reflecting technology catching up with marketing aspirations. Industry sentiment shifted from "existential fear" to "pragmatic adoption" with brands seeking efficiency and creative enhancement, supporting his forecast of embracing AI as a tool for efficiency and creativity.
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Beet.TVRECEIPT #ANDREW
JAN 01, 2024
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Andrew Lipsman“Agentic Commerce Is (Still) a Collective Hallucination”
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As of early 2025, AI agents for commerce remain largely in pilot/experimental stages with limited widespread adoption, supporting Lipsman's caution about the near-term feasibility of the grand 'agentic commerce' vision.
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news.marketecture.tvRECEIPT #MARK-R
OCT 03, 2024
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Mark Ritson“On AI, it told marketers to focus on AI’s ability to personalise content, automate processes and make predictions. But he warned that even the most advanced AI was only as good as the data that powered it." and "Look, I'm not going to sit here and tell you AI isn't a big deal. It's as big as a whale and just as hard to ignore. But this notion that 80% of marketing will be done with AI? That's like saying 80% of cooking will be done with a blender. It's a tool, not a bloody replacement for everything we do.”
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Early evidence supports the forecast that AI is a powerful tool in marketing, used for personalization, automation, and predictions, but has not become a near-total replacement for marketers' work, contradicting the "80% of marketing done by AI" notion.
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WFA (World Federation of Advertisers)RECEIPT #MALORI
MAY 17, 2024
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Malorie Benjamin“understanding that the depreciation of cookies is already here in many capacities, she believes 2024 will be filled with many new solutions and providers bringing forward cookie-less measurement platforms.”
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In May 2024, Benjamin predicted 2024 would see many new cookie-less measurement platforms emerge. This has indeed occurred, with numerous solutions being developed and implemented in response to privacy changes and cookie deprecation.
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