marketing technology

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

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

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.

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.

Forrester’s Q3 2026 Wave puts Optimizely’s agentic experimentation on procurement shortlists

Optimizely’s Forrester Wave placement shifts experience optimization buying toward governed, warehouse-native agentic experimentation.

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

Jasper names a CFO with $1B deal experience and promotes its VP of Marketing to CMO as enterprise AI operationalization accelerates

Jasper promoted Tom Newton to CMO and hired Lauren Newman as CFO on Aug. 3, signaling a shift from AI experimentation to disciplined enterprise scale.

AI video is becoming a procurement and brand-safety spec, not a marketing experiment

As AI video generators move into B2B content workflows, Forbes’ verification checklist is turning into an operational control for web, social, and sales enablem

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

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

B2B marketing automation platforms are splitting into two camps, and the wrong pick costs more than the subscription

Choosing a B2B marketing automation platform has never been harder, or more consequential. Here's what separates the right fit from an expensive mistake.

NiCE's record HMRC deal proves enterprise CX AI is real, but scaling it remains slow

NiCE closed its largest-ever CXone deal with UK tax authority HMRC, but its Q2 call revealed a persistent gap between signing and scaling AI in the enterprise.

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

Meta's new "engaged-through attribution" model counts likes, saves, and shares as conversions

Meta is replacing its click-only attribution with two new models that capture social-native engagement, reshaping how ad teams measure ROI.

OpenAI integrates with AppsFlyer to bring in-app measurement to ChatGPT ads, with Grubhub among 40+ brands in testing

OpenAI is partnering with AppsFlyer to add mobile attribution to ChatGPT ads, giving brands visibility into installs, purchases, and subscriptions.

Parsnipp's Smart LLM Ads merges organic AI visibility with paid search in a single B2B platform

Parsnipp launched Smart LLM Ads, the first generally available platform to combine AI visibility intelligence with paid ChatGPT advertising in one workflow.

Nine in 10 B2B marketing leaders now treat AI visibility as an investment priority, but most brands are optimizing for the wrong signals

AI answer engines reward authority, not content volume. B2B marketers still running the classic SEO playbook are accelerating their own invisibility.

Jasper promotes Tom Newton to CMO and hires Lauren Newman as CFO as enterprise AI marketing shifts from experimentation to execution

Jasper named Tom Newton CMO and Lauren Newman CFO on Aug. 3, signaling a push to scale enterprise AI marketing beyond pilots.

92% of B2B organizations are already experimenting with GEO, and GNW Consulting's new tool Leo is built to operationalize it

GNW Consulting launches Leo, a proprietary GEO tool for B2B LLM placement, as new research shows 92% of organizations already experimenting with generative engi

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

Jasper names a CMO and CFO as enterprise AI marketing shifts from experimentation to execution

Jasper promoted Tom Newton to CMO and hired Lauren Newman as CFO on Aug. 3, signaling a push to scale its marketing agents platform across the Fortune 500.

Agentforce closes $2.7 million in revenue for SaaStr with a 72% email open rate

SaaStr's Agentforce deployment turned warm leads into $2.7M in closed revenue and $3.5M in nurtured pipeline, with outreach emails hitting a 72% open rate.

Verndale joins Sitecore's Velocity Program to accelerate enterprise AI adoption across marketing stacks

Verndale, a Sitecore Platinum Partner with 350+ projects and 12 MVPs, joins the Velocity Program to help brands migrate to SitecoreAI faster.

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

OpenAI adds AppsFlyer attribution to ChatGPT ads as publishers begin blocking Google's crawler

OpenAI integrates AppsFlyer for in-app ad measurement while Cloudflare's default crawler block puts publisher access to Google Search at risk.

CTM closes the ChatGPT ad attribution gap with native OpenAI integration

CTM now connects ChatGPT ad campaigns to phone call conversions, giving performance marketers closed-loop attribution on OpenAI's ad channel for the first time.

Earned media stops paying off the moment it's filed away, and AI-assisted repurposing is changing that

PR teams are leaving pipeline on the table by treating media placements as one-time wins. AI repurposing and attribution tools are closing the gap.