September 05, 2025 With uncertain futures, creatives must lean into imagination BY Kwame Taylor-Hayford Despite the upsides of progress and innovation, the future can also be a never-ending source of anxiety. For many, early excitement and enthusiasm for experimentation eventually gives way to massive fears about disruption. For creatives especially, recent opinions about the future typically … Continue reading With uncertain futures, creatives must lean into imagination
86% say they are or will soon use it. Small and mid-tier brands wanting better video for less money are among the biggest users. Constantine von Hoffman on July 15, 2025 Generative AI is transforming digital video ad creation, with 86% of digital video buyers either using or planning to use it in creatives, according … Continue reading GenAI taking over digital video buyers’ creatives
Want your ads remembered and acted on? Use these creative levers to boost distinctiveness, emotional impact and profitability. Greg Kihlstrom on June 27, 2025 Great marketers know how to analyze campaign data and pull the right performance levers. However, creative quality often takes a backseat to other factors — even though it shouldn’t. Ads … Continue reading AI can scale ads, but great creatives drive brand impact
May 25, 2024 This hilarious, AI-themed comedy special perfectly captures the growing conflict between tech and creatives Comedian Conner O’Malley’s ‘Stand Up Solutions’ plays off of the tech-world tendency to treat creative work like any other widget. BY Joe Berkowitz Connoisseurs of human-created comedy exhaled, back in January, when an AI-generated George Carlin special turned out … Continue reading This hilarious, AI-themed comedy special perfectly captures the growing conflict between tech and creatives
May 24, 2024 Adobe’s controversial marketing is fueling a war with creatives over AI Adobe marketing materials seemed to suggest it could replace photographers with AI outraged many customers, further igniting an ongoing battle between tech companies and creatives. BY Rob Walker Branded is a weekly column devoted to the intersection of marketing, business, design, and culture. … Continue reading This controversial Adobe ad is fueling a war with creatives
By Elizabeth Segran Paula Wallace has invited me to tea. The founder and president of the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) recently returned to the school’s coastal Georgia home after an extended visit to its campus in the South of France, and so on a humid July day, down a street lined … Continue reading Inside Savannah College of Art and Design’s never-ending quest to find creatives good jobs
How Generative AI is Changing the Way Creatives Work Michelle Looney / Sep 15, 2023 Over the past year, we have seen an explosion in the use of artificial intelligence, or AI, across multiple industries. With all of the advantages that AI has to offer, there is no denying that it is truly transforming … Continue reading How Generative AI is Changing the Way Creatives Work
By Jeff Beer January 08, 2023 Within the next six months, about 40% of U.S. marketers plan to fire their advertising agency. The source: a November 2022 survey by the agency-brand matchmaker SetUp, which talked to such brands as Coca-Cola, Delta Air Lines, Warner Bros., UPS, Discovery, and Home Depot, to name a few. … Continue reading How advertising creatives can succeed in the knee-buckling and night sweats of the 2023 economy
Maybe you’ve experimented with influencers or user-generated content, but have you ever employed user-made-creative in your advertising campaigns? Contributor Grace Kaye shares tips and tactics, describing the experiences of one retail brand. Grace Kaye on August 31, 2018 It’s not often that marketers get to kick back and relax while customers do their job … Continue reading Here’s why you should crowdsource your programmatic creatives
Testing programmatic display creatives is worth your time, says contributor Grace Kaye. Here are two types of tests to implement, the benefits of each and how to use test results to create your next test. Grace Kaye on July 27, 2018 According to Ipsos, over 75 percent of advertising impact is determined by creative quality. And … Continue reading How to test your programmatic creatives like a pro
