Radial Survey Finds 70% of Holiday Shoppers Would Trade a Discount for Guaranteed Delivery, Up From 2025
Faster shipping also remains a major priority, with 78% choosing it over other factors when price and product availability are equal
Yesterday’s Marketing Technology & AI News | September 1, 2026
Martech news for August 31, 2026: Madrona’s IA40 puts $377B of $410B into three AI firms, while Archive, LG CNS and StoreClaw sell hours back to marketers.
Archive Launches Archie, the Agent That Vets Creators, Not Just Finds Them
Describe a campaign, and Archie returns a shortlist of creators already screened for competitor conflicts, dead accounts, and fake audiences, with the reasoning attached. That replaces the hours teams spend reviewing profiles one at a time
Optimizely Introduces Virtual Teammates,Giving Marketers Role-Specific AI Coworkers
New digital coworkers retain context, proactively take on recurring work, and operate across marketing tools within defined identity and permissions
Yesterday’s Marketing Technology & AI News | August 29, 2026
Martech news for Aug 27-28, 2026: The Trade Desk ships Kokai Zuma with claimed 32% CPA gains, and NIQ finds 74% of shoppers use AI for product discovery.
Yesterday’s Marketing Technology & AI News | August 28, 2026
BrightEdge: 97% of top sites can’t serve AI agents. Auxia, AWeber, LTK and Sequel launched agentic marketing tools August 25-26, 2026. What CMOs face.
AI Innovation at Constructor Leads to 3 Gold ‘Company of the Year’ Wins Across 3 Stevie® Awards Programs
Retail and ecommerce wins recognize Constructor’s product discovery leadership; judges cite ‘outstanding commercial results, meaningful AI innovation and compelling customer impact’
ActiveCampaign Launches Active Intelligence: Wavelength, Marketing AI Tuned to Your Business, Not the Industry Average
Wavelength doesn’t just surface the right move, it makes it. Built on 500+ signals from each business’ own account, Active Intelligence now drives a 75% higher engagement rate
Yesterday’s Marketing Technology & AI News | August 27, 2026
BCG finds 31% of consumers now use AI to shop, roughly triple 18 months ago. Aug 26, 2026 martech news from DoubleVerify, Adjust, Zappi, LTK and Perion.
Optimove Introduces the New OptiGenie: Natural-Language Conversational Agent Directly Inside the Platform
New in-platform AI agent gives marketers everything the Optimove MCP can do, now with full platform context, access to Optimove’s specialized decisioning, insights, and creative agents, and marketer-controlled governance
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