Marketing Platforms

Outreach earns 5 out of 5 in 15 of 22 Forrester Wave criteria

Outreach scored 5 on 15 of 22 criteria in Forrester's Q3 2026 revenue orchestration Wave. Several of those marks grade what happens after the demo.

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.

Forrester says $1M B2B deals are going self-serve, and alignment breaks first

Forrester expects most $1M+ B2B transactions to run through digital self-serve in 2025. Influ2 data suggests sales and marketing hand-offs still miss high-inten

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.

6sense embeds buyer intelligence into Claude, ChatGPT, Writer, and Agentforce with four new product releases

6sense announced four product innovations that push its B2B buyer intelligence directly into major AI agent platforms, including Claude, ChatGPT, Writer, and Sa

Pure Storage's rebrand to Everpure shows why B2B tech companies change their name before moving upmarket

Pure Storage became Everpure to shed its storage-only identity and compete for enterprise data platform deals, as AI reshapes how B2B buyers research vendors.

ABM platforms are closing the last-mile gap between account signals and sales-ready contacts

Demandbase integrates with DemandWorks while 6sense rolls out AI-Recommended Leads, both targeting the same enterprise pain point: account intelligence that nev

CapCut earns back-to-back Software Experts recognitions for AI-powered content and design production

Software Experts named CapCut a top AI marketing and design platform in July 2026, citing its unified creative workspace and Seedream 5.0 integration.

B2B demand gen teams are being asked to justify every dollar, and Demand Gen Report's 2026 benchmark survey is collecting the data to show how

Demand Gen Report's 2026 Demand Generation Benchmark Survey is open, targeting how B2B teams split spend across ABM, intent data, AI platforms, and content.

Account intelligence platforms are closing the last mile between ad engagement and sales action

Demandbase integrates with DemandWorks for automated pipeline activation, while 6sense launches AI-Recommended Leads to hand CRM-ready contacts to sales in minu

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.

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.