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Expert Mode: The Strategic Conductor in an AI-Powered World

May 14, 2026

The pressure on marketing leaders to adopt, integrate, and demonstrate Return on Investment (ROI) from AI is immense and unyielding. The landscape is a cacophony of vendors promising transformation, each with a shinier “magic wand” than the last.

80% of CEOs now expect AI to force fundamental operational overhauls. Martech Futurist | April 24, 2026

80% of CEOs now expect AI to force fundamental operational overhauls. Martech Futurist | April 24, 2026

Apr 25, 2026

This week’s intelligence from Gartner, Forrester, Braze, and Salesforce tells a consistent story: the organizations winning with AI aren’t the ones with the most tools — they’re the ones that have solved the unglamorous prerequisites. Clean first-party data. Clear human-AI decision boundaries. Brand governance that scales. Without those foundations,…

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Yesterday’s Marketing Technology & AI News | April 24, 2026

Apr 24, 2026

Braze launched BrazeAI Operator™ and BrazeAI Agent Console™ with real customer results — an 81% reduction in unsubscribes at Cleo, a 90% booking conversion increase at Dayuse — while simultaneously releasing Forrester research showing that while AI adoption is near-universal, only a small fraction of organizations are realizing measurable…

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Braze Delivers Powerful New Agentic AI Capabilities That Transform How Marketers Build, Personalize, and Deliver Customer Experiences

Apr 23, 2026

BrazeAI Operator™, BrazeAI Agent Console™, and the new Braze Creative Studio are now available alongside EU hosting for BrazeAI Decisioning Studio™, introducing a radically better way for marketers to forge and maintain lasting customer relationships.

Braze Chief Product Officer Kevin Wang on how AI has forever changed product development

#842: Braze Chief Product Officer Kevin Wang on how AI has forever changed product development

Apr 12, 2026

Today, we’re going to talk about how AI has permanently changed product development. But while it enables teams to tackle more problems faster than ever, the real challenge has shifted to keeping pace with rising customer expectations. This new landscape requires a shift in product leadership—from simply adopting trends…

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Global Customer Engagement Review: Key Trends for 2025 to Help Brands Build Stronger Customer Connections (Braze)

Feb 25, 2025

Braze today released its fifth annual Global Customer Engagement Review (CER), uncovering some of the biggest trends shaping customer engagement across AI and experimentation, data and personalization, emotions and loyalty, and more. In today’s always on digital economy, consumer expectations for customer experience continue to rise, and brands face tougher competition…

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Braze Unveils New AI, Data and Orchestration Product Innovation at Forge 2024

Sep 29, 2024

Braze unveiled new product innovations designed to help marketers craft and optimize one-to-one personalized experiences at its annual customer conference, Forge 2024.

502: #502: Cross-functional collaboration plus AI augmentation with Mariam Asmar, Braze

502: #502: Cross-functional collaboration plus AI augmentation with Mariam Asmar, Braze

Mar 27, 2024

As companies continue to boast AI investments, marketers are struggling to keep up, according to a recent report from customer engagement platform Braze, which finds that less than 50% of marketers are using or intend to use AI in their everyday…

382: #382: Building Customer Enagement with April Mullen, Braze

382: #382: Building Customer Enagement with April Mullen, Braze

Jun 19, 2023

Braze recently released its 2023 Customer Enagement Review, and there are a number of interesting insights found with in it, relating to the customer experience. Today we’re going to talk about 3 of the key insights within this report, and to help…

339: #339: Combining Technology and Creativity for Standout Customer Engagement with Mariam Asmar, Braze

339: #339: Combining Technology and Creativity for Standout Customer Engagement with Mariam Asmar, Braze

Mar 10, 2023

Today we’re going to talk about how creativity and technology drive standout customer engagement. Recently WARC and Braze released a report entitled: The invisible enabler: Unlocking the Creative Potential of Technology. We’re going to talk about…