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November 2026 Marketing News: Trends & Insights
Marketing news for November 2026: Meta's new AI ad terms, Google's channel controls, AI search traffic studies, Universal Cart, and the month's…

November 2026 RevOps News: Trends & Insights
RevOps news for November 2026: Salesforce buys Braze, Hunter's data deals, ZoomInfo Agent Teams, HubSpot's beta rollout and Zoom's push into RevOps.

November 2026 CX News: Trends & Insights
CX news November 2026: Forrester's AI cost warning, the Meta and Sierra agent standard, Zoom's shared customer memory, and CX events worth…

October 2026 RevOps News: Trends & Insights
October 2026 RevOps news: Salesforce and HubSpot bet on context, Clay hits $7.1B, Microsoft kills release waves. What it means for your…

October 2026 Marketing News: Trends & Insights
October 2026 marketing news for operators: AI Max takeover, the FTC's Amazon ad suit, AI search reporting, ChatGPT ads, and the events…

October 2026 CX News: Trends & Insights
Salesforce buys Fin, Zendesk goes specialist, and just 9% of support chats run on AI alone. Our read on October 2026 CX…

September 2026 CX News: Trends & Insights
The customer satisfaction index just posted its sharpest drop since the pandemic. Complaint rates hit an all-time high, roughly double where they…

September 2026 RevOps News: Trends & Insights
Two things are true about AI in revenue operations right now, and the industry keeps insisting you pick one. Salesforce just crossed…

September 2026 Marketing News: Trends & Insights
September is the month the training wheels come off, except it turns out the training wheels were the steering. Google starts automatically…

August 2026 CX News: Trends & Insights
Salesforce Buys the Best Independent AI Support Agent on the Market Salesforce signed a definitive agreement in mid-June to acquire Fin, the…

August 2026 RevOps News: Trends & Insights
HubSpot Quietly Renames Its Way Into Quote-to-Cash In its June-into-July release wave, HubSpot rebranded Commerce Hub as “Revenue Hub” and pushed a…

August 2026 Marketing News: Trends & Insights
Google Will Now Tell Everyone Your Ad Was Made by a Robot Google is rolling out AI disclosures on ads across Search,…