At #CES2026, Samira Panah Bakhtiar, General Manager of Media & Entertainment, Games, and Sports at AWS, joined executives from NBCUniversal, Adobe, and WPP to discuss balancing AI-driven ad innovation with IP protection.
Samira Panah Bakhtiar highlighted shifting viewing behaviors reshaping the industry: "Gen Z is spending 54% more time on social and 26% less on traditional viewing." She pointed to creators like MrBeast and Dude Perfect, whose businesses rival traditional brands, as examples of this shift.
"Any companies seeking to reinvent themselves need to really pay attention to the multi-generational preferences that exist in the viewing sphere right now," she said.
The panel also explored how AI is transforming advertising, from compressing production timelines to enabling scene-level targeting.
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