Yesterday’s Marketing Technology & AI News | June 27, 2026
Yesterday’s wave of announcements tells a story that vendor headlines obscure: agentic AI is no longer simply a roadmap item, as it is actively being deployed into advertising operations, customer service, content workflows, and media buying right now. But the gap between deployment and measurable productivity is widening, not…
Salesforce Announces Pre-Packaged Agentforce Help Agent with Pay-Per-Resolution Pricing Model to Accelerate AI Value
Salesforce has introduced Agentforce Help Agent, a pre-packaged autonomous service agent that the company is pairing with an outcome-based pricing model: if the agent doesn’t resolve a customer issue on its own, the interaction is free. The announcement signals a notable shift in how AI customer service is sold,…
This Week in Marketing Technology, AI, and CX Podcasts | June 25, 2026
Salesforce’s Nitin Mangtani reframes on-site search as a continuous conversation rather than a one-shot query, turning the dead-end “no results” page into a discovery engine. From PegaWorld, enGen’s Richard Rutkowski walks through what it really means to move agentic AI from slide decks into production inside a highly regulated…
Yesterday’s Marketing Technology & AI News | June 25, 2026
Yesterday was dominated by Cannes Lions, and the press release volume that always accompanies it. But stripping away the festival backdrop and the vendor superlatives, the day’s announcements reveal three distinct and important signals for Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) and marketing organizations.
Salesforce’s Nitin Mangtani on how AI is evolving on-site search
Today, we’re going to talk about the evolution of on-site search. For years, it’s been a functional, yet often frustrating, utility for customers. But with advancements in AI, it’s transforming from a simple keyword-matching tool into a conversational discovery engine that can anticipate intent and drive a more intelligent…
Your operating model sets the ceiling on what AI can do. Martech Futurist | June 17, 2026
This week’s research, insights, and news provide a consistent signal from the analyst desks: the limiting factor on AI value is organizational, and the vendor market is reorganizing to sell against that limit. Forrester argues that agentic AI inherits and amplifies the flaws of the operating model it runs…
Yesterday’s Marketing Technology & AI News | June 17, 2026
The honest read on yesterday’s news is this: vendors are racing to claim the “agentic” label while the practical implementation gap remains enormous. Salesforce’s Agentforce Marketing Goals Agent and Content Agent are still in pilot. Databricks’ CustomerLake is in Private Preview. Jasper’s GEO Agent is newly available but requires…
Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Fin
Acquisition will bring Fin’s customer agent platform to companies of all sizes, accelerating time-to-value and expanding Salesforce’s ability to deliver autonomous agents across the enterprise
Yesterday’s Marketing Technology & AI News | June 4, 2026
June 3, 2026 delivered a concentrated burst of agentic AI announcements that, taken together, reveal a market at an inflection point — but not in the way the press releases suggest. Salesforce, Meta, Attentive, and Deece all made significant moves, and Forrester published a landmark report on the state…
Salesforce and Sitecore Just Bet $1.5 Billion on Non-Human Audiences. Martech Futurist | June 4, 2026
Salesforce agreed to buy Contentful on June 1. Sitecore bought Scrunch on June 3. Inside 48 hours, two of the larger experience-platform vendors paid to move AI agents to the center of how content gets made and found. Salesforce is taking Contentful, the Berlin-founded headless content platform that serves…
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