This Week in Marketing Technology, AI, and CX Podcasts | July 2, 2026
If there’s a single thread running through this week’s episodes, it’s the discipline required to turn AI ambition into durable value—and the growing consensus that speed, on its own, is not a strategy.
Expert Mode: Cutting Through the AI Noise to Build a Real-World Strategy with Daniella Harkins, LiveRamp
The pressure on marketing leaders to “have an AI strategy” is palpable. It’s a recurring line item on board meeting agendas and a constant hum in the background of every planning session. The vendor landscape, of course, has responded in kind, with every platform suddenly rebranded as a revolutionary,…
LiveRamp’s Daniella Harkins on distinguishing AI hype and real innovation
Today, we’re going to talk about moving past the theoretical promise of AI and into its practical application for enterprise marketing. We’ll discuss: How to demystify AI for the broader marketing organization so your teams can actually use it. Moving beyond theory to discuss tangible applications that drive efficiency…
Yesterday’s Marketing Technology & AI News Digest | June 26, 2026
Cannes Lions amplified yesterday’s announcement volume, but stripping away the festival backdrop and vendor superlatives reveals three concrete signals that Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) cannot afford to misread.
Yesterday’s Marketing Technology & AI News Digest | June 12, 2026
Yesterday’s wave of martech and AI news tells a story that is more complicated, and more consequential, than the vendor headlines suggest. The sheer volume of AI product launches (30+ in a single day) reflects an industry in a feature arms race, not a maturity phase. For Chief Marketing…
Vendor activity is outpacing enterprise action. Martech Futurist | May 21, 2026
Recent research surfaces a single dominant pattern: the AI infrastructure layer and the data layer underneath it are consolidating faster than most marketing organizations are restructuring around them. Gartner’s latest forecast puts global AI spending at $2.59 trillion in 2026, a 47% jump year-over-year, with enterprises still trailing vendors…
Yesterday’s Marketing Technology & AI News | May 19, 2026
Yesterday delivered a concentrated set of announcements that, taken together, reveal a marketing technology landscape undergoing a structural shift, not a gradual evolution. The dominant theme is consolidation of data and AI capabilities into fewer, more powerful hands, while the gap between vendors claiming “agentic AI” and organizations actually…
Publicis to acquire LiveRamp to accelerate data co-creation for smarter agents
Publicis Groupe has entered into an agreement to acquire LiveRamp, a global data collaboration platform.
LiveRamp Launches Agentic AI Upgrades to Power Smarter Growth, Planning, and Measurement
Platform updates multiply effectiveness of agent-powered marketing
Yesterday’s MarTech News: March 4, 2026
Yesterday’s announcements represent genuine progress in marketing technology. Autonomous agents can handle specific, well-defined workflows faster and cheaper than humans. But they’re not replacing marketing teams; they’re augmenting them.
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