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Meta serves up AI sauce for better creator and influencer marketing
MUMBAI: Meta has dropped digital innovations, unveiling AI-powered creator marketing solutions that promise to turn brand partnerships into growth rockets.
Meta director and head of ads business in India Arun Srinivas couldn’t contain his excitement: “The world’s largest community of Instagram creators is right here in India, and it’s no surprise that we’re seeing strong momentum around brands partnering with them to drive sales and ROAS. Meta’s creator marketing solutions such as partnership ads and Instagram creator marketplace can help brands easily discover, connect, and drive performance with creators to get the most out of the partnerships. The new tools we’re launching today harness the power of AI to make creator discovery even more seamless for brands, in turn boosting growth potential for both brands and creators.”
Case in point: Snitch, a fashion brand, saw a awesome 53 per cent increase in return on ad spend by leveraging Reels and creator content., according to its chief business officer Aniket Singh.
The new toolkit is a creator’s dream and a marketer’s secret weapon:
* AI-powered creator content recommendations that predict partnership magic within the partnership ads hub in ads manager
* Keyword search in Instagram’s creator marketplace letting brands hunt for the perfect content creators. Previously, brands needed to leverage a variety of filters to find their ideal creator set. Granular filters spanning everything from “Bollywood dance steps” to “gadget unboxing.”
To help businesses better discover and evaluate creator fit, Meta has also added a variety of features to Instagram’s creator marketplace
* Playable creator reels
* Direct email contacts for seamless collaboration
* Badges showing creators’ partnership experience
* Active Partnership Ads: Meta will now show a creator’s current partnership ads on their creator profile.
* Marketing API expansions for partnership ads
Advertisers can also now use existing Instagram posts for partnerships ads in both placement asset customisation and Advantage+ Creative when creating ads via API. In addition, partnership ads can now be used for click-to-message destinations.
Meta’s data suggests partnership ads outperform traditional creatives by a whopping 96 per cent confidence interval – proving that human creativity, turbocharged by AI, is the new marketing holy grail.
With India leading global Reels production and hosting the largest Instagram creator community, brands are in for a wild ride.
Bottoms up to the creator economy!
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OpenAI’s Stargate lead Peter Hoeschele exits with two senior leaders
Trio behind compute push set to join new startup amid leadership reshuffle
SAN FRANCISCO: Peter Hoeschele, a key figure behind OpenAI’s early Stargate data centre initiative, has exited the company, according to a report by The Information.
The departure is part of a broader leadership shift, with two other senior executives, Shamez Hemani and Anuj Saharan, also set to leave in the coming days. All three are expected to join the same new startup, although details about the venture remain under wraps.
The trio played a central role in OpenAI’s Stargate effort, an initiative aimed at building large-scale data centre capacity in-house to reduce reliance on external infrastructure providers. Their exits mark a notable moment for the company’s compute strategy as it continues to scale rapidly.
OpenAI spokesperson said in a statement to The Information, “We’re grateful for the contributions Peter, Shamez, and Anuj have made to OpenAI and wish them the very best in what comes next.” The company also pointed to the recent appointment of Sachin Katti to lead its industrial compute organisation, signalling continuity in its infrastructure roadmap.
OpenAI has indicated that it does not plan to directly replace Hoeschele’s role, suggesting a possible restructuring of responsibilities within the team.
As competition intensifies in the race to build next-generation AI systems, leadership changes in core infrastructure teams are likely to draw close attention. For now, the spotlight shifts to what this departing trio builds next, and how OpenAI adapts as it scales its ambitions.
