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Bold Call

A series in which Digiday challenges industry assumptions and explores why today’s long shots could be tomorrow’s inevitabilities.

Bold Call

Bold Call: AI compute costs are the future of the upfront… and principal media

Agencies have a compute probable. As AI takes over more of their day-to-day work, its introducing a new and deeply unpredictable cost center.

March 2, 2026

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