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Expert Mode: The End of the Ten Blue Links and the Dawn of Answer Engine Optimization

Aug 6, 2026

This article was based on the interview with Hubspot CMO Kipp Bodnar on brand discovery in an age of AI search by Greg Kihlström, AI and MarTech keynote speaker for The Agile Brand with Greg Kihlström podcast.

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Yesterday’s Marketing Technology & AI News: July 24, 2026

Jul 24, 2026

Yesterday’s martech news, July 23, 2026: HubSpot opened Agent Hub in public beta and dentsu partnered with Adthena as UK ChatGPT ad CPCs swung up to 278%.

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HubSpot CMO Kipp Bodnar on brand discovery in an age of AI search

Jul 14, 2026

HubSpot CMO Kipp Bodnar on brand discovery in the age of AI search. How Answer Engine Optimization, off-site citations, and unified customer data reshape marketing.

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Yesterday’s Marketing Technology & AI News | May 16, 2026

May 16, 2026

Yesterday’s announcements concentrate on the layer beneath marketing execution: the data foundations, governance controls, and discovery channels that determine whether AI tooling produces usable output. Two primary press releases dropped on May 15, 2026 — Dataiku’s Cobuild on Snowflake and Mordor Intelligence’s 2026 Customer Data Platform market analysis —…

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Marketing Technology & AI News | April 25, 2026

Apr 26, 2026

Yesterday’s news delivered a cluster of announcements that, taken together, reveal a marketing technology landscape in genuine structural transition — not the incremental AI feature-adds of prior years, but a set of shifts that will force concrete decisions from Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) in the next 90 days.

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Data Enrichment Meets Autonomous MarTech: Apollo Integrated into HubSpot’s New Breeze Prospecting Agent

Apr 16, 2026

Apollo has been selected as a data provider for HubSpot’s newly updated Breeze Prospecting Agent. Currently in public beta, the agent is designed to handle the entire prospecting cycle—from identifying the right accounts to sourcing contacts and executing outreach.

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Yesterday’s Marketing Technology & AI News — April 15, 2026

Apr 15, 2026

The marketing technology industry is undergoing a structural repricing of what AI is worth — and who pays for it. Three distinct forces are converging simultaneously, and CMOs need to …

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Yesterday’s Marketing Technology News | April 3, 2026

Apr 4, 2026

The most consequential pattern across yesterday’s news is the acceleration of agentic AI from concept to commercial product.

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Yesterday’s MarTech News | March 10, 2026

Mar 10, 2026

The dominant themes are: (1) the widening gap between AI tool adoption and organizational AI competency; (2) the restructuring of the marketing technology partner ecosystem around AI specialization; (3) the shift from AI experimentation to AI governance and ROI accountability; and (4) the transformation of the B2B buyer journey…

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HubSpot Launches New and Enhanced AI Agents, Plus Over 200 Updates at Spring 2025 Spotlight

Apr 14, 2025

Latest innovations help SMBs take advantage of AI efficiency across marketing, sales, and customer support

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