{"id":665722,"date":"2026-05-12T09:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T09:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/665722\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T09:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T09:38:11","slug":"ai-takes-over-advertising-as-mad-men-era-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/665722\/","title":{"rendered":"AI takes over advertising as \u2018Mad Men\u2019 era over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Thomas<\/p>\n<p>May 12, 2026 \u2013 2.47pm<\/p>\n<p>The era of the Mad Men is now firmly over, with the instant answers of chatbots now replacing the fast-talking advertising creatives of New York\u2019s Madison Avenue as the industry\u2019s centre of gravity.<\/p>\n<p>The enormous budgets, fully stocked drinks cabinets and hotshot filmmakers on speed dial \u2013 all made famous in the long-running TV series \u2013 have given way to teams of coders, with AI models replicating work in minutes but at a fraction of the cost.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"_137dbe642694dac0-source\">Financial Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniel Thomas May 12, 2026 \u2013 2.47pm The era of the Mad Men is now firmly over, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-665722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}