AI agents will restore control to advertisers and publishers through programmatic CTV by boosting content transparency. Converge’s CEO Ian Maxwell believes it will open the door to more long-tail advertisers.
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In the series’ final episode, Omar Oakes and Hamish Nicklin debate for and against the prompt: “Goodbye Salesforce and Adobe because AI will end enterprise software.”
One large advertiser has a live keyword blocklist with a national news brand that contains over 34,000 words across 22 languages. That is more words than the average UK adult uses in their active vocabulary.
Google launches AI marketing assistant as it expands search and agentic commerce advertising options
The tech giant announced a slew of new ad formats for AI search and will roll out its Universal Commerce Protocol to AI Mode and YouTube. It is also launching a new Ask Advisor AI marketing assistant to help brands automate their campaigns across Google’s adtech stack.
Channel 4 reported a -1% year-on-year decline in total revenue to £1.03bn in fiscal year 2025, with the broadcaster’s leadership highlighting its “resilience” in the face of “cyclical and structural” pressures facing the UK TV advertising market.
Fluzo’s multiple data layers answer the question measurement has always promised to answer, but rarely delivered – not just who saw your campaign, but whether it mattered.
In converged TV, identity becomes the connective tissue that allows AI agents to optimise responsibly, measure reliably, and personalise coherently, CIMM white paper says.
The lobbying effort comes after the announcement of the Regulating for Growth Bill, with IAB UK finding that 95% of digital advertising companies are using AI, compared to just 16% of total UK businesses.
Sarah Miller at UKOM argues that while measurement conversations are dominated by ad metrics and outcomes, following content across platforms is crucial.
