TikTok will be upgrading its Creator portal to the Creator Academy providing extensive education resources about the platform. This will focus on teaching creators about monetization opportunities. Reflecting TikTok’s international market, the Academy will initially be available in seven languages with more to come.
Proximic by Comscore’s natural language processing engine and AI contextual categorization technology will deliver to Epsilon insights into content including brand suitability and inventory quality in a new partnership. The contextual classifications will be used by Epsilon Digital, the company’s adtech platform. Contextual data is seen as increasingly valuable in an ad eco-system no longer supported by cookie-like tracking signals.
Management teams are almost twice as concerned about the lack of infrastructure for AI technology development than CEOs (32% vs. 17%) according to a survey of over 160 corporate retail employees. One third of management teams worry about the impact of AI on the workforce compared with 21% of CEOs. Strikingly, 90% of all those surveyed claimed to know how AI works in retail.
T-Mobile will allow advertisers to target more than 20,000 screens in 11,000 store locations. That’s a lot of screens, but how much foot traffic does the average T-Mobile store get? It’s also linking up with streaming media company Plex as a CTV partner.