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CMO Council
AI Finds the Pattern. Human Marketers Break It.
In a new report from the CMO Council, First American VP of Brand Marketing Stephen Shultz describes how the company uses AI for original marketing.
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B-to-B Events
Grand Ex 2026: Google Cloud, Opus Agency and Gramercy Tech Earn the Campaign of the Year with ‘Tech Immersion’
Impressing an audience of global technical go-to-market professionals with a technology-focused event is an ambitious request, but that was Google Cloud’s brief for its Tech Immersion training program.
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Research
Gartner CMO Spend Survey: Budgets Reflect Increase in Consumption-Based Martech, Paid Media Spend
According to the 2026 Gartner CMO Spend Survey, a shift toward consumption-based martech solutions coincides with the decrease in martech as a percentage of marketing spend. We review the highlights of the report, including insights on increased paid media spend and AI maturity.
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Crisis Management
Turning a Crisis into a Catastrophe: Ten Lessons From a Texas Developer’s PR Disaster
When The Barbed Wire and Texas Observer reported that Silo Mills—a residential development with an on-site elementary school—may have been built on a site where radioactive fracking waste had been dumped, the companies involved gave communicators a masterclass in what not to do in a crisis.
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AI
The Agentic Media Buying Platform That Says The Less AI, The Better
Everywhere you look, a new agentic measurement tool seems to have sprung up. Agentic execution layers, on the other hand, are harder to come by, according to Nathan Venezia, founder of Concord. (As you may have guessed, Concord, which is based in France, is a platform for agentic media executions.) “I’m not going to say […]
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Digital & Technology
Seven Rules for Getting Your Content Cited by AI
Getting your brand noticed comes down to whether your expertise stands out when AI citations pull snippets from your pages—and whether it holds up in a world where people consume content fast.
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B-to-B Events
Dream Team Tips: Designing Trackable Pipeline, Avoiding ‘Broad-stroke’ Strategies
Every event marketer knows the feeling: You’ve built an exceptional experience, the energy was undeniable, but then comes the question, “But what did we get for it?” For b-to-b event leaders this year, that question no longer leads to an event after the event—because they’ve already engineered the answers in. From trackable, curated meetings that […]
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Marketers
The AI Tool That’s Giving Landlords A Leg Up On Zillow
In the wise words of Spider-Man, with great power comes great responsibility. Nowhere is this more true, perhaps, than in the tech industry. In just a couple of years, consumers have become “AI native,” said Anda Gansca, CEO and co-founder of customer journey intelligence platform Knotch. This means that consumers have higher standards for the […]
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Trade Shows
EMS 2026: Seven Takeaways for Trade Show Exhibitors and Their Partners
The 24th Experiential Marketing Summit brought more than 1,000 brand marketers and event industry professionals to the MGM Grand Las Vegas, May 18-20, for three days of inspiration, deep dives, and play under the theme “Human Connection in the Digital Age Starts Here.” From fast-paced creative challenges to brain dates with peers—and, of course, candid […]
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Trade Shows
Guest Column: You’ve Been Told ‘This is Just How it is.’ It Doesn’t Have to Be.
You’ve been in that meeting. You raise a concern about material handling rates that have climbed for the third year in a row. You ask why electrical outlet costs just jumped nearly 20% with no explanation. You point out that the exhibitor manual doesn’t define what “special handling” actually means, but somehow you were charged […]