Top AI Marketing Trends for 2027: 6 Shifts to Plan For Now
In September 2026, Google began automatically moving old Dynamic Search Ads campaigns into AI Max, and advertisers can no longer create new ones. Plenty of search accounts woke up running on a very different engine. That's the mood heading into next year. These are the AI marketing trends I think matter most, and they come from my own research notes rather than a recycled listicle. I checked the numbers against primary sources where I could, so you can plan around them. What are the 6 AI marketing trends shaping 2027? 1. Agentic AI and Autonomous Workflows Take Over the Busywork Not long ago, AI in marketing meant a chatbot waiting for your prompt. Now agents watch campaigns, tweak them, write ad copy, build creative variations, pull reports and chase down targeting problems with far less hand-holding. That's what agentic AI in marketing really means: software that acts, not just answers. In 2027, agents will increasingly handle: Campaign monitoring and optimisation Automated...