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June 2026 CX News: Trends & Insights
Real-Time Personalization Becomes the New CX Standard The personalization conversation hit a turning point this spring. The old model — historical segmentation,…

June 2026 RevOps News: Trends & Insights
HubSpot and Salesforce Race Toward the Agentic CRM The CRM platform war shifted gears in spring 2026. HubSpot's Spring 2026 Spotlight put…

June 2026 Marketing News: Trends & Insights
Google Hands Publishers a Bone — And Marketers a Map In late May, Google rolled out the most direct concession it has…

May 2026 CX News: Trends & Insights
Salesforce and Zendesk Both Bet the CX Stack on AI Agents April was the month CX platform consolidation went from a thesis…

May 2026 RevOps News: Trends & Insights
RevOpsAF Lands in San Francisco, and the Conversation Has Changed The most important RevOps event of the spring isn't a vendor conference.…

May 2026 Marketing News: Trends & Insights
Google Marketing Live Lands the Same Week As I/O, and Brings Agentic Ads With It Google Marketing Live returns May 20 with…

April 2026 Marketing News: Trends & Insights
Google's AI Mode Becomes a Shopping Mall --- And Advertisers Just Got the Keys In February, Google's VP of Ads and Commerce…

March 2026 Marketing News: Trends & Insights
Google Is Reinventing What an Ad Is --- And You Should Pay Attention Last month we talked about Generative Engine Optimization becoming…

February 2026 Marketing News: Trends & Insights
The Discovery Layer Is Shifting, And It's Not Coming Back Last month we flagged that AI visibility was becoming a real performance…

January 2026 Marketing News: Trends & Insights
January 2026 Marketing News: Trends & Insights The Year of AI Visibility Begins January marks the official start of a fundamental shift:…

December 2025 Marketing News: Trends & Insights
December 2025 Marketing News: Trends & Insights AI Becomes the Quiet Backbone of Q4 The big AI story right now isn’t novelty,…

November 2025 Marketing News: Trends & Insights
November 2025 Marketing News: Trends & Insights AI Moves From Tool to Infrastructure AI has officially crossed from “assistant” to “architecture.” Generative…