Google’s senior vice president, Philipp Schindler, wants to reassure everyone that the company is not replacing its advertising staff with AI. 

Despite a major restructure of its 30,000-person ad sales division and hundreds of job cuts, which left some fearing AI could be taking over, Schindler clarified that the aim is to use AI to make things better for advertisers, not replace people’s jobs. 

So, no need to worry about communication getting any worse with Google Ads. At least not yet, anyway.

Nicola Agius,
Paid Media Editor

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