Marketing Technology

With 1,800 AI agents, Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry empowers businesses through tailored, scalable solutions, challenging Salesforce, Zendesk, and OpenAI in enterprise AI integration.

61.4% of US marketers who spend $500,000 or more per year on digital advertising want better/faster media mix modeling (MMM) to upgrade their measurement strategies, according to a July 2024 study from EMARKETER and Snap Inc.

A shocking response forces the tech giant to address safety flaws amid rising genAI adoption.

Attentive’s findings challenge SMS frequency fears: Holiday shoppers welcome more personalized, frequent messages, doubling retailer revenues with minimal opt-outs.

New York Times expands ad targeting: The Athletic and other lifestyle properties enable brands to reach engaged audiences, reducing focus on hard news topics.

Trump shifts stance on TikTok ban: ByteDance lobbying strategy and younger voter appeal could have swayed the decision, irrespective of national security concerns.

Big-name backers bet on its fast, cost-effective tools to improve marketing workflows and supercharge genAI innovation.

By enabling nuanced, real-time audio translations, DeepL helps companies localize content, enhance CX, and reach untapped regions with tailored strategies.

Lackluster improvements in OpenAI’s Orion signal that limited training data and expensive computing could slow future breakthroughs.

As cookies decline in relevance and companies build out their first-party data approaches, organizations need clear data collection, maintenance, sharing, and targeting strategies. “Disparate data is going to lead into a fragmented view of customers, and that will make a broken experience,” said Moitree Rahman, senior director of first-party strategy at Eli Lilly & Company, speaking at our EMARKETER Summit.

Amazon’s program democratizes access to compute resources and raises concerns about aligning corporate goals with academic freedom.

The partnership, hosted by AWS, could solidify Anthropic’s reputation as a trusted AI provider for high-risk government applications.

Google defends against DOJ claims of ad monopoly: The giant emphasizes publisher choice and competitive ad exchanges amid trial scrutiny.

Its GPU dominance and Big Tech partnerships keep Nvidia surging ahead, leaving rivals scrambling in an AI-driven market.

Heavy spending on AI infrastructure by Meta, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple underscores their faith in AI’s growth, but the pressure to deliver consistent ROI mounts.

Only 10% of marketing executives worldwide have fully integrated generative AI (genAI) into their regular marketing processes, according to a July 2024 survey from SAS conducted by Coleman Parkes Research.

Microsoft reveals a strong Q1, driven by AI-powered products, but saw a 6% share dip as investors worry about Azure growth and OpenAI-related costs.

Hollywood and artists push back: AI threatens creative integrity and intellectual property rights, sparking calls for regulation.

Anthropic’s AI can use computers like a human in an effort to boost productivity, but operational flaws reveal the challenges of AI in daily workflows.