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Treasure AI Takeover: 4 Episodes Featuring the Product Team

Aug 23, 2026

Rafael Flores and the Treasure AI product team on why the CDP had to stop storing and start deciding — four conversations on vision, roadmap, operations, and design.

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Inflation Is Rewriting Holiday Shopping: 96% of Consumers Are Finding Smarter Ways to Stretch Their Budgets

Aug 22, 2026

Minty’s new Smart Shopper Study finds consumers are turning to AI and cashback and savings apps, shopping earlier to uncover best values

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Yesterday’s Marketing Technology & AI News | August 22, 2026

Aug 22, 2026

Martech news for August 21, 2026: NielsenIQ finds 58% of shoppers ignore brand ownership, Gravitate publishes AEO research, KNOREX flags going concern.

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Smart Brands Prepare for Black Friday in August Before Ad Costs Climb 18% and Competition Jumps 40%

Aug 21, 2026

Data from marketing platform Billo dated June to December 2025 shows Meta ad competition rose 40% between August and the November peak. Billo, which connects brands with creators to produce social video ads, says the brands that win Black Friday test their creative already in August

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Adobe Moves Firefly’s AI Audio Out of Beta as Music Licensing Friction Shifts to the Generation Layer

Aug 21, 2026

Generate Music, Generate Speech, and Generate Sound Effects reach general availability, bringing rights-cleared audio into the same workspace as image and video — and raising new questions for brand teams about where “commercially safe” begins and ends.

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51.8% of QSR Workers Who Found Onboarding Inefficient Exited Before Starting Work, Survey Finds

Aug 21, 2026

AllianceHCM’s survey of 1,000 QSR employees suggests that a frustrating employee experience is costing trust, reducing lifetime value

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Yesterday’s Marketing Technology & AI News | August 21, 2026

Aug 21, 2026

Martech news for Aug 19-20, 2026: Syndigo finds reviews beat discounts, BCC Research reports agentic AI uses 100-1,000x more tokens, Queen One raises $25M.

ISM’s Paul Brenner and IAB’s Collin Colburn on in-store retail media measurement: the barrier to scale is alignment, not technology

ISM’s Paul Brenner and IAB’s Collin Colburn on in-store retail media measurement: the barrier to scale is alignment, not technology

Aug 20, 2026

ISM’s Paul Brenner and IAB’s Collin Colburn on why in-store retail media stalls on misaligned scorecards, not tech — and what shopper purchase rate fixes.

Lineup and alfa Stylo Form Strategic Partnership to Enhance Direct Advertising Design Capabilities

Lineup and alfa Stylo Form Strategic Partnership to Enhance Direct Advertising Design Capabilities

Aug 20, 2026

Lineup, a leading global provider of media sales technology, today announced a strategic partnership with alfamedia, who operates alfa Stylo, a versatile online editor for professional ad editing, digital and print.

BLK Teams Up with The Gathering Spot for New Black Business Month Campaign and Content Series

BLK Teams Up with The Gathering Spot for New Black Business Month Campaign and Content Series

Aug 20, 2026

New campaign “Open for Business (and Love)” celebrates Black entrepreneurs who are building businesses and relationships with equal intention

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