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Shopper/Retail
Tractor Supply CMO Aims to Balance AI With The Human Connection
At CommerceNext, Tractor Supply’s Chief Marketing Officer discusses how the retailer is using AI to do more, but still keeping its stores and employees as the hub of its brand.
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AI
MFA Ad Spend Is Increasing. Is AI Slop To Blame?
This year, the percentage of ad spend going toward made-for-advertising (MFA) sites went up instead of down for the first time since 2023.
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Shopper/Retail
How Pandora, Authentic Brands Balance Efficiency and Empathy in the AI Era
At the CommerceNext Growth Show in June, brand marketers from Pandora, Authentic Brands and G-III Apparel Group explained how they optimize AI without destroying their brands’ unique qualities and human elements.
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AI
Why Retail Marketers Need to Treat AI Agents as Customers, Not Tools
According to Kartik Hosanagar, Faculty Co-Director of the Wharton Human-AI Research Center, AI isn’t just a new technology or tool; it’s a new customer. And brands must analyze how it makes purchase decisions.
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AI
Everpure’s Rebrand Reflects the New Rules of B2B Marketing in the AI Era
Everpure CMO Lynn Lucas dishes on the company’s rebrand, how AI is changing marketing and why trust remains a critical differentiator in B2B.
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AI
Large Language Models Are Overkill For Some Marketing Tasks. Enter The Small Language Model
It’s no secret that large language models (LLMs) have gotten exorbitantly expensive. Companies are starting to limit their employees’ AI usage to save money; OpenAI has even discussed lowering the cost of tokens to retain financially anxious customers. But you know what’s cheaper than a large language model? A small language model. AI company ZeroGPU […]
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CMO Council
AI Finds the Pattern. Human Marketers Break It.
In a new report from the CMO Council, First American VP of Brand Marketing Stephen Shultz describes how the company uses AI for original marketing.
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Research
Gartner CMO Spend Survey: Budgets Reflect Increase in Consumption-Based Martech, Paid Media Spend
According to the 2026 Gartner CMO Spend Survey, a shift toward consumption-based martech solutions coincides with the decrease in martech as a percentage of marketing spend. We review the highlights of the report, including insights on increased paid media spend and AI maturity.
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AI
The Agentic Media Buying Platform That Says The Less AI, The Better
Everywhere you look, a new agentic measurement tool seems to have sprung up. Agentic execution layers, on the other hand, are harder to come by, according to Nathan Venezia, founder of Concord. (As you may have guessed, Concord, which is based in France, is a platform for agentic media executions.) “I’m not going to say […]
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AI
At Its First-Ever Cannes, OpenAI Says ‘We Are Clearly In The Advertising Business Now’
OpenAI didn’t make its Cannes Lions debut from a Croisette rooftop or in a branded beach club. Instead, the company summoned a small group of reporters late Monday morning to a semi-secluded outdoor patio located a roughly 15-minute walk from the festival’s main center of gravity. It was a rather sedate way to unveil what […]
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