Expert Mode: Your Org Chart is Not the Customer Journey with Todd Parsons, Criteo
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…
Yesterday’s Marketing Technology & AI News | August 8, 2026
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%.
A Stale Feed Is an Invisible Product
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…
AI4 2026 Sets New Records With 50% Attendance Growth as More Than 12,000 Global AI Leaders From 100 Countries Gather in Las Vegas to Explore the Future of Artificial Intelligence
Ninth Annual Event sees record growth in attendance, exhibitors, speakers and programming
Yesterday’s Marketing Technology & AI News: August 7, 2026
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: AI Brand Leadership and Momentum: Strategic Insights for Enterprise CX and Marketing
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.
From Ai4: Coca-Cola FEMSA’s Jose Martinez on balancing continuous improvement and CX consistency
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.
ChatGPT leads U.S. AI brand rankings, while Gemini shows momentum
New YouGov BrandIndex data finds ChatGPT is the most preferred AI tool among U.S. generative AI users, while Gemini posts the biggest increase in Preference
This Week in Marketing Technology, AI, and CX Podcasts | August 6, 2026
Eikona’s Nir Weingarten on reinforcement learning, Thryv’s Patricia Rollins on small business AI, Adobe’s Rachel Thornton on agents as customers, Taelor’s Anya Cheng, and Klaviyo Composer.
“Please” and “ASAP” Backfire: Chaser Data Reveals the Words that Slow Work Down
An analysis of nearly 300,000 delegated tasks in Slack identifies counterintuitive findings about task management in the workplace
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