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  • daydream raises $15M Series A for AI-assisted SEO services

    daydream raised a $15 million Series A led by WndrCo, with participation from First Round Capital and Basis Set Ventures, bringing total funding to $21 million. The company is positioning itself as an AI-native SEO agency that combines automated “agents” with human experts, reflecting growing demand for execution help as search behavior and ranking dynamics…

  • Acclaim opens Miami global HQ as it expands in the U.S. after a $34M Series A

    Acclaim is expanding into the U.S., setting up a global headquarters in Miami and naming Fred Fontes as CEO, following a previously announced $34 million Series A led by Ratmir Timashev. The company is positioning its voice-first AI agents around regulated-industry requirements, with an emphasis on compliance controls, audit trails, and deployment options that can…

  • Sprinklr partners with CreatorIQ to connect creator, organic, and paid social measurement

    Sprinklr has formed a strategic partnership with CreatorIQ focused on unifying measurement across creator marketing, organic social, and paid social amplification inside a connected reporting workflow. For brands running mixed creator and paid programs, the move targets a common operational gap: creator performance data often sits outside the dashboards used for paid optimization and broader…

  • SEO + PR for Restaurants & Hotels: How to Dominate Local Search and Drive Direct Bookings

    The hospitality industry faces a brutal reality: online travel agencies and third-party platforms extract 25-30% commissions while controlling the customer relationship, leaving hotels and restaurants fighting for scraps. Yet most operators treat SEO and PR as separate initiatives—one team chasing keywords, another pitching journalists—missing the compounding effect when these disciplines work together. When a boutique…

  • Cara raises $8M seed to automate insurance brokerage workflows with AI

    Cara raised $8 million in seed funding led by Kearny Jackson to expand its AI platform for insurance brokerages, agencies, and wholesalers, with a focus on automating sales and servicing workflows that connect to existing AMS and CRM systems. The company says the platform reached seven-figure ARR in seven months and serves thousands of insurance…

  • Storytelling Powers Hospitality Guest Connections

    Marketing directors in hospitality face a brutal truth: guests scroll past another perfectly lit lobby shot in seconds. What stops the scroll? A chef’s hands kneading dough his grandmother taught him to make, a housekeeper’s handwritten note that saved a anniversary, a farmer delivering heirloom tomatoes at dawn. Stories rooted in real people, authentic culture,…

  • IKEA turns its Allen key into wearable marketing

    What started as an April Fool’s joke quickly turned into a viral brand moment for IKEA Singapore. IKEA Singapore took its most forgettable tool, the Allen key, and gave it a glow-up, reintroducing it as the ALLËNKI, a grungy necklace that can still tighten your furniture. Yes, it sounds ridiculous. That’s exactly why it works.…

  • X and TikTok face regulatory heat in Singapore

    Singapore’s regulator has put X and TikTok under intensified scrutiny, signaling a broader shift in how governments are holding platforms accountable for harmful content. For marketers, this is not just a policy update, it is a reminder that platform risk, brand safety, and audience trust are becoming deeply intertwined. This article explores what triggered the…

  • Tofu raises $12M Series A to consolidate campaign execution for B2B GTM teams

    Tofu has raised $12 million in Series A funding led by SignalFire, as it pushes a unified, AI-driven workflow for B2B marketers running multi-channel campaigns. The company’s pitch is straightforward: enterprise GTM teams have too many disconnected tools, and campaign execution slows down as handoffs multiply across systems. The round also included participation from HubSpot…

  • Supermetrics buys Relay42 to add real-time CDP activation to its data stack

    Supermetrics has acquired Relay42, expanding from marketing data integration and reporting into real-time customer data activation. The combination is aimed at teams that want performance reporting and first-party customer activation to sit closer together, rather than being managed in separate systems. Relay42 brings a real-time customer data platform focused on unifying customer data and enabling…