AI is powering the loss of B2B marketing jobs
47% of B2B companies reduced marketing roles due to AI, often by quietly eliminating backfills rather than announcing layoffs.
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Marketing artificial intelligence (AI)
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What Intuit’s layoffs mean for Mailchimp customers
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Consumers want AI ads with a human touch
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Consumers may choose brands emotionally, but AI agents will evaluate pricing, service, delivery, and loyalty value.
Bad AI customer agent bots are a growing brand risk
74% of enterprises that deployed AI customer agents have rolled them back after governance failures damaged CX and trust.
Your company may be slow with AI, but you can’t afford to be
Experimenting with AI now gives you the advantage when everyone else tries to catch up.
Marketing artificial intelligence (AI)
Marketing teams must own AI, or workslop will take over
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Gartner research shows buyers want AI speed, but they still turn to humans for confidence and validation.
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Marketing silos are the symptom, not the problem
Campaign-based execution created disconnected teams, tools, and data. AI is enabling a more unified operating model.
Why some GTM teams move faster than yours.
New global research data reveals the tech gap quietly costing teams speed, revenue, and competitive ground.
Risks to look out for when using vibe coding to replace SaaS
Vibe coding can replace SaaS tools fast, but risks in security, integration and maintenance can quickly outweigh the savings.
What marketing can learn from IT about running complex technology
Martech stacks have outgrown project-based management. Marketing teams need stronger ownership, governance, and service models.
Customer experience outweighs brand in AI-assisted shopping
AI recommendation engines rely on reviews, comparisons, and customer signals to decide which brands to surface and trust.
GA4 now tracks AI chatbot traffic automatically
Google Analytics just made it easier to see how much traffic AI assistants are sending to your website.
Publicis buys LiveRamp to build agentic AI capabilities on proprietary data
Data was nice, but high-value, proprietary data you can use to train AI agents is even better.
AI made marketers faster, but organizations stayed the same
AI tools improved how specialists work, but most organizations still operate through the same approvals, handoffs, and bottlenecks.
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10 of the most insightful quotes from the May 2026 MarTech Conference
More than soundbites, these 10 quotes reflect the the real-world pressures facing marketing leaders today.
AI is moving too fast for static strategies
The companies pulling ahead with AI are not predicting the future better than everyone else, they are learning and adapting faster in real time.
Marketing is entering its ‘air traffic control’ era
Adapting to customer journeys that increasingly resemble competing AI systems interpreting trust, risk, intent, and identity in real time.
The AI search shift changing B2B marketing metrics
Website traffic is losing ground as the primary success metric while AI visibility and lead quality take center stage.
5 reasons branding belongs in your GTM strategy
From sales alignment to customer retention, a clear brand strategy helps companies grow faster and compete more effectively.
The art of doing more with less: The new marketing operations stack
Stop managing tools and start orchestrating outcomes. At the May MarTech Conference we discussed untangling the ‘AI spaghetti mess’ to move forward.
Why scaling creative is really a leadership challenge
Automation can increase output, but creative effectiveness depends on operational discipline and strategic clarity.
Digital asset management (DAM)
Build a martech stack that makes it easy to manage your brand
Struggling with brand consistency? The solution isn't necessarily more tools. It's the right tools, assembled and aligned with intention.