Shippo, the e-commerce shipping platform used by brands, marketplaces, and developers, is placing a bigger bet on growth as competition in logistics tech intensifies. The company has appointed Brad Ramsey as its new Chief Marketing Officer, tasking the veteran marketer with leading Shippo’s global marketing and sales organizations as it expands beyond its SMB roots into the midmarket and platform-driven commerce ecosystem.

Ramsey will report directly to Shippo CEO and co-founder Laura Behrens Wu, and his mandate is clear: sharpen Shippo’s go-to-market execution, evolve the brand for a broader audience, and help the company scale as shipping becomes a strategic lever—not just a backend function—for modern e-commerce businesses.

A seasoned operator for a crowded market

Ramsey brings more than two decades of sales and marketing leadership experience, with a résumé that reads like a tour of modern tech marketing. Before joining Shippo, he served as CMO at Pirate Ship, where he helped expand the brand’s reach into small and mid-sized businesses—an audience increasingly hungry for cost-efficient, easy-to-use shipping solutions amid rising carrier rates and margin pressure.

Earlier roles at Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Quizlet saw Ramsey build and scale global marketing teams across both B2C and B2B environments. That mix matters. Today’s e-commerce infrastructure companies are no longer selling to a single persona. They must appeal simultaneously to merchants, developers, platform partners, and increasingly, operations and finance leaders who scrutinize shipping costs as closely as ad spend.

Shippo’s leadership clearly sees Ramsey’s background as well suited to that complexity.

“Brad brings a rare combination of brand leadership, operational rigor, and deep domain experience with scaling marketing organizations at some of the world’s most innovative technology companies,” said Behrens Wu. “As we continue to invest in new capabilities and expand our solutions to solve challenges faced by larger organizations, Brad’s leadership will be critical to our next phase of growth.”

Why this hire matters now

Shipping has quietly become one of the most competitive layers of the MarTech and commerce tech stack. Platforms like Shopify and Amazon continue to tighten their grip on fulfillment, while independent tools—from Shippo to ShipStation and EasyPost—race to differentiate on integrations, automation, and analytics.

For Shippo, the challenge is no longer awareness alone. It’s positioning. As merchants scale, they expect shipping platforms to behave more like infrastructure partners than point tools. That means clearer value propositions, stronger ecosystem messaging, and tighter alignment between product, marketing, and sales.

Ramsey’s role spans all of that. According to the company, he will focus on scaling cross-segment go-to-market execution, refining Shippo’s brand strategy, and supporting platform growth as the company deepens its reach across e-commerce brands, marketplaces, and technology partners.

In practical terms, that likely translates into more vertical-specific messaging, clearer differentiation against both embedded platform solutions and standalone rivals, and a stronger narrative around how shipping data and automation can drive growth—not just savings.

From growth marketing to brand maturity

One notable aspect of Ramsey’s appointment is the emphasis on both brand and growth. In recent years, many B2B platforms leaned heavily into performance marketing. But rising acquisition costs and longer buying cycles have forced a rethink. Brand, trust, and perceived reliability now play a larger role, especially as platforms move upmarket.

Shippo appears to be following that shift. Its customer base has expanded beyond scrappy startups to include more established e-commerce brands and platforms that demand stability, scale, and roadmap clarity. A CMO with experience at global consumer and enterprise brands signals an intent to mature how Shippo presents itself to the market.

Ramsey himself framed the move in terms of connection and enablement rather than pure acquisition.

“I’m very excited to join the team to help grow our brand globally and create stronger connections with merchants and partners,” he said. “Shippo’s mission of using simple, technology-based shipping solutions to help businesses thrive really resonates with me—and I’m excited to help accelerate its next phase of growth.”

The broader MarTech implication

Shippo’s move reflects a broader trend across MarTech and commerce infrastructure companies: leadership hires are increasingly about readiness for scale, not just momentum. As AI-driven optimization, real-time logistics data, and platform ecosystems reshape e-commerce operations, marketing leaders are expected to bridge product complexity with market clarity.

For MarTech leaders watching the space, the takeaway is straightforward. Shipping is no longer an operational afterthought—it’s a strategic growth channel. And companies that can articulate that story clearly, to the right audiences, stand to gain an edge as merchants rethink their tech stacks in 2025 and beyond.

With Ramsey at the helm of marketing, Shippo is signaling that it intends to compete not just on features, but on narrative, trust, and long-term platform value.

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Inspired Thinking Group (ITG) is deepening its bet on AI-powered content operations. The company announced it will integrate Adobe Firefly’s generative AI services directly into Storyteq, its content marketing platform (CMP), giving enterprise marketers native access to Adobe’s creative AI models within their day-to-day content workflows.

The move positions Storyteq not just as a system of record for content, but as an execution layer where creation, personalization, governance, and performance optimization increasingly converge. At a time when brands are under pressure to produce more content across more channels—with fewer resources—this integration targets one of marketing’s most persistent pain points: scaling high-quality, on-brand content without slowing teams down.

What Adobe Firefly adds to Storyteq

Through Firefly Services, Storyteq users will be able to tap directly into Adobe’s generative and creative AI models, extending the platform’s existing AI capabilities. Rather than treating generative AI as a bolt-on creative tool, ITG is embedding Firefly into the operational fabric of content production—where briefs are written, assets are created, approved, localized, and activated.

According to ITG CEO Andrew Swinand, the goal is to make Storyteq a “foundational backbone” for AI-driven content management and automation.

“Adobe’s acknowledged strength in generative AI gives Storyteq users another great tool out of the box to help create better content faster, more cost-effectively and at scale,” Swinand said.

That framing matters. Many brands are experimenting with generative AI in isolation—design teams here, social teams there. ITG’s approach suggests a shift from experimentation to infrastructure, where generative AI becomes a governed, repeatable part of enterprise content operations.

Halo Intelligence meets Firefly

A key differentiator in ITG’s announcement is the pairing of Adobe Firefly with ITG’s proprietary Halo Intelligence. While Firefly handles generative and creative execution, Halo Intelligence focuses on analysis—using AI-driven insights to determine what content is most likely to engage specific audiences, in specific contexts.

By combining the two, Storyteq aims to close the loop between insight and output.

“Pairing Halo Intelligence with gen AI models such as Firefly means users are not only able to create more content for less, but also create content that is optimized and personalized to every customer interaction,” Swinand explained.

This speaks to a broader trend in MarTech: generative AI alone isn’t enough. Without intelligence layers that guide what to create and why, brands risk flooding channels with content that is fast—but ineffective. ITG is positioning Storyteq as a platform that helps marketers decide, generate, and optimize in one system, rather than stitching together disconnected tools.

Operational efficiency, not just creativity

Beyond content creation, ITG says the Firefly integration will drive efficiencies across the full content lifecycle, including briefing, workflows, approvals, and compliance. For global brands, these steps are often where scale breaks down—assets get delayed, governance becomes inconsistent, and localization introduces risk.

By embedding AI into these operational stages, ITG is targeting a less glamorous but more valuable outcome: speed with control. That’s especially relevant in regulated industries and large enterprises, where compliance and brand governance can’t be sacrificed for velocity.

The integration will also enhance ITG’s global creative services, suggesting Firefly-powered workflows won’t be limited to self-serve platform users but will extend into managed services and enterprise engagements.

A crowded market, but rising expectations

The CMP and DAM markets are becoming increasingly competitive as vendors race to layer generative AI into their platforms. Adobe, Salesforce, Sitecore, and a growing list of composable MarTech players are all making similar moves. The difference often comes down to depth of integration and practical usability, not AI claims alone.

Storyteq has already built a reputation around AI-driven content lifecycle management. Gartner previously noted that “ITG’s AI solutions lead the market” and described Storyteq as “uniquely powering the full content lifecycle.” Gartner has also named Storyteq a market leader in both content marketing platforms and DAM, citing its enterprise asset management capabilities.

By integrating Adobe Firefly—one of the most widely recognized and enterprise-trusted generative AI offerings—ITG strengthens that positioning. It also reduces friction for marketing teams already invested in Adobe’s creative ecosystem, a practical advantage in large organizations where tool sprawl is a constant concern.

Why this matters for MarTech leaders

This announcement underscores a broader shift in MarTech strategy: AI is moving from feature to foundation. Marketers are no longer asking whether platforms support generative AI, but how deeply it is embedded into workflows, governance, and performance optimization.

For ITG, the Firefly integration signals an ambition to own the middle layer between creativity and execution—where content decisions, generation, and activation happen at scale. For enterprise marketers, it points to a future where AI doesn’t just accelerate production, but actively shapes what content gets made, for whom, and why.

As AI-driven content expectations continue to rise, platforms that can combine trusted creative models with operational intelligence may be best positioned to move from experimentation to sustained competitive advantage.

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TARA Media is taking a sharper stance against programmatic waste. The data-driven marketing agency has announced a strategic partnership with SWYM.ai that embeds algorithmic supply curation directly into TARA’s proprietary Media Buying Platform (MBP), giving advertisers far more control over where—and how—their media dollars are spent.

At its core, the integration is designed to tackle one of digital advertising’s most persistent problems: fragmented supply paths that dilute performance, inflate costs, and obscure accountability. By pairing TARA Media’s DSP and data infrastructure with SWYM.ai’s real-time supply shaping and decisioning engine, the two companies are aiming to make programmatic buying more intentional, transparent, and outcomes-driven.

Why supply curation is becoming non-negotiable

As digital advertising has expanded across websites, mobile apps, CTV, and emerging formats, the supply side has grown increasingly complex. Advertisers now navigate overlapping exchanges, resellers, and opaque auction dynamics—often bidding on impressions that add little value.

TARA Media’s MBP already positions itself as an all-in-one DSP that allows agencies and advertisers to activate campaigns, build data-driven audiences, and measure performance with a high degree of transparency. The SWYM.ai integration pushes that proposition further upstream, intervening before bids are placed.

Instead of reacting to inefficient supply after the fact, advertisers can now shape the bidstream in advance—filtering inventory based on quality, attention, pricing, and performance signals in real time.

In practical terms, that means fewer wasted impressions, tighter alignment with campaign KPIs, and more confidence that media budgets are flowing to publishers that actually deliver value.

How the TARA–SWYM.ai integration works

SWYM.ai’s technology is built around what it bluntly calls “Stop Wasting Your Money” algorithmic decisioning. Embedded directly into the MBP, it allows TARA Media users to:

• Curate and activate inventory across all of TARA’s supply partners from a single workflow

• Filter bid opportunities before bids are submitted, not after

• Build bespoke inventory packages aligned to specific campaign goals

• Prioritize high-attention placements rather than sheer reach

This approach is particularly relevant for medium and large-scale advertisers that need precision without the overhead typically associated with custom supply deals or holding company-level tooling.

“Our mission with the TARA Media MBP has always been to promote access to elite media buying tools for campaigns of all sizes,” said Jeff Kaplan, CEO of TARA Media. “By integrating SWYM.ai’s supply curation capabilities, we are giving our clients a level of control typically reserved for the largest holding companies.”

That last point is key. Supply path optimization and advanced curation have often been gated behind enterprise contracts, custom builds, or internal trading desks. TARA and SWYM.ai are positioning this integration as a way to democratize that level of control.

Key capabilities advertisers gain

The partnership introduces several capabilities that reflect where programmatic buying is headed:

Dynamic traffic and supply shaping
Inventory can be continuously built, curated, and activated based on live signals around quality, pricing, and performance—without jumping between platforms.

AI-driven decisioning tied to outcomes
The system evaluates supply paths and bid opportunities in real time, optimizing toward KPIs such as CPA, CTA, and ROAS rather than static rules or assumptions.

Contextual intelligence at scale
Instead of relying on outdated keyword lists or pre-approved site bundles, advertisers can activate contextual strategies using live content signals—an increasingly important capability in a privacy-first, post-cookie environment.

Collectively, these features point to a shift away from broad, exchange-level buying toward more surgical control of media access.

A broader signal for the AdTech market

This partnership reflects a wider industry trend: the growing recognition that where you buy matters as much as how you bid. As advertisers scrutinize media efficiency more closely—especially in CTV and open web environments—supply quality, attention metrics, and path transparency are moving from “nice to have” to core buying criteria.

SWYM.ai CEO and co-founder Ravi Patel framed the integration as a response to the realities of modern media buying.

“Advertisers work on immovable deadlines where every impression counts,” Patel said. “By embedding our decisioning engine into TARA Media’s MBP, buyers can continuously shape which inventory is accessed, how it’s priced, and how aggressively to bid, based on real performance and quality signals—at scale.”

That emphasis on continuous shaping is notable. It suggests a future where supply decisions are not static pre-campaign choices, but living systems that adapt as campaigns run.

What this means for marketers

For brands and agencies navigating tightening budgets and rising scrutiny, the TARA–SWYM.ai integration offers a clear promise: fewer wasted impressions, more control, and greater alignment between media spend and business outcomes.

More broadly, it signals where programmatic buying is headed. DSPs are no longer just execution engines; they are becoming decision layers that determine which parts of the digital ecosystem are worth accessing in the first place.

If that model takes hold, partnerships like this one may become less of a differentiator—and more of a baseline expectation.

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Amplitude is making a clear statement about where marketing analytics needs to go next. The digital analytics company has acquired InfiniGrow, an AI-powered marketing analytics startup, in a move designed to close a familiar—and costly—gap: insights that live in dashboards but never quite make it into real decisions.

For Amplitude, the acquisition reinforces a long-running strategy shift from descriptive analytics toward decision intelligence. The goal is no longer just to explain what happened, but to help marketers understand what to do next—and how those choices will affect revenue.

From dashboards to decisions

Marketing teams today are drowning in data but starving for clarity. Campaign performance, customer journeys, attribution models, and revenue metrics often live across disconnected tools. As a result, analysts surface insights, while budget and strategy decisions happen elsewhere—often based on intuition rather than evidence.

InfiniGrow was built to address exactly that problem. Its AI-driven platform focuses on measuring how marketing drives revenue, forecasting outcomes, and modeling tradeoffs before money is spent. By bringing InfiniGrow into the fold, Amplitude is aiming to make analytics directly actionable inside a single platform.

“InfiniGrow built AI to answer the hardest questions marketers face, and that’s exactly what Amplitude does,” said Spenser Skates, co-founder and CEO of Amplitude. “Together, we’re turning complex data into clear decisions teams can act on confidently.”

That framing matters. In a market crowded with analytics tools, Amplitude is positioning itself less as a reporting layer and more as a system for decision-making.

Why session-based analytics matter more than ever

Alongside the acquisition, Amplitude is doubling down on a core technical foundation: session-based analytics. While events have become the dominant currency of digital analytics, sessions remain critical for marketers trying to understand intent, journeys, and outcomes across channels.

Amplitude says it is making sessions “first-class” across the platform, preserving session context over time so marketing actions can be directly tied to business results. Without that continuity, insights can quickly become misleading—and optimization turns into guesswork.

This focus also reflects a broader industry realization. As privacy changes limit third-party data and attribution becomes harder, first-party session data is increasingly valuable. Accurate session context gives marketers a clearer view of how users move from engagement to conversion, and where marketing actually influences revenue.

InfiniGrow’s technology builds on that foundation rather than replacing it. Its AI models rely on clean, contextual customer journey data—precisely the kind of data Amplitude specializes in capturing.

What InfiniGrow adds to Amplitude

InfiniGrow brings advanced AI capabilities designed specifically for marketing decision-making, not just analysis. Key capabilities include:

• Revenue measurement: Clear visibility into how marketing efforts contribute to pipeline and revenue, not just clicks or conversions.

• Forecasting and what-if analysis: AI-driven scenario modeling that lets teams test assumptions, explore tradeoffs, and predict outcomes before committing budget.

• Optimization at planning time: Instead of optimizing only after campaigns run, marketers can iteratively plan and allocate spend based on forecasted impact.

This shifts analytics upstream in the marketing workflow. Rather than asking, “Did this work?” teams can ask, “What’s most likely to work next?”

“We built InfiniGrow to apply AI to the real decisions marketers face every day,” said Daniel Meler, co-founder and CEO of InfiniGrow. “Joining Amplitude allows us to scale that work and contribute to a broader AI analytics vision that empowers teams to act with confidence.”

A signal to the MarTech market

Amplitude’s move reflects a larger trend in MarTech: analytics platforms are racing to become decision engines. Vendors across the space are layering AI into dashboards, but many still struggle to connect insights directly to planning, budgeting, and execution.

By combining InfiniGrow’s AI-driven forecasting with its own session-based analytics foundation, Amplitude is betting that marketers want fewer tools—and more confidence. If successful, this could reduce reliance on separate planning, attribution, and modeling platforms.

It also raises the bar for competitors. Simply visualizing data is no longer enough. Marketers increasingly expect analytics to recommend actions, quantify risk, and show clear revenue impact.

What marketers should take away

For marketing leaders, the acquisition points to a practical shift: analytics should inform decisions before money is spent, not just explain results afterward. As budgets face tighter scrutiny, tools that can forecast impact and justify spend are becoming essential.

Amplitude’s challenge now is execution—integrating InfiniGrow’s capabilities seamlessly and proving that AI-driven forecasts can be trusted in real-world planning. If it succeeds, the company could move from being a product analytics leader to a central intelligence layer for modern marketing teams.

In a landscape where speed and confidence increasingly define competitive advantage, that’s a meaningful step forward.

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Sprinklr is adding another industry endorsement to its AI-first strategy. The Unified Customer Experience Management (Unified-CXM) platform has been named a winner in the Innovation Products category of the 2026 BIG Innovation Awards, with judges recognizing Sprinklr’s AI agents as a standout application of artificial intelligence purpose-built for customer experience.

The award, run by the Business Intelligence Group, highlights companies and products that deliver applied innovation with measurable real-world impact. For Sprinklr, the recognition reinforces its positioning as an AI-native CX platform at a time when enterprises are under pressure to move beyond experimentation and prove tangible ROI from AI investments.

Why Sprinklr’s AI agents stood out

Unlike generic AI copilots or add-on automation layers, Sprinklr’s AI agents are designed to operate autonomously within customer experience workflows. They observe signals, reason across unified customer data, and take action across marketing, customer care, research, and commerce use cases.

That goal-oriented design is increasingly important as enterprises struggle with fragmented CX stacks and siloed data. Instead of forcing teams to manually translate insights into actions, Sprinklr’s AI agents are built to close that loop—helping organizations operate faster, more consistently, and at scale.

According to the Business Intelligence Group, this kind of applied intelligence is what now defines innovation.

“True innovation is no longer about chasing the latest buzzwords,” said Russ Fordyce, Chief Recognition Officer at the Business Intelligence Group. “It’s about building intelligent platforms, automating workflows with purpose, and making trust, privacy, and resilience the foundation of every breakthrough.”

That framing aligns closely with how enterprise buyers are evaluating AI today: not on novelty, but on reliability, governance, and outcomes.

From AI features to AI systems

Sprinklr’s win reflects a broader shift in enterprise software. The market is moving away from point AI features toward system-level intelligence—AI that is embedded into the platform itself and connected to unified data.

Sprinklr’s AI agents sit on top of its unified CX data foundation, which combines customer signals across channels and functions. This allows the agents to operate with full context, rather than reacting to isolated events or partial views of the customer.

“AI is only transformative when it’s deeply connected to real business outcomes,” said Karthik Suri, Chief Product Officer at Sprinklr. “Powered by unified data, rich customer context, and the ability to turn insights into action, Sprinklr AI Agents bring enterprise-grade intelligence to every customer touchpoint.”

That emphasis on action is critical. Many enterprises already have access to AI-driven insights; far fewer have systems that can act on those insights responsibly and at scale.

Trust, privacy, and enterprise readiness

Another reason Sprinklr’s AI approach resonates is its focus on enterprise-grade requirements. As AI becomes embedded into customer-facing workflows, concerns around trust, privacy, compliance, and resilience are moving to the forefront—especially in regulated industries.

The 2026 BIG Innovation Awards highlighted this trend explicitly, noting that winners are prioritizing security and governance as core innovation principles, not afterthoughts. Sprinklr’s positioning as an AI-native platform built for large enterprises aligns with that expectation, particularly as brands look to deploy autonomous systems without introducing risk.

What this signals for MarTech and CX leaders

Sprinklr joins 159 companies recognized across industries including healthcare, financial services, logistics, manufacturing, and enterprise technology. The common thread among winners is clear: innovation is no longer defined by having AI, but by how effectively it is applied.

For MarTech and CX leaders, Sprinklr’s recognition underscores an important takeaway. The next phase of AI adoption will favor platforms that unify data, automate intelligently, and deliver outcomes across the entire customer lifecycle—not just isolated use cases.

As enterprises scale AI across marketing, care, and commerce, awards like this signal which vendors are moving from promise to practice. For Sprinklr, the BIG Innovation Award reinforces its claim that AI-driven CX is no longer theoretical—it’s operational.

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Emplifi is betting that the most valuable marketing insights aren’t hiding in dashboards—they’re happening in comment threads. The customer engagement and social media marketing platform has announced a strategic partnership with Reddit that integrates Reddit’s Enterprise API directly into the Emplifi ecosystem, elevating Reddit from a passive listening source to a core decision signal inside Emplifi Fuel, the company’s intelligent execution engine.

The move reflects a broader shift in MarTech: brands no longer want to simply monitor conversations. They want to translate real consumer intent into decisions they can act on—quickly, confidently, and at scale.

Why Reddit matters now

With more than 443 million weekly active unique visitors and over 100,000 active communities, Reddit has long been a goldmine of unfiltered consumer opinion. Product comparisons, pricing complaints, feature wish lists, and brutally honest reviews often surface there long before they appear in traditional social channels or surveys.

Until now, that data has mostly been used for social listening or sentiment tracking. Emplifi’s integration pushes it further upstream. Reddit conversations now feed directly into Emplifi Fuel, where AI analyzes aggregated discussion patterns and turns them into recommended objectives and tactics inside Emplifi’s vertical Command Center.

In short, Reddit becomes less of a noise source—and more of a strategic input.

From listening to execution

The defining feature of the partnership is how Reddit data is used. Instead of showing brands what people are saying and leaving interpretation to analysts, Emplifi applies AI-powered analytics to synthesize large volumes of conversation into actionable insights tied to business outcomes.

According to Emplifi CEO Ohad Hecht, that shift is essential.

“Commerce, care, and social are not end goals themselves; they are enablers,” Hecht said. “By feeding Reddit’s authentic data into Emplifi Fuel, we’re not just showing brands what people are saying—we’re turning aggregated insights into recommended actions.”

This framing aligns with a growing industry demand for tools that bridge strategy and execution. As marketing teams face tighter budgets and higher expectations, insight without action is increasingly seen as wasted effort.

Vertical intelligence, not generic signals

One of the more interesting aspects of the Emplifi–Reddit partnership is its vertical focus. Rather than treating Reddit data as a one-size-fits-all input, Emplifi applies it within industry-specific workflows:

• Retail & eCommerce: Reddit discussions around shipping delays, return policies, and pricing sensitivity feed directly into CX playbooks. Brands can address friction points before they show up in churn metrics.

• CPG: Authentic reactions to product launches and influencer campaigns help teams fine-tune content strategies, ride emerging trends, or contain negative sentiment early.

• Sports & Entertainment: Fan conversations around lineups, game-day experiences, and merchandise drops inform engagement and support workflows in real time—often while the moment still matters.

• All brands: From finance and beauty to travel and tech, Reddit’s breadth makes it a live testing ground for ideas, messaging, and sentiment shifts across categories.

This verticalization reflects a broader MarTech trend: insights are only useful when they’re contextual. Generic sentiment scores rarely drive decisions; industry-specific signals do.

Closing the gap between insight and action

Beyond analytics, the partnership also tightens execution. Emplifi customers can now publish directly to Reddit through Emplifi’s unified social workflows, managing Reddit engagement alongside other channels from a single interface.

That matters because Reddit plays by different rules. Brands that treat it like another broadcast channel often struggle. By unifying listening, insight, and publishing, Emplifi is positioning Reddit as a channel that can be managed thoughtfully—without fragmenting workflows or creating yet another standalone tool.

The integration also enables faster risk detection. Emplifi’s AI-powered listening and summarization tools can flag viral moments or potential issues hours or days before they surface on more mainstream platforms, giving brands more time to respond intelligently.

Reddit’s enterprise push

For Reddit, the partnership underscores its growing push into enterprise-grade data and analytics. While the platform has always been influential, brands have historically struggled to operationalize Reddit insights at scale.

“Reddit is where real conversations happen, shaping decisions that influence markets,” said Jonathan Flesher, VP of Business Development & Partnerships at Reddit. “Emplifi understands that brands need to bridge the gap between listening and doing.”

That sentiment mirrors Reddit’s broader evolution—from community platform to strategic intelligence layer for brands willing to engage respectfully and responsibly.

What this means for MarTech leaders

The Emplifi–Reddit integration highlights a clear direction for modern MarTech stacks: the future belongs to platforms that turn raw signals into guided action. As AI becomes table stakes, differentiation will come from how insights are applied—not just how they’re collected.

For marketing leaders, the takeaway is practical. Authentic consumer conversations are already shaping brand perception and purchase decisions. Tools that can capture that intent, contextualize it by industry, and embed it directly into daily workflows offer a tangible advantage.

In positioning Reddit as an analytical signal rather than a side channel, Emplifi is effectively turning the internet’s largest focus group into an always-on decision engine. For brands competing on speed, relevance, and customer understanding, that may prove hard to ignore.

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Cadent is bolstering its executive bench as demand accelerates for predictive, full-funnel advertising solutions. The company has appointed Kim Tingler as Chief People Officer and Daniella Krieger as Senior Vice President of Marketing, signaling a dual focus on scaling its organization and sharpening its go-to-market execution.

The leadership moves come as advertisers and agencies increasingly look for platforms that can unify data, forecasting, and activation across channels—while also demanding clearer differentiation in an ad tech market crowded with AI claims.

“As Cadent enters its next phase of growth, strengthening both our people strategy and our go-to-market leadership is essential,” said CEO Nick Troiano. “Kim brings deep experience building cultures that help organizations grow with intention, while Daniella has a proven ability to translate complex technology into clear, compelling value for the market.”

Why these roles matter now

Cadent operates at the intersection of predictive analytics, media planning, and activation—areas seeing renewed attention as brands push for better forecasting, outcome-based buying, and full-funnel measurement. Scaling that kind of platform requires more than product innovation; it demands organizational maturity and sharper storytelling.

The appointment of a Chief People Officer reflects Cadent’s recognition that talent, structure, and culture are strategic assets, not back-office concerns. At the same time, bringing in a senior marketing leader with deep ad tech experience suggests the company is preparing for a more competitive phase of market education and brand differentiation.

Kim Tingler: scaling culture with intention

Tingler joins Cadent with more than 15 years of experience leading people strategy and organizational transformation across media and technology companies. Most recently, she served as SVP of People and Culture at Rokt, where she set the agenda for the people function during a period of growth. Before that, she held senior HR leadership roles at A+E Networks and spent over a decade at NBCUniversal, supporting advertising sales and marketing teams.

Her background is particularly relevant for an ad tech company navigating growth without losing focus. High-growth platforms often struggle to maintain performance and engagement as teams scale quickly—a challenge Tingler has spent much of her career addressing.

In her role as CPO, Tingler will focus on ensuring Cadent’s organization is structured to support both business expansion and employee success.

“Building an organization that is intentional about how it develops, supports, and empowers its people is critical,” Tingler said. “My focus is making sure our leaders, teams, and culture evolve in step with the business.”

Daniella Krieger: clarifying Cadent’s market narrative

On the go-to-market side, Krieger brings more than 17 years of experience across brand, product, and GTM marketing in ad tech and digital media. She joins Cadent from MiQ, where she served as SVP of U.S. Marketing and led the go-to-market strategy for MiQ Sigma, the company’s AI-powered programmatic advertising platform.

At Cadent, Krieger will oversee brand and product marketing, with a mandate to clearly articulate the value of Cadent’s unified, predictive platform to advertisers, agencies, and partners.

That clarity is increasingly important. As AI becomes ubiquitous in advertising technology, differentiation is less about whether a platform uses AI and more about how it delivers measurable outcomes.

“Innovation, especially AI, is transforming advertising at unprecedented speed,” Krieger said. “But it’s also made differentiation more critical. I’m excited to help bring a unified platform to market that cuts through complexity and clearly communicates Cadent’s strengths.”

A broader signal for AdTech and MarTech

Cadent’s leadership changes reflect a wider trend across AdTech and MarTech: companies are investing just as heavily in people and positioning as they are in technology. Predictive advertising, full-funnel measurement, and AI-driven optimization are no longer emerging concepts—they’re expected capabilities.

As adoption accelerates, vendors must scale responsibly, maintain trust with clients, and communicate value in a way that resonates with both technical and business stakeholders. Cadent’s decision to strengthen both its people leadership and marketing leadership suggests it’s preparing for that next stage of competition.

For advertisers and agencies evaluating predictive advertising platforms, the move is a reminder that execution matters as much as innovation. The platforms that win will be those that combine advanced technology with strong teams, clear narratives, and the operational maturity to deliver consistently at scale.

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The Walt Disney Company is reshaping how it markets itself to the world. The media and entertainment giant has announced the creation of a new enterprise-wide marketing and brand organization, a move designed to bring tighter alignment across its sprawling businesses and deliver a more consistent, connected experience for consumers. To lead the effort, Disney has named longtime executive Asad Ayaz as its first Chief Marketing and Brand Officer.

The new role formalizes something Disney has increasingly needed as its portfolio has expanded across studios, streaming, parks, sports, and consumer products: a single executive with authority over brand coherence and marketing strategy at the company level.

Why Disney is centralizing marketing now

Disney’s businesses have never been more diverse—or more interconnected. From blockbuster franchises and Disney+ originals to theme parks, cruises, ESPN, and global consumer products, the company’s brands touch audiences across dozens of platforms and experiences.

Until now, much of that marketing muscle has lived within individual segments. The new enterprise marketing organization is meant to harness that collective strength, aligning teams and capabilities to ensure campaigns feel connected, brand standards remain consistent, and audiences can move seamlessly between Disney experiences.

CEO Bob Iger framed the move as both a brand and consumer imperative.

“As our businesses have evolved, it’s clear that we need a company-wide role that ensures brand consistency and allows consumers today to seamlessly interact with our products and experiences,” Iger said, calling the new CMO and brand role “critical for this moment.”

For marketers watching the space, the message is clear: as brands scale across channels and business models, decentralized marketing structures can become a liability.

Asad Ayaz’s expanded mandate

Ayaz steps into the role with more than two decades at Disney and deep familiarity with its most visible brands. He previously spent eight years as President of Marketing for The Walt Disney Studios, where he oversaw campaigns for theatrical releases across Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, and 20th Century Studios. He also led marketing for Disney+ during its growth into a global streaming platform.

In 2023, Ayaz was named Disney’s first-ever Chief Brand Officer, taking responsibility for company-wide brand stewardship, alliances, and major events. The new appointment expands that remit significantly—placing enterprise marketing execution alongside brand governance under one leader.

Disney’s segment leaders were explicit about why Ayaz was chosen.

“Asad is an exceptional creative leader with strong strategic and operational prowess and deep experience across Disney and its brands,” said Disney Entertainment co-chairs Alan Bergman and Dana Walden, Disney Experiences chairman Josh D’Amaro, and ESPN chairman Jimmy Pitaro in a joint statement.

That combination of creativity and operational scale is essential for a role that must balance local flexibility with global consistency.

What the new organization will change

According to Disney, the unified marketing group will connect shared capabilities and modern marketing tools across the company, improving continuity and agility. While specifics were not disclosed, the implications are significant.

For a company like Disney, this could mean:

• More coordinated global launches across film, streaming, parks, and consumer products

• Shared data, insights, and marketing technology across segments

• Faster execution as teams reuse frameworks and assets rather than rebuilding them

• Stronger brand governance as franchises expand into new formats and regions

Ayaz will report directly to Bob Iger as Chief Marketing and Brand Officer, while also working closely with Disney’s segment chairs to lead marketing efforts across business units—a dual-reporting structure that underscores both central authority and segment accountability.

A broader signal for enterprise marketing

Disney’s move mirrors a growing trend among global brands: elevating marketing and brand leadership to the enterprise level. As customer journeys span platforms, devices, and experiences, fragmented marketing strategies can erode brand equity and dilute impact.

In an era of streaming competition, experiential commerce, and IP-driven ecosystems, Disney’s brand is one of its most valuable assets. Centralizing marketing around that asset suggests the company is preparing for a more integrated future—one where franchises, experiences, and distribution channels are marketed as parts of a single narrative.

For MarTech and marketing leaders, the takeaway is timely. Technology, data, and AI have made cross-channel execution possible—but organizational alignment is what ultimately determines whether brands can deliver cohesive experiences at scale.

By appointing a Chief Marketing and Brand Officer and backing the role with an enterprise-wide organization, Disney is betting that brand consistency and connected marketing will be as critical to growth as content itself.

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