{"slug": "whos-ready-for-multimedia-tiktok-comments-ai-ads-for-ai-shows", "title": "Who’s Ready For Multimedia TikTok Comments?; AI Ads For AI Shows", "summary": "TikTok is adding 60-second voice messages, polls, live photos, and image carousels to its comments section, according to TechCrunch, a move with implications for branded accounts seeking to engage users in comment spaces. Separately, Shortical, a vertical video app, is partnering with skin care brand MAËLYS to integrate virtual product placements into AI-generated microdramas, while an internal Meta test of its Hatch AI agent revealed safety failures, including sending an email without permission and transferring travel points to a hotel account.", "body_md": "*The AdExchanger Newsletter is taking a break for Labor Day on Monday, September 7. We’ll be back on September 8!*\n\n**Attack Of The Talking TikTok Comments**\n\nBrands want to meet users where they are. More than ever, that appears to be in the social media comments section.\n\nAfter all, plenty of marketers have [achieved success](https://www.marketingbrew.com/stories/2024/06/20/how-brands-are-using-the-comments-sections-to-drive-results) by placing a quippy remark underneath somebody else’s viral post.\n\nBut the comments aren’t just going to be a place for text-based jokes and emojis anymore, [TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/03/tiktok-comments-are-getting-more-interactive-with-voice-comments-polls-and-more/) reports. Not on TikTok, at least, which is bringing 60-second voice messages, polls, live photos and even image carousels to its comments section.\n\nSetting aside the nightmare of *hearing *a bunch of 16-year-olds call you “unc” or “Boomer” as opposed to just seeing it typed out – the new features have interesting implications for branded accounts that are already trying to appeal to prospective customers in these spaces.\n\nObviously, regurgitating existing ad creative would be a no go because it could violate commercial content disclosure guidelines (*and* because it would be, as the kids say, cringe as hell).\n\nBut once TikTok’s users figure out what they like about these new comment formats, a sufficiently imaginative social media manager could do a lot by following their lead.\n\nJust look at the recent [“Coyote v. Acme” Reddit AMA](https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1w58qjb/hi_reddit_im_wile_e_coyote_im_taking_on_acme_ama/), which turned a set of premade images and a willingness to play with Reddit’s community into a very successful marketing stunt.\n\n**The Long And Shortical Of It**\n\nAI-generated ads are coming to AI-generated microdramas. In case you wanted more slop with your slop.\n\nShortical, one of the many vertical video apps capitalizing on the [microdrama craze](https://www.marketingbrew.com/stories/microdrama-content-advertising-rise-popularity), is bringing virtual product placements to its platform. The app is collaborating with the skin care brand MAËLYS to integrate the brand’s products within fully AI-generated miniseries.\n\nThe rationale makes sense: If a company is going to entrust AI to generate audience engagement, why stop at content when there’s ad revenue to be made?\n\nBut it’s worth wondering whether even people who are enthralled by suspenseful short-form AI slop will be turned off by AI ads encroaching on the content itself.\n\nAt this point, people are so inundated with AI that they find themselves missing the “authenticity” the ad industry used to pride itself on. AI fatigue is now strong enough that brands are trying to monetize their claims of [caring about human connection](https://www.adexchanger.com/daily-news-roundup/wednesday-02092026/).\n\nBut there are plenty of brands and platforms out there willing to bet that content deals devoid of humans will land with actual people.\n\n**First, Do No Harm**\n\nYou know what the world really needs right now? An AI agent that sends you to scam websites and changes your passwords without consent.\n\nWell, great news – Meta’s already built it!\n\nKidding aside, here’s the real good news: This worrying AI behavior was revealed during an internal test among Meta’s employees meant to refine the safety features of Meta’s new personal agent product, Hatch, [The Information](https://www.theinformation.com/articles/inside-metas-efforts-ensure-upcoming-hatch-ai-agent-go-rogue?rc=bjk81q) reports.\n\nOne employee says Hatch sent an email without permission. Another reports that the AI transferred their travel points to a hotel account, rather than making a hotel booking as expected.\n\nWhile Meta envisions Hatch as an all-purpose autonomous consumer assistant, the solution “failed in many ways and actually did the opposite of helping me out financially,” says one of the employees involved in the test.\n\nHatch was supposed to go live in July, but has since been delayed, for obvious reasons.\n\nMeta’s products are under particularly strict scrutiny in the wake of its $18 billion settlement of a federal lawsuit claiming [its social media platforms](https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/26/meta-settles-for-18-billion-in-lawsuit-brought-by-29-states-over-social-media-harms-to-children/) are dangerous to kids and teens. Regulators also recently put Meta and other companies [on notice](https://www.naag.org/policy-letter/joint-letter-to-ai-industry-leaders-on-child-safety/) over safety concerns related to kids using AI chatbots.\n\nGuess testing AI on your employees is one way to avoid harming kids.\n\n**But Wait! There’s More!**\n\nNvidia agrees to buy AI startup Hugging Face for $13 billion. [[Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-03/nvidia-agrees-to-13-billion-deal-for-ai-platform-hugging-face)]\n\nHow to catch bad or problematic creator-made ads before they can cause lasting brand damage. [[Ad Age](https://adage.com/influencers-creators/aa-stronger-approval-processes-catch-problematic-brand-ads/)]\n\nRestaurants’ AI-generated food pics are costing them customers. [[Morning Brew](https://www.morningbrew.com/stories/ai-generated-food-photos-are-destroying-appetites)]\n\nElon Musk’s America PAC has already spent over $800,000 on midterm election races, including $207,000 on digital ads. [[CBS News](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-super-pac-midterm-spending/)]\n\nAce Hardware is adding weather-triggered features to its programmatic ad inventory. [[Modern Retail](https://www.modernretail.co/marketing/ace-hardware-adds-influencer-doordash-and-weather-features-as-it-builds-out-a-retail-media-strategy/?_gl=1*o8ubhq*_gcl_au*OTYyMzY1ODczLjE3ODU4NjU0MTE.)]\n\nWhen creator marketing goes wrong: YouTube golf channel Good Good announces its president and CEO have stepped down due to a controversial ad the channel co-created with golf brand Callaway. Good Good’s marketing lead and Callaway’s content head have also left their respective companies amid the controversy. [[Business Insider](https://www.businessinsider.com/good-good-ceo-president-out-ad-memo-2026-9)]\n\n*Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? 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