Lineup and alfa Stylo Form Strategic Partnership to Enhance Direct Advertising Design Capabilities
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
New campaign “Open for Business (and Love)” celebrates Black entrepreneurs who are building businesses and relationships with equal intention
As AI commoditizes, what still appreciates? Martech Futurist | August 20, 2026
Forrester’s new AI Disruption Model, Experian’s Identity and Fraud Report, and a B2B search overhaul at Akamai all point the same direction: durable martech budget is moving beneath the application, into data, identity, and trust. A practitioner’s read for CMOs planning 2027.
Yesterday’s Marketing Technology & AI News | August 20, 2026
Martech news for August 19, 2026: Attentive AI Grow lifts email and SMS sign-ups 25%, Calendly ships Callie, and Liferay opens its Data Platform to B2B.
WunderKIND Ads Integrates with Amazon Publisher Services, Expanding Access to Premium Inventory
Publishers unlock new demand while advertisers gain seamless access to high-impact, performance-driven formats
Liferay Announces General Availability of Liferay Data Platform
New account intelligence layer gives B2B organizations a unified view of account activity, Liferay DXP-native
Space raises $2.4M led by a16z Speedrun to build the AI-native filesystem for humans and agents
Space is building a distributed filesystem that lets humans and agents instantly access and work across petabytes of live data while using zero local disk space.
Yesterday’s Marketing Technology & AI News | August 19, 2026
Seismic closed its Highspot merger and Pipedrive shipped MCP to Claude on Aug 18, 2026. DeepIntent, BPD, and Kantiv also consolidated marketing tools.
Yesterday’s Marketing Technology & AI News | August 18, 2026
Yesterday’s announcements from Similarweb, Omneky, Synchrony, Uniphore, Acoustic, and Higgsfield put a price, a buying interface, or a measurement instrument on the conversational AI surface. Similarweb (NYSE: SMWB) reported on August 17, 2026 that 26% of ChatGPT responses already carry a sponsored ad in the ChatGPT Free and Go…
Luma and Dumbstruck Partner on “Creative Intelligence,” Betting the Real AI Bottleneck Is Selection, Not Production
The two companies are pitching a closed loop between emotion analytics and agentic video editing — and, in the process, attempting to define a new martech category.
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