Agentic AI has the potential to completely evolve the way marketing works. But AI agents aren't sentient, and they're not human. They won’t clean your laptop screen, bring you coffee, or convince your Gen Z coworkers that you’re still hip. And as of now, don’t count on AI agents to nail anything below.
Agents can vaporize bots and speeders, improving the quality of your sample immensely. But they can’t guarantee that someone who signed up for the incentives to a niche study for a new line of energy drink is actually a “left-handed orthodontist who golfs biweekly.”
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before...You give your charismatic CEO talking points, colorcoded Q&A, and three pre-briefs. Yet once they grab the mic, it’s off to the races. Your brand has suddenly soft-launched a merger, invented a whole new category, and quoted a compelling stat that unfortunately does not exist. (That said, AI agents could help track and address the resulting fallout on social media.)
Yes, computer vision can score contrast and logo safety. But it can’t definitively tell you which Pantone shade is right for a new DOOH campaign, or whether the kerning on a headline looks good-weird or bad-weird.
Bid models can pace and predict with a fair amount of autonomy. But when fresh budget appears at the end of the month, no agent can conjure perfect audiences, premium slots, and flawless performance on a holiday week. That’s not optimization, that’s straight-up sorcery. (If you figure out how to do it, let us know...)
An agent can stitch data together and chart it beautifully, making you the Queen of Decks. It still can’t get the brand team, the performance crew, and Finance to accept the same narrative. The only “single source of truth” it can definitively promise is a single source of new arguments, with prettier infographics.
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