Vendor activity is outpacing enterprise action. Martech Futurist | May 21, 2026

Vendor activity is outpacing enterprise action. Martech Futurist | May 21, 2026

May 25, 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…

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Yesterday’s Marketing Technology & AI News | May 19, 2026

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 to acquire LiveRamp to accelerate data co-creation for smarter agents

May 18, 2026

Publicis Groupe has entered into an agreement to acquire LiveRamp, a global data collaboration platform.