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Bloomreach Announces Loomi Connect, Bringing Your Brand’s Search Intelligence to the OpenAI Marketplace

Bloomreach unveiled Loomi Connect, a new integration that delivers its product discovery engine to the OpenAI Marketplace via the Model Context Protocol. The solution lets ChatGPT and other conversational AI platforms surface ecommerce catalogues using the same search algorithms and...

Social•Jan 12, 2026

10 Proven AI Uses to Boost Your Business

It's been an incredible challenge to keep myself from splitting my focus yet again. I've been asked over and over to teach how I use AI in my business. But that would have me shift focus from Sales, Marketing, and...

By A. Lee Judge

Cross-Media Optimization in the Modern Martech Stack

Cross‑media optimization reframes marketing as a unified portfolio rather than isolated channel silos, using incrementality to measure true business impact. It relies on data unification, causal experimentation, and response‑curve modeling to allocate spend across paid search, social, CTV, retail media,...

Miro Launches Collaborative AI Workflows to Transform How Teams Work and Accelerate Innovation

Miro unveiled AI Workflows, a collaborative AI suite for its AI Innovation Workspace, enabling enterprise teams to build, customize, and share visual, multi‑step AI processes on a shared canvas. The solution combines visual Flows, conversational Sidekicks, and Visual Context Processing...

CDPs Are Dead, Brands Just Haven’t Noticed

The article argues that customer data platforms (CDPs) are becoming obsolete as brands realize that managing person‑level identity data is costly, risky, and increasingly regulated. Instead of owning granular customer profiles, companies are moving toward platform‑managed identity solutions and lightweight...

By MarTech

Jivox Raises Strategic Financing, Rebrands As DaVinci Commerce To Power The New Era Of Agentic Commerce Marketing

DaVinci Commerce, formerly Jivox, announced a strategic financing round led by AI and enterprise veterans, including Saama Capital, Amit Singhal and Sohaib Abbadi. The capital will fuel product innovation and expand go‑to‑market efforts for its AI‑native platform that automates commerce...

Plume Acquires Sweepr to Deliver AI-Orchestrated Customer Experience Platform to ISPs Globally

Plume Design announced the acquisition of Dublin‑based Sweepr, an AI‑powered customer‑care orchestration platform. The combined solution leverages Plume’s real‑time device telemetry from half a billion connected homes with Sweepr’s no‑code workflow engine, enabling AI‑guided diagnosis and automated remediation across all...

Senzing Entity Resolution AI Now Available in AWS Marketplace for Risk & Fraud Detection and KYC

Senzing announced that its entity‑resolution AI is now available through AWS Marketplace as a downloadable SDK. The solution runs natively on customers' AWS environments, offering real‑time or batch matching for risk, fraud and KYC use cases. It supports EC2, Aurora...

Sumsub Joins World Economic Forum Unicorn Community to Tackle AI Fraud and Advance Inclusive Digital Identity

Sumsub, a leader in identity verification, has been admitted to the World Economic Forum’s Unicorn Community, granting it a seat at the 2026 Davos meeting. The company’s latest Identity Fraud Report shows AI‑driven fraud surged 180% YoY, with multi‑step attacks...

March Networks Presents New Cloud Storage at Intersec Dubai, Reducing Video Storage Costs by up to 80%

March Networks unveiled a tiered cloud storage solution at Intersec Dubai, leveraging AWS S3 Glacier for low‑cost long‑term video archiving while keeping recent footage on fast‑access storage. The model promises up to an 80% reduction in video storage expenses over...

Direct Online Marketing Launches Service To Help Brands Show Up In AI Search Engines Like ChatGPT

Direct Online Marketing has introduced Generative Engine Optimization Services to help mid‑size and large enterprises appear in AI‑driven search platforms such as ChatGPT. The offering restructures digital assets, brand entities, and authoritative content so conversational AI can surface the brand...

MadSense and Symitri Unveil the Industry’s First Native OLM-Powered DSP Integration–Doubling Reach in Early Pilots

madSense and Symitri announced a strategic partnership that embeds Symitri’s PRISM AI directly into madSense’s OLM‑powered madBuy DSP, creating the industry’s first native AI‑driven DSP integration for the open web. The native integration enables real‑time, multimodal audience discovery and activation...

Social•Jan 12, 2026

Get Found, Get Clients: Practical Growth Tactics for 2026

If you’re thinking about how to get more visible and bring in more consistent clients as we move into 2026, this will be a valuable conversation to join. Tomorrow (Tuesday 13th January), I’m speaking at a free online event with...

By Lilach Bullock

Social•Jan 12, 2026

Diversify with Small Bets, Avoid Single‑focus Risk

The best business advice I ever ignored: "Focus on one thing." Turns out having a few small bets was way less risky than putting all of my eggs into one basket.

By Justin Welsh

Glow Team Expands UI/UX Design Services for Digital Products

Glow Team, a leading product design agency, announced an expansion of its UI/UX services to cover scalable digital products such as SaaS platforms, web and mobile apps, and AI‑driven solutions. The broadened portfolio now includes design systems, UX audits, user...

Social•Jan 12, 2026

Your AI Strategy Deadline: SaaStr AI

If you're a VP of Sales, CRO, CMO, or Head of Product at a B2B company and you haven't figured out your AI strategy yet... May 12-14 is your deadline. SaaStr AI 2026. SF Bay. Come with questions. Leave with...

By Jason Lemkin

News•Jan 11, 2026

Emergent: Ship Real Applications Faster With AI Builders

Emergent is an agentic AI platform that lets users build, deploy, and scale full‑stack web and mobile applications through natural‑language conversations. By automating design, coding, backend setup, and hosting, it compresses development cycles from weeks to minutes while delivering production‑grade...

Social•Jan 11, 2026

One‑Time Billionaire Tax Is Just First Step

My take on California’s “One-Time” Billionaire Tax. It’s much worse than it looks. 📉 Will it pass? Yes, likely. It only needs 50%+1 voter approval. SEIU + CTA have done this before—Prop 55 won 63% in 2016. ⚖️ Will it...

By Jason Lemkin

Social•Jan 11, 2026

Give Real Reasons, Not Fake Scarcity, to Motivate

You need a better reason for someone to act rather than a “better” CTA. • Scarcity is fake. • Urgency is overused. Be clear, specific, and honest. People aren’t dumb, they’re just overloaded with garbage. Stand out by not insulting...

By Kody Nordquist

News•Jan 11, 2026

Sender: The Affordable Email and SMS Platform Built for Growth

Sender is an email and SMS marketing platform that offers a free‑forever plan with full‑feature access, positioning itself as a low‑cost alternative to legacy ESPs. The service claims a 99.98% inbox placement rate thanks to dedicated sending infrastructure and continuous...

Social•Jan 11, 2026

Hire Salespeople Who Are Motivated by Money

Never hire anyone in sales that doesn't care about money You'll see

By Jason Lemkin

Social•Jan 11, 2026

Companies Prioritize Efficiency Over Growth, AI Leads Shift

Hiring slowdowns aren’t isolated right now. Many companies are holding headcount flat, protecting capital, and waiting for more clarity before expanding teams. Attrition is also unusually low, which tells you something about uncertainty in the market. 👉 Efficiency, not expansion, is the current...

By Eric Siu

News•Jan 10, 2026

Appfigures: From Downloads to Revenue, Build a Smarter App Growth Strategy

Appfigures is an all‑in‑one mobile app intelligence platform that unifies downloads, revenue, ad spend, ASO, reviews, and competitive data into a single dashboard. The service monitors over 4.4 million apps, processes more than $13 billion in annual revenue, and tracks 11 billion downloads...

Social•Jan 11, 2026

Framing Your Words Determines Whether Customers Buy

Sometimes it’s not what you say, but how you say it. Or, as a brain scientist would would say, how you frame it. The words you choose can make the difference between someone liking your product or not. Someone agreeing...

By Nancy Harhut

Social•Jan 11, 2026

Build a Side Hustle Before Quitting Your Job

I don't think you should quit your job tomorrow. Honestly, that's bad advice most of the time. What I do think is that you should stop giving all of your best energy to a company that would cut you loose...

By Justin Welsh

CallHippo: Scale Outbound Sales Teams To Close More Deals Faster

CallHippo is a cloud‑based virtual call‑center platform that consolidates outbound and inbound calling, messaging, analytics, and automation for sales teams. Its intelligent routing and parallel dialing cut time‑to‑contact, while AI‑driven insights provide real‑time coaching and automated call summaries. Integrated CRM...

Social•Jan 11, 2026

AI Agents Outperform Mediocre Hires, Replacing Mid‑Pack Workers

"If I had 2 more great humans, I'd hire them tomorrow. If they were truly great. But a Pretty Good AI agent is better than ... hiring a human that isn't great. We don't need placeholder hires anymore. AI Agents...

By Jason Lemkin

Social•Jan 10, 2026

Sell the Transformation, Not Just Product Features

If you want people to buy, don’t just show what your product does. Show what they become because of it. People want transformation more than features. Sell the identity shift, the status, and the story. That’s what actually converts.

By Kody Nordquist

Optiway Route Planner: Simplify Delivery Routes with Up to 200 Stops & an Intuitive Interface

Optiway Route Planner is a logistics software that lets businesses create, optimize, and share delivery routes with up to 200 stops in a single plan. Its intuitive map‑based interface reduces planning friction, while built‑in optimization algorithms cut mileage and labor...

Social•Jan 10, 2026

AI Amplifies Your Thinking, Not Just Answers

The creative advantage of AI isn’t the tool, it’s the thinking behind it. People who get the most out of AI don’t treat it like an answer machine. They use it to question assumptions, explore alternatives, and reflect on their...

By Carla Johnson

Social•Jan 10, 2026

Scalable Review Pipeline Finds Only 1.8% Pain Signals

In just ONE HOUR I did this, with only my voice… this what GTM Engineering looks like in the future… 100% in Claude Code and with Apify ! What We Did: Review Enrichment & Classification Pipeline We built a scalable...

By Jordan Crawford

Ecommerce Success with Fractional Talent

The Starters, launched in late 2023, is a two‑sided marketplace that connects ecommerce brands with vetted fractional talent, now hosting over 600 freelancers and serving 500 client brands. The platform differentiates itself by charging freelancers zero commission and requiring brands to...

By Practical Ecommerce

Social•Jan 10, 2026

Startups Only Need a Strategist for Few Hours

The one hire I don't need, and none of my portfolio cos need, is a "Strategist" I know at certain stage in many folks' career, that's what they want to do Advise on strategy more than do work themselves No criticism But most startups...

By Jason Lemkin

Social•Jan 10, 2026

Consistency Starts It, Details Accelerate Growth

I've been writing online for 6 years. And I still learn stuff that surprises me. Little things that seem obvious in hindsight. Like, why some posts take off, and others don't. Or why small tweaks change everything. The strategy is...

By Justin Welsh

Lachlan Martin Google Ads Consultant Launches Service to Boost Sydney Businesses

Sydney digital marketer Lachlan Martin launched a client‑focused Google Ads service aimed at service‑based businesses across Sydney and NSW. The offering begins with a profitability assessment to ensure campaigns are viable before any spend. It emphasizes high‑intent keyword targeting, daily...

Social•Jan 10, 2026

Ask Customers Directly: The Simplest Insight Source

Easiest way to find what your customers want? Ask them... So many times companies over analyze this and ignore what's right in front of them. Send surveys, give a great CX and ask why someone purchased your service/product.

By Kody Nordquist

Social•Jan 9, 2026

Assume Layoff, Master AI, Become Indispensable

Here’s my brutal advice for 2026 but it’s given with love and to help: Assume You Get Laid Off This Year. Just assume it. Why? - Assume you aren’t AI fluent enough - Assume an AI agent replaces you -...

By Jason Lemkin