Why Google Veo 3.1 beats Seedance & Grok? The brutal truth about AI video ads production

Why Google Veo 3.1 beats Seedance & Grok? The brutal truth about AI video ads production

Ahead of our exclusive AI workshop at GrowBoat Barcelona, Admiral Media stress-tested Google Veo 3.1, Grok Imagine, and Seedance V1.5 under real production constraints. Here is the raw, data-backed reality of which engine actually scales ad creative and which fractures under pressure. Most AI video production tools look incredible in promotional demos but only few…

Big Four firms post more job ads for AI specialists than auditors – The Irish Times

Big Four firms post more job ads for AI specialists than auditors – The Irish Times

The Big Four accounting firms posted more job adverts for AI specialists than auditors last year in a sign of how the technology is reshaping professional services firms. Roles requiring AI skills made up almost 7 per cent of job postings by Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC in English-speaking countries in 2025, an FT analysis…

Meta Ads AI: Features that drive better ad results

Meta Ads AI: Features that drive better ad results

Meta Ads AI: Features that drive better ad results Meta Ads AI leverages generative AI, machine learning, and data insights to help advertisers improve campaign performance while reducing manual setup. Built into the Advantage+ Ads manager, this system makes creating, testing, and optimizing ads across Meta’s platforms faster and easier. The platform automates creative generation…

Google Ads Safety Report 2025: Gemini AI Blocks Billions of Bad Ads, India Impact

Google Ads Safety Report 2025: Gemini AI Blocks Billions of Bad Ads, India Impact

Google’s 2025 Ads Safety Report says Gemini AI improved real-time detection of malicious advertising, helping remove 483.7 million policy-violating ads and suspend 1.7 million advertiser accounts in India. Globally, Google blocked or removed more than 8.3 billion bad ads and suspended 24.9 million advertiser accounts, stopping over 99 per cent before users saw them. Business…

Estate agents advised on Google Ads strategies for 2026

Estate agents advised on Google Ads strategies for 2026

Estate agents are being advised to focus on four specific types of Google Ads to maximise their digital marketing effectiveness, according to industry guidance on paid advertising campaigns. With Google Ads holding nearly 30% of the pay-per-click advertising market, the platform offers multiple advertising formats tailored to different business objectives, from brand awareness to vendor…

Google outlines AI-powered, agent-driven future for shopping and ads in 2026

Google outlines AI-powered, agent-driven future for shopping and ads in 2026

Google is redesigning shopping and advertising around AI-powered, agent-driven experiences, and said speed and certainty will converge for consumers and brands in 2026. In her third annual letter, Vidhya Srinivasan, Google’s VP and GM of Ads and Commerce, outlined how Search, YouTube, and its shopping infrastructure are being rebuilt for the agentic era — where…

Google Discover Core Update, Listicles Hit, Google Ads, ChatGPT Ads Ready & Microsoft Publisher Content Marketplace

Google Discover Core Update, Listicles Hit, Google Ads, ChatGPT Ads Ready & Microsoft Publisher Content Marketplace

This week, we covered the first core update of 2026, the February 2026 Discover core update. Meanwhile, there is an ongoing super-heated and volatile Google search rankings. Google has nothing to share about the recent unconfirmed ranking updates. Google said its search algorithms, spam detection, spam policies did not fundamentally change with AI Search. Google…

15 Fixes To Improve Low Conversion Rates In Google Ads

15 Fixes To Improve Low Conversion Rates In Google Ads

Many Google Ads accounts generate steady traffic but struggle to turn that traffic into outcomes the business actually values, such as purchases, qualified leads, or demo requests. That disconnect usually isn’t caused by a lack of demand or a broken platform. It’s more often the result of small, fixable issues across the account that quietly…

ChatGPT is getting ads — and OpenAI is finally admitting the AI race runs on money

ChatGPT is getting ads — and OpenAI is finally admitting the AI race runs on money

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 17 — OpenAI announced yesterday it will begin testing advertisements on ChatGPT in the coming weeks, as the wildly popular artificial intelligence chatbot seeks to increase revenue to cover its soaring costs. The ads will initially appear in the United States for free and lower-tier subscribers, the company said in a blog…

Walmart Rolls Out AI Ads Inside Sparky Shopping Assistant

Walmart Rolls Out AI Ads Inside Sparky Shopping Assistant

Walmart has announced its expansion in its advertising business, as it introduced Generative AI ads into Sparky. Sparky is Walmart’s in-app AI shopping assistant aimed to help customers search products, check availability and give recommendations. It used AI models to interact with customers in a conversational manner to make product suggestions, answer pressing questions and…