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This Week in Marketing Technology, AI, and CX Podcasts | June 4, 2026

Jun 4, 2026

This week’s conversations circle a single, pressing question: what does it actually take to run a modern marketing function while AI rewrites the rules underneath it? The throughline is friction — the cost of every handoff, every disconnected tool, every dollar spent before anyone knows whether it will work…

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Yesterday’s Marketing Technology & AI News | June 4, 2026

Jun 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 and Sitecore Just Bet $1.5 Billion on Non-Human Audiences. Martech Futurist | June 4, 2026

Jun 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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Sitecore Acquires Scrunch to Help Brands Influence Discovery and Buying Decisions in the AI-Search Era

Jun 3, 2026

Sitecore today announced that it acquired Scrunch, an AI customer experience platform that helps brands understand and improve how they appear in AI search. The acquisition comes as large language models and AI generated answers dominate the digital landscape where buyers research solutions, compare options, and decide what deserves…

Sitecore CMO Michelle BB on 25 years of marketing technology evolution plus what lies ahead

Sitecore CMO Michelle BB on 25 years of marketing technology evolution plus what lies ahead

May 31, 2026

Today, we’re going to talk about the 25-year evolution of digital experience, from the early days of enterprise content management to today’s complex ecosystem of AI-driven, composable platforms. We’ll explore how seismic shifts—from the introduction of the iPhone to the rise of agentic AI—have not just changed the tools…

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Yesterday’s MarTech News | March 12, 2026

Mar 13, 2026

Yesterday’s theme is the AI-driven disintermediation of the workflows and channels that marketing teams have spent years optimizing. Semrush rebranding around “Agentic Search Optimization” is not a marketing refresh — …

Navigating Digital Experience Maturity: Imperatives for Travel and Hospitality in 2026

Navigating Digital Experience Maturity: Imperatives for Travel and Hospitality in 2026

Feb 4, 2026

The travel and hospitality (TTH) sector stands at a critical juncture. Global consumers consistently rank travel as their top discretionary purchase, indicating a robust demand outlook for 2025 and beyond. This economic buoyancy, combined with evolving customer expectations for hyper-personalized and seamless experiences, necessitates a strategic re-evaluation of digital…

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Sitecore Expands Reseller Program with New Global Elite Initiative to Accelerate SitecoreAI Adoption in Growth Markets

Jan 28, 2026

Sitecore announced an expansion of its Global Reseller Program with a new Global Elite initiative designed for world-class partners focused on key growth markets. As part of the expansion, Sitecore named FPT Software as its first Global Elite Reseller and marked the milestone at FPT headquarters in Hanoi during…

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Expert Mode: From HiPPO to Hypothesis: Building a Culture of Continuous Optimization

Dec 30, 2025

In enterprise marketing, there are few forces as powerful, or as potentially misguided, as the “great idea” that emerges from a senior leadership meeting. It often arrives with conviction, a sense of urgency, and a complete lack of supporting user data. We’ve all been there.

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Expert Mode: Closing the Gap Between Brand Promise and Customer Reality with AI

Dec 23, 2025

The distance between the brand voice meticulously crafted in a boardroom and the way it’s perceived in the wild can be vast and treacherous. Marketing leaders spend fortunes defining their brand promise, only to see it refracted, distorted, or sometimes completely ignored across a chaotic landscape of customer reviews,…