CMOs won’t be running campaigns, they’ll be orchestrating networks. Martech Futurist | May 9, 2026
The CMO role is being rewritten by the marketing technology (and related) architecture that is running the enterprise. Forrester’s new research makes it explicit: the next-generation…
Measuring AI adoption is one thing. Measuring impact will get real results. Martech Futurist | April 30, 2026
Recent research from Forrester, Gartner, and HBR converges on a hard truth: the AI transition in marketing has moved past experimentation — and most teams aren’t…
Focus on people, not just (AI) platforms. Martech Futurist | May 4, 2026
AI adoption is failing not because of technology gaps, but because of human ones. The research is unambiguous — organizations are deploying AI at scale while…
Yesterday’s Marketing Technology & AI News Digest | May 6, 2026
Yesterday’s wave of announcements tells a more complicated story than the vendor headlines suggest. The through-line across all of them is a marketing function under structural…
Micro-productivity can’t be all there is to gain from AI. Martech Futurist | May 2, 2026
This week’s research from HBR, Forrester, and MarketingProfs paints a clear picture: the CMOs winning with AI aren’t the ones with the most tools — they’re…
The tools are ahead of the strategy. The strategy is ahead of the operations. Martech Futurist | April 26, 2026
AI in marketing is moving faster than the organizations deploying it. Agentic AI is already making autonomous decisions in campaign optimization, personalization, and media buying, but…
80% of CEOs now expect AI to force fundamental operational overhauls. Martech Futurist | April 24, 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 —…
Yesterday’s Marketing & Technology News | April 21, 2026
While AI adoption is now near-universal, the real story for Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) is far more nuanced — and more demanding. Three structural shifts are…












