Our industry-first tool empowers forward-thinking brands and agencies by leveraging global earned media data for visual analysis, enabling them to lead the way in influencer marketing, enhancing brand visibility, and staying competitive in a rapidly evolving marketing landscape.
Published On: July 9, 2024
Revolutionizing Earned Media Strategy with AI-Powered Visual Search
Our industry-first tool leverages our global earned media data beyond keyword searches. It uses visual analysis to identify featured items, traits, people, text in images, and more within influential sources’ content, positioning forward-thinking brands and agencies to lead the way and boost their earned media strategy success.
Marketers must explore AI developments as they are transforming the marketing landscape. With Google’s announcement on using Generative AI in search, brand discoverability will face challenges, with analysts predicting a decrease in direct traffic to websites by up to 40%, making word-of-mouth and influencer marketing more crucial.
Leveraging our AI-powered visual search tool, brands and agencies are now empowered to:
🔍 Find and partner with influencers celebrating life events that align with brands and products.
🌍 Ensure influencer communities are diverse and inclusive.
💁 Deliver striking visual consistency across all social and influencer campaigns.
🤖 Identify the right influencers for successful cross-brand collaborations.
👀 Gain insights into competitor visual influencer strategies to maintain a competitive edge in the market.
Access timely cultural trends, strategic creator guidance, and industry best practices.
Cannes Lions has always been where the industry takes stock, not just of the work, but of where the money is going and why. This year, creator marketing will be front and centre. Not because it’s new, but because the ground underneath it is shifting in ways that are forcing brands to fundamentally rethink how they plan, measure and value creator partnerships.
Here are the three topics we expect to define the week.
The top 100 media and entertainment brands across video streaming, audio streaming, and content creation generated $63.4B in total Earned Media Value in 2025, up +7.0% YoY. Growth is uneven across sub-sectors, video streaming surged while audio streaming declined sharply, platform dynamics are shifting fast, and a handful of breakout brands are rewriting what influence looks like in entertainment.
TikTok grew +70.2% YoY and is rapidly closing the gap on YouTube as the dominant entertainment influence platform. YouTube remains #1 at $32.6B but declined -11.3%, while Instagram grew +4.4% to $13.3B. Facebook nearly doubled to $7.3B (+98.9%), making media and entertainment one of the few categories where four platforms are genuinely competing for share.
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