Tech Stack
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Shopper/Retail
Wayfair CMO Shares Social Marketing Highlights Ahead of Shoptalk
Wayfair’s top marketer Paul Toms discusses how the company moves fast to hop on social media trends, plus recent generative AI customer experience wins.
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AI
How Red Roof Is Bringing In More Customers With Zeta’s Voice-Activated AI Agent
Hotel chain Red Roof is using Zeta’s new voice-activated AI agent to guide its campaign creation, deployment timing and audience development.
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Shopper/Retail
‘Treat’ Culture, COVID and Lack of 5-Year Plan Colors Gen Z Spending
NRF digs into Gen Z consumer spending patterns, plus forecasts 4.4% retail growth in 2026, in annual State of Retail & the Consumer event.
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AdExplainer
What Does A Beta Test Of A Sell-Side Agent Look Like?
Using machine learning to automate and optimize ads is familiar to publishers. For years, this tech has helped publishers tune floors and serve the best ads behind the scenes. Now, publishers are exploring automation and optimization through agentic AI. Many publishers have identified a similar use case: sales agents who actively make decisions in the […]
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Shopper/Retail
Nikon’s Experiential Pop-Up at SXSW Targets Experienced Photographers and Creators
Camera brand Nikon hosts free camera workshops during the South by Southwest festival to spur shoppers to try cameras and post pictures.
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Tech & AI
When Aflac Integrates AI into Customer Service — And When It Doesn’t
Insurance brand Aflac is piloting generative AI company-wide, including integrating it into its call center. SVP Keith Farley discusses balancing automation and empathy.
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Leadership Advice
New Sunbit CMO Shachar Scott Talks Fintech, Brand Trust and Marketing Leadership
Buy Now Pay Later platform Sunbit, which partners with merchants to offer consumer loans for everyday expenses like auto repair and dental care, has hired marketing veteran Shachar Scott as its first CMO. Having led marketing teams at Snap, Bumble and most recently Meta Reality Labs, Scott has joined the 10-year-old company to scale the […]
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Shopper/Retail
How Boll & Branch Spotted Scammers Attempting Generative AI Fraud
CEO and Founder Scott Tannen shares how the Boll & Branch customer service team discovered an AI generated photo of damaged sheets in an attempt to get a free product.
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AI
NBCUniversal Is Launching An AI Version Of Andy Cohen (And Yes, It’ll Do Brand Sponsorship Deals)
Someday soon, marketers may be able to pay NBCUniversal to have an AI-generated approximation of “Real Housewives” executive producer Andy Cohen namedrop their brand to hundreds of thousands of fans.
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Shopper/Retail
Beauty Brand Clarins Rolls Out U.S. Mobile App to Assist Shoppers In-Store
Roughly a decade after discontinuing its first mobile app, beauty brand Clarin has tried again with a successful UK rollout and U.S. launch. The new app assists shoppers in-store, provides access to AI features and supports its growing subscription business.