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DEPT is a global creative, technology and marketing agency headquartered in Amsterdam. It grew out of Dutch digital agency TamTam (founded 1995 by Paul and Bart Manuel), which merged with several international digital agencies in 2016 to form DEPT. It has 4,000+ specialists across 30+ offices, offering strategy & consulting, technology & engineering and marketing & growth services to clients such as Google, KFC, Philips, Audi, eBay, Lufthansa, Snap and OpenAI.

San Francisco AI marketing-agent startup (YC W23). Its product Goose is a self-improving marketing harness that indexes a brand's existing assets and ad performance data into a shared context, then uses AI agents to generate static/video ads, product photos, landing pages, emails and social content, plus competitive intelligence and measurement. Customers are growth marketing teams at consumer brands.

Mentic is a San Francisco startup building an autonomous AI advertising agent that researches a client's market from a URL, writes strategy and creative briefs, and launches and manages Meta campaigns; currently in open beta from $999/month.

Profound, founded in 2024 in New York, helps brands monitor and improve their visibility in AI search results. The platform processes over 100 million AI search queries per month, supports six languages across 18 countries, and counts Indeed, MongoDB, and Ramp among its customers.

Levitate, founded in 2017 in Raleigh, NC, provides an AI-powered customer outreach and marketing automation platform for relationship-based businesses.

Uplane (Uplane, Inc.) is a San Francisco-based Y Combinator F25 company building an AI performance-marketing engine that researches markets, generates brand-compliant ad creatives and landing pages, launches campaigns across Meta, Google, TikTok and LinkedIn, and reallocates budget in real time — aiming to replace marketing agencies for companies spending $100k+/month on digital ads. Clients include AG1, Kalshi and Deutsche Bahn.