Marketing stories

Global Day of Unplugging puts pressure on brands to dial down digital noise and build more trusted, human and community-led connections.

Unedited AI content could soon tank your Google rankings; here are five warning signs your pages are hurting rather than helping.

Women in marketing and tech still see their authority doubted and risk-taking questioned, while male confidence is too often overvalued.

AI search tools cast brands in starkly different lights, with Google skewing early negative and ChatGPT souring sentiment near purchase.

As digital marketing leans on empathy and nuance, women shoulder unseen emotional labour that powers brands but rarely gets its due.

From runway to boardroom, Australia's pageant stage doubles as a high-stakes PR lab for purpose-driven personal branding in 2026.

On International Women's Day, a data leader urges young women to train for unseen careers, valuing curiosity and pivots over rigid plans.

A veteran marketer reflects on 35 years in tech, tracing the journey from hand-coded web pages to data-fuelled, curiosity-driven SaaS leadership.

Marketing's future belongs to teams that master open, unified data infrastructure instead of guessing through disconnected systems.

Criteo joins OpenAI's ChatGPT ad pilot as first adtech partner, testing conversational commerce ads across ChatGPT Free and Go in the US.

Typeface launches a Marketing Orchestration Engine, unifying AI agents, brand data and IT controls to govern cross-channel campaigns at scale.

In tech and marketing, women are excluded not just by bias in code or funding, but by domestic load and male-coded networking rituals.

As shoppers turn to AI search and influencers to hunt deals, retailers race to unify promotions or risk confusion, margin hits and lost loyalty.

Marketers pour money into AI, yet most still blast generic spam as fragmented data blocks the real conversations customers now expect.

Connected packaging sheds its fad status as record executive backing, rising budgets and compliance pressures push it firmly into the boardroom.

Stay22 lands $122m from Summit Partners to fuel global expansion of its creator commerce tools beyond travel into wider retail.

AXL and PUSH Media launch STRATIS, an agentic AI “OS” giving marketers a unified, human-governed hub for real-time decisions across channels.

AI assistants are reshaping B2B discovery, forcing CIOs, CTOs and CMOs to rebuild content for zero‑click, conversational buying journeys.

Ogury brings its persona-based ad targeting to connected TV, promising consistent cross-screen audiences as brands boost streaming spend.

Awin launches Campaign Builder and smarter partner recommendations to slash affiliate setup times and sharpen performance reporting.