AI in marketing

BadRep launches MCP access to 40,000-email research archive on Oct. 6

BadRep Emails launches MCP access to its 40,000-email archive from 2,000+ brands, letting AI clients research campaigns for $29 a month.

Report: 9% of bank and credit union marketing teams use AI agents that can act

Cornerstone Advisors finds 63% of bank and credit union marketers use AI to write. Four-to-six-week compliance reviews still set the pace.

Uniphore's new Marketing AI builds a small AI model for every customer

Uniphore's Marketing AI gives each customer a fine-tuned small language model, simulates campaigns before spend, and runs on premises if needed.

CMO Tenure Ticks Up as B2B Marketing Adopts AI

Spencer Stuart finds Fortune 500 CMO tenure edged up in 2024, while Forrester reports wide AI tool adoption alongside gaps in strategy and measurement.

OpenAI and Meta Take Separate Paths to Automating Marketing

OpenAI is building ChatGPT into a marketing workspace and ad channel, while Meta continues automating ad buying. Here's what each has said so far.

Forrester set 2027 B2B Summit dates in Phoenix, GTM teams now have to plan for AI search

Forrester’s 2027 B2B Summit heads to Phoenix May 2–4. The practical shift is budgeting for AI-era discovery, measurement, and cross-functional GTM ops now.

Marketing teams are buying AI before they can govern it

Benchmarks from The CMO Survey, Forrester, and CMI show AI rising on budget lists while governance and fundamentals lag. Plan for measurement, data, and workflo

AI is everywhere in marketing, but data and hiring plans still lag

New 2026 research from HubSpot, Demand Gen Report, and the AMA shows AI adoption is near-universal. The harder work is governance: data visibility, brand qualit

Marketing AI budgets hit 15.3%, but most teams can’t trust the data yet

Gartner reports CMOs are directing 15.3% of marketing budgets to AI in 2026, yet only 30% say they are ready to scale. The bigger hurdle is getting data in orde

GTM singularity is forcing RevOps teams to audit how AI intermediaries describe their products

Forrester’s “GTM singularity” framing is showing up as a concrete ops problem: AI tools are shaping shortlists and even negotiations, pushing RevOps to treat “A

AI can launch ABM ads in minutes, but opportunity definitions still decide whether sales trusts the handoff

Multiply’s 10 Min ABM speeds account-based advertising, but INFUSE data shows stakeholder alignment is still the biggest buyer-side drag. Ops needs shared trigg

First-meeting conversion is becoming the metric that decides whether AI prospecting spend pays off

Revenue Growth Agent is pushing “first meeting to qualified opportunity” conversion as the control metric for AI-scaled outbound and SDR meeting volume.

Agentic marketing is becoming a governance problem, and banks have the org chart to prove it

ANZ’s martech lead describes a shift from campaign execution to AI-governed decisioning. Nature’s editorial ops map shows what that work actually looks like at

AI can launch ABM ads in 10 minutes, but revenue teams still have to agree on what an “opportunity” is

Multiply’s 10 Min ABM promises self-learning account-based advertising at speed. INFUSE’s 2026 research points to the harder constraint: shared opportunity trig

Demand Gen Report’s 2026 benchmark survey turns AI in B2B marketing into an operations problem, not a tooling debate

Demand Gen Report’s 2026 survey is asking where AI actually produces measurable lift in content, lead scoring, campaign optimization, and orchestration, and whe

B2B demand gen is retiring the MQL: Demand Gen Report's 2026 benchmark tracks the shift to revenue proof

Demand Gen Report's 2026 Benchmark Survey signals B2B marketing teams are moving from vanity metrics to sourced revenue, pipeline influence, and AI-driven workf

Clari + Salesloft brings AI-native email marketing into its Predictive Revenue System via allGood partnership

Clari + Salesloft partners with allGood to plug AI email marketing into its revenue platform, giving enterprise teams a migration path away from rules-based aut

Demandbase and 6sense both push B2B GTM intelligence toward automated pipeline activation in July 2026

Demandbase integrates with DemandWorks for multi-channel ABM activation, while 6sense rolls out AI-Recommended Leads to close the gap between ad engagement and

Google's AI ad machine drove 15% more conversions last quarter, and most marketers aren't copying it

Alphabet's Q2 2026 earnings reveal an AI-rebuilt marketing stack. Here's what enterprise operators need to act on now.

Marketing budgets hit 7.8% of revenue in 2026, but AI visibility is redirecting where the money actually flows

Marketing budgets are at their lowest share of company revenue since 2020, yet AI visibility and creator spend are quietly absorbing dollars once earmarked for

Marketing budgets are flat at 7.7% of revenue, but AI-mature companies are spending 11%

Gartner's 2026 CMO Spend Survey finds marketing budgets holding steady at 7.7% of revenue overall, while organizations with fully optimized AI processes average

Email marketing's technical floor has risen, and campaigns that ignore authentication are already losing inbox placement

Gmail and Yahoo's sender requirements have made domain authentication non-negotiable, while AI and first-party data are reshaping how enterprise teams build and

B2B marketers with full data control beat peers on goal attainment by more than 2x, Anteriad research finds

Anteriad's 2026 B2B Marketing Edge report and Zig.ai's new AI agent launch signal that data control and automation are separating B2B winners.

90% of CMOs say AI is already reshaping brand discovery, forcing marketing to become an operating discipline

A new BCG survey and signals from Cannes Lions show the CMO role has fundamentally shifted: AI, data, and product alignment now define who leads growth.

Digital.Marketing's new AI platform unifies on-site SEO and off-site link building in a single workflow

Digital.Marketing launched a proprietary AI content platform that connects on-site SEO and off-site link building, targeting agencies tired of siloed tools.

B2B buyers are forming vendor shortlists before ever talking to sales, and AI is why

AI tools like ChatGPT and Gemini now drive 70–80% of B2B vendor evaluation before first sales contact, shrinking shortlists and reshuffling competitive advantag