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Future of TV Briefing: How AI agents prime TV advertising for ‘premium automation’

DATE POSTED:February 4, 2026

This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at how agentic AI can enable TV networks to automate the sales of complex linear TV ad packages.

  • ‘Premium automation’
  • Disney’s next CEO, YouTube’s TV measurement issue, Paramount+’s plans and more
‘Premium automation’

This week we had NBCUniversal’s Ryan McConville on the Digiday Podcast to talk about the company’s test of using AI agents to sell ads against a live NFL game. It was a really insightful, technical conversation. And one thing McConville said has really stuck with me:

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