Category: Research

Futurum Signal’s Agentic AI Platforms for Enterprise report provides a strategic overview of enterprise-grade Agentic AI platforms, focusing on the practical considerations for senior marketing and CX leaders regarding governance, integration, and measurable business outcomes.

Comscore’s Q1 2026 AI Intelligence Report provides a comprehensive, panel-based perspective on these shifts, detailing AI’s influence across search, assistant tools, and the consumer journey. For senior marketing and CX leaders, understanding these dynamics is critical for adapting strategies, safeguarding brand visibility, and optimizing engagement in an increasingly AI-centric…

A recent study by Expedia Group, The AI Trust Gap, highlights that while travelers embrace AI for discovery and planning, their preference for booking and critical support remains firmly with trusted brands, not AI platforms. This distinction underscores a critical challenge for senior marketing and CX leaders: building confidence…

Agent-mediated commerce is established and measured on the consumer side. Adobe Analytics recorded generative-AI-referred traffic to US retail sites growing roughly 690% year over year across the 2025 holiday season (Adobe Analytics, 2026); McKinsey estimates conversion from AI-generated product recommendations at about 4.4 times that of traditional search (McKinsey,…

According to Seel’s 2026 Gen Z Shopping Confidence & Loyalty Report, over 50% of Gen Z bought resale online in the past year, compared to 53% of Millennials and only 26% of Gen X. This demonstrates a clear directional trend, indicating that secondhand is transitioning from a niche activity…

The latest LXA B2B State of Martech and Revenue Operations Survey 2026 highlights where this gap is widest, why it is increasingly expensive, and outlines clear priorities for revenue leaders to address it.

For consumer direct-to-consumer brands, the practical exposure is sharper than the general case. DTC catalogs carry the densest promotional treatment of any category, they are co-listed on marketplaces that compete for the same agent attention, and the consumer agent’s selection behavior has now been measured directly. The Brand Visibility…

Marketing’s Power Partners: AI and the Human Essence, research by the CMO Council and WongDoody highlights a clear divide between organizations that treat AI as a mere productivity tool and those that integrate it as a “Power Partner” to amplify human creativity, judgment, and emotional intelligence. This distinction is…

Consumer backlash to AI-generated marketing or customer service is not so much a reactionary rejection of technology itself as it is the culmination of a decades-long trend of consistent consumer resistance to inauthenticity, deception, and the degradation of the user experience in favor of corporate efficiency. The rush to…

Everyday tech friction is not an occasional problem but a constant reality for the majority of desk workers, leading to substantial cumulative time loss and hindering overall efficiency. The Standley Systems 2026 Office Technology Report, based on a survey of 500 desk-based workers, underscores this pervasive impact.