The Current is on the ground at Advertising Week in New York, speaking to top-level marketers about the industry's biggest topics, from the future of streaming to retail media networks and potential impending fallout from the Google antitrust adtech trial.

On this episode of The Current Report, UM Worldwide's chief product officer Andy Littlewood breaks down why he thinks AI is advancing past being simply a buzzword, moving into an age of intelligence, how the definition of being a large agency has changed today and what keeps him up at night.

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To read the full stories included in this episode: 

• Where ‘60 Minutes’ and ‘Call Her Daddy’ Fit Into Kamala Harris’s Unorthodox Media Strategy: https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/where-60-minutes-and-call-her-daddy-fit-in-kamala-harriss-unorthodox-media-strategy-8d8a0cd9
• What Going on Call Her Daddy Did for Kamala Harris: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/kamala-harris-call-her-daddy-podcast/680181/
• Harris talks about marijuana and racial identity in 'All the Smoke' interview: https://www.npr.org/2024/09/30/nx-s1-5133963/kamala-harris-marijuana-racial-identity

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