Author: Agile Brand Guide

For decades, the marketing funnel has been a cornerstone of our practice. It provided a simple, elegant model for understanding how a nameless prospect becomes a known customer. We built dashboards, designed campaigns, and structured entire teams around its linear logic. It gave us an operating model, a common…

Acquisition brings nearly two decades of email expertise, vendor-agnostic observability, and intelligent routing capabilities to Infobip

Simulated customers powered by Cresta’s AI Agent technology let agents practice conversations grounded in real conversation data to decrease onboarding time, improve employee retention, and increase agent performance.

Martech news July 10, 2026: Tec-Do brings advertisers into ChatGPT Ads, Omneky opens an MCP ad-creative server, Sprout Social joins Gartner’s first social MQ.

The next evolution isn’t simply about creating more content faster. It’s about building an intelligent, autonomous system that can execute complex marketing tasks from end to end. This is the domain of agentic AI. It represents a fundamental shift from using AI as a discrete tool for a specific…

The AI-in-marketing story spent two years as a forecast. They have started producing tangible takeaways, and they point away from where most of the money has gone. Gartner found customers are three times more likely to resolve a service issue with a third-party tool like ChatGPT than with a…

Your AI Visibility Metrics Are Lying to You: How Conversational Context Shapes AI Responses, Demand-Genius research indicates that in B2B buyer journeys, only 16% of AI responses directly cite a brand, with a 0% citation rate observed during early awareness and consideration stages.

Stibo Systems, the largest independent provider of master data management (MDM) and the company behind the trusted intelligence platform, is partnering with CommerceIQ, the agentic AI platform for digital commerce, to help brands turn accurate, well-managed product content into stronger performance on retailer sites.

Martech news July 9, 2026: Multiply launches 10 Minute ABM, Workato adds Agent Guardrails, IBM Bob gains cost analytics, Observe.AI tops the CMP Prism.

Crunchbase CRO Ann Davis on the pressure to show ROI from AI — why “better AI” is a distraction and fixing siloed, proprietary data is what actually drives returns.