Taste Is the New Capital

Taste Is the New Capital

As AI floods the industry with average work, cultural judgement is becoming marketing’s scarcest asset. Kea Kleihauer and Mitun Thaker on what taste really means, and why you can’t rush it.


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Taste has become one of the creative industries’ newest buzzwords. It is also increasingly being positioned as one of the things AI cannot easily replicate.

If AI can develop, create and distribute campaigns, what does that leave for the creatives in the room? Taste and judgement are being positioned as the defining skill. Knowing what is culturally relevant, what feels right and, perhaps most importantly, what does not.