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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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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.…
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AI discoverability strategy: why SEO alone is no longer enough
Search used to be a single-channel problem. You picked your keywords, built your pages, earned your backlinks, and watched your rankings. The discipline was narrow enough that one team, or sometimes one person, could own it. That era is functionally over. AI Overviews now appear in roughly a quarter of all US searches. ChatGPT has…
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FOX launches AdStudio to turn fandom into measurable ad performance
FOX Advertising has launched FOX AdStudio, a unified data and technology platform that brings audience planning, activation, and measurement into one system for advertisers. The pitch is simple: FOX wants brands to treat its fandoms not just as cultural reach, but as measurable performance media. For marketers, this is another sign that premium publishers are…
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BiteSpeed launches AI Marketer to automate ecommerce lifecycle campaigns
BiteSpeed has launched “AI Marketer,” a product it says is designed to autonomously run ecommerce marketing across the customer lifecycle, from campaign strategy and targeting through creative production, execution, and performance analysis. The company positions the release as an extension of its existing CRM and automation tooling across WhatsApp, voice, email, SMS, and Instagram. BiteSpeed…
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Nectar Social raises $30M Series A for an AI agent-led social marketing OS
Nectar Social has raised US$30 million in Series A funding to expand its AI-driven platform for managing brand conversations and social commerce across major social networks. The round was led by Menlo Ventures and its Anthology Fund, created in partnership with Anthropic, with participation from True Ventures, GV, and Kinship Ventures. The company is also…
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Meta opens its ad stack to outside AI, and marketers need an operating model
Meta is opening its ad ecosystem to third-party AI tools through a new set of Meta Ads AI connectors, according to reporting from Digiday. The connectors will allow outside platforms, agencies, martech vendors, and AI-native ad tools to plug directly into campaign management on Meta. For marketers, this is not just another product update. It…
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Google’s VP of Search Liz Reid says AI is changing search behavior, not killing the web
Google’s VP of Search Elizabeth Reid says AI Overviews are reshaping how people search, click, and interact with online content. But according to Reid, the shift is more about changing how users interact with informational queries and deeper content. In a recent Bloomberg Odd Lots podcast interview, Reid outlined how AI Overviews, AI Mode, and…
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Starbucks Chilled Coffee reframes RTD marketing around self-expression, not energy boosts
Starbucks Chilled Coffee is taking a different route in the crowded ready-to-drink coffee market across EMEA. Instead of pushing another “boost your energy” message, the brand’s new platform, ‘WHATEVER YOUR THING, we’re in’, leans into a cultural tension many younger consumers already recognize: the pressure to constantly edit themselves to fit in. Created with AMV…