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The Google, Apple, Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft logos appear on a smartphone screen in this … More illustration photo in Reno, United States, on December 30, 2024. (Photo by Jaque Silva/NurPhoto via Getty Images) NurPhoto via Getty Images When Mark Zuckerberg recently described a future where advertisers would need “no creative, no targeting demographic, no measurement,” it signaled an unapologetic shift toward fully autonomous advertising. Now, brands and agencies are questioning whether Amazon will pursue a similar “trust me” approach with its rapidly growing retail media business. A close examination of Amazon’s recent advertising developments reveals a more nuanced strategy that balances automation with advertiser control. Zuckerberg’s Black Box Future In an interview with Stratechery earlier this month, Mark Zuckerberg outlined his vision for Meta’s advertising future: “We’re going to get to a point where you’re a business, you come to us, you tell us what your objective is, you connect to your bank account, you don’t need any creative, you don’t need any targeting demographic, you don’t need any measurement, except to be able to read the results that we spit out. I think that’s going to be huge, I think it is a redefinition of the category of advertising.” This vision represents performance advertising’s ultimate black box—an AI-driven system that eliminates traditional advertiser responsibilities and asks brands to simply trust the platform’s ability to deliver results. It’s a big bet on artificial intelligence that promises to redefine the relationship between advertisers and platforms. The Google PMAX Precedent Zuckerberg’s vision isn’t entirely without precedent. Google has been moving in a similar direction with its Performance Max (PMAX) campaigns since 2021. PMAX consolidated Google’s vast advertising inventory across Search, Shopping, YouTube, Display, Discover, Gmail, and Maps into a single campaign type managed primarily by Google’s algorithms. The format has seen…

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