DeepSeek, a powerful new open-source AI from China, may have put a pin to the AI valuation bubble. While that’s bad news for investors, it’s good news for marketers. What it is. DeepSeek is said to work as well as OpenAI’s o1 while costing 95% less. It was built without the state-of-the-art NVIDIA chips used…
Over the last year, the RMN space saw new in-store standards and solid growth. This is likely to continue. Here are a few ways we expect to see this dynamic space continue to mature. Growing in-store networks “While retail media networks have gained some attention [in 2024], I believe their full potential remains largely untapped,”…
“The only thing we’re going to do at Salesforce is Agentforce.” That’s what Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said in September when introducing the AI agents. This week, the company showed what that means by unveiling a substantially upgraded Agentforce 2.0. Among its new features, four stand out: The library of pre-built skills and workflow integrations…
Retail media networks (RMNs) are a hot new thing that’s been around for decades. Their roots go back to brands putting ads on store end caps and paying for placement in retailers’ weekly fliers. But, like everything else in marketing, digital took it into a whole different realm. RMNs are both the current and next…
Small and midsize businesses are considering or adopting marketing technology to better engage with new and existing customers. Over a third — 35% — of SMBs are currently considering adopting new martech to better target audiences. Another 41% are currently adopting new technologies or have done so in the last year. These findings come from…