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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Mark Sweney

Facebook and Instagram owner Meta to enable AI ad creation by end of next year

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Facebook and Instagram owner Meta aims to directly target brands’ marketing budgets. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

The owner of Facebook and Instagram is to help advertisers to fully create and target campaigns using artificial intelligence tools by the end of next year, in a move that sent shock waves through the traditional marketing industry.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, which also owns WhatsApp, aims to directly target brands’ marketing budgets, posing a threat to the advertising and media agencies that handle client campaigns and budgets.

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