The Past, Present, and Future of Digital Advertising

07/27/2025 onAir Curators

AI Supremacy

Gen AI based digital ads will make the internet almost unrecognizable in the next 9 month

The future of advertising is going to change significantly in 2026. I’m not even sure the internet is ready for it.

Fully automated AI ads are on the roadmap for 2026 and we are already seeing signs of this by what the likes of ByteDance and Meta are testing. ByteDance’s virtual influencers are already here. Google of course is also bringing Ads to its AI Mode.

Ads may appear “where relevant” below and “integrated into” AI Mode responses Google has said. I asked

Eric Flaningam for a compilation on his thoughts about the intersection of Generative AI and the field of advertising.

As text-to-video improves, emotive promoting in audio refines itself, small businesses and brands will have more options for automated Ads that could cut down the need for Ad managers and salespeople in advertising drastically. I believe that 2026 is the big year for this, literally just months away. Generative AI will change how Ads are made, where they are seen and how personalized they are to us and even their delivery timing in social commerce journeys.

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