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2025: The year for “hype” normalization

SmartBrief - Marketing

While several new technology trends have taken off over the last two years — generative AI, social commerce and retail media, to name a few — what lies ahead for business leaders is the need to right-size excitement around these areas versus actual impact. Looking ahead, 2025 will be a year of “hype” normalization.

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5 practical marketing tactics to accommodate new technologies and AI

Martech

Meaningfully mine and respect the data customers freely share Customers provide personal information to companies all the time — including acquisition offer responses, purchase behaviors, product favorites, social shares and sentiments on user-generated content — all of which tell marketers how to sell to them. Get MarTech!

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Essential KPIs to measure generative AI’s success in marketing

Martech

New tech always breeds resistance There are similarities between the birth of social media marketing and the latest advances in generative AI. In both cases, brand-new technology caught on like wildfire, affording marketers the opportunity to reach audiences in new ways. The simple answer is that it depends.

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AI-powered martech releases and news: November 21

Martech

The AI robot’s ability to influence other machines and bypass operational controls has reportedly taken social media users in China by storm, with some calling it “terrifying” and many expressing unease. NinjaCat launched AI Agents to help marketing agencies automate tasks, generate reports, and improve campaign performance.

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Influencers and User-Generated Content: Making The Customer Journey Smarter

Scoop.it!

As businesses adapt to embrace new technologies, they’ve started to use influencers and user-generated content for marketing purposes. Influencers carry a lot of trust and clout with their followers as user-generated content tends to feel more authentic and shared than corporate messaging.

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Distracted by New Technology? You Probably Aren’t Giving Your Website the Attention It Deserves

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

A truly compelling website requires excellent content marketing , beautiful design, and constant optimization to the user experience. Investing in SEO is a great way to generate awareness for your brand. The post Distracted by New Technology? 5 Components of an Engaging Website. Then, act on them.

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Salesforce launches new, ‘more trustworthy’ generation of AI bots

Martech

Yesterday, Salesforce launched Agentforce — generative AI bots the company says can be trusted to take action on their own. ” The company compared the new technology to that of self-driving cars in that it can interpret data to adapt to conditions in real time and can act independently within a company’s guardrails.

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