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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.

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.

Digiday

Brands can’t just flip the ’employees as creators’ switch

Employee generated content is an increasingly enticing lever for brands to pull, but there needs to be a clear-cut strategy.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Digiday

CMOs are struggling to link AI visibility with sales

Brands are spending on tools that rate their visibility within LLM responses and AI search, but proving the commercial impact of GEO remedies isn’t easy.

Click Funnels

Leadpages Pricing and the 10 Best Leadpages Alternatives for 2026

Social Media Today

Meta expands access to Creator Studio

IOS users in the U.S. and Canada can now access the artificial intelligence-driven app to help manage content and get audience insights.

Search Engine Roundtable

Spammy Google Selected Canonical In Search Console

When you use the Google Search Console URL inspection tool, Google will show you what it calls the "Google-selected canonical." Sometimes that URL will look off, weird and even scary, because sometimes it might be a URL for a spammy site.

CMSWire

Why AI Agents Make Broken Customer Data Worse, Not Better

An enterprise AI leader breaks down what happens when agents inherit fragmented systems.Continue reading...

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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.