Month: August 2026

Optimum7’s 4,000 AI answers tie 20-40% traffic loss to bad migrations. Plus Klaviyo’s Agency deal, GLG AI-moderated calls, and Pollo Agent 2.0, August 2026.

Alexi Hatch from Acoustic on customer intent and the new customer relationship playbook.

Gartner, IAB, Cloudflare, and a candid APAC agency panel all landed in the same week on one question: what evidence quality does a number need before a CMO can spend against it. A practitioner’s read on grading AI measurement.

This disconnect between our internal operating models and external customer reality is more than just an operational headache; it is a profound strategic liability. It creates waste, obscures truth, and puts a ceiling on growth. And now, the advent of sophisticated AI is not merely offering a new tool…

Martech news for August 6-7, 2026: Nielsen buys DoubleVerify for $2.15 billion, Cloudflare ships an AEO visibility dashboard, and Signifyd reports fraud up 33%.

This is the dimension the Brand Visibility for Agentic Commerce (BVAC) framework calls Latency and Data Freshness, and it’s the one most likely to be doing real damage in a brand that has done everything else right. It isn’t about whether the data exists — that’s Attribute Completeness, a…

Ninth Annual Event sees record growth in attendance, exhibitors, speakers and programming

Martech news for August 5-6, 2026: PubMatic ships AgenticOS guardrails, KIBO AI unifies commerce agents, and Optimove finds 72% of US consumers use AI to shop.

YouGov’s U.S. AI brand rankings 2026: ChatGPT leads, but Gemini shows momentum, provides timely insights into the evolving landscape of AI brand perception, offering a data-driven foundation for strategic enterprise decisions.

Jose Martinez, Global Chief Data Officer at Coca-Cola FEMSA, on getting to one usable version of the truth across 15 countries — and selling data governance to the board.