Author: Agile Brand Guide

Alteryx, Inc., a leading AI-ready data and analytics company, today announced its next phase of growth at the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit, surpassing $1 billion in ARR and powering more than 380 million automated workflows annually. As enterprises shift from AI experimentation to full-scale execution, demand for trusted automation and AI-ready data has…

The dominant themes are: (1) the widening gap between AI tool adoption and organizational AI competency; (2) the restructuring of the marketing technology partner ecosystem around AI specialization; (3) the shift from AI experimentation to AI governance and ROI accountability; and (4) the transformation of the B2B buyer journey…

Yesterday’s press release landscape tells a story that CMOs need to read carefully for the structural shifts implied. The dominant theme is a widening gap between AI adoption rates and AI competency. CoSchedule’s survey data showing only 3% of marketers self-identify as AI experts — despite near-universal tool adoption…

Today, we are recording from eTail Palm Springs, and we’re going to talk about the expanding, and frankly, more demanding role of the CMO. It’s a topic that’s front and center here at eTail, where many are discussing how marketing leaders must evolve beyond traditional brand stewardship to become…

A recent Zappi study, The relevance gap: Why women feel increasingly unseen by advertising, reveals a substantial and growing “relevance gap”: women increasingly feel unseen by advertising, leading directly to financial consequences for brands. This is not merely a creative challenge; it is a revenue problem that demands immediate,…

The old model of acquiring a competitor to gain market share or buying a smaller company to plug a feature gap is being replaced by a far more calculated and sophisticated strategy. The smartest players in the MarTech and CX platform space are no longer just building wider platforms;…

BrightEdge, the global leader in enterprise SEO and AI-driven digital performance, released new data showing that AI search engines are actively evaluating brands, with each engine behaving differently.

Friday’s wave of martech announcements follows a now-familiar pattern: vendors racing to attach “agentic” to their product names while the data on actual adoption tells a very different story. The most important press release of the day wasn’t a product launch — it was Supermetrics’ 2026 Marketing Data Report,…

For years, we’ve talked about agility, but the current wave of generative AI demands something more profound: a framework of collaborative trust. Marketing teams are, rightly, adopting powerful, often low-code tools at an astonishing pace to drive results. This velocity, however, creates a vortex of new complexities and risks,…

Amperity, a leading AI-powered Customer Data Cloud, today announced the appointment of Bridget Perry as Chief Marketing Officer. Perry brings more than two decades of experience scaling high-growth B2B SaaS companies and leading marketing organizations through major technology shifts, including the transition to cloud and product-led growth.