University of Phoenix: The AI Talent Disconnect: Strategic Imperatives for Enterprise Leaders to Retain AI-Fluent Employees
The University of Phoenix Career Optimism Index® 2026 Study (April 2026) reveals that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming worker confidence, skill development, and career mobility. While employees are independently embracing AI to enhance their capabilities, many organizations are struggling to adapt at the same pace, creating a measurable…
Yesterday’s Marketing Technology & AI News Digest | June 20, 2026
Yesterday’s wave of martech and AI announcements tells a story that is more complicated—and more consequential—than the vendor headlines suggest. The central theme is not that AI is arriving; it is that the infrastructure required to make AI operationally real is finally being built, and the decisions Chief Marketing…
Expert Mode: Re-Evaluating Cashback as a Strategic Growth Lever with Shopback’s Carolina Paradas
Today, every line item in the budget, every channel in the mix, is under scrutiny from the C-suite. The conversation has shifted from vanity metrics and upper-funnel awareness to hard ROI, customer lifetime value, and sustainable acquisition costs. It’s a climate that demands not just optimization, but a fundamental…
Adobe Expands Firefly’s Agentic Capabilities and Previews a Unified Creative AI Studio
Adobe is positioning Firefly as a single, agent-powered workspace that carries a project from idea to finished asset—and extending that reach into ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini and Slack.
CommerceIQ: Pre-Prime Day 2026: Driving Ecommerce Performance and Addressing Critical Gaps
The CommerceIQ Pre-Prime Day Pulse Report, examines key trends and provides actionable insights for senior marketing and CX leaders aiming to maximize performance and mitigate risks during peak sales periods.
Yesterday’s Marketing Technology & AI News | June 18, 2026
Yesterday was a big day for marketing technology. While a single announcement didn’t necessarily overshadow the others, the unmistakable pattern across all of them: agentic AI is no longer a roadmap item. It is shipping, and it is landing directly in the workflows that marketing teams use every day.
EvoluteIQ Brings Its AI-Native Platform to Google Cloud with eiq360: Turns Business Intent into Enterprise Operations Using Natural Language
Powered by Google Cloud and Gemini, eiq360 gives organisations already invested in Google Cloud, or actively exploring it, a native way to design, deploy, and operate enterprise applications and business processes through natural language, without coding, specialist development teams, or fragmented technology stacks.
From PegaWorld: Unum CIO & CDO Shelia Anderson on AI-augmented enterprise modernization
oday, we are at PegaWorld 2026 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, and, we’re going to talk about the immense challenge and opportunity of enterprise modernization. Specifically, we’ll cover: Translating a massive technology initiative into tangible improvements in the customer and partner experience. The practical steps required to…
Databricks Launches CustomerLake, an Agentic CDP Embedded in the Lakehouse
Databricks used its Data + AI Summit on June 16 to introduce CustomerLake, a new agentic customer data platform built natively inside the Databricks Lakehouse. The product brings core CDP functions — Customer 360, identity resolution, audience building, campaign automation, activation, and personalization — directly into the environment where…
Cognitiv’s Full-Funnel CTV Drives Competitive Edge for Fanatics Sportsbook
Solution Pairs AudienceGPT for Branding with Custom Algorithms for Performance to Transform Behavioral Signals into Audience Intelligence
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