Yesterday’s Marketing Technology & AI News | August 9, 2026
Optimum7’s 4,000 AI answers tie 20-40% traffic loss to bad migrations. Plus Klaviyo’s Agency deal, GLG AI-moderated calls, and Pollo Agent 2.0, August 2026.
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%.
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.
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
Adobe Consolidates Its ChatGPT Presence Into a Single Plugin With 70+ Creative and Productivity Tools
Adobe has launched the Adobe plugin in ChatGPT, a single unified plugin that pulls more than 70 tools from across the company’s creative and productivity portfolio into OpenAI’s conversational interface. The plugin is available globally starting today on ChatGPT web and app, and works across ChatGPT Work and Codex.
Conga Names Ian Wathen Chief Financial Officer
Ten-Year Conga Veteran Brings Unmatched Continuity and Financial Leadership as Conga Enters Next Stage of Growth
Observe.AI Featured as Leading on the CMP Prism for Voicebot/Conversational IVR Showcasing Capability in Customer Contact and CX Technology
Observe.AI proudly announces its placement on the CMP Prism, for Voicebot/Conversational IVR. The CMP Prism is an independent, analyst-led evaluation framework that benchmarks customer contact technology solutions against industry standards.
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