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Advertising Sales Agents
Sell or solicit advertising space, time, or media in publications, signage, TV, radio, or Internet establishments or public spaces.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Explain to customers how specific types of advertising will help promote their products or services in the most effective way possible.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Prepare and deliver sales presentations to new and existing customers to sell new advertising programs and to protect and increase existing advertising.People already use AI for this at work
- 03Obtain and study information about clients' products, needs, problems, advertising history, and business practices to offer effective sales presentations and appropriate product assistance.People already use AI for this at work
- 04Provide clients with estimates of the costs of advertising products or services.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Maintain assigned account bases while developing new accounts.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Recommend appropriate sizes and formats for advertising, depending on medium used.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Locate and contact potential clients to offer advertising services.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Draw up contracts for advertising work, and collect payments due.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Deliver advertising or illustration proofs to customers for approval.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Process all correspondence and paperwork related to accounts.AI could speed this up a lot
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss15%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
54%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 97% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Your human edge
AI touches every main task of this job in some way. Your edge is judgment: knowing when AI’s work is right, and checking it before it counts.
AI tools for your work
Official connectors that let an AI assistant work inside the apps sales use. Each is made by the app’s own maker.