I’ve written that the AI panic we’re living through feels a lot like the dawn of the commercial internet, full of promise, panic and policy gaps. Well, here we go again. In late 2025, President Trump signed an executive order aimed at blocking U.S. states from creating their own AI laws, directing federal agencies to …
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I’m frustrated. I don’t want my martech tool to give me suggestions. I want it to help me execute the work I need to get done in my production environment. I already have enough to do. Speed to market is table stakes. What I need is operational velocity — the time between deciding something needs …
Read more “Your AI is not helping if it makes me do the work”
The advertising world has reached a moment of reckoning. As of late November 2025, Omnicom Group has officially closed its acquisition of Interpublic Group (IPG), with revenues exceeding $25 billion. The deal triggered a global reorganization: more than 4,000 jobs cut (some likely happening on the very date of this publication), multiple legacy agency names retired and …
Read more “Omnicom’s mega-merger doubles down on media — at creativity’s expense”
I’ve written extensively about CTV, often to help marketers recognize when the channel is not the right investment. While CTV remains relatively under-adopted in B2B, interest is growing as brands begin planning their 2026 marketing budgets. In recent months, inquiries from B2B marketers evaluating whether CTV deserves a place in those plans have increased noticeably. …
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November brought a lighter batch of HubSpot updates, but the impact is anything but small. These are the kind of updates that make your reporting feel faster, your segmentation sharper and your AI tools fit more naturally into the way you already work. From smarter lead management to cleaner admin controls, and even a few …
They’re brazen, intrusive and widely disliked, so why are we still sending cold emails to unsuspecting recipients? It’s commonly accepted that cold outreach should be avoided like a half-eaten hot dog in a parking lot. And yet it persists. With the right framing — and real respect for the recipient’s time — cold email can …
In MarTech’s “MarTechBot explains it all” feature, we pose a question about marketing to our very own MarTechBot, which is trained on the MarTech website archives and has access to the broader internet. Want to ask your own question of MarTechBot? Give it a try. To increase brand visibility in large language model outputs like …
Read more “How brands can get noticed in ChatGPT and Google’s AI Overviews”
As organizations invest heavily in martech and personalization, marketing leaders face a familiar challenge — turning those investments into real business impact. Despite increasingly sophisticated tools, many teams struggle to realize martech’s full potential, often because critical talent and expertise are missing. The solution lies not in the technology alone, but in the roles and …
For years, marketers have evaluated their martech stacks using hard metrics like lead generation, behavioral tracking and operational efficiency. Dashboards tell us whether the machine is running smoothly. But a more human question is emerging — does all this technology help us create better, more creative work or does it simply help us produce more …
Read more “What efficiency-first martech gets wrong about creativity”
Salesforce is making another move to turn its “agentic enterprise” vision into reality — this time by acquiring Qualified, a long-time partner focused on AI-driven sales engagement. Announced this week, the deal brings Qualified’s real-time AI agents directly into Salesforce’s Agentforce platform. These agents specialize in the early stages of customer interaction — chatting with …
Read more “Salesforce buys Qualified to accelerate its AI‑driven GTM strategy”