You.com pivoted from a consumer search engine to an AI‑search infrastructure provider and overhauled its go‑to‑market strategy under CMO Kady Srinivasan. By segmenting prospects into AI natives and AI laggards and adopting a multithreaded marketing model, the company increased marketing‑qualified leads tenfold and lifted average contract value by 86%. The model relies on generalist marketers, prompt‑marketing specialists, and parallel flywheel workflows that feed content, founder activity, and sales. AI‑driven automation tools underpin the approach, though the stack now spans 22 separate solutions.

Limelight Inc. has unveiled the Adaptive Rules Centre (ARC), a rules‑based toolkit that automates inventory curation on its white‑label programmatic platform. Early adopters reported revenue lifts exceeding 300% and fill‑rate gains of more than 900% when ARC is active. The...

Highwire announced the acquisition of The Bliss Group, creating a combined strategic marketing and communications agency. The new entity brings together more than 250 professionals across North America and an AI-forward technology stack to deliver integrated, insight-driven campaigns. Bliss CEO...

Meltwater and We. Communications released their inaugural State of PR Report, surveying over 1,100 communications professionals worldwide. The study finds that more than 90% of PR teams have incorporated generative AI into daily tasks such as drafting releases, content optimization,...

Aon announced a $1 billion expansion of its Data Center Lifecycle Insurance Program, raising total capacity to $2.5 billion. The program, launched in 2025, bundles construction, cyber, cargo and operational risks into a single multi‑line solution for data‑center projects from build‑out to...

Salesforce has intensified its assault on the Life Sciences market, claiming more than 100 customers have migrated from Veeva to its new Life Sciences Cloud. The company touts a $4.7 billion ARR opportunity and highlights its AI‑driven, agentic platform as a...

CyrusOne announced Robert Johnson as its new Chief Business Officer, tasked with overseeing performance, operations, revenue management, and asset utilization of its U.S. data center portfolio. Johnson brings over two decades of experience from Ericsson, Siemens, HPE, and CSC, where...

Amplitude announced the acquisition of InfiniGrow, an AI‑powered marketing analytics startup, to embed revenue‑focused analytics into its product suite. The deal expands Amplitude’s AI vision by making session‑based analytics a core feature and delivering forecasting, what‑if analysis, and budget‑allocation tools....

LinkedIn remains a primary channel for B2B prospecting, yet rising buyer expectations have exposed the limits of blunt, high‑volume automation. Sales organizations now demand outreach that arrives at the right moment, references recent buyer activity, and feels conversational rather than...

Golpo AI, the Stanford‑originated, Y Combinator‑backed video platform, launched a major product update that overhauls its user interface and adds three new capabilities. The redesigned UI promises faster, more intuitive navigation from content upload to export, reducing the learning curve for...

Evertune launched Shopping Intelligence, a feature that tracks how AI models like ChatGPT surface product recommendations and turns that data into actionable brand insights. It provides metrics such as Shopping Visibility, Shopping Trigger Rate, pricing comparisons, and retailer performance, showing...

Voxel, a computer‑vision AI firm, announced that CEO Vernon O’Donnell will speak at the invite‑only EHS Management Institute event in New Orleans, Jan 25‑27 2026. His session, “From Pilot to Practice: Securing Buy‑In with AI‑Driven Safety,” will focus on rapid implementation, domain...

Pepco Group reported a 4.3 % increase in Q1 revenue, reaching €1.4 billion on a constant‑currency basis. The Pepco brand drove a 4.2 % revenue rise, while Dealz sales fell 7.7 % after operational disruptions linked to its re‑platforming. The retailer opened 51 net...

Finseta posted £12.4 million revenue for 2025, a 9% rise that marks a sharp slowdown from the 26% growth recorded in 2024. Corporate client revenue surged 54% and now represents 57% of total sales, while high‑net‑worth individual activity fell amid tariff‑related...

Skene, a Helsinki‑based product growth automation platform, closed an €800,000 pre‑seed round led by Superhero Capital with participation from NVIDIA executives. The startup’s AI agent reads a SaaS product’s source code to generate real‑time, personalized user guidance embedded in everyday...

Google India has launched the Market Access Programme to help domestic AI startups scale for enterprise adoption, leveraging Google’s distribution network and access to international markets. Participants receive priority use of Google’s Gemini and Gemma model families, as well as...

Harvey, the US legal‑tech unicorn backed by Andreessen Horowitz, EQT and Evantic, is accelerating its European push with new offices in Paris, Spain and Germany and a growing London team. The company now reports $190 m in annual recurring revenue and...

The episode highlights how social suites have become essential in martech, evolving from basic management tools to unified platforms that combine content planning, listening, creator marketing, and customer response. Four key takeaways are discussed: AI is moving from assistive to...

The SaaSRise Mastermind on Jan 14, 2026 delivered a rapid‑fire playbook for SaaS CEOs covering digital marketing, geographic expansion, new product validation, go‑to‑market tactics, trial‑to‑paid ownership, AI‑driven UI/UX, and display‑ad performance. Attendees were urged to allocate 90% of ad spend to Meta,...

Ant International processed more than 2 billion cross‑border transactions in 2025, primarily serving SMBs in fast‑growing regions such as Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East and Latin America via its Alipay+ and Antom platforms. The episode highlights how the unified...

Harvest, a European WealthTech software provider, announced the acquisition of Italy’s Firstance, adding a life‑insurance distribution platform to its portfolio. The deal follows Harvest’s March 2025 purchase of Fincite, which opened the German market, and now extends the group’s coverage...

TietoEVRY announced the acquisition of Spain‑based OpenSpring and GrupoOnetec for an enterprise value of €8 million. The two firms, together employing about 200 staff and generating roughly €10 million in revenue, specialize in technology consulting and anti‑money‑laundering services for financial institutions. The...

VideoProc launched an AI‑driven enhancement suite that preprocesses and post‑processes video, audio, and images for creators using traditional NLEs such as Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve. The workflow isolates heavy AI tasks from the editing timeline, offering automated denoising, deblurring,...

MediaMint, an Agentic Growth Services firm, has entered a global partnership with Spotify to deliver end‑to‑end advertiser acquisition, onboarding, and performance support across audio, video and display. The collaboration spans Spotify’s major markets—North America, EMEA, LATAM and JAPAC—and will be...

Keytomic unveiled an AI‑powered all‑in‑one SEO platform that simultaneously optimizes for Google and leading large language models such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity. The solution bundles technical audits, AI‑driven content creation, and a unique visibility tracker into a workflow that...

RingCentral has been named a Leader in IDC’s MarketScape for AI‑Enabled Contact Center Workforce Engagement Management 2025‑2026. The accolade highlights the company’s RingWEM module, which embeds AI‑driven forecasting, scheduling, quality management and analytics directly within its RingCX platform. By unifying...

Ketch has released Opt‑Out Sync, extending its Identity Sync platform to automate “Do Not Sell or Share” enforcement across web, mobile, backend and ad‑tech systems. The solution consolidates consent banner clicks, DSR webform submissions and backend updates into a single...

OpenX announced two senior additions to its Publisher Development team: Akhil Savani, formerly of The Trade Desk, joins as Vice President of Publisher Development, and longtime OpenX leader Rebecca Bonell is promoted to Regional Vice President for the Americas. The...

Vonage, an Ericsson subsidiary, launched Vonage Conversations for Agentforce Marketing, embedding SMS, WhatsApp and Rich Communication Services (RCS) directly into the Salesforce Marketing Cloud platform. The solution leverages Vonage Communications APIs and agentic AI to enable two‑way, hyper‑personalized messaging across...

Diligent, a leading AI‑focused GRC SaaS provider, announced the acquisition of 3rdRisk, a Netherlands‑based AI‑native third‑party risk management platform. The deal expands Diligent’s suite to include automated vendor profiling, assessment workflows, and contract analysis, delivering near real‑time visibility into extended...
Tinuiti’s 2026 outlook flags financial‑media networks as the next B2B marketing disruption, leveraging first‑party transaction data instead of vague intent signals. These networks, built on banks and payment platforms, let marketers construct audiences based on real spend categories, business card...

FiscalNote announced the completion of migrating all customers from its legacy platform to the new PolicyNote solution, a unified AI‑driven policy intelligence suite. The transition was executed with minimal churn and has already sparked stronger user engagement. Impact Summaries now...

Netradyne introduced Video LiveSearch, the fleet industry’s first on‑device, real‑time video search powered by natural‑language prompts and edge AI. The solution indexes virtually 100% of road‑facing footage directly on each vehicle, allowing managers to retrieve before‑during‑after clips across the entire...

Orion Innovation announced a major expansion of its Kochi operations, unveiling a larger, state‑of‑the‑art facility and the new OI Envision Studio. The studio serves as a collaborative hub where clients, engineers, designers, and domain experts co‑create AI‑driven solutions. Orion emphasizes...

Thomson Reuters Labs has launched the Trust in AI Alliance, uniting Anthropic, AWS, Google Cloud and OpenAI to define shared principles for trustworthy, agentic AI. The alliance will focus on engineering trust into AI architectures used in high‑stakes professional environments...

Digital Silk’s new analysis maps seven primary sources organizations use to generate content ideas directly from customers. The study highlights questions, reviews, surveys, internal team insights, social interactions, community forums, and usage data as key inputs for content planning. By...
BRGM, a Hover Group company, announced veteran marketing strategist Kensel Tracy as its new Operating Partner. Tracy brings over three decades of experience across private brands, tourism, government and non‑profits, and will lead strategic marketing, sponsorship and partnership development. He...
SymphonyAI unveiled the next‑generation CINDE Merchandising Agents, a suite of role‑based, agentic AI tools that embed real‑time decision‑making into weekly sales, promotions, new‑item launches, and reset workflows. Powered by Microsoft Foundry on Azure, the agents—Merchant Planner, Promo Coach, Launch Analyst,...
SEO veteran Scott Keever, founder of Reputation Pros and Forbes Agency Council member, has published "Future‑Proof Your SEO: Staying Ahead in a Dynamic Digital World." The guide warns that AI‑driven search tools such as Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT and Perplexity...
National Tiles, a leading Australian tile and timber retailer, has implemented a unified data architecture using Domo and Snowflake. The new platform consolidates disparate systems into a secure, governed data foundation, delivering real‑time insights to over 500 employees. It has...
wsup.ai has launched a next‑generation AI character platform that merges conversational AI, storytelling, and creator‑driven publishing into a single ecosystem. The service lets users chat with persistent AI personas, generate images with free daily credits, and build comics or visual...
Nutshell has launched an AI Agent Marketplace that embeds purpose‑built agents directly into its CRM and marketing automation platform. The agents handle tasks such as call transcription, email drafting, pipeline design, research enrichment, and real‑time reporting, promising to shave minutes...
Blackbaud announced its January 2026 Social Good Startup Program cohort, welcoming twelve AI‑driven startups that aim to modernize fundraising, grantmaking, ESG compliance, and donor engagement for nonprofits. The accelerator highlights Blackbaud’s commitment to diversity, with 61 percent of founders coming from traditionally...

Davines Group defied a declining U.S. salon‑product market, posting a 42% increase in professional hair‑care sales through salons from 2019 to 2024 and surpassing $350 million in revenue in 2025. While overall salon sales fell 3% in the first half of...

During the Jan 13 GrowthRise Mastermind, B2B marketing leaders tackled three core challenges facing early‑stage AI‑CRM startups. The group advised shifting initial demand generation to Meta and YouTube, using broader industry keywords instead of low‑volume AI terms on Google Search. They...

The piece argues that sales teams must move beyond the binary of “on or off” social media to a disciplined, value‑first approach. It contrasts high‑volume, automated outreach—characterized by generic DMs and template pitches—with meaningful social selling that listens, contributes insight,...

Retailers face costly network outages, with Gartner estimating $5,600 lost per minute, and 81% experiencing POS downtime annually. Traditional wired broadband can take weeks to install, delaying store openings and offering limited redundancy. Full‑service Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs) like...

DXC Technology has been confirmed as a RISE with SAP Validated Partner, joining a select group recognized for deep SAP expertise and proven cloud migration experience. The firm boasts the industry’s largest SAP Business AI consulting team—2,200 specialists across 37...

Avalon GloboCare Corp. announced it has regained compliance with Nasdaq’s minimum stockholders’ equity requirement, cancelling a pending hearing and keeping its shares listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market. The company highlighted its strengthened financial position and renewed focus on long‑term...

FirstComm unveiled AscendOne, a unified communications platform that combines voice, messaging, video meetings, contact‑center functions and AI‑driven productivity tools into a single cloud solution. The platform runs on Intermedia Intelligent Communications’ AI‑enhanced infrastructure, offering 99.999% uptime and 24/7 U.S. support....