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    Most marketers are running competitive intelligence programs that look backward — tracking what competitors did last week rather than revealing what they're about to do...

  • Article backdrop: Consumers want AI ads with a human touch

    New research from Canva's "The State of Marketing and AI 2026" report delivers a verdict every marketing team chasing AI-powered scale needs to hear: 74%...

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    Facebook has 3.56 billion daily active users and just posted record quarterly revenue of $56.3 billion — yet a close read of global web traffic...

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    OpenAI activated a significant shift in how AI platforms define their responsibilities when it launched "Trusted Contact" for ChatGPT on May 7, 2026 — a...

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    Affiliate marketing is delivering 12 to 15 times return on ad spend at scale — and it's doing it through a channel that most AI...

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    Anthropic expanded Claude's integration library on April 23, 2026 to include Spotify, Uber Eats, Instacart, TurboTax, AllTrails, and eleven other consumer-facing apps—marking the moment Claude...

  • Daily Marketing Roundup: AI ROI Stalls When Marketers Don’t Trust Their Data

    AI's role in marketing has crossed an inflection point — and not in the direction most vendor decks promised. McKinsey data cited this week by...