AI Advertising Slop Is on the Rise. The Cure? The STFU Brand Strategy

AI advertising slop is on the rise. The cure? The STFU brand strategy

There’s a statistic that’s been making the rounds for the better part of a decade that says the average person is exposed to about 10,000 ads every day. This has always sounded a tad suspect, as it amounts to an ad every six seconds of our waking day (it has since been debunked). But maybe the reason it’s persisted this long is because it really feels true.  Our feeds are saturated with ads. The airwaves, TV broadcasts, sports sidelines, team je…

In the Netherlands, McDonald's halts an advertising campaign that uses AI

The fast-food chain's campaign, which sparked a torrent of criticism on social media, was pulled from YouTube on Wednesday.