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Techysquad launches unified Forex CRM and client onboarding platform
Techysquad has launched a unified Forex CRM and client onboarding platform aimed at brokerages and prop trading firms that want to consolidate lead management, KYC, and back-office workflows in one system. The release targets a common operational issue in brokerage growth stacks: fragmented tools across CRM, onboarding, and compliance that can slow activation and increase…
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Bing reaches 1B monthly users as AI reshapes search intent and marketer visibility
Microsoft says Bing has crossed one billion monthly active users, marking a significant milestone for the search engine as AI-driven search behavior continues to evolve. The announcement came alongside Microsoft’s latest earnings results, where search advertising revenue excluding traffic acquisition costs reportedly grew 12% year over year, while Edge browser gained market share for the…
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Micro-influencers vs. macro-influencers: which drive ROI for B2B brands?
Most B2B marketers enter this debate asking the wrong question. “Micro vs. macro” is typically framed as reach against engagement rate, a trade-off familiar from consumer marketing. But B2B buyers don’t behave like consumers, and the audiences behind follower counts rarely break the same way. A SaaS operator with 4,000 LinkedIn connections where 60% are…
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Spotify’s disco-ball app icon backlash shows why disruptive branding still works
Spotify’s temporary disco-ball app icon sparked a wave of criticism across social media, with users calling the redesign confusing, ugly, and unnecessary. But the backlash may have been exactly the point. The temporary visual change was tied to Spotify’s 20th anniversary campaign, designed to push users toward a nostalgia-focused in-app experience highlighting their listening history,…
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Influencer marketing budget calculator: how to allocate spend in 2026
Most influencer marketing budgets are built the wrong way. A number gets anchored to last year’s spend, adjusted upward by whatever percentage someone could defend in a planning meeting, then carved into platform-by-platform lines without a coherent framework. The result: brands either underspend in ways that guarantee weak results, or spread budget so thinly across…
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Top influencer marketing agencies in the US for B2B brands
B2B influencer marketing has moved well past the experimental budget line. According to TopRank Marketing’s 2025 B2B Influencer Marketing Report, 85% of B2B marketers now incorporate influencers into their strategy, up from 34% in 2020, and 43% of those teams report outstanding program results, a jump of nearly ten percentage points from the prior year.…
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Digital PR searches surge 192% as brands rethink SEO, authority, and AI visibility
Search demand for Digital PR is climbing fast as brands look beyond traditional link building and focus more heavily on authority, credibility, and visibility across search engines, media platforms, and AI-powered discovery tools. According to Glimpse search trend data analysed by Cupid PR, searches for “Digital PR” rose by 192% over the past year, reaching…
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Optimizely posts 42% QoQ ARR growth for its Opal AI agent platform
Optimizely says annual recurring revenue for its Opal AI agent orchestration offering grew 42% quarter over quarter as customers expanded usage across marketing workflows. The bigger signal is not the growth number alone, but the usage pattern behind it: teams are moving from “AI helps me write faster” to building repeatable agents that execute multi-step…
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AI made content faster. Brand control is now the bottleneck.
Marketing teams no longer struggle to generate enough assets. They struggle to keep control of what those assets are, who can reuse them, and whether they still represent the brand after AI tools, creator partners, paid media teams, and platform automation have each touched them. That is the harder operator problem now. The pressure shows…
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inTandem by vcita launches AI Leads Max for agency lead conversion
inTandem by vcita has launched AI Leads Max, a white-label lead conversion product aimed at agencies, media companies, and other marketing organizations selling services to SMBs. The product positioning is less about generating more leads and more about helping SMB clients respond, qualify, and follow up faster, with the goal of making ROI easier to…