{"id":7771,"date":"2026-04-10T07:39:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T07:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zebeh.com\/blog\/ai-everywhere-canva-publicis-and-new-funding\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T07:39:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T07:39:24","slug":"ai-everywhere-canva-publicis-and-new-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zebeh.com\/blog\/ai-everywhere-canva-publicis-and-new-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Everywhere: Canva, Publicis, and New Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m seeing AI become more and more central to marketing strategies. Here&#8217;s a quick rundown of recent developments.<\/p>\n<p>Key actions taken:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Canva acquired Simtheory to boost its AI capabilities.<\/li>\n<li>Canva also acquired Ortto to improve marketing automation.<\/li>\n<li>Publicis and Microsoft expanded their partnership, integrating &#8220;agentic AI.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Haast raised $12 million, focusing on AI compliance solutions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The results: AI is being integrated into marketing workflows, as seen with Canva&#8217;s acquisitions and the Publicis-Microsoft partnership. Simultaneously, AI compliance is drawing serious investment, with Haast&#8217;s $12 million funding round.<\/p>\n<p>The key lesson for you: While AI offers massive potential, be aware that highly visible AI in marketing could hurt brand trust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m seeing AI become more and more central to marketing strategies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1102,372,334],"class_list":["post-7771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ai-compliance-2","tag-gen-ai-tools-2","tag-marketing-automation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zebeh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zebeh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zebeh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zebeh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zebeh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zebeh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zebeh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zebeh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zebeh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}