Usercentrics Study: 78% of U.S. Consumers Say They’d Abandon a Brand Over Data Misuse
Second annual State of Digital Trust report finds American consumers acting on privacy concerns faster than regulators — and putting the burden of trust squarely on brands
Agent identity is the control that most marketing organizations have not yet built. Martech Futurist | July 21, 2026
From Greg Kihlström on the Martech Fururist blog. A survey of enterprise deployments finds that identity is the control organizations are least likely to have put in place. Perimeter research finds the same requirement outside the firewall, where an agent reaching your site may belong to a customer, a…
Yesterday’s Marketing Technology & AI News | July 21, 2026
Yesterday’s martech news, July 20, 2026: 5W finds OpenAI takes 24.6% of AI citations, CTM adds OpenAI Ads attribution, and Infobip pushes conversational retail.
One Amazing Thing About Malachyte with Sidd Motwani and Di Lyngholm
We all know that personalized experience can pay off in big ways. What if you could continuously adapt things like search, product carousels, and more for customers, even from a cold start? How would that change your e-commerce merchandising approach? Welcome to One Amazing About Malachyte. Today we’re talking…
Netchex Launches Mesh: AI HR Teammates for the Deskless Workforce
Six AI specialists proactively handle payroll, compliance, scheduling, and HR work for restaurants, hotels, dealerships, and other real-world businesses, inside Netchex and inside ChatGPT & Claude
Agents move quickly, but your accountability is permanent. Martech Futurist | July 18, 2026
Marketing agents are moving from recommending a decision to executing it, on budgets, targeting, and messaging, often before any human reviews the choice. The ceiling on how much of that work an organization can hand over is no longer set by model capability. It is set by two things…
TrustRadius: Bridging the B2B Buying Disconnect: AI, Trust, and Go-to-Market Strategies for 2026
The 2026 TrustRadius B2B Buying Disconnect Report highlights a critical gap between vendor perceptions and actual buyer needs, particularly concerning trust, validation, and measurable outcomes.
Lou Carbone on a new understanding of brand
In this episode Lou Carbone—founder and Chief Experience Officer of Experience Engineering, Professor of Practice at Michigan State University, and the pioneer often called the “Godfather of Experience Management”—argues that …
Optimove: Responsive Marketing for Back-to-School 2026: Adapting to Early Starts, Budget Pressures, and Multichannel Demands
Optimove’s Back to School Report 2026 outlines key insights and actionable recommendations for senior marketing and CX leaders to optimize their strategies for this critical period.
Expert Mode: Beyond the Search Box: The New Era of Agentic Commerce
What if that transactional, often-broken utility could become the most intelligent, personalized, and conversational part of your brand experience? The shift we are witnessing is not an incremental improvement; it is a complete reimagining of digital interaction.
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