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Instacart Launches AI-Powered Universal Campaigns for Advertisers
New automation tools help brands of all sizes create high-performing ad campaigns on Instacart SAN FRANCISCO, March 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Instacart
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[{"type":"text","content":"New automation tools help brands of all sizes create high-performing ad campaigns on Instacart\nSAN FRANCISCO, March 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Instacart (NASDAQ: CART), the leading grocery technology company in North America, today announced a suite of new AI-powered automation tools designed to drive ad campaign performance and help brands of all sizes achieve their business goals. \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \nThis collection of time-saving tools to drive performance includes AI-powered landing pages, campaign recommendations, product library enhancements, and Universal Campaigns. With Universal Campaigns, advertisers can create one campaign with a single budget that automatically optimizes across multiple ad formats in real-time. This performance-driven approach allows brands to simply select their business objectives while Instacart's technology handles the complex work of budget allocation and format optimization. Universal Campaigns uses advanced machine learning algorithms to continuously analyze performance data and automatically adjust the mix of formats including sponsored product and shoppable display ads.\n\"At Instacart, we're motivated to use the latest technology to help our brand partners succeed in an increasingly complex advertising landscape,\" said Ali Miller, VP of Ads Product at Instacart. \"As the retail media space continues to mature, brands face more choices than ever about where and how to reach consumers. We're investing in AI-powered automation that can cut through some of that complexity – reducing manual setup and allowing advertisers to maximize performance aligned with their business objectives through automatic optimization across formats and placements. Ultimately, these innovations benefit consumers too, creating more personalized discovery experiences that help them find new products they'll love. We've developed these tools hand-in-hand with our advertising partners, and we're excited to see them drive meaningful growth for brands across the Instacart Ads ecosystem.\"\nBrands have begun to test this approach to campaign management. Rescue Dog Wines drove an increase in new-to-brand sales while piloting Universal Campaigns, compared to their single-format campaign approach.\n\"Universal campaigns are particularly useful for new customer acquisition,\" said Blair Lott, CEO, Rescue Dog Wines. \"As ...