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cannes-lions-2026
Pinterest embeds AI campaign assistant inside Ads Manager, turning platform data into creative recommendations
Business Assistant, unveiled at Cannes Lions on 17 June and now in closed US beta, surfaces trending searches as visual graphs and recommends specific Pins to promote, giving advertisers trend intelligence without leaving the ad platform.
Pinterest moves beyond ads with AI shopping assistant and MCP integration
The visual discovery platform announced Business Assistant, Model Context Protocol integration, and Ask Pinterest at Cannes Lions, shifting from platform updates to infrastructure plays as conversational shopping reshapes product discovery.
Pinterest's Ask Pinterest app turns shopping discovery into a conversation. Brands need a new playbook.
Pinterest launched a standalone AI shopping app on 17 June that replaces keyword search with natural-language conversation, powered by its proprietary Taste Graph. For brands on the platform, the question is no longer 'are we findable?' It's 'are we conversational?'
Heineken's WhatsApp Bot Just Won the Social & Creator Grand Prix. Here's the System Behind It.
At Cannes Lions 2026, Heineken took the industry's top social prize for turning irritating voice notes into free pints. The mechanic is deceptively simple. The strategic logic behind it is one every social team should interrogate.