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Yahoo Creative Unites Three Key Elements to Transform Ad Creatives and Achieve Marketing Goals

TAIPEI, Oct. 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping the creative landscape of digital advertising and revolutionizing the interaction between brands and consumers. But what do advertisers and consumers think about AI? How can it “build trust” and “enhance the consumer experience” in digital advertising? According to a study by Yahoo and Publicis Group, a significant gap exists between advertisers and consumers regarding their understanding and perception of AI. Notably, 77% of advertisers believe AI will positively impact society and view it as the next major wave of technology. While AI tools are widely used for marketing applications, including creative development and performance optimization, most advertisers acknowledge that AI contributes to business growth. In contrast, consumers are more cautious, with only 38% believing AI will have a positive societal impact. Most consumers feel that AI requires better regulation and fact-checking, though they recognize its potential in advancing scientific development.

As a company driven by innovation, Yahoo has long utilized AI extensively across its services and continues to explore new ways to enhance the customer experience. This includes the seamless integration of AI into products such as Yahoo Mail and Yahoo News, which significantly improves the accuracy of news recommendations and optimizes content through concise summaries. This allows users to receive information tailored to their interests. In the realm of digital advertising, Yahoo leverages its comprehensive Yahoo Creative solutions to enhance ad creativity with AI, making ads more appealing and helping advertisers achieve their marketing goals.

78% of Marketers Believe AI Will Make Ads More Impactful

AI not only assists teams in developing creative advertising tools, improving efficiency and generating higher-quality content, but it also helps advertisers produce more creative elements in less time to meet consumers’ demands for diverse and personalized ad experiences. Roger Li, Senior Director of Yahoo Creative APAC, explained that AI’s ability to handle repetitive, routine tasks allows creatives to focus on more critical, innovative, and strategic work, such as brainstorming, idea generation, and exploring more effective applications of AI. Moreover, AI enhances data analysis, predictive insights, and optimization capabilities through machine learning and deep learning, resulting in improved ad performance. According to study, 78% of marketers believe AI can help deliver the right ad content to the target audience at the right time and place, transforming interactions between brands and consumers. Additionally, AI enables real-time content adjustments and ultra-personalized ads, fostering deeper emotional connections with audiences and effectively increasing consumer engagement while achieving a better return on investment (ROI). Furthermore, 50% of consumers are open to AI recommending products and providing ads relevant to their interests.

As consumers’ perceptions of AI continue to evolve, advertisers must use AI responsibly to build consumer trust. Research shows that opinions on the use of AI-generated images in advertising vary significantly. The least accepted are AI-generated “human likenesses,” with only 37% of consumers expressing comfort with these images. Following this, 50% of consumers are receptive to “AI copywriting,” indicating that content quality is more important than the creator or method. The most accepted category is “background images,” with 60% of consumers feeling comfortable with AI-generated backgrounds. However, only 44% of consumers are comfortable with fully AI-generated visuals, highlighting ongoing skepticism about visual storytelling driven entirely by AI. This study underscores the importance consumers place on balancing innovation with authenticity.

Next-Generation AI Marketing Tools: The Three Key Elements of Yahoo Creative Are Changing the Face of Ad Creatives 

Yahoo continues to explore AI in all aspects of creative development, integrating it into the Yahoo ecosystem to provide unique advertising services tailored to brands’ needs. In 2024, Yahoo Creative was launched globally as an all-in-one solution featuring three key components: AI-powered creative tools, expert human services, and a modern advertising platform that ensures unrestricted creative delivery. The generative AI capabilities within Yahoo Creative can quickly produce creative copy and dynamic content, streamlining workflows and accelerating development. Leveraging deep learning, Yahoo Creative also analyzes and optimizes personalized ad experiences. Yahoo is committed to balancing AI-driven solutions with human creativity, maintaining quality and relevance, and ensuring that creative ads are trusted by both advertisers and consumers.

Yahoo Creative enables the creation of flexible and adaptable ads while supporting various formats, including long videos and multi-image carousel ads. It tailors ads to meet diverse marketing needs, effectively connecting messages with consumers and delivering excellent ad performance for brands. This Valentine’s Day, Yahoo Creative helped brands in Taiwan achieve remarkable results. Bulgari Taiwan promoted its special Valentine’s Day products using carousel ad images, recommending suitable items and incorporating 3D interactions to enhance user experience, resulting in a 26% increase in click-through rate (CTR) and more than double the interaction rate compared to previous campaigns. Meanwhile, Yahoo Taiwan Shopping utilized Yahoo Creative’s AI tools to select the most appropriate products and precisely target audiences for high-end Valentine’s Day items, doubling the CTR compared to traditional multi-image carousel ads.

AI has become a crucial tool for enhancing creativity and marketing efficiency in today’s digital landscape. Brands and advertisers should collaborate with trusted partners to accelerate the creation of creative ad content, strengthen emotional connections with audiences, and make ads more adaptable and personalized. This approach can effectively shorten the distance between brands and consumers, increase interaction and satisfaction, and help achieve marketing goals.

 

 

 

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XLCS Partners advises Concurrent Utility Services on sale to UniTek Global Services

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NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — XLCS Partners, Inc., a leading middle market investment bank, is pleased to announce that it served as exclusive M&A advisor to Concurrent Utility Services LLC on its acquisition by UniTek Global Services, Inc., a portfolio company of New Mountain Finance Corporation (Nasdaq: NMFC) and its affiliates, and BTG Pactual Strategic Capital.

Headquartered in Miami, Florida, Concurrent is a licensed general and electrical contractor providing infrastructure development and maintenance services to electric utilities, telecom providers, and land developers throughout the Southeast United States. The company’s capabilities span overhead and underground utility construction, professional telecom services, emergency service restoration, in-building networks, environmental services, and data center development. Backed by a safety-first culture and an experienced workforce, Concurrent has built a strong regional platform and a reputation for quality across the markets it serves.

UniTek is a leading digital infrastructure services provider supporting the expansion of fiber and data center connectivity across the U.S. and Canada. With over 600 employees and 60 locations, UniTek delivers a full suite of infrastructure services. The acquisition of Concurrent accelerates UniTek’s Power Services Division, which launched in July 2025 to broaden the company’s maintenance, repair, upgrade, and new infrastructure development services for the power sector. Concurrent’s established Southeast footprint and power capabilities directly complement UniTek’s existing broadband and data center infrastructure platform, positioning the combined company to capitalize on growing demand for resilient, modernized power infrastructure. Concurrent will continue to operate under its established brand, maintaining uninterrupted service for its customers.

“Selling Concurrent was one of the biggest decisions of my career, and Anthony, Jay, and the XLCS team guided us through every step with professionalism and genuine care for our people,” said Steve Sarno, CEO of Concurrent. “They stayed fully engaged throughout, gave us honest and thoughtful advice, kept our best interests front and center, and delivered an outcome that exceeded our expectations. I would recommend them without hesitation to any owner considering a transaction.”

XLCS acted as the exclusive M&A advisor to Concurrent, and the transaction was led by Anthony Contaldo, Partner, and Jay Cremer, Vice President. The transaction was completed on July 1, 2026.

About XLCS Partners, Inc.

XLCS Partners is a leading global investment banking firm providing M&A advisory services. Visit www.xlcspartners.com for more information.

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Kendra Span 
kspan@xlcspartners.com
615-379-7783

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NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — XLCS Partners, Inc., a leading middle market investment bank, is pleased to announce that it served as exclusive M&A advisor to Concurrent Utility Services LLC on its acquisition by UniTek Global Services, Inc., a portfolio company of New Mountain Finance Corporation (Nasdaq: NMFC) and its affiliates, and BTG Pactual Strategic Capital.

Headquartered in Miami, Florida, Concurrent is a licensed general and electrical contractor providing infrastructure development and maintenance services to electric utilities, telecom providers, and land developers throughout the Southeast United States. The company’s capabilities span overhead and underground utility construction, professional telecom services, emergency service restoration, in-building networks, environmental services, and data center development. Backed by a safety-first culture and an experienced workforce, Concurrent has built a strong regional platform and a reputation for quality across the markets it serves.

UniTek is a leading digital infrastructure services provider supporting the expansion of fiber and data center connectivity across the U.S. and Canada. With over 600 employees and 60 locations, UniTek delivers a full suite of infrastructure services. The acquisition of Concurrent accelerates UniTek’s Power Services Division, which launched in July 2025 to broaden the company’s maintenance, repair, upgrade, and new infrastructure development services for the power sector. Concurrent’s established Southeast footprint and power capabilities directly complement UniTek’s existing broadband and data center infrastructure platform, positioning the combined company to capitalize on growing demand for resilient, modernized power infrastructure. Concurrent will continue to operate under its established brand, maintaining uninterrupted service for its customers.

“Selling Concurrent was one of the biggest decisions of my career, and Anthony, Jay, and the XLCS team guided us through every step with professionalism and genuine care for our people,” said Steve Sarno, CEO of Concurrent. “They stayed fully engaged throughout, gave us honest and thoughtful advice, kept our best interests front and center, and delivered an outcome that exceeded our expectations. I would recommend them without hesitation to any owner considering a transaction.”

XLCS acted as the exclusive M&A advisor to Concurrent, and the transaction was led by Anthony Contaldo, Partner, and Jay Cremer, Vice President. The transaction was completed on July 1, 2026.

About XLCS Partners, Inc.

XLCS Partners is a leading global investment banking firm providing M&A advisory services. Visit www.xlcspartners.com for more information.

Media Contact: 
Kendra Span 
kspan@xlcspartners.com
615-379-7783

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Fathom Applauds Introduction of the FRONTIER Act, the First Federal Blueprint for Independent AI Verification

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Reps. Lori Trahan (D-MA-03) and Jay Obernolte (R-CA-23) introduce a bill to build a competitive marketplace of independent verifiers for frontier AI models.

WASHINGTON, July 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Fathom welcomes the introduction of the FRONTIER Act, the most complete federal framework yet for independent, third-party verification of frontier AI. The legislation is built to earn public trust as AI technology continues to accelerate. As frontier systems begin to take autonomous action in the world, the gap between what these models can do and our ability to keep them in check is widening. FRONTIER is the starting point to close that gap.

“AI governance keeps running into the same wall. The technology is hard to measure and it moves faster than any law can keep up with,” said Andrew Freedman, Co-Founder and CEO of Fathom. “Trying to write the perfect rules and freezing them in place won’t work. What will work is a competitive market of independent verifiers who are accountable for real-world outcomes and who the government can actually count on. The FRONTIER Act shows we can move fast and still get this right.”

The bill gets the fundamentals correct. It sets one public standard – the adequate mitigation of catastrophic risk – and holds both the AI companies and their independent verifiers accountable to it. FRONTIER does not freeze a single testing method into statute. Instead, it licenses competing verification organizations, allows them to sharpen their methods, and gives the government the power to revoke a license when a verifier’s work does not hold up in the field. That is how you build a system that keeps pace with the science instead of falling behind it.

Fathom thanks Reps. Trahan and Obernolte for their leadership, and for their courage in releasing a discussion draft, inviting scrutiny, and incorporating substantive improvements from across the field. One priority improvement as the bill advances: giving the government a fuller range of tools to act upstream – for pushing companies to close identified gaps in risk mitigation early, rather than only once a catastrophe is imminent. We are committed to working with these sponsors, committees of jurisdiction, and Congressional leadership to continue refining the bill in the weeks and months ahead.

About Fathom
Fathom is an independent nonprofit whose mission is to build a governance architecture that helps society navigate the transition to a world with AI by fostering trust, safety, and innovation. Fathom has developed and championed the independent verification model for AI and works with policymakers across the country to put it into practice. Learn more at http://fathom.org.

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