Today's B2B Growth Pulse
Epicor launches Partner Community to fuel B2B ERP growth
Epicor unveiled its Partner Community as a strategic, long‑term growth engine rather than a simple reseller network. The program spotlights partners that have grown from startups into multi‑million‑dollar enterprises and positions them as essential for selling, implementing, extending, and supporting Epicor's ERP solutions worldwide.
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By the numbers: Badger Meter to acquire UK‑Based UDLive for $100M
StackAdapt Launches In-Platform NPI Targeting and Measurement to Power Deterministic, Multi-Channel HCP Advertising
StackAdapt introduced an in‑platform National Provider Identifier (NPI) targeting and measurement suite aimed at pharmaceutical marketers. The self‑serve tool lets advertisers upload NPI lists, create granular HCP segments, and run campaigns across CTV, display, native, audio and video. It provides real‑time, HIPAA‑compliant impression‑level reporting, removing the need for third‑party list management. The launch arrives as U.S. digital health ad spend is expected to exceed $20 billion by 2026, intensifying demand for precise, compliant HCP outreach.
Roku and iSpot Bring Outcome-Based Optimization to Streaming
Roku becomes the first major streaming publisher to embed iSpot’s Outcomes at Scale product for outcome‑based campaign optimization. The integration lets advertisers track ROI, adjust creative tactics, and drive concrete business results such as web conversions directly on the Roku...
Snowflake Enables Enterprise-Ready AI by Bringing Google’s Gemini 3 to Snowflake Cortex AI
Snowflake announced an expanded partnership with Google Cloud that embeds Google’s Gemini 3 large‑language model directly into Snowflake Cortex AI. The integration lets enterprises run generative‑AI workloads on governed data without moving it, while joint go‑to‑market efforts add co‑selling and Marketplace...
Zenity Now Available on AWS Marketplace, Bringing End-to-End Security to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Enterprise AI Agents Everywhere
Zenity announced its availability on AWS Marketplace, streamlining the purchase and deployment of its AI‑agent security platform. The solution extends full‑lifecycle protection to agents built on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and to broader AI estates across cloud, SaaS, and endpoints. By...
ZeroGPT: The Fastest Way to Verify Human-Written Content
ZeroGPT is an AI‑content detection and writing‑support platform that identifies text generated by modern language models while offering tools to refine, summarize, and validate content. It uses a multi‑stage deep‑learning engine to assign confidence scores and highlight suspect passages, supporting...
TNL Mediagene Introduces NLWeb Support to Strengthen Its Digital Media as AI-Native Content Infrastructure for the AI-Driven Web
TNL Mediagene announced the integration of Microsoft’s Natural Language Web (NLWeb) framework into its digital media assets, allowing content to be accessed via plain‑language queries. The move transforms static webpages into machine‑readable, conversational interfaces that AI agents and large language...
MediaRadar Launches Data Cloud: Powering AI-Ready Marketing Intelligence, Everywhere
MediaRadar unveiled its Data Cloud, a cloud‑native platform that delivers AI‑ready marketing intelligence directly into clients' data warehouses, analytics tools, and generative AI models. The offering aggregates $280 billion in media spend, over 35 million creative assets, and data from more than...
GigaStar Appoints Ex-Songfinch Founder & Media Entrepreneur Scott Kitun as Chief Business Officer
GigaStar, a platform that connects YouTube creators with investors, announced the appointment of serial entrepreneur Scott Kitun as Chief Business Officer. Kitun will steer the company’s primary market expansion and prepare for the secondary market launch slated for March 16, 2026. He previously...
Clear Positioning Beats Better Products Every Time
You can have the best product in the world, but if your positioning sucks, no one will care. "Better" doesn’t win. "Clearer" does. Category leaders are the best at explaining why they matter.
Navigating the Investment: A Strategic Guide to the Cost of IoT Development
The article breaks down the components that drive IoT development costs and frames them as strategic investments rather than mere expenses. It explains how project scope, hardware‑software integration, security, compliance and scalability each add distinct budget lines. It showcases Cogniteq’s...
YouTube Is the #1 Product Research Hub—Don’t Ignore It
YouTube isn't the sexiest social network, but it is the number 1 destination for product research. Ignoring YouTube will hurt your sales. https://t.co/79yGTpuVuF
Survey by Vibes Finds 65% of Consumers Made a Purchase From a Brand’s Text Message in 2025
Vibes’ 2026 Mobile Consumer Insights survey shows 78% of shoppers have purchased directly from a brand’s SMS or MMS message, with 65% doing so in the past year. Preference for Rich Communication Services (RCS) is strong, as 81% of respondents...
Bluefish Releases 2025 Holiday AI Commerce Report: How Generative AI Rewrote the Holiday Marketing Playbook
Bluefish AI’s 2025 Holiday AI Commerce Report reveals that generative AI now dominates holiday shopping, with paid media accounting for virtually none of the AI‑generated product recommendations. Brands that invested in high‑quality, well‑structured owned and earned content captured the bulk...
MarTech Interview with Michael McNeal, VP of Product at SALESmanago
Michael McNeal, VP of Product at SALESmanago, outlines how AI is reshaping the martech landscape for SaaS marketers. He stresses the shift from fragmented tools to integrated, data‑driven platforms where AI is embedded rather than bolted on. McNeal shares practical...
ITTRackNap Announces US Launch of Its Marketplace and Subscription Commerce Platform, Enabling MSPs, Telecommunications and Distributors to Monetize Cloud Products...
RackNap, an AI‑powered marketplace and subscription automation platform, announced its launch in the United States, extending its presence from APAC and EMEA into the Americas. The solution consolidates ordering, provisioning, billing, and analytics for managed service providers, telecoms, and technology...
Xumo Introduces Advanced Identity Solution to Power Smarter Streaming Investments
Xumo, the Comcast‑Charter streaming joint venture, launched an advanced identity solution that blends its proprietary viewership data with third‑party data from TransUnion, The Trade Desk and LiveRamp. The platform leverages Unified ID 2.0 and RampID to enable privacy‑first audience targeting...
Advanced Digital Automotive Group Announces Adoption of Advanced AI Software for SEO and AEO
Advanced Digital Automotive Group (ADAG) announced it is integrating a new artificial intelligence platform to power its SEO and answer engine optimization (AEO) services for auto‑repair shop clients across the United States. The AI tool automates content creation, refines keyword...
Ownable Ideas Convert Followers Into Paying Clients
Viral hooks and post templates get you followers… Ownable Ideas get you paying clients Choose which one you want
Shift Followers From Open to Owned Platforms for True Ownership
Grow your audience on open platforms. • Twitter • LinkedIn • TikTok Then, get as many people as possible onto your owned platforms. • Email • RSS feeds • Phone numbers Owning your relationship and having an outreach is how you build foundation.
Underwriter: Turn Simple AI Prompts Into Professional Websites
Underwriter is an AI‑powered website and application builder that creates fully structured, editable sites from natural‑language prompts. Users describe a landing page, e‑commerce store, or full business site and the platform instantly generates pages, navigation, and content. Features include real‑time...
Disruption Thrives at Market Fringes, Not the Status Quo
There's a famous quote from the economist John Maynard Keynes, that "the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent." He was speaking about investing but it has just as much application to marketing, because many a better...
AI Erodes Speed Advantage, Judgment Now Matters Most
AI removed the natural friction that used to separate thinking from output. Writing, design, analysis, code, and planning now move fast enough that effort is no longer a credible signal. When anyone can produce something quickly, speed stops being impressive. What...
Gpt Ai Corporation, Inc. Declares “Websites Are a Thing of the Past” With Launch of Edgpt.ai Platform for Educational Institutions
GPT AI Corporation launched EdGPT.ai, a conversational AI platform for educational institutions, proclaiming that traditional websites are obsolete. The solution tackles the 94.8% accessibility failure rate highlighted in the 2025 WebAIM Million study by delivering instant, 24/7 information through natural‑language...
AI Denialism Ignored: Technology Advances Faster Than Skepticism
A Response to The Rise of AI Denialism Over the holiday, I caught Louis Rosenberg’s “ The Rise of AI Denialism” article in @BigThink(big hat tip to my friend Ian Truscott for sending it to me) and I was struck...
Stop AI-Generated Sales Pitches; Embrace Real Insight
AI message personalization is A CANCER on sales and here’s what to do INSTEAD… Think about what just happened in this message… =============== “{{generic summarized fact about me that sounds like a robot wrote it}}” “Here’s what everyone does” “Here’s...
DIRECTV FOR BUSINESS Launches Streaming TV Solution For Small Businesses
DIRECTV FOR BUSINESS announced a nationwide launch of a streaming TV solution aimed at small businesses, offering a self‑install option that runs on existing high‑speed broadband. The service includes access to more than 140 free ad‑supported FAST channels from major...
Top Operators Guard Conviction Like Capital Preserves Cash
The best operators conserve conviction the way capital allocators conserve cash.
When a Product Becomes Daily Habit, Users Market It
Products move through people before they move anywhere else. They spread in passing comments, side conversations, and offhand recommendations that were never planned. That only happens when a product alters daily behavior enough that omission feels strange. The improvement becomes...
Mindgruve Appoints Spencer Lian-Thornton as VP of Growth and Partnerships
Mindgruve Holdings announced Spencer Lian‑Thornton as Vice President of Growth and Partnerships, effective Jan. 2 2026. Lian‑Thornton arrives after a 12‑year tenure at Amazon where he led retail media strategies for brands such as Wrangler, Hanes and New Balance. In his new...
Getsitecontrol Launches Redesigned Widget Builder 2026: Implementing Agile Editing for Popups and Forms
Getsitecontrol has unveiled a redesigned, no‑code widget builder that gives ecommerce marketers full visual control over popups, forms and teasers. The new editor features a sidebar component tree, drag‑and‑drop reordering, undo/redo, and a built‑in CSS editor for pixel‑level styling. Built...
Wondershare Accelerates Its AI Innovation Layout, With Its Edrawmax Topping the G2 Rankings
Wondershare’s EdrawMax has been named the No. 1 “Easiest to Use Diagramming Software” in G2’s latest user‑driven rankings. The V15 release introduces a AI‑powered “Draw Agent” that creates and edits diagrams via natural language, while integrating Google’s Nano Banana Pro for...
The Case for and Against CTV in 2026 B2B Marketing Budgets
Connected TV (CTV) is gaining traction among B2B marketers planning 2026 budgets, offering a premium storytelling medium that can hedge against rising CPCs and CPAs on saturated platforms. The article highlights static CPM rates, low B2B competition, privacy‑safe targeting, and...
PubMatic Launches AgenticOS, the Operating System for Agent-to-Agent Advertising
PubMatic unveiled AgenticOS, an operating system that enables autonomous, agent‑to‑agent advertising across premium digital inventory. Built on NVIDIA‑accelerated infrastructure, the platform coordinates AI agents to plan, transact, and optimize campaigns in real time. Early deployments with WPP Media, Butler/Till and...
TiVo OS Expands Entertainment Horizons with New Features, Content Partnerships, and Growing Device Footprint at CES 2026
TiVo OS announced a suite of upgrades at CES 2026, adding a Partner Picks carousel, autoplay hero video trailers, live‑program recommendations and enhanced multilingual voice search. The platform broadened its hardware reach, now supporting 2K‑4K smart TVs, set‑top boxes, soundbars...
Catch up on the November 2025 HubSpot Updates
HubSpot’s November 2025 release packs 15 quality‑of‑life upgrades that streamline reporting, segmentation, and AI integration. New branded email templates pull in your brand kit automatically, while the Leads object now works with the Segments tool for dynamic lead lists. Admins...
Focus Pocus Media Introduces a Paid Media Framework as B2B Companies Increase Digital Advertising Outsourcing
Focus Pocus Media, a B2B‑focused PPC agency, unveiled a structured paid‑media framework aimed at accelerating growth for companies that outsource digital advertising. The model promises faster execution, measurable pipeline and ROAS outcomes, and eliminates the need to expand in‑house teams....
8.5‑Hour Live Tuna Battle Captivates 2,500 Viewers
My commercial fishing company did something online that has never been done before a few days ago, and the story is a wild one. Here's what went down: During commercial bluefin tuna season (which happens to be right now) we...
From CTV Awards To CES: Brand Metrics Brings Next-Gen CTV Measurement To Las Vegas
Brand Metrics unveiled an SDK‑free interactive measurement suite for connected‑TV at CES, showcasing pause‑ad capabilities and real‑time surveys without requiring in‑app SDKs. The technology is already live with Tier 1 publishers and follows the company’s recent Best CTV Ad Tech Innovation...
How Brands Can Get Noticed in ChatGPT and Google’s AI Overviews
Brands seeking visibility in AI-generated answers such as ChatGPT and Google’s AI Overviews must adopt a multi‑layered approach. The article outlines tactics ranging from high‑quality, E‑A‑T‑focused content and structured data to citation‑based optimization and technical performance. It emphasizes conversational keyword...
Stop Blaming, Build a Consistent Revenue Engine
If you missed your 2025 targets, please don't: – Blame your team – Hire a bunch of new people or a new agency “to fix it” – Add tools you don’t fully use – Chase new tactics after watching one...
Start Now, Learn By Doing, Not Over‑Planning
Everyone wants the perfect plan. Truthfully, the plan is almost never the problem. I've seen people with terrible strategies build great businesses. And people with brilliant ideas go absolutely nowhere. The difference is always the same. One person started before...
Influencer Marketing Strategies: A Practical Framework for Sustainable Growth in 2026
Influencer marketing has shifted from a niche experiment to a core growth engine for brands in 2026, driven by consumer skepticism toward traditional ads. The article outlines a practical framework that ties business objectives to audience insight, creator authenticity, and...
Seamless ElevenLabs Integration Into Founderscape and Replit in Minutes
Just integrated @elevenlabsio into Founderscape (and @Replit) in about 5 minutes And it just ... works This is how you do it. Well done https://t.co/Z0lVQTk4Or
Brand Benefits Every Business, Not Just Big Companies
RT @VisionEdgeMktg 🧠 Brand isn’t a “big company luxury.” It’s how you differentiate, protect price, and earn repeat business—at any size. https://t.co/aTTqOFh1pD #BrandStrategy #Positioning #B2BMarketing
Productive Meetings Require Pre‑existing Context, Not Just Discussion
Meetings feel productive when they recreate context. They move the business forward only when that context already exists.
Curated PPC Prompt Library Boosts Workflow Efficiency
A curated library of PPC prompts built to accelerate every stage of your workflow and for you to adapt to your needs https://t.co/fkP7d1RiJP via @theshelleywalsh, @sejournal
Shift to Strategy: Marketers Add Value Beyond AI
Insightful thread about what a performance marketer can do all day to add greater value if #AI takes over execution.
Skip Slides, Start Talking: Better Decisions Through Discussion
There’s a reason some leaders remove PowerPoint entirely. Slides tend to structure the conversation before the thinking is done. When the goal is better decisions, it’s often more effective to start with discussion, not decks. 👉 Fewer slides. More clarity. https://t.co/gNSPRvwjqj
Seal Leaks Before Scaling: Fix Offers, Flows, Products
Most marketers need to fix the 3 things killing their performance: • Offers that don’t excite • Flows that don’t convert • Products that don’t deliver You don’t scale a leaky ship. You slow down, seal it up, then go faster than ever.
Visual Search Drives Higher Purchase Intent Than Text Queries
People want to talk about search on ChatGPT or other AI platforms, but no one really talks about visual search. Just look at Google Len's explosion over the years. The thing about Google Lens compared to traditional searches is that there is...