iconic mascots they know and love, those they might have forgotten about, and some they might not have heard of before, but
are excited for the introduction.
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Consumers already have more information than they know what to do with, so adding another marketing message rarely solves the problem.
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AI Is Amazing. Your Ads About It Still Have to Be True.
In recent decisions involving companies in different industries, NAD has sketched out a practical roadmap for how advertisers should (and shouldn’t) talk about AI. Here are four lessons from those cases.
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Consumers already have more information than they know what to do with, so adding another marketing message rarely solves the problem.
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AI as a tool versus agentic AI, looking at it like a Pixar movie, and embracing the culture shift that comes with it all.
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