AI & DIGITAL MARKETING NEWS
Copilot Builds Marketing’s AI Production Layer
Microsoft is bringing brand systems directly into Copilot’s production workflow. Its latest release expands Copilot’s access to approved brand assets, organisational templates and governed business data across PowerPoint, Excel and the wider Microsoft 365 environment. ....
04/08/2026
Meta AI Feeds Expand Organic Reach
04/08/2026 James Fitzgerald
Meta is using large language models to understand content more deeply across Instagram and Facebook, reshaping how posts are classified, recommended and distributed. Every public Feed and Reels post on Instagram is now processed through an LLM and assessed across factors ....
The CMO Role Is Being Rewritten
27/07/2026 James Fitzgerald
The chief marketing officer title is disappearing from many of the world’s largest companies. Only 36% of Fortune 500 businesses now use the CMO title, down from 49% in 2025, according to Forrester’s latest analysis of senior marketing leadership. Executive-level mark ....
[STUDY] LinkedIn Ads Influence More Than Leads
27/07/2026 James Fitzgerald
LinkedIn advertising remains expensive by most conventional performance measures. Dreamdata’s latest B2B advertising benchmarks put the average LinkedIn cost per click at €5.98, compared with €1.60 for Meta. LinkedIn’s average CPM reached €34.33, more than three ....
ChatGPT Builds Out Its Ad Platform
27/07/2026 James Fitzgerald
OpenAI is rapidly adding the campaign controls, audience tools and creative formats required to turn ChatGPT advertising from a limited experiment into a functioning media platform. Advertisers can now run conversion-optimised campaigns, use daily budgets, apply geographi ....
Google Search Holds Ground As AI Use Grows
21/07/2026 James Fitzgerald
Google Search was supposed to be one of generative AI's first major casualties. As ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity attracted hundreds of millions of users, a seemingly straightforward assumption took hold. Every question directed to an AI assistant represented one ....
ChatGPT "Work" Targets Business Adoption
15/07/2026 James Fitzgerald
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Work, a new agent designed to take on substantial projects across workplace apps, files and systems. Work can gather information from connected tools, break a larger objective into smaller steps and remain with a project for hours. It can produ ....
Google Adds AI Disclosure Labels To Ads
15/07/2026 James Fitzgerald
Google is introducing new disclosures showing when advertising has been created or edited using generative AI. A “How this ad was made” section will appear inside My Ad Center, accessible through the three-dot menu or information icon attached to ads across Search, Yo ....
Meta Pushes Muse Into Ad Creative
15/07/2026 James Fitzgerald
Meta has launched Muse Image, its first image generation model developed by Meta Superintelligence Labs, with plans to bring the technology into Advantage+ creative for advertisers. Muse is initially available through Meta AI and parts of Instagram and WhatsApp. Users can ....
LinkedIn Builds Its Creator Marketplace
12/07/2026 James Fitzgerald
LinkedIn is expanding its B2B creator offering through two separate initiatives: Creator Marketplace, a product within Campaign Manager, and BrandWorks, a managed creative service delivered by LinkedIn specialists to selected clients. Creator Marketplace is designed to he ....
Google Pushes Ads Into AI Answers
22/06/2026 James Fitzgerald
At Google Marketing Live 2026, Google spelled out how ads are being pushed deeper into AI-assisted journeys: answers, product discovery, shopping recommendations and lead conversations. It introduced new Gemini-built ad formats in Search and AI Mode, including Conversatio ....
ChatGPT Adds New AI Budget Controls, As Costs spiral
22/06/2026 James Fitzgerald
Marketing teams have spent the past two years being encouraged to use AI more often. Use it for campaign planning, research, content repurposing, reporting, customer insight, social copy, presentation development and every awkward first draft nobody wants to write from sc ....