How to use generative AI to reduce friction and convert car buyers

Hispanic consumers represent a significant economic force in the U.S. today. Yet, they often face barriers in accessing mainstream financial services, particularly when purchasing vehicles essential to their household mobility and economic opportunity. To address these barriers, we are testing a generative AI-powered pre-approval bot to help potential car buyers confidently navigate the loan process…

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Get more out of your webinars and virtual events with 24/7 engagement by Edna Chavira

Virtual events and webinars don’t stop when the live stream ends! That’s just the tip of the iceberg.  Imagine if your virtual events could continue driving engagement, generating leads, and boosting your ROI for months to come. It’s possible with the right on-demand strategy. Join webinar and on-demand experts from Goldcast for Get More Out of…

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The ultimate consent strategy for maximizing customer opt-ins by Edna Chavira

Gaining control over user consent is no longer just about compliance—it’s about building trust, enhancing user experience, and driving higher engagement. Join our upcoming webinar, The Ultimate Consent Strategy for Maximizing Customer Opt-ins, and learn how to transform your consent program into a powerful tool for user engagement. This expert-led session will delve into actionable strategies…

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Declining customer feedback and loyalty, growing AI skepticism

Brands today are challenged by heightened consumer expectations and declining consumer feedback. In other words, negative experiences sharply impact customer loyalty, but — despite the ready availability of feedback channels — consumers aren’t letting brands know about bad interactions, or good ones either. Those are the main takeaways from the “2025 Consumer Trends Report” from…

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Oracle aims to automate the complete customer service lifecycle

Oracle this week unveiled new AI-powered capabilities for Oracle Fusion Cloud Service and Oracle Fusion Cloud Field Service. The ambitious aim is to automate the entire customer service lifecycle. These enhancements come at no additional charge, said Jeff Wartgow, VP of product management, CX Service at Oracle: “Oracle does not believe in charging for AI…

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AI-powered martech news and releases: October 10

It’s one thing to ramp up content production, but is the added productivity pumping out waste? This week, digital content experience company Siteimprove acquired MarketMuse, a content strategy and intelligence company. The aim of the acquisition is to connect content creation with content strategy capabilities, including research, planning and execution. This, in turn, cuts down…

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Zendesk saturates CX with AI and voice

Zendesk, the customer service and experience platform, announced initiatives that will infuse AI capabilities including agents and copilots across its platform, as well as a new voice agent able to converse with customers. The announcements came at the Zendesk AI Summit in New York City today. Combining AI and human agents. Zendesk will make AI…

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Improving site speed for conversions: Best of the MarTechBot

Best of the MarTechBot showcases the MarTechBot’s responses to prompts submitted by readers. See more about how marketers are using MarTechBot here. The language model is based on content from MarTech embedded on top of ChatGPT. The editors of MarTech selected this response for its usefulness and have supplemented it with additional relevant content. I am the first generative…

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