From CAN-SPAM to state privacy statutes, federal preemption has been inconsistent. Playing it safe in a patchwork system matters now. By Jeanne Jennings , January 6, 2026 I’ve written that the AI panic we’re living through feels a lot like the dawn of the commercial internet, full of promise, panic and policy … Continue reading What privacy and email laws reveal about today’s compliance risk
Will AI Recommendations Reduce Risk Of Retail Returns? by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer, December 17, 2025 Consumers spent $187.3 billion so far this holiday season between November 1 and December 12, which represents 6.1% growth year-over-year (YoY), according to Adobe Analytics data. Online spending is set to reach $253.4 billion, up 5.3% YoY. The data provides a view into U.S. ecommerce by … Continue reading Will AI Recommendations Reduce Risk Of Retail Returns?
Risk Of Failure: CMOs Face Make-Or-Break AI Moments by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer, November 19, 2025 Sixty-five percent of CMOs believe advances in AI will dramatically change their role within the next two years — and many will have challenges getting there, a Gartner survey finds. Artificial intelligence (AI) will automate routine tasks, drive … Continue reading Risk Of Failure: CMOs Face Make-Or-Break AI Moments
Are you wasting crawl budget on the wrong pages? Learn how to protect revenue with smarter crawl strategies. Semrush Enterprise on October 10, 2025 While online discussion obsesses over whether ChatGPT spells the end of Google, websites are losing revenue from a far more real and immediate problem: some of their most valuable pages … Continue reading Invisible pages, lost revenue: Why crawlability poses a huge risk by Semrush Enterprise
GTM spend isn’t harmless OpEx. Every dollar of CAC is debt, and misreporting it puts boards and executives at risk. Mark Stouse on August 27, 2025 Go-to-market (GTM) accounting may soon be very different. Every quarter, GTM spending gets tucked into operating expenses on the P&L. It sits beside payroll and rent, treated as … Continue reading GTM misreporting is a risk your company can’t afford to take
August 01, 2025 Corporation for Public Broadcasting will close, putting public TV and radio at risk BY Taylor Hatmaker Federal funding cuts have claimed their latest victim. On Friday, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced that it will wind down operations in light of a fatal federal funding shortfall. The Trump administration asked for the targeted … Continue reading Corporation for Public Broadcasting will close, putting public TV and radio at risk
Delaware courts expanded fiduciary duty to all officers — making marketing vendor decisions a matter of legal compliance. Mark Stouse on July 24, 2025 at 9:18 am | Reading time: 6 minutes In 2023 and 2024, Delaware fundamentally changed the rules on fiduciary duty. The threshold for breach was lowered to negligent oversight, and the … Continue reading Your go-to-market vendor decisions are now a personal legal risk
June 16, 2025 At Home closing? Bankruptcy puts dozens of stores at risk of shutting down BY Grace Snelling At Home, the big-box home decor and furnishings brand, is the most recent in a series of home goods stores, including Big Lots and True Value, to file for bankruptcy in recent months. Today, the company announced … Continue reading At Home closing? Bankruptcy puts dozens of stores at risk of shutting down
April 03, 2025 DOGE’s ‘completely wrong’ USAID termination notices put staffers’ pay and pensions at risk BY Reuters Termination notices sent by billionaire Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team to U.S. Agency for International Development staff were so rife with errors that corrected versions are being issued to avoid affecting pensions and pay, according to five sources familiar with … Continue reading DOGE’s ‘completely wrong’ USAID termination notices put staffers’ pay and pensions at risk
The produce is believed to be linked to an outbreak that has hospitalized more than a dozen people, says the CDC. BY Michael Grothaus More cucumbers have been recalled, which are believed to be linked to an earlier outbreak that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says has sickened dozens of people across 19 … Continue reading Cucumbers recalled over serious Salmonella risk in 19 states: Check your packaging now
