Sprout Social Named as a Visionary in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Social Media Management and Listening
Sprout Social views this recognition as a reflection of its commitment to AI-powered Social Intelligence and its strategy to turn real-time social signals into business decisions, driven by its proprietary AI agent, Trellis
Infobip Acquires SocketLabs to Expand Its Enterprise Email Infrastructure
Acquisition brings nearly two decades of email expertise, vendor-agnostic observability, and intelligent routing capabilities to Infobip
Context now decides what your AI-enabled stack costs and whether it works. Martech Futurist | July 9, 2026
From Greg Kihlström’s Martech Futurist blog. For two years the marketing conversation treated the model as the prize. Buy access to the best one, wire it into a workflow, wait for the returns. The research surfacing now moves the argument somewhere less comfortable. The model has become the assumed…
Cresta Launches Training Simulator, Using AI Agents to Provide Dynamic Training to Human Agents
Simulated customers powered by Cresta’s AI Agent technology let agents practice conversations grounded in real conversation data to decrease onboarding time, improve employee retention, and increase agent performance.
Yesterday’s Marketing Technology & AI News: July 11, 2026
Martech news July 10, 2026: Tec-Do brings advertisers into ChatGPT Ads, Omneky opens an MCP ad-creative server, Sprout Social joins Gartner’s first social MQ.
AI investments chase easy money, but end customers want more. Martech Futurist | July 10, 2026
The AI-in-marketing story spent two years as a forecast. They have started producing tangible takeaways, and they point away from where most of the money has gone. Gartner found customers are three times more likely to resolve a service issue with a third-party tool like ChatGPT than with a…
Stibo Systems and CommerceIQ partner to close the gap between product data and retail sales
Stibo Systems, the largest independent provider of master data management (MDM) and the company behind the trusted intelligence platform, is partnering with CommerceIQ, the agentic AI platform for digital commerce, to help brands turn accurate, well-managed product content into stronger performance on retailer sites.
Yesterday’s Marketing Technology & AI News | July 10, 2026
Martech news July 9, 2026: Multiply launches 10 Minute ABM, Workato adds Agent Guardrails, IBM Bob gains cost analytics, Observe.AI tops the CMP Prism.
Multiply Launches “10 Minute ABM,” helping B2B brands launch 100s of Personalized Ads for their Top Accounts in just a few minutes
Marketers compress 100 hours of work into 10 minutes with personalized 1:1 ads for account-based marketing.
Qualtrics Elevates Ken Hoang to SVP, Product, Betting on Data as the Edge in AI-Driven Experience Management
The experience management leader taps a 30-year enterprise data veteran to unify product management and design—and frames the appointment around a platform thesis that data, not models alone, will close the “Experience Gap.”
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