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FADEL Unveils AIVA to Automate Brand Licensing and Compliance With AI Agents

FADEL is pushing AI deeper into the operational core of brand licensing and marketing compliance. The company has introduced FADEL AIVA, a new AI technology designed to move beyond insights and actively execute tasks across complex, global licensing workflows. Positioned as an evolution of FADEL’s existing AI capabilities, AIVA unifies generative, analytical, and predictive AI with purpose-built...

business 23 Jan 2026

Flodesk Hits $36M ARR as AI Turns Email Design Into a Creative Partner

Flodesk, the design-first email marketing platform favored by creators and small businesses, is quietly redefining what growth looks like in the crowded MarTech landscape. The company has crossed $36 million in annual recurring revenue and helped its members generate more than $33 million in revenue—without venture funding, aggressive enterprise sales, or feature bloat. Instead, Flodesk is...

digital experience 23 Jan 2026

Jeep’s “Jeep Things” Campaign Reframes Adventure as Affordable

Jeep is entering 2026 with a clear message: capability doesn’t have to come with a premium price tag. The iconic SUV brand has unveiled “Jeep Things,” a new global marketing and advertising campaign designed to spotlight its latest price repositioning—alongside expanded standard features and significant price reductions across its 4x4 lineup. The campaign launches with a 60-second hero spot...

marketing 23 Jan 2026

OuterBox Expands Into Residential Marketing With GRO Acquisition

OuterBox is pushing deeper into vertical-specific performance marketing. The Ohio-based digital agency, backed by private equity firm WILsquare Capital, has acquired GRO Marketing, a specialist agency serving multifamily, student housing, and senior living communities. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The acquisition marks another step in WILsquare’s steady buildout of a scaled...

marketing 23 Jan 2026

Playad Raises $5.4M to Bring AI Agents Into the Ad Creative Workflow

San Francisco–based startup GIGR, operating under the product name Playad, has raised $5.4 million in pre-seed funding to tackle one of digital marketing’s most stubborn problems: how slow, fragmented, and expensive ad creative production still is—even in an era of AI-everything. The round was led by BRV Capital Management and Mirae Asset Venture Investment, with backing from a notable group of...

artificial intelligence 23 Jan 2026

Plume Taps Cisco Veteran Rebecca Stone as CMO to Sharpen Its AI-Driven ISP Play

Plume, best known for its cloud-managed Wi-Fi and smart home services for Internet Service Providers, is signaling a sharper go-to-market push as competition in broadband intensifies. The company has appointed Rebecca Stone as its new Chief Marketing Officer, bringing in a seasoned marketing executive with deep roots in networking, cloud, and service provider ecosystems. Stone joins Plume with...

artificial intelligence 22 Jan 2026

Idea Innovate Consulting Launches AI-Enabled Advisory Platform to Drive Revenue Growth for Middle-Market Services Firms

Middle-market professional services firms are under pressure from all sides: rising client expectations, tighter margins, talent constraints, and accelerating AI adoption. Strategy decks alone are no longer enough. Idea Innovate Consulting is betting that what firms need now is something far more operational—and far more accountable. The firm has announced the launch of a new advisory platform...

artificial intelligence 22 Jan 2026

Qualified Health and Anthropic Deploy Claude-Powered AI Across UT System to Close Care Gaps at Scale

For decades, healthcare’s biggest paradox has been this: clinicians know what works, guidelines are well established, yet millions of patients who qualify for evidence-based care are never identified in time. Qualified Health and Anthropic are betting that large-scale, governed AI can finally close that gap. The two companies have launched what they describe as a landmark AI deployment across the...

artificial intelligence 22 Jan 2026