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Marketer’s confession: Why I’ve ditched my creative agency for AI

GymNation's CMO Rory McEntee says that while he values creative minds deeply, they are not the only path to great work. "I see them as a supporting sidekick to AI, not gatekeepers of creativity," McEntee adds.

Rory McEntee on AIRory McEntee, Chief Marketing Officer, GymNation

Let’s face it, we’ve crossed a threshold. The creative world once revered, populated by brilliant minds with expensive taste and corresponding agency invoices, is shifting. I’ll admit it: I’m reaching out less and less to my human creative peers and instead leaning into artificial intelligence (AI). Do I feel guilty? Not particularly. And that’s a confession I’m happy to unpack.
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For years, there’s been a romanticism about human creativity. The kind that paints the copywriter as a tortured genius, the designer as an eccentric magician, and the creative director as a visionary leader.

And while that may still hold true in some corners, on the b


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the authorAnup Oommen
Anup Oommen is the Editor of Campaign Middle East at Motivate Media Group, a well-reputed moderator, and a multiple award-winning journalist with more than 15 years of experience at some of the most reputable and credible global news organisations, including Reuters, CNN, and Motivate Media Group. As the Editor of Campaign Middle East, Anup heads market-leading coverage of advertising, media, marketing, PR, events and experiential, digital, the wider creative industries, and more, through the brand’s digital, print, events, directories, podcast and video verticals. As such he’s a key stakeholder in the Campaign Global brand, the world’s leading authority for the advertising, marketing and media industries, which was first published in the UK in 1968.