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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has cut 90 percent of its employees

  The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has cut 90 percent of its employees The reduced department has been ordered to focus on traditional lending fraud. anna washenko   Fri, Apr 18, 2025   Reuters / Reuters The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been reduced to a skeleton crew. The department, which was created to oversee … Continue reading The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has cut 90 percent of its employees →

Marketers Find Performance Advertising A Tarriff Workaround

Marketers Find Performance Advertising A Tariff Workaround by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, April 17, 2025 Marketers are paying little attention to Chinese factories flooding TikTok with videos urging Americans to buy direct from them to bypass U.S. President Trump’s tariffs.  In one video a man stands on a factory floor claiming to have access to manufacturers that … Continue reading Marketers Find Performance Advertising A Tarriff Workaround →

Driving customer growth with value-based B2B marketing

B2B buyers want outcomes, not specs. Help them make smarter decisions with strategic, insight-driven messaging. Philip Black on April 17, 2025   In a market saturated with feature-focused messaging, it’s more important than ever to quantify and communicate value — especially amid economic uncertainty and waning consumer confidence. For organizations looking to grow their customer base … Continue reading Driving customer growth with value-based B2B marketing →

HubSpot expands its AI capabilities with Dashworks acquisition

HubSpot’s Breeze Copilot is getting a boost by adding natural language AI from Dashworks to answer users’ questions. Mike Pastore on April 16, 2025   HubSpot announced Wednesday it agreed to acquire Dashworks, an AI-powered workplace search assistant.  HubSpot entered the AI game when it launched Breeze Copilot in 2024. In a statement, HubSpot said … Continue reading HubSpot expands its AI capabilities with Dashworks acquisition →

Brand-Aware AI Assistant Capitalizes On Predictive, Performance, Personalization

Brand-Aware AI Assistant Capitalizes On Personalization, Predictive, Performance by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, April 16, 2025 AI Brand Agent, an intelligent assistant that can analyze brand data and guidelines to generate custom insights, predict trends, and recommend content strategies tailored to each client’s unique brand identity — launched this week from Mod Op, a full-service … Continue reading Brand-Aware AI Assistant Capitalizes On Predictive, Performance, Personalization →

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 →