🏆 2026 Cannes Lions Creative Marketer of the Year, AI Hallucinations-With Advertising?

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The episode discusses the implications of AI in advertising and Hollywood, featuring insights on the Cannes Lions Creative Marketer of the Year and generative AI's role in marketing workflows.

A first-ever, three-time Cannes Lions Creative Marketer of the Year. ChatGPT hallucinations now may come with advertising. Fifty movies for the cost of one? How AI could restructure Hollywood’s cost structure. Allbirds ditches the sneakers, flocks to AI. McKinsey’s take on the GenAI paradox—and agentic AI’s role in marketing workflows. Plus more. IN THIS EPISODE ☕️The Ricks really (really) love caffeinated chewing gum (at 0:1:20) 🤪 ChatGPT’s self-serve ads: Hallucinations with a word from Their Sponsor? (03:22) 🧟 Netflix animates “Stranger Things: Tales from ’85” to a second season (06:18) 😷 ‘Scrubs” is hanging from the passenger side of RW’s ride (08:10) 🍿 Honey, AI shrunk the blockbuster…but democratized Hollywood? (09:45) 🤖 McKinsey: Agentic AI is coming to marketing workflows near you (15:45) 🪺 Allbirds drops the sneakers, nests around AI (17:33) 🏆 2026 Cannes Lions Creative Marketer of the Year Pulls a Three-fer (19:37) Brought to you by Taskin, the first name in ultra-stylish, premium-quality travel gear for 🛩-setters everywhere. Shop now and save 30% with promo code R&RTAKE30 at TaskinSF.com: ow.ly/Vh6M30r9EpF👐🏻 Approximately 24 minutes. Review your…

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Hosts: Rick Mathieson, Rick Wootten

Topics covered

• AI in advertising
• Hollywood restructuring
• Cannes Lions
• Generative AI
• Marketing workflows

Keywords

• Cannes Lions
• AI hallucinations
• Hollywood cost structure
• Generative AI
• Marketing

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Organizations: ChatGPT, McKinsey, Allbirds

Products: Taskin

Books & works: Stranger Things: Tales from ’85, Scrubs

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