Brands hold an advantage in two areas AI hasn't mastered — consumer relationships and trust
AI’s rapid expansion is reshaping how brands balance personalization and broad reach, creating new challenges and opportunities for marketing relevance.
Brands are looking beyond content creators to deepen audience trust
AI is giving people more time, freedom and tools to exercise creativity
AI is rewriting the rules of media faster than anyone can keep up, media and brand leaders said.
Communications industry leaders are split on whether AI is an effective tool to openly embrace or a technology to publicly reject
Brands have spent billions trying to reach audiences and those winning have tapped into their audiences more directly
Creators are turning down brand partnerships and limiting AI to preserve audience trust
For years, media companies feared AI would make their content worthless. It turns out AI leads all others in needing that content
AI is for operations, not content creation, media executives said
To deal with the rise of AI agents shopping on their sites and recoup value, brands have to negotiate deals, restructure their content and take risks — in a short amount of time.