The Role of AI in Shaping Responsible Innovation

Plus: YouTube puts AI into Shorts and Studio, accelerating creative velocity

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Avinash Duggempudi
September 24, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes

The Paid Social Marketer

Here's what's happening this week in the world of paid social:
- WhatsApp opens Status ads and paid channel promos
- YouTube ships AI tools that draft and restyle Shorts
- Platforms set the playbook for responsible, scalable AI creative
- LinkedIn expands Microsoft ad data sharing and AI use
- X advances everything-app ambitions amid shifting ad strategy

⏱️Why Finance and Marketing Measure Growth Differently and How to Bridge the Gap?

At eTail™ Connect West, Fospha’s VP of Growth Jamie Bolton hosted a panel with leading retail brands on the future of measurement. Three themes stood out:

  • No single model is enough: Teams combine MTA, MMM, and incrementality for a fuller picture.

  • Finance vs. marketing tension: Finance demands proof; marketers need daily direction.

  • Speed vs. rigor: Annual MMM updates can’t keep pace with weekly budget shifts.

👉 Fospha closes that gap - the only full-funnel MMM delivering daily, ad-level insights built for teams to grow DTC, Amazon & Beyond.

📌WEEKLY MUST-KNOWS

INDUSTRY STRATEGY
Advertising for Good: The Role of AI in Shaping Responsible Innovation
Executives from Amazon, Meta, YouTube, TikTok, and Pinterest signaled a shared direction: AI to fuse brand building with performance while hard-baking trust and safety. Concrete moves include Amazon’s agentic creative, Meta’s scaled Advantage+ tools, TikTok’s vetted UGC suite, Pinterest’s safety-by-design, and YouTube’s AI creative assist. Expect more automation in creative ops, stronger governance requirements, and budget shifts toward AI-accelerated formats.

Meta is turning WhatsApp’s Updates tab into a monetizable surface: channel subscriptions, promoted channels, and ads in Status, with deeper integrations into Facebook Pages and Meta Ads. This creates net-new inventory and a cleaner path from ad click to chat, unlocking conversational commerce and lead capture at scale. Advertisers using WhatsApp Business and performance buyers on Meta are most impacted.

At Made on YouTube 2025, YouTube introduced AI-native tooling—Veo 3 Fast for generative video, Edit with AI, and Speech to Song—plus enhanced Studio assistants. The move slashes creative lift and accelerates content throughput across Shorts, live, podcasts, and shopping. Creative teams, performance marketers, and agencies get faster iteration cycles and more shoppable, on-brand video at volume.

📅Smartly Advances NYD: Why AI Means More Creativity, Not Less

At Smartly Advanced NYC, Fospha's CEO Sam Carter and CPO Dom Devlin joined industry leaders to debate the role of AI in growth.

The takeaway? From platforms to creators, the consensus is clear: AI isn’t about replacing jobs. It’s about extending human creativity and unlocking new opportunities for marketers to grow.

⚡QUICK READS

LinkedIn Tightens Terms For Microsoft Ad Targeting And AI Training: Effective Nov. 3, LinkedIn will share more member data with Microsoft for ad personalization and default some regions into AI model training; B2B advertisers should reassess targeting assumptions and internal privacy guidance.(More)

X Pushes Toward An Everything App With AI Ambitions: Under Musk and Yaccarino, X is expanding beyond social into commerce and AI-driven services, foreshadowing new ad formats and harder-to-measure conversion paths.(More)

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