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Digiday Programmatic Marketing Summit

Ivy Liu

This article is part of a series covering our Programmatic Marketing Summit. More from the series →

What really happens when AI agents are enlisted to negotiate ad deals?
To find out, I created an interactive game that has actual Gemini-powered AI agents represent buyers and sellers in an advertising deal. Then I asked Wpromote’s Skyler McGill and Butler/Till’s Ryan Lammela to test out the game.

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