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AI isn't just changing how consumers search. It's changing how they choose.
 
By 2030, AI agents are projected to facilitate $3.35 trillion in global consumer spending, reshaping how brands are discovered, evaluated, and chosen.
 
PHD and WARC have launched, 'From Abundance to Agents: How the Delegation of Choice is Transforming Marketing', new global research exploring how agentic AI will transform consumer decision-making across markets and categories.

The research points to a defining challenge for marketers:
 
If the role of a brand is to signal quality and influence human choice, what happens when a machine is making that choice?
 
Read the full report to explore the scale of the shift and what marketers should do in response: https://www.warc.com/en/article/from-abundance-to-agents-how-the-delegation-of-choice-is-transforming-marketing-dda80ff252d141c4bdb7211d230f407d
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Posted On: July 22nd 2026, 12:10 pm
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AI isn't just changing how consumers search. It's changing how they choose.

By 2030, AI agents are projected to facilitate $3.35 trillion in global consumer spending, reshaping how brands are discovered, evaluated, and chosen.

PHD and WARC have launched, 'From Abundance to Agents: How the Delegation of Choice is Transforming Marketing', new global research exploring how agentic AI will transform consumer decision-making across markets and categories.

The research points to a defining challenge for marketers:

If the role of a brand is to signal quality and influence human choice, what happens when a machine is making that choice?

Read the full report to explore the scale of the shift and what marketers should do in response: https://www.warc.com/en/article/from-abundance-to-agents-how-the-delegation-of-choice-is-transforming-marketing-dda80ff252d141c4bdb7211d230f407d
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heroic_agency 2 months ago

heroic_agency

👏👏👏

richiereach 3 months ago

richiereach

One of the biggest shifts AI will bring to marketing may not be how consumers find brands. It may be how consumers stop making decisions altogether. Today, we still think largely in terms of the consumer journey: awareness, consideration, evaluation and purchase. But what happens when consumers increasingly delegate parts of that journey to AI agents?

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