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AI Is An Engine. But Human Connection Will Be The Fuel In Your Marketing Strategy
The AI Journal
… AI tools become more widespread. Why B2B Industries Have The Most To Gain. AI can play a big role in shaping marketing strategies across nearly …
AI can’t replace cultural intelligence in marketing*
Fast Company
The engineers building and fine-tuning the AI technology are the ones … If you want AI to power better marketing, build teams that reflect your target …
Top 10 AI Content Creation Tools to Simplify Your Workflow
Metricool
Discover the Future of AI Marketing. The Future of Content Creation Starts With Metricool. Artificial intelligence is changing how content gets made …
Zero to launch: AI-powered campaign creation without the creative logjam
MarTech
With modern AI tools, creative development can shift from manual … marketing and AI. Join us for free and learn to reimagine marketing in …
AI Update, October 17, 2025: AI News and Views From the Past Week
Marketing Profs
Artificial Intelligence – Catch up on select AI news and developments from the past week or so. Stay in the know.
Autonomous Omnichannel: When AI Thinks for Pharma Marketing
Pharmaceutical Executive
The technology is ready. The cultural shift takes longer. A More Human Future. The paradox of agentic marketing is that by letting AI handle …
Why the Industry’s First Fully AI-Generated Restaurant Ads Feel More Like a Prototype Than a Breakthrough
Restaurant Technology News
Human review, quality control and iteration will still require marketing staff. AI tools often remain dependent on human curation and correction.
AI and SEO: A Symbiotic Relationship in the Digital Age
Hotel News Resource
… AI. As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly integrated into various aspects of digital marketing, the role of search engine …
Agentic PPC: What performance marketing could look like in 2030
Search Engine Land
Experimenting with current AI tools to understand their potential. … AI in Marketing: Closing the Gap Between Promise and Performance · The …
How AI Is Changing Online Marketing For Small Businesses – Forbes
Forbes
Aidid believes that Google’s ecosystem advantage is difficult to beat, which is why artificial intelligence tools may struggle to shift loyalties.
Snowflake’s AI Revolution: How AI Transformed Marketing and Sales at Scale with Snowflake’s CMO and Founding CRO
SaaStr
by Jason Lemkin | Artificial Intelligence (AI), Blog Posts, SaaStr.Ai … Chris noted customers initially bought AI tools “just because it’s AI” but …
AI Won’t Replace Marketers — It Will Replace Bad Marketing
Entrepreneur
Generative AI tools can already write product descriptions, draft blog … Related: Yes, You Can Use AI for Marketing. But Don’t Forget About …
In graphic detail: How AI is going to shape influencer marketing next year
Digiday
… marketing operations becoming automated with AI … DIGIDAY+. Get access to tools and analysis to stay ahead of the trends transforming media and …
Scott Brinker: The Four AI Agents Every Marketing Team Needs to Know
CMS Wire
… marketing technology — and what comes next for martech’s most famous landscape. Four kinds of agents. Brinker outlines internal AI tools for …
Making AI Actually Work: A CMO’s Guide to Scaling AI Across the Organization
Marketing Profs
Topics. Most Recent · Account-Based Marketing · Advertising & Promotions · Artificial Intelligence … Most AI tools have little to no understanding of …
Businesses are using AI in a way that could create ‘catastrophic’ problems*
Tampa Bay Business Journal (subscription required)
Small-business owners and other professionals are saving thousands of dollars a year by using artificial-intelligence tools for legal work, but they could be setting themselves up for catastrophic trouble based on how they’re using the technology.
AI industry’s exponential faith throws a curve*
Axios
AI makers expect AI itself to reinforce its own progress in a virtuous cycle. Skeptics fear AI will hit a wall and trigger a global financial meltdown.
The New AI Marketing Playbook
WIRED
The New AI Marketing Playbook. Generative AI tools are redefining how customers shop, and agents promise to start making purchase decisions themselves …
DAM is the missing link in AI-powered marketing success
MarTech
AI only works when content is structured, connected and governed. DAM gives it the foundation to turn automation into performance.
9 of the Best GenAI Tools for Marketers in 2025 (and What’s Coming Next)
JumpFly
Generative AI (GenAI) has quickly moved from a buzzword to an everyday marketing reality. … Our Technology · Digital Marketing Blog · News & Events …
How brands can turn AI hype into real-world experiences
Ad Age
AI is being called the most transformative technology of our generation. … AI marketing today is drowning in jargon. Too often, the industry is …
How AI-driven Campaign Forecasting Boosts Telco Marketing Efficiency
TM Forum Inform
Article | Artificial Intelligence (AI). How AI-driven Campaign … Tools like Etiya’s AI-driven Forecast KPI take telecoms marketing from …
What Is Autonomous Business? Gartner Explains the Next Big Shift After AI
Gartner
ToolsBuild your plans to execute · Peer CommunityConnections, chats and … Marketing at a Technology/Service Provider, Procurement, Research and …
Stop Running So Many AI Pilots
Harvard Business Review
We have decades of experience as practitioners, educators, and consultants for global brands on marketing, strategy, and technology. … AI tools to …
How AI Agents Will Transform B2B Sales
Boston Consulting Group
There are many different reasons for this tactical and relatively slow adoption of AI tools. In terms of performance, more than four out of five …
Salesforce’s new AI tools bring automation to CMOs’ front lines
eMarketer
TechnologyConnected Devices5GArtificial Intelligence (AI)Browse All → … This shift is driving a surge in marketing technology investment …
From AI to human ingenuity: Powering marketing’s growth engine
Marketing Dive
Artificial intelligence technology, and daily life, World technology concept, · From AI to human ingenuity: Powering marketing’s growth engine · The …
The creator is splintering as AI forces a new reckoning
Digiday
… AI tools, said Jamie Gutfreund, founder of … Get access to tools and analysis to stay ahead of the trends transforming media and marketing.
Is Agentic AI the Future of Marketing Automation?
Blockchain Council
Experts predict that by 2028, most marketing tools will include agentic AI capabilities. … The Role of Technology Beyond Marketing. Agentic AI …
Winning the battle for attention
AFR
… marketing leaders to align teams and tools as never before. … For Egan, the convergence of creativity, marketing and AI represents less a disruption …
AI KPIs: Turning mentions Into strategy in the age of LLMs
MarTech
From mentions to sentiment, new AI KPIs show marketers how LLMs shape visibility, perception and authority in the buying journey.
How Will AI Save Time For Partnership Marketers? A Human Has A Few Thoughts
AiThority
… AI systemsAI-driven toolsAnalysisanalytical tools … AiThority.com covers AI technology news, editorial insights and digital marketing trends from …
Salesforce Puts Slack, Voice Tools At Center Of AI Strategy
Investor’s Business Daily
Salesforce Puts Slack, Voice Tools At Center Of AI Strategy … artificial intelligence stocks AI technology Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum: Is A Giant …
AI Search Surpasses SEO in How B2B Buyers Find Content
Demand Gen Report
… Marketing – Part II, click here. Posted in: News Brief. Tagged with: 10Fold, AI, AI-First, artificial intelligence, brand awareness, Buyer-Ready …
Most people now use unapproved AI tools despite security and privacy risks*
Workplace Insight
… A new poll from Microsoft suggests that most UK employees are … Adoption is most common in IT, telecoms, sales, marketing, architecture, engineering, …
‘AI Leapers’ Are Failing Sales and CRM Teams*
CRM Buyer
Sales organizations are racing to embrace artificial intelligence (AI) … Most AI tools offer speed, but without insight, that speed becomes …
Exclusive: AI writing hasn’t overwhelmed the web yet*
Axios
New articles generated by AI briefly outnumbered those written by humans online, but the two are now roughly equal, per a new report from SEO firm Graphite.
Moloch’s Bargain: Emergent Misalignment When LLMs Compete for Audiences*
Cornell University
When LLMs craft content for competitive environments (e.g. political campaigns — or marketing), they lie. Even when explicitly directed not to.
AI-Powered Search Engines Challenge Google: A New Era in Digital Marketing
OpenTools
… marketing heavily relied on Google’s top rankings, AI tools now offer conversational answers that reduce dependency on link-based results. Despite …
AI disrupts Google, digital landscapes
The Jerusalem Post
The writer is founder and head of innovation and technology at Exactive Marketing. See more on. technology|. google|. Artificial intelligence|. AI …
Reinventing the retail landscape with AI: last week’s biggest technology plays at a glance
Retail Technology Innovation Hub
This was powered by Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology. In a LinkedIn post, Ary Esfahani, Head of Marketing, Music Merch at Amazon Music, said: “Long …
Ways to use AI for business advantage
Times News
… Marketing Co., give a presentation “AI Made Simple: Practical Tools for … artificial intelligence to improve their businesses. They …
IBM Launches New AI Tools to Streamline Enterprise Operations and Development
Small Business Trends
… artificial intelligence (AI) into their operations. These innovations … The 10 Best Marketing and Brand Building Tools and Tips · Top view …
Wunderkind challenges static marketing journeys with real-time approach – PPC Land
PPC Land
Similar evolution appears across marketing technology as platforms shift toward autonomous agents and real-time decisioning. Adobe released three AI …
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon doesn’t sugarcoat AI impact on jobs*
Times of India
“AI technology is exceptionally expensive,” said Jim Covello, head … Cutting-Edge Tools: Learn industry-leading tools along with AI-powered …
Square’s big comeback: AI, Bitcoin, and the neighborhood next door
Fast Company
… marketing channels all within Cash App itself. Square’s … It wants to provide small businesses with an entire suite of technology and tools …
28 Expert-Level Prompt Examples & Templates For SEO
Search Engine Journal
Try this SEO-specific range of AI prompt ideas and example templates to be more efficient and productive in less time.
AI Update, October 10, 2025: AI News and Views From the Past Week
Marketing Profs
… AI tools for regulated industries and deploy department-specific AI agents internally. … Generative AI Has Entered the ‘Run’ Phase of Marketing …
The business case for responsible AI
EY
While responsible AI is required for complying with evolving laws and regulations like the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act (EU AI Act), it achieves …
AI Is Learning to Lie for Social Media Likes*
Emerge by Decrypt
When language models are tuned to maximize sales, votes, or clicks, they begin to deceive—even under “truthful” instructions, a new Stanford report says.
60% of shoppers expect to use AI agents in the next 12 months
MarTech
Agentic AI is poised to rewrite the rules of retail. Consumers are ready. What about retailers?
PubMatic: Our Nvidia partnership is paying off
Marketing Dive
Using Nvidia’s artificial intelligence (AI) tools, PubMatic’s system significantly reduces latency and leads to fewer auction timeouts, makes …
Beyond generic copilots: Why only brand-context AI delivers results marketers can trust
Ad Age
But when these tools don’t tie back to brand, the outputs fall flat: more content, not better marketing; more noise, not clarity. McDougall calls this …
Amazon Accelerate 2025 Seller Event Takeaways: Agentic AI, Supply Chain & MCF, Retail Ads
Forrester
… AI and machine learning, automation, and customer experience. For example, Walmart also continues to develop agentic AI tools tailored to retail …