Or at least for Gen Z. The Harris Poll found that 21% of Gen Z would outsource the purchase of common household goods shopping to a personalized AI agent if they could.
Almost half of all AI answers had at least one significant issue, according to new research from the European Broadcasting Union and the BBC.
Three separate reports from PayPal, Deloitte and Measure Protocol show how AI has increasingly become the influencer when consumers are ready to make decisions on how much, where and when they will
spend their dollars.
Nano Banana came to Google Search and NotebookLM this week, with Photos the next step. One analyst believes Google's AI image-editing model spread virally based on word of mouth, with no involvement
from Google. Here's why.
The future of media and marketing research will be an increasingly synthetic one, combining AI and human experiences in ways that are better than either could be on their own.
OpenAI is testing political bias in ChatGPT and its models' ability to remain objective by mirroring real-world uses. About 500 prompts spanning 100 topics and various political slants were used to
determine whether bias exists, under what conditions it emerges and what it looks like.
The search engine will automatically recognize the type of query the person asks, and provide a response without switching modes to the Ask Brave feature, pulling answers from videos, web pages, and a
variety of products.
Jason Downie, global CRO of Making Science's RAISING division, described generative AI and agentic AI with the analogy of a baseball game. The industry isn't even in the first inning - it has not
entered the stadium yet.
"Our goal is to build multimodel general intelligence," Luma AI CEO Amit Jain said, explaining that the company wants to build what comes after text-based large language models to further creativity.
A click in Creative Studio enables a conversational chat that provides access to the AI-powered tool. The agent will ask for product webpages, Amazon product detail pages, relevant audiences, brand
guidelines, and previous brand ads or images.
BrightEdge's data gives the industry a reality check. Here's why AI search owns the research phase of the purchase process, and why traditional search still owns the conversions.
WPP Media's updated Advertising in 2030 report highlights trends as well as the future of media, technology and commerce as viewed by industry experts. Much of it revolves around biometrics and GAI.
Recent data compares the cosmic Big Bang to events in advertising such as the AI chatbot explosion that is reshaping the ways humans interact with technology.
The more data SparkToro founder Rand Fishkin gathers, the more he believes the " 'AI vs. Search' narrative is largely made up by media and influencers seeking attention, rather than an accurate
reflection of reality."
Four out of five consumers say AI now shapes how they "perceive reality," according to new research from PMG and Snap, which also reveals both positive and negative lifts from brands using it.
Advertisers concerned about using too much energy or harming the environment through searches or media buys may want to consider another way to connect with potential and existing customers.
When a user asks about the best CRM for startups, a brand page typically responds with "Schedule a demo," while Reddit has a thread comparing options. This is why Reddit gets cited in ChatGPT. Here
are more examples.
Data, analysis, and analytics are a major part of safeguards. A research paper describes multistep reasoning and how Claude thinks before it gives a response.
Google, Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI, among others, want to own AI search, agents, commerce and related markets - igniting all-out competition to attract ad experts, while throwing millions and even
billions behind projects to acquire engineering talent.
DoubleVerify research shows that agencies spend 26% of their time manually optimizing client campaigns, averaging out to about 10 hours per week for every employee worldwide.
"Welcome to the new age of decision dominance" reads a tag used by Aaru, the researcher partnering with IPG to create an agents-based studio simulating human responses to ads, media and other campaign
variables.
Metehan Yesilyurt, growth marketing manager at AppSamurai, analyzed browser-level interactions with Perplexity's infrastructure and believes he has discovered how content is evaluated and ranked.
As OpenAI released reasoning LLMs on Tuesday, some publishers have once again begun locking down content. WalletHub CEO believes Google went from organizing the world's information to stealing it,
taking a sledgehammer to the contract the open web relied on.
Researchers have introduced a systematic framework for LLMs that emphasizes their indifference to truth. A high score signals the model is producing confident-sounding statements with a degree of
certainty or reliability.
The authors propose a 'transformer-based model" that will analyze multichannel sequences of customer interactions.
Google's Q2 earnings show AI Overviews continue to increase search activity, with new data suggesting they drive over 10% more queries. AIO now has 2 billion monthly users and apparently, has not
reduced the need to search.
As AI continues to reshape how people discover brands, evaluate options, and make decisions, data from Yext reveals clear shifts in search behavior across markets and generations.
As long as consumers are willing to share personal information with AI agents, AI from companies like Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic will plan their trip, pick out and purchase
wardrobe and automatically tell them how much it will cost to plan and complete the trip.
In a new study from Mediaocean, 72% of media and marketing execs said they believe generative AI is "the most important consumer trend," followed by streaming and social media video platforms at 51%.
"Grok for Government" aims to shape xAI's commercial products such as Grok 4 and Deep Search for government use, including custom AI models for national security and research customers.