OpenAI Makes Its Advertising Pitch at Cannes Festival
THE SO WHAT
ChatGPT as an ad surface means the assistant is now part search, part media network—Cannes is where that gets sold to budgets. If you’re in performance or brand, you need a view on how conversational placements fit alongside search and social this planning cycle.
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