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Customer experience outweighs brand in AI-assisted shopping

The rules for AI-assisted recommendations have changed. When evaluating brands, AI engines focus less on marketing narratives and more on customer experience (CX). Many brands still approach AI visibility as an SEO problem. The existing playbook emphasizes tactics such as optimizing content for machine-readability, building third-party authority, and structuring data so models can parse it

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Risks to look out for when using vibe coding to replace SaaS

Vibe coding makes it easier than ever for marketers to replace SaaS tools with something they build themselves. However, easy doesn’t mean good, and the trade-offs are showing up quickly in performance, security, and long-term maintenance. The appeal is obvious. Startups report cutting initial development costs by 50% to 70% when they build with AI

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What marketing can learn from IT about running complex technology

Marketing and creative teams now run technology environments as complex as many enterprise IT systems. But while IT organizations built disciplines around governance, service ownership, and operational management, marketing teams still tend to manage martech through disconnected projects and expanding tool stacks. Today’s enterprise marketing and creative environments are no longer mere collections of tools.

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10 of the most insightful quotes from the May 2026 MarTech Conference

The May 2026 MarTech Conference featured seven live panel discussions for marketing and marketing operations professionals. All told, the event transcripts totaled nearly 150 pages. We mined the transcripts and watched the sessions and chose 10 insightful quotes from the day’s discussions. “The value exchange isn’t really a one-time thing at the point of collection.

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Publicis buys LiveRamp to build agentic AI capabilities on proprietary data

Publicis Groupe entered into an agreement to acquire LiveRamp on Sunday, the latest in a series of data plays by the advertising giant.  But unlike the acquisition of Epsilon in 2019 and Lotame in 2025, the announcement of the LiveRamp acquisition speaks much more to the potential of agentic AI. LiveRamp is a data collaboration

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