Clevertouch creates European consultancy and empowers marketers with AI marketing automation

Clevertouch Marketing, a marketing technology consulting and service provider, has formed a new strategic team to drive customer conversion from martech across its European client base.

This, in conjunction with new AI product development in its proprietary Momentum software, will bring productivity in martech to the forefront, at a time when marketers need it most acutely.

As Clevertouch Marketing changes its overall name to Clevertouch Consulting, the company has...

SAS’ martech platform integrates with generative AI 

SAS’ marketing customers can now enjoy the power of generative AI. SAS Customer Intelligence 360 can now be integrated with generative AI providers for assistance in streamlining marketing planning, content creation, and journey design activities. 

Customers can use generative AI capabilities for the whole customer engagement life cycle, from marketing planning and audience creation to journey design, creating channel specific creative, through reporting and...

Three-quarters of firms delay AI due to ethics concerns

More than half (51.3%) of global marketing leaders say that cost is a major challenge when adopting AI and automation into marketing operations according to a new study.

The research into emerging AI was conducted by workforce solutions and marketing operations consultancy, Algomarketing. 

This first-of-its-kind study surveyed over 300 global marketing leaders working in firms with 10,000+ staff about the current use of AI and automation in their marketing...

Virgin Atlantic selects Amperity to deliver AI-powered unified customer profiles

Amperity, an enterprise customer data platform (CDP) for consumer brands, has announced Virgin Atlantic as a new customer for its critical data foundation.

Amperity will help unify, manage, and activate all of the travel company’s digital and transactional customer data, to deliver personalised customer experiences and drive revenue growth.

Virgin Atlantic looks after a vast amount of customer data generated from digital touchpoints and offline transactions throughout...

Google Cloud partner digs into generative AI for marketers

If you are worried that generative AI is coming for your jobs then the recent Google Cloud Next event may have caused palpitations. But don’t worry just yet, as this solution appears to be marked out as friend rather than foe.

Typeface, a generative AI app provider, announced the launch of an integrated generative AI marketing solution with GrowthLoop and Google Cloud’s BigQuery and GenAI Foundation Models to ‘merge generative AI into a single, streamlined...

Dentsu helps brands create generative AI-powered customer experiences

Dentsu and Merkle, dentsu’s technology-enabled, data- driven customer experience management (CXM) company, have collaborated with Salesforce to offer AI expertise to marketing and commerce leaders.

Merkle’s generative AI solution, Merkle GenCX, will be available for businesses to use with Salesforce Einstein GPT to help brands harness the power of generative AI to deliver, manage, and optimise connected customer experiences.    

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Shopify launches first AI commerce assistant

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Shopify, a provider of essential internet infrastructure for commerce, has made more than 100 updates as part of its Summer ‘23 Edition, the twice-annual showcase of its latest products and innovations.

These updates include Sidekick, a new first-of-its-kind AI-enabled commerce assistant for business owners on Shopify, and aim to allow its merchants to be more productive, creative, and powerful than ever before — ushering in a new era of commerce full of brand new...

70% of sales and customer service pros don’t think AI will steal their jobs

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Dialpad, an AI-powered customer intelligence platform, has unveiled the findings from its 2023 Dialpad The State of AI at Work Report.

Key findings reveal how sales and customer service professionals, across industries, are adopting artificial intelligence (AI) while breaking down the barriers to adoption including lack of budget and the importance of developing ethical guidelines and enhancing accessibility. 

“AI has created an all-new technological frontier that is...

55% of marketers are using AI in content production

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A new study by digital asset management platform, Bynder, has revealed the many ways the marketing industry sees AI technology enabling efficiency in day-to-day tasks, and provides insight into how the industry can continue to leverage the technology.  

The deep-dive study of Bynder’s customer-base, which includes marketers at major global brands including Spotify, Puma and Five Guys, found over half (55%) of respondents currently use AI tools in content production...

Braze unveils additions to its AI capabilities to enhance customer engagement 

Braze, the comprehensive customer engagement platform that powers interactions between consumers and the brands they love, today announced updates to its existing artificial intelligence capabilities, now collectively named Sage AI by Braze.

In its next evolution, Sage AI by Braze consists of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) capabilities that are deeply integrated into the Braze platform, data flows and execution stack to power better, faster and...