Expert Mode: The Unseen Foundation of AI-Powered Marketing
In our rush to harness these new capabilities, we often overlook the very foundation upon which they are built: the data. And I’m not talking about the clean, structured, first-party data sitting comfortably in our CDPs. I’m referring to the messy, chaotic, and utterly vital torrent of public web…
WMF 2026: Where the Future of Marketing, Data and Digital Strategy Takes the Stage
From June 24 to 26, 2026, Bologna, Italy, will become one of Europe’s most strategic meeting points for the global digital economy. At WMF – We Make Future, the international fair and festival dedicated to AI, technology and digital innovation, the conversation around marketing will move far beyond trends,…
Publicis to acquire LiveRamp to accelerate data co-creation for smarter agents
Publicis Groupe has entered into an agreement to acquire LiveRamp, a global data collaboration platform.
Qualtrics Acquires Healthcare Experience Leader Press Ganey Forsta For $6.75 Billion: Expands Experience Management (XM) Category Leadership Creating World’s Largest AI Dataset for Human Experiential Context Ever Assembled
Adding Press Ganey Forsta, the trusted standard for healthcare experience, to the Qualtrics XM dataset combines decades of proprietary healthcare data and regulatory systems with the leading XM AI & data platform to supercharge human experience management for all industries.
New Book on Building and Scaling Modern Marketing Operations from Greg Kihlström and Publisher De Gruyter Brill
Marketing Operations: Strategy, Implementation, and Optimization of Marketing Teams, Processes, and Platforms by Greg Kihlström offers a practical framework for leaders seeking stronger alignment, governance, measurement, and operational maturity
RGP Chief Strategy & Experience Officer Jennifer Jones on the human experience of digital transformation
Today, we’re going to talk about the often-overlooked foundation of successful business transformation: the human experience. We’ll explore why the employee experience isn’t just an HR initiative but a direct driver of customer outcomes, and how designing systems around the way people actually think—not just how we’re organized on…
Expert Mode: Beyond the Search Bar: Navigating the New Era of Distributed Intent
For marketing leaders, the challenge isn’t just about learning a new tool; it’s about unlearning a generation of deeply ingrained assumptions and preparing for a world where “search” is an action, not a destination. This brings us to Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), often called Generative Engine Optimization (GEO).
Yesterday’s Marketing Technology & AI News | May 16, 2026
Yesterday’s announcements concentrate on the layer beneath marketing execution: the data foundations, governance controls, and discovery channels that determine whether AI tooling produces usable output. Two primary press releases dropped on May 15, 2026 — Dataiku’s Cobuild on Snowflake and Mordor Intelligence’s 2026 Customer Data Platform market analysis —…
Expert Mode: Your AI Ambitions Are Being Held Hostage by Your Legacy Tech
The technical debt accrued over decades is now coming due, with interest. New research from Pega confirms what many of us have suspected: outdated, clunky technology is a primary source of employee frustration, a drain on productivity, and a significant driver of talent attrition. While we chase the horizon…
Dataiku Launches Cobuild on Snowflake: From Prompt to Production-Ready AI Workflow, Inside Snowflake
Dataiku pairs Snowflake Cortex AI with Dataiku’s agentic builder, helping more customers turn business intent into governed AI agents and workflows on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud
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