Unilever says AI makes 12 times its 2024 content at 90% lower cost
Unilever told investors AI lets it make 12 times the marketing content of 2024 at 90% lower cost, and that the return will not reach its bottom line.
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Updated Nov 12, 2026
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All signals →IAB publishes a framework for who may claim credit when an AI assistant influences or completes a sale
MarTech reports the IAB's "AI-Era Attribution Blueprint" sorts conversions into human-owned, AI-assisted and AI-executed. It cites an IAB study: 45% of ad buyers call comparing AI-driven and traditional journeys their top measurement problem, and 44% use branded search and direct traffic as stand-ins for AI influence. MarTech notes the framework does not supply the missing data.
Why it matters Rising branded search and direct traffic may hide sales an AI assistant started; ask your agency to separate platform-reported from independently verified claims before the next channel budget.
Shopify puts one 2.6B-parameter generative model behind search and recommendations: 25.5 ms p95, orders up 7.95% on the Shop feed
Shopify says a shared model trained on search and recommendation data is in production as a candidate generator. It reports a 7.95% lift in orders on the Shop home feed and a 2.1-point gain in its OneDCG@10 search metric. It says it chose Liquid AI's LFM2-2.6B at 25.5 ms p95 over Qwen3-14B at 108.4 ms, and cut constrained-decoding overhead from over 50 ms to about 1 ms per request.
Why it matters A first-party account of picking a small open-weight model on latency budget, not peak quality, with the benchmark table to show the trade; all figures are Shopify's own.