Nate St. Pierre, founder of Youbots.ai, joins us to talk about about democratizing AI, the nuanced role of AI in creativity and the balance between human ingenuity and automation. Nate shares his insights into marketing strategies in the age of AI, evolving agency playbooks and enabling small businesses to punch above their weight class using …
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Programmatic platform StackAdapt today announced the general availability of a martech suite that includes email marketing, first-party data activation and programmatic advertising on a single platform. While programmatic ads and email traditionally live in different martech tools, StackAdapt sees an opportunity to help marketers run campaigns across channels, and unsurprisingly, data is at the center …
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Twilio today launched a suite of data capabilities aimed at one of marketers’ biggest challenges: trusting their data enough to act on it promptly. The new features — including Granular Observability, a centralized Alerting Hub, expanded APIs and Auto-Instrumentation — give teams better control and visibility across every customer signal. Together, they promise to help …
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AI rollouts don’t always go as planned. While the technology promises efficiency and innovation, real-world deployments often create new problems — and more human work — instead. When AI promise meets business reality Before worrying about AI replacing people, it’s worth examining how it is actually performing in the real world — where automation often …
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Modern marketing teams are collapsing timelines for strategic planning by deploying AI agents as research assistants. From analyzing audience behavior and competitor positioning to surfacing market trends and whitespace opportunities, these intelligent systems accelerate the insights-to-action cycle — turning what once took days into hours. At the upcoming MarTech Conference, taking place online Nov. 4, …
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xData infrastructure vendor Fivetran signed a definitive agreement this week to merge in an all-stock deal with dbt Labs. It is the third merger or acquisition for Fivetran in the last five months. The combined company aims to deliver an open data infrastructure — unifying data movement, transformation, metadata and activation — while preserving freedom …
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Everyone’s talking about how AI is reshaping marketing. But in most organizations, the real bottleneck hasn’t changed. Content still lives in too many places, and metadata gaps keep teams searching instead of creating. AI can generate copy, images and video at scale, but the content libraries beneath it are messy and fragmented, with rights data …
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Intuit Mailchimp released new tools to help retailers better target and reach customers for the upcoming holiday season and beyond. The new features include an improved Shopify integration, more precise segmentation tools, advanced ecommerce analytics, global and multi-audience SMS capabilities and a refreshed email template library. As part of Mailchimp’s evolution from an email marketing …
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How your brand shows up online now determines how it’s perceived. Visibility and narrative in organic search and generative AI shape how audiences discover, evaluate and trust — or distrust — brands. A single result can strengthen or unravel trust in seconds. To make sure customers, employees and shareholders find the right story, you need …
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The rush to embed AI into every layer of business software has created a new reality for enterprise buyers: AI is now a line item — and an expensive one. Software that once enabled work now promises to perform it. The pitch sounds irresistible. Vendors cite multitrillion-dollar productivity gains and talk of a “new super …
Read more “AI productivity gains, like vendors’ AI surcharges, are hard to find”