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.
Expert Mode: Why Your Brand is the Ultimate Human Edge in an AI-Saturated World
Let’s face it. The pressure to integrate AI into every facet of marketing is immense. Boards are asking about it, CEOs are mandating it, and our teams are navigating a veritable Cambrian explosion of tools, each promising to unlock unprecedented efficiency and personalization.
#794: LiveRamp CMO Jessica Shapiro on building brand trust while automating at scale
Today, we’re going to talk about the unexpected paradox of the AI revolution. As artificial intelligence becomes more capable of creating, personalizing, and automating customer interactions at scale, the most critical differentiator for a business isn’t a better algorithm, but a stronger, more trusted brand. We’ll explore why brand…
Uber Advertising Launches Uber Intelligence, a New Way for Brands to Learn from Real-World Behavior, Powered by LiveRamp
Based on Uber’s millions of monthly users across Uber mobility and delivery, marketers can now get aggregated insights into how people move, live, and order enabling smarter decisions for reaching the right audiences on the Uber Platform.
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