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July 07, 2026
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Major advertisers marshal increasingly large hosts of influencers to support their marketing goals. But many lack the necessary internal scaffolding to connect creators with campaign briefs quickly enough to make that scale count.

Agency holding group Dentsu is attempting to build up that scaffolding via a partnership announced today (July 7) with Instagram, Threads and Facebook parent firm Meta.

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Dentsu strikes Meta deal to build plumbing for mass influencer activation

Top CMOs are assembling armies of creators, but many lack the infrastructure required to get the most out of them. A deal between Dentsu and Meta aims to fix that problem.

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