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Hubspot

Ahrefs Brand Radar alternatives for marketing teams

G2’s 2026 Answer Economy research found that 51% of B2B software buyers start their research with an AI chatbot more often than Google.

Distilled

The Enterprise Marketer’s Guide to Local Media at Scale

For enterprise brands with large physical footprints, localization creates an uncomfortable trade-off. Centralize too much and media loses the local context that makes it engaging and effective.

Digiday

Media Briefing: Publishers are replacing Google with a little bit of everything

Publishers are preparing for a future with less Google traffic — but are still figuring out what replaces it.

Marketing Dive

Smartphone school ban could imperil billions in social media ad revenue

While hypothetical, a ban is just one aspect of the rapidly changing regulatory landscape of teen social media use.

Duct Tape Marketing

AI Has Leveled the Marketing Playing Field

AI Has Leveled the Marketing Playing Field written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape MarketingCatch the Full Episode: Overview This one’s a throwback from the vault, and it’s aged well given how fast AI keeps moving.

Marketing Tech

Eliminating Inherited Vulnerabilities in Base Images

Vulnerabilities in the software supply chains of public container foundations are becoming a growing threat. Today’s DevSecOps workflows focus on stripping out unnecessary pieces and baking security into production deployments before they hit live environments.

Social Media Today

Meta partners with North America’s Building Trades Unions

A new training program is designed to support skilled workers across the U.S. even as community sentiment about data center development wanes.

Adweek

Marc Jacobs Turns a Handbag Mix-Up Into a New York Microdrama Mystery

The series examines how fashion shapes first impressions and the stories we create about one another.

Click Funnels

Leadpages Pricing and the 10 Best Leadpages Alternatives for 2026

Chief Marketer

AppLovin Wants To Persuade The World That Its Ad Platform Is The Real Deal

AppLovin has been on a wild ride for the past couple of years. Its shares traded at around $80 in 2024, reached $720 in late 2025 and now trade at $340.

Search Engine Roundtable

Misconfiguring Cloudflare Can Hurt Your SEO Badly

This is just a random tip, make sure not to misconfigure Cloudflare, your content delivery network and/or your hosting server. I see way too many cases of this popping up and causing such a pain for SEOs to fix.

Social Media Today

Pinterest partners with Zillow for ad targeting

Through the deal, the real estate platform can target app users with ads based on specialty consumer segments including fixer-uppers and homebuyers.

EVENTS & LIVE TRAINING

Selected by American Marketing Association

UX Foundations for Marketers

Your digital campaigns are only as effective as the experiences behind them. This two-part series bridges the gap between marketing strategy and user experience design, giving digital marketers the knowledge, frameworks, and practical skills to directly influence the digital experiences that drive engagement, conversions, and ROI.

Across both sessions, you will move from understanding the fundamentals of UX and how they connect to marketing performance, to applying design thinking and accessibility standards to the real digital challenges you face every day. Whether you are collaborating with a design team, briefing an agency, or evaluating your own digital properties, this series will sharpen how you think about and advocate for the end user at every stage.