As AI reshapes customer engagement and fraud grows more sophisticated, businesses need more than identity resolution. Identity confidence is emerging as the foundation for trusted personalisation, security, and long-term customer relationships.
WhatsApp usernames may improve privacy for users, but for marketers, they also mark the start of a handle-first, consent-led and platform-controlled messaging era.
The study reveals how brands are mentioned, cited, and represented across AI-powered discovery environments, and why marketers need integrated SEO, content, and brand strategies to compete.
The most successful brands use logic to enable magic: they use data, technology, and AI to understand context, anticipate needs, remove friction, and make better decisions. The goal is to create customer experiences that feel effortless, personal, and relevant, says Ilaria Buonpane, CMO at Wear That, Chalhoub Group.
As AI fatigue grows, marketers need less tool accumulation and more role clarity. The smartest AI stack is the one where every tool has a clear job across planning, performance analysis, and campaign execution.
As healthcare digital advertising nears the $30 billion threshold, Ben Miles and Jason Powers explore how privacy-safe attribution is transforming local trust from an awareness metric into a measurable business outcome.
Zeotap’s Emma Currie and Shravan Maheshwaran explain why enterprise customer data challenges are rarely about volume and often about usability, identity resolution and the ability to activate data at speed.
While translation enables global reach, brands are finding that true marketing impact depends on localisation, cultural relevance, and scalable content operations that preserve brand consistency across markets.
Personalisation used to be a campaign humans planned and a system delivered. Now it is a continuous decision an agent makes — every millisecond, across every channel, against the full depth of the profile, not the five attributes that fit in an email tool, says Rafael Flores, Chief Product Officer at Treasure AI.
New data shows 70% of influencer campaigns remain focused on awareness, as TikTok closes in on Instagram and XiaoHongShu strengthens its role in consumer discovery.
