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Vector raises US$10M Series A for contact-level AI advertising
Vector raised a US$10 million Series A led by SignalFire and HubSpot Ventures to scale its contact-level advertising platform for B2B marketers. The funding also coincides with the launch of Vector MCP, an interface designed to let marketers query campaign performance and buyer activity in natural language via LLMs. The announcement lands in a period…
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Most AI martech consolidation projects solve the wrong problem first
The pressure to replace your marketing stack with something AI-native is louder than it has ever been. Vendor pitches promise faster decisions, leaner workflows, and automated campaigns that run without human intervention. None of that changes the underlying question: if you cannot trust the signal quality going into a platform, automation will execute the wrong…
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Fluent and Rebuy team up on post-purchase ads for Shopify merchants
Fluent and Rebuy Engine have partnered to launch Rebuy Ads powered by Fluent, a post-purchase advertising product aimed at Shopify merchants that monetizes the thank-you page experience. The partnership combines Fluent’s advertiser marketplace with Rebuy’s Shopify integrations and merchant footprint, positioning post-transaction pages as a commerce media placement where merchants can earn incremental revenue. Table…
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Motion raises $30M Series B to expand creative analytics for strategists
Motion has raised US$30 million in Series B funding to build what it describes as a command center for creative strategists, the role increasingly responsible for turning paid social performance signals into creative direction. The round was led by Inovia with participation from Threshold Ventures and existing investors Headline, Abstract Ventures, and Sugar Capital, bringing…
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Disney+ expands ‘A Lifetime of Great Stories’ campaign with cinematic cross-generational storytelling
Disney+ is continuing its long-running brand platform, ‘A Lifetime of Great Stories’, with a new campaign designed to reinforce the streaming platform’s emotional connection to audiences across different stages of life. The latest creative installment, titled Under The Bed, was developed by VCCP and directed by Stefanie Soho through Smuggler. This emotional campaign reflects a…
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Amazon wants to reinvent the upfront with AI, live sports, and agentic shopping
Amazon says the old upfront model is breaking down as streaming fragmentation, AI-driven ad buying, and commerce data reshape how brands plan media. The company’s latest pitch to advertisers goes far beyond securing premium content inventory. Instead, Amazon is positioning itself as the connective layer between streaming TV, retail signals, AI optimization, and full-funnel measurement.…
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FinTurk debuts an advisor-built CRM with $8B RIA Chicago Partners
FinTurk has officially launched its advisor-built, AI-powered CRM and announced Chicago Partners Wealth Advisors, an RIA managing over $8 billion in assets, as its first enterprise customer and design partner. Chicago Partners transitioned to FinTurk in the first quarter of 2026, and the rollout is being positioned as an alternative to legacy CRM implementations that…
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Your AI agents need an operating model, not a roadmap
The bottleneck in most marketing organizations right now is not tool access. It is the absence of a working model for what happens after the tool connects. Over the past several months, a consistent pattern has appeared across ecommerce, paid media, social, and revenue workflows: AI is no longer sitting at the edge of marketing…
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Monaco raises $50M Series B to scale its AI-native sales platform
Monaco has secured a $50 million Series B led by Benchmark as it scales an AI-native sales platform built to consolidate prospecting, outbound execution, pipeline management, and revenue workflows into a single system. The funding comes after Monaco said it brought on hundreds of customers during its public beta and, per company-shared performance signals, added…
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Skyword launches CAI to measure brand authority in AI search
Skyword has launched Category Authority Index™ (CAI), a new metric inside its Accelerator360™ content marketing engine that helps enterprise marketers assess how their brands appear, get cited, and are positioned in AI-generated search responses. The move lands as buyers increasingly rely on ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, and other answer engines before visiting a brand website.…