Walk into any CMO’s office this quarter, and you’ll find a stack of vendor proposals built on 12-month payback periods, with vendors quite confident about year one and a little less sure about year three. This is where a successful pilot turns into technical and operational debt. The agentic commerce
Katie Cadwell, co-founder of branding studio Lucky Dip and The NDA Podcast: Automation isn’t detracting from design thinking. It’s taking away design time. It’s changing how design is delivered. Our power has always been in the ability to curate. We used to print everything in the studio, put it up
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Afternoons at Cannes tend toward a particular kind of frenzy. The rosé is flowing, the diary is full and somewhere on the Croisette a panel is running 15 minutes over. Kelly Taylor has other plans. On at least one afternoon she intends to disappear — onto her balcony, alone, with
Adobe has just announced a sweeping set of updates across Creative Cloud, and if you’re a photographer, video editor, or designer, you’ll want to know about them. Rolling out this week, these innovations are squarely focused on cutting out the friction of editing, giving you more time to create. From
Microsoft Advertising has launched Product Explorer, a new Merchant Center feature designed to help advertisers better understand product status and performance. The tool provides a searchable view of product catalogs. Advertisers can quickly see which products are serving, which have issues, and which are driving results. Product Explorer is currently
Salesforce signed a definitive agreement to acquire Fin, a customer agent vendor formerly known as Intercom, for approximately $3.6 billion. The deal comes only one month after Intercom adopted the Fin name. The company’s core offering is an AI agent that specializes in end-to-end resolution of complex customer queries across
In today’s edition … Liberal faith groups are working to counter Trump … We want to know how you would fix Congress … but first … The big news The United States and Iran reached a limited deal Sunday to end months of fighting, according to President Donald Trump, a top
Digiday covers the latest from marketing and media at the annual Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity Every year, the advertising industry takes over a small stretch of the French Riviera and pretends it’s normal. The yachts, the credential corridors, the fedoras — all of it lands in roughly the
Soccer fandom is on the rise ahead of the World Cup, and marketing execs in the sport are thinking about how to best capture data about their growing fanbases. For sports teams, more fans is rarely bad news. It usually means more energy at stadiums, more eyeballs on streams and
