Yesterday’s Marketing Technology & AI News | June 23, 2026
Yesterday delivered a concentrated wave of marketing technology announcements timed to coincide with the opening of Cannes Lions that, taken together, reveal a market at a genuine inflection point. But CMOs should read these announcements with clear eyes. The dominant narrative is agentic AI, and nearly every vendor is…
Crunchbase Sector Snapshot: Sales, Marketing, and CX Funding Shifts Heavily Toward Agentic AI
We are not back to boom times. Venture funding for sales, marketing, and CRM categories hit a cyclical peak in 2021 and 2022, but investment has slowed considerably since. Annual funding has hovered around the $8 billion mark over the past three years, according to a recent report from…
Hightouch Launches Zero-Fee DSP Marketplace Solution to Unlock Offsite Media Margins
Media networks can now onboard and list audiences to DSP marketplaces like The Trade Desk and Yahoo DSP without secondary revshare fees, cutting total marketplace fees in half
Expert Mode: Composable CDPs and the Rise of AI-Powered Marketing
The marketing technology landscape is in constant flux, a swirling vortex of new platforms, evolving strategies, and the ever-present buzz of AI. For enterprise marketing leaders, navigating this landscape requires not just speed, but agility—the ability to adapt, pivot, and personalize at scale.
#719: Composable Customer Data Platforms with Tejas Manohar, Hightouch
Today we’re going to talk about composable customer data platforms and how AI is enhancing decision-making to increase customer lifetime value. To help me discuss this topic, I’d like to welcome Tejas Monahar, co-CEO and co-Founder of Hightouch.
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