Strategic insights and expert guidance for leading brand CMOs.
Janani Venkataraman, Director of Research & Insights at BILL, makes the case for a multi-layered measurement framework that combines AI listening, brand tracking, and diagnostic research.
June 21, 2026
Caitlin Berzok, SVP of Digital at Therabody, is using AI, connected-product data, and behavioral insight to help the company navigate the rapidly changing path to purchase.
June 5, 2026
Attentive CSO Eric Miao says the current era of marketing technology has hit a ceiling, and the path forward depends on platforms that act on a marketer's behalf.
PrivacyHawk CMO Steve Blackford on training AI to challenge the brief upstream, where the strategic work actually happens before brand content ships.
Nagesh Koritala, Digital Product Manager at Kohler Co., explains why AI shopping agents need stronger product data before they need shinier interfaces.
May 27, 2026
Uttam Kumar, Engineering Manager at American Eagle Outfitters, says real-time inventory visibility is the operational fix brick and mortar has been waiting for.
May 25, 2026
Mind Over Media's CEO, Andy Anderson, argues that the brands winning in agentic commerce won't be the ones with the cleanest data, but the ones already learning from every customer conversation.
Retail Commentator Howard Lake breaks down why retail AI is recalibrating toward precision, security, and store-level models after a first wave driven more by hype than operational readiness.
Liz Villani, Founder of Be Yourself at Work, says marketing leaders pay a steep verification tax when AI scales without an authentic human signal feeding it.
May 6, 2026
Oliver Bradley, Chief Digital Officer at Neem, is helping brands optimize product visuals for AI-driven shopping environments.
May 4, 2026
Leslie Lorenz, Head of Retail GTM, Americas at Snowflake, is focusing on data foundations as the key to scaling AI.
April 28, 2026
Steven Galanis, Co-Founder and CEO of Cameo, is focused on reducing friction in creator monetization.
Alicia Littleton, Director of E-commerce at Gerber Childrenswear, explains how her lean team uses agentic AI to scale content and enforce guardrails more reliably than humans alone can.
April 18, 2026
Syed Haye, a Brand Consultant with past leadership roles across L’Oréal, Unilever, and Nestlé, says brands must demonstrate their humanity through raw, verifiable moments because AI-generated perfection has made consumer distrust the default.
April 1, 2026
Maggie Reznikoff, Chief Client Officer at Open Influence, shares how brands can use AI to move faster without losing the human touch.
OpenAI pivots its e-commerce strategy, replacing the unsuccessful Instant Checkout with dedicated retailer apps inside ChatGPT.
March 24, 2026
Home Depot introduces an expanded digital platform for professional contractors, using AI to automate project tasks like generating material lists.
Caique Silverio, AI Creative Director and Content Creator for Liberation Cocktails, explains how removing six-figure production hurdles allows creators to prioritize imagination over logistics.
A study of how the beauty industry's AI-powered personalization and loyalty flywheels are setting the new global standard for CMOs.
CMOs must treat customer reviews as strategic data assets to prevent AI summaries from flattening their brand narrative and losing control to algorithms.
To move beyond the cookie Era, CMOs must evolve their data infrastructure. AI is only as powerful as the dataset it feeds on.
Industry leaders are moving from AI experimentation to agentic execution, restructuring the C-suite and marketing budgets to gain a competitive edge.
Former Meta executive Dave Dugan will lead OpenAI's new advertising business, signaling a major push to monetize ChatGPT.
