Yesterday’s Marketing Technology & AI News | August 18, 2026
Yesterday’s announcements from Similarweb, Omneky, Synchrony, Uniphore, Acoustic, and Higgsfield put a price, a buying interface, or a measurement instrument on the conversational AI surface. Similarweb (NYSE: SMWB) reported on August 17, 2026 that 26% of ChatGPT responses already carry a sponsored ad in the ChatGPT Free and Go…
One Amazing Thing About Eikona with Nir Weingarten
Every marketer wants to tailor their experience to match what customers want, but personalization can often be more about what marketers want to show than what customers want to see. What if you could replace outdated A/B testing and adapt your content based on user behavior using reinforcement learning?
OX’s Jenna Kennedy and Guy Gunter Home’s William Webster on B2B and B2C in one storefront: B2B is built into Shopify Plus, real-time pricing and inventory weren’t
Jenna Kennedy of Office of Experience and William Webster of Guy Gunter Home on running trade and consumer commerce on a single Shopify Plus storefront.
Luma and Dumbstruck Partner on “Creative Intelligence,” Betting the Real AI Bottleneck Is Selection, Not Production
The two companies are pitching a closed loop between emotion analytics and agentic video editing — and, in the process, attempting to define a new martech category.
Acoustic Launches Acoustic AI, an Agentic Marketing Teammate Built on Live Customer Behavior
Acoustic AI proactively identifies revenue opportunities, recommends the next move and helps marketers build campaigns before customer intent fades
Uniphore Launches Marketing AI as Marketing Moves Beyond the CDP
Digital Twins and custom Small Language Models enable brands to know every customer better, simulate outcomes before spending and predict what’s next
Yesterday’s Marketing Technology & AI News | August 16, 2026
Yesterday’s announcements tell a story that vendor marketing rarely admits: the gap between signing an AI contract and realizing its value is measured in months to years, not weeks. Three distinct patterns emerged from August 16’s announcements that CMOs need to internalize before their next budget conversation.
Expert Mode from: Escaping the Million-Dollar AI Pilot Trap with NiCE CTO Kevin Lee
The mandate from the C-suite is clear, and it has been for some time: “Do something with AI.” For enterprise marketing leaders, this directive has become a constant hum in the background of every strategic discussion. The most common response, and a logical one at that, is to spin…
Treasure AI Chief Product and Growth Officer Rafael Flores on evolving CDPs to activation platforms
In this episode Rafael “Rafa” Flores, Chief Product and Growth Officer at Treasure AI, explains why a company that spent close to fifteen years building customer data infrastructure rebranded from …
Expert Mode: When the Cheapest Face in Your Ad Doesn’t Exist with Donatas Smailys of Billo
Donatas Smailys, co-founder and CEO of Billo, a user-generated content platform that turns creator videos into ads for Meta, TikTok, and YouTube Shorts, thinks the ground under that advice is moving. Just not the way the headlines say it is.
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