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How AI is making the invisible visible in branding

May 27, 2025 How AI is making the invisible visible in branding  BY Sooyoung Cho In an era where artificial intelligence is rapidly redefining creative industries, branding stands at a pivotal crossroads. Tools like Midjourney and DALL-E are often portrayed as threats to traditional visual branding, but their true value may lie elsewhere—not in replacing human … Continue reading How AI is making the invisible visible in branding

How to prove the value of brand marketing without sacrificing ROI

You can double down on performance marketing, but you’ll wind up spending more for less if you skip brand-building. Mike Ruff on April 15, 2025   Measuring the bottom-line impact of brand-building activities isn’t easy, but every company wants — and needs — to do it. Without it, it’s difficult to spend your advertising budget … Continue reading How to prove the value of brand marketing without sacrificing ROI

Product Content Citations Dominate AI Search – Where Do Others Fall In Line?

Product Content Citations Dominate AI Search – Where Do Others Fall In Line? by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, April 15, 2025 Citations lacking in AI search results have become a major concern for publishers and brands looking for clicks to their web or ecommerce sites.  Google executives have long said that links to pages … Continue reading Product Content Citations Dominate AI Search – Where Do Others Fall In Line?

Why your workplace needs more “Gracious Professionalism”

May 27, 2025 Why your workplace needs more “Gracious Professionalism”?  BY Chris Moore When most people think about innovation, they imagine sprints, whiteboards, late nights, and the relentless pace of deadlines. What’s often missing from this image are genuine acts of kindness and empathy—but perhaps they should be at the center.?  As the leader of FIRST … Continue reading Why your workplace needs more “Gracious Professionalism”

The strategic rise of the marketing analyst in the age of AI

Marketing analysts are evolving from report builders to strategic advisors. Uncover how AI, automation and data democratization are redefining their roles. Greg Kihlstrom on April 15, 2025   Your current marketing reports likely contain some compelling insights, but often, they are buried beneath vanity metrics and other charts and graphs that instead point to the … Continue reading The strategic rise of the marketing analyst in the age of AI

Half of ecommerce brands lack the support to scale personalization effectively

A report from Mastercard found many personalization efforts failing when it comes to resources, strategies and metrics. Constantine von Hoffman on April 15, 2025   Over the next five years, there’s a $ 2 trillion opportunity for ecommerce brands that can effectively implement and scale personalization. Despite that, 50% of brands worldwide aren’t dedicating the … Continue reading Half of ecommerce brands lack the support to scale personalization effectively

Are marketers really replacing martech tools with low-cost, AI-generated apps?

What does it mean for SaaS martech vendors when the users have so much control? MarTechBot on April 14, 2025   In MarTech’s “MarTechBot explains it all” feature, we pose a question about marketing to our very own MarTechBot, which is trained on the MarTech website archives and has access to the broader internet.  Q: … Continue reading Are marketers really replacing martech tools with low-cost, AI-generated apps?

8 Ways to Optimize Your Digital Marketing Without Reducing Your Budget

8 Ways to Optimize Your Digital Marketing Without Reducing Your Budget Brian Tatarnic   Apr 14, 2025   In today’s fast-paced and uncertain economic conditions, both large and small businesses often face difficult decisions about their marketing budgets.  The first instinct is to cut marketing budgets. But a smarter approach is to rethink your digital … Continue reading 8 Ways to Optimize Your Digital Marketing Without Reducing Your Budget