AI Ad Tech Debate Shifts Focus Toward Automated Decision-Making
· 51m ago · Originally reported by WeRSM
This piece from WeRSM discusses how artificial intelligence in advertising technology is moving beyond creative and targeting tasks toward automated decision-making. The excerpt provides no additional details, so specifics of the argument are unavailable.
Why it matters
If AI is increasingly making buying and bidding decisions on its own, advertisers and publishers will need to rethink how much human oversight to keep in programmatic systems.
Explain it like I’m new here
It's like moving from a calculator that helps you do math to a robot that decides how to spend your allowance for you.
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Ad tech
Ad tech is the software and infrastructure that decides which ad appears where, buys and sells that ad space, delivers the ad, and measures what happened afterwards.
Creative
A creative is the actual ad content a person sees or hears, such as an image, video, audio spot, HTML5 animation or native text, delivered into an ad slot.
Targeting
Targeting is choosing which people, contexts, places, devices or times should see an ad, so that the budget is spent on the audiences most likely to respond.
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