"Boots is making creative earn its media spend with AI pre‑testing"
Boots uses AI to pre‑test ad creatives, allocating budget only to those predicted to perform well. The AI simulates click‑through and sales outcomes, allowing the brand to cut spend on low‑performing assets.
We can apply AI-powered pre-testing to TDA creatives to predict performance before launch, helping merchants optimize their media spend towards effective assets and improving ROAS.
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Amazon’s AI Features Roll Out, Yet Ad Revenue Lags While AWS and Ads Keep Growing
Amazon is embedding generative‑AI tools into its advertising platform, offering automated campaign creation and bid optimization, but the immediate revenue impact remains modest. Advertisers will need to start planning for these AI capabilities.
Amazon's experience indicates that even with generative AI tools, immediate revenue impact can be limited, suggesting that for our AI initiatives like TDA, we must prioritize merchant adoption and clearly demonstrate value to drive utilization.
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Amazon Ads Nears $20 B in Q3, Betting on Agentic AI for Further Growth
Amazon Ads reached roughly $20 billion in Q3, driven by the rollout of an AI‑powered “Ads Agent” that automates buying and optimization, though it raises transparency concerns.
As we advance AI-powered automation for ad buying and optimization across products like RPP and TDA-EXP, we must preemptively address potential transparency concerns from merchants, drawing lessons from Amazon's experience to build trust and adoption.
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The Stack: Ads & Acquisitions
The article maps a wave of acquisitions by major tech and ad‑tech players targeting AI‑driven advertising startups. Acquired companies specialize in ad‑delivery optimization and AI‑generated creative, indicating a sector‑wide push to build AI‑centric ad infrastructure. This trend suggests advertisers may soon need to shift to platforms that embed advanced AI capabilities.
The accelerated acquisition of AI startups by major tech companies signals an urgent industry-wide build-out of AI-based advertising infrastructure, requiring us to rapidly enhance TDA and develop AI-driven delivery optimization features to meet merchant expectations.
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ChatGPT work requests fall to 32.2% as writing loses its top spot
According to OpenAI data, the share of work requests to ChatGPT fell from 51.6% to 32.2%, with writing requests losing prominence. Concurrently, OpenAI introduced advertising placements within the ChatGPT interface, giving marketers a new channel to reach users during conversational interactions. The shift signals emerging inventory in conversational AI.
The introduction of advertisements on ChatGPT suggests conversational AI is emerging as a new advertising channel, and we should strategically explore brand exposure opportunities in such non-traditional media in the future.
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How to End the “Telephone Game” Between Development and Marketing: Three Skills and Checkpoints to Become a “Maker Marketer”
The article outlines how generative AI is reshaping the marketer‑engineer relationship, highlighting three essential abilities—prompt engineering, data literacy, and rapid prototyping—and a pre‑deployment checklist to ensure AI‑generated assets meet brand standards. It signals a move toward marketers directly creating AI‑driven ad creatives.
The trend of generative AI requiring new skills like prompt engineering and data literacy from marketers highlights the need for us to provide better tools and guidelines for TDA, enabling merchants to directly create high-quality AI-generated ad creatives.
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