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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.

Salesforce and HubSpot are taking CRM updates out of the CRM screen

Salesforce, HubSpot, Zeotap and Zendesk are pushing CRM data into AI agents and collaboration tools. The customer record now has more editors.

Retailers need a separate Performance Max campaign for Google's new local shopper setting

Google's Local Customer Optimization won't run on feed-based Performance Max campaigns, and Store Sales lands in Data Manager at the end of September.

Google Ads Adds AI Dashboards and In-Store Sales Tools

Google Ads rolled out prompt-based AI dashboards and new in-store sales measurement tools in early September 2026, per Search Engine Land.

CDPs are still getting budget, but the architecture around them is shifting toward the warehouse

CDP spending is rising, but operations teams are rewriting specs around warehouse-native, zero-copy activation and consent controls.

Optimizely’s AEO push makes log data a new requirement for marketing platforms

Optimizely is tying AI discovery to on-site logs and Conductor search intelligence, as comms vendors like Notified tune releases for AI citations.

100% of revenue leaders say they use AI, but most can’t prove it pays off

Salesloft’s 500-leader benchmark finds universal AI use in revenue teams, yet only 20.6% call it production-ready. The bottleneck is data quality and workflow f

Consumption-based martech is bringing surprise AI bills to CMO budgets

Gartner data show CMOs put 15.3% of budgets into AI, but only 30% can scale. Usage-based martech is rising, and half of adopters keep renegotiating.

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

Optimizely shifts marketing AI RFPs from model selection to task fit

Optimizely launched post-trained marketing models and “Virtual Teammates,” as its own research shows teams still lack cookieless and first-party plans.

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

GenAI gains remain limited as effective use stays low

NROC’s Q2 2026 data puts a number on the AI gap: access is broad, effectiveness is rare, and data plumbing plus model choices decide whether teams see value.

Clay is moving intent data into GTM workflows instead of a dashboard

Intentsify’s new Clay integration pushes 1.1T monthly intent signals into GTM workflows, shifting how RevOps teams route, score, and govern outbound.

Insider’s “agentic” pitch is pushing martech buyers onto one platform

Insider is marketing an “agentic” customer engagement platform as enterprises consolidate CDP and messaging tools across 12+ channels.

Rallio’s RevIntel links franchise marketing to CRM revenue, pushing local teams higher

Rallio added RevIntel to connect local marketing activity to CRM outcomes and revenue, pushing multi-location brands to tighten data integration and conversion

Walmart’s 38% ad growth is turning retail media into an operating-margin lever, and procurement teams should treat Connect like a platform, not a channel

Walmart’s Q2 results put retail media, CTV, and Sparky on the same P&L arc. That shifts how brands should spec data, measurement, and CTV buys.

Optimizely’s Forrester Wave leader slot turns “agentic” marketing into an enterprise architecture decision

Optimizely’s Forrester Wave recognition spotlights a shift: “experience optimization” is being bought as agent-driven workflow plus data architecture, not just

Optimizely’s Forrester Wave Leader rating puts agentic experimentation into 2026 martech RFPs

Optimizely’s Leader and Customer Favorite marks a practical shift: AI agents are moving into controlled experimentation workflows tied to data platforms.

AI agents are replacing human B2B buyers at the top of the funnel, and most vendor data isn't ready

Autonomous AI agents now handle product research, comparison, and in some cases purchasing on behalf of B2B buyers. Traditional SEO won't get your brand cited.

96% of B2B marketers use AI, but only 44% have data infrastructure ready to support it

Most B2B organizations are deploying AI faster than they're modernizing the data foundations it depends on, creating a widening gap between buyer expectations a

Zeotap's composable CDP now runs entirely inside a customer's Snowflake account, eliminating data copies

Zeotap's new Snowflake Marketplace native app runs identity, segmentation, journey orchestration, and activation without ever moving data outside the customer's

Google's Ask Advisor now benchmarks your campaign performance against anonymized industry peers

Google expanded Ask Advisor with peer benchmarking, AI Overviews, and automated dashboards across Ads and Analytics on August 10.

AI literacy gap among marketers widens as LinkedIn and Adobe launch joint training program

LinkedIn Economic Graph data shows demand for AI-literate marketers has risen 113% year-over-year, yet only 4% of marketers have added AI skills to their profil

B2B marketing teams face their hardest budget-allocation test yet as AI, ABM, and intent data all compete for the same dollar

Demand Gen Report's 2026 benchmark survey is open now, asking where B2B marketing budgets are really flowing across ABM, content, intent data, and AI.

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.

RainFocus connects Adobe Workfront and AEM to eliminate manual event content workflows

RainFocus adds two Adobe Experience Manager integrations to automate session data sync and enforce brand governance across global event programs.

Informa TechTarget's Portal platform wins 2026 CODiE Award as BrightTALK earns global event platform leadership ranking

Informa TechTarget's Portal wins the 2026 CODiE Best Data Analytics Solution award while BrightTALK is named a Leader in QKS Group's global EExP SPARK Matrix.

RainFocus connects event data directly to Adobe Experience Manager, closing the content supply chain gap for enterprise marketers

RainFocus launches two Adobe Experience Manager integrations that sync event session, speaker, and exhibitor data into AEM and enforce brand governance across g

Klaviyo launches Social Marketing to turn Instagram engagement into owned customer data

Klaviyo's new Social Marketing product makes Instagram a fully owned channel, capturing DMs, comments, and tags directly into customer profiles.