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Generative AI Is Here to Ruin Christmas

A red Coca-Cola truck drives down a snowy, tree-lined road at night, with holiday lights on the trees and a starry sky above. Mountains are visible in the background.

Despite the controversy surrounding its use of generative AI to create a trio of Christmas advertisements last year, Coca-Cola has once again returned to the world's driest well, churning out yet another terrible AI-generated advertisement.

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AI Drives Digital Ad Spend Through Precision and Measurable Return

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“If someone came to you and said, ‘Hey, let’s play a game, you give me a dollar and I’ll give you three dollars back,’ when would you stop playing that game?” This potent analogy, offered by MNTN CEO Mark Douglas, encapsulates the fundamental shift driving the current digital advertising boom: artificial intelligence is making ad […]

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Microsoft Advertising advertiser console down

Advertisers are currently unable to access the Microsoft Advertising console right now. Microsoft confirmed there is an issue and that its engineering team is working to resolve it. This is impacting the web user interface to manage your Microsoft Advertising campaigns.

What Microsoft said. Navah Hopkins, the Microsoft Ads Liaison, posted:

“Confirming Microsoft Advertising UI is down. Our engineering team is investigating this issue with priority and we apologize for the inconvenience this may be causing. We will share more as we receive more updates.”

How to check the status. You can go to status.ads.microsoft.com to check the status of Microsoft Advertising. It currently shows that the Web UI is down:

Why we care. If you are currently trying to make changes to your ad campaigns, and you are trying to use the web interface, maybe try the mobile interface, Microsoft Ads Editor or a third-party tool that leverages the API.

Otherwise, you will have to wait for the web interface to start working again.

It seems ad serving is unaffected by this outage.

Update: At about 8pm ET, Microsoft said the issue was resolved:

Update: you should be able to access the UI now. We can confirm that Search ads were not impacted. There may be some delay in reporting. Thank you for your patience as we worked to solve this issue!

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