Why this matters now Marketing budgets in 2025 have stayed the same, yet expectations keep rising. CMOs report budgets stuck at roughly 7.7% of company revenue, which means teams are expected to do more with the same dollars. In that context, the most practical use of AI is not a moonshot, but a set of …
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Google’s Nick Fox, the SVP of Knowledge and Information at Google, said in a recent podcast that doing optimization for AI search is “the same” as doing optimization and SEO for traditional search. He added, you want to build great sites, with great content, for your users. More details. This came up in the AI Inside …
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It was mid-September, and I was standing in line for a kids’ train ride when a guy’s shirt caught my eye. It was royal blue, covered with Star Wars starfighters — X-wings, B-wings, A-wings. The whole alphabet soup. Ten years ago, I would have bought that shirt on sight. This time, I realized I didn’t …
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Technology has made it easier to move faster, especially with the surge of AI-powered tools promising near-magical results. But choosing the right solution for a specific task or campaign — particularly a marketing automation platform — has never been more complicated. There are thousands of tools on the market, many offering overlapping capabilities and similar …
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Cvent is expanding its event technology footprint by acquiring Goldcast, a video and AI‑driven event content platform used by B2B marketers. The deal brings together Cvent’s large-scale enterprise capabilities and event management expertise with Goldcast’s ability to turn live event moments into ready-to-use video assets and engagement insights across channels. In a blog post, Goldcast’s …
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As AI agents collapse the consumer funnel and mediate more decisions, brands must strengthen the distinctly human moats — loyalty, trust, community, ecosystems of convenience and meaningful human care. Consumers no longer need 20 tabs, comparison tools or nights spent researching. Increasingly, all they need is a prompt — “book me the best option,” “find a …
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For the past two years, we’ve been living in AI’s gold rush era. To borrow from Taylor Swift, think of it as the “Lover” phase, where everything is shiny, new, and full of possibility. The behavior: Buy everything. The metric: Can it generate something cool? The vibe: Pure FOMO. But we’re entering a new era …
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Many marketing leaders expect their teams to embrace AI but offer little direction on where to begin, which areas to prioritize or what outcomes to pursue. While AI is clearly transforming the workplace, applying it meaningfully in a work context is far more nuanced than using ChatGPT to find the perfect recipe. If your organization …
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As martech practitioners straddle the line between marketing and IT they take on work that touches both worlds. Quality management — including quality assurance (QA) and user acceptance testing (UAT) — is one of those disciplines where practitioners provide significant value no matter where they sit on the org chart. Martech is a team sport …
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The term “Vibe Marketing” emerged in February 2025, when OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy described “vibe coding” as fully embracing the vibes and letting AI handle the technical details, while humans focus on the creative direction. The concept grew since then. According to Exploding Topics, searches for “Vibe Marketing” increased nearly 700% in the past year, …