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Fast Company

Why AI is the ultimate accelerator for creativity

Have you noticed that in the current discourse around artificial intelligence, the narrative often slips into one of two extremes? There is either a techno-utopian dream of total automation or a dystopian nightmare where human agency is erased.

CMSWire

What Mickey Mouse and Taylor Swift Get Right About Customer Experience

Automation is accelerating—but most brands haven’t defined what their experience should feel like.Continue reading...

Contently

The Content Cultures That Last Have One Thing in Common

The editorial calendar fills up, and the first few pieces of your newly launched content program land well. You’re off...

Adweek

The Team Behind Zohran Mamdani’s Viral Campaign Wants More Political Candidates to Get Candid on Social Media

Melted Solids and the New York mayor's video director discuss how political campaigns can break through.

Digiday

The Rundown: Q1 dealmaking cools across ad tech and martech as AI remains the hottest ticket

LUMA Partners’ Q1 report notes the drag that macroeconomic uncertainty has had on dealmaking.

ON-DEMAND TRAINING

American Marketing Association

Social Media Strategy and Proving ROI

Incorporate the latest platform trends for an effective campaign that delivers results and track them using attribution tools to create a comprehensive report.

American Marketing Association

Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Marketing Professionals

This course covers the phases of AI, such as rule-based AI, machine learning, deep learning, and generative AI, to provide a solid foundation of AI principles. Learn the impact of AI systems and how to leverage these tools to perform marketing tasks such as persona development, search engine optimization (SEO), and content generation and personalization.

Harvard Business Review

Research: What China’s AI Agents Reveal About the Future of Commerce

As AI starts making purchasing decisions for people, companies must compete to be selected by agents, not just noticed by customers.

Adweek

Anthropic Debuts Claude Design for Building Marketing Assets, Decks, and UIs

The AI lab is taking on design incumbents like Adobe and Figma with a new tool powered by its frontier model, Claude Opus 4.7

Marketing Dive

Google brings AI Max for Search out of beta, will deprecate legacy tools

Dynamic Search Ads, automatically created assets and the campaign-level broad match setting will automatically upgrade to AI Max in September.

Seth Godin Marketing

The second circle

What do your supporters tell their friends? That’s the unseen force behind every successful brand, movement or idea. Most people don’t care about you.

Chief Marketer

Why Optimum Launched in2 Network

Optimum is expanding its local original programming with this month’s launch of in2, a new channel that houses News 12 original series.

Chief Marketer

Edible Arrangements Entices Early Mother’s Day Buying to Ease Operational Bottlenecks

Chief Digital Officer Erica Randerson discusses the gifting brand’s refreshed app, using purchase data in marketing, AI investments and value shoppers.

Harvard Business Review