James Smith

March 12, 2026 — Publicis Groupe announced its acquisition of AdgeAI to predict creative performance and sift quality content from AI-generated glut, an Israel-based AI-powered creative analytics platform designed to enhance predictive measurement of ad creatives amid surging AI-generated content. The deal integrates AdgeAI’s technology into Publicis Production, enabling real-time analysis of video, images, text, … Read more

March 14, 2026 — Meta has fully activated Meta Acquires Manus AI to Integrate AI Agents into Ads Manager for Automated Marketing Workflows[1][2] This March 2026 development enables AI to handle ad creative generation, content calendars, competitor analysis, audience research, campaign reports, and strategy optimizations directly in Meta’s tools—potentially transforming digital marketing globally by shifting … Read more

March 14, 2026 — Perth, Australia — Digital Hitmen, an Australian digital marketing agency, wins multiple industry awards for excellence on March 13, 2026.[1] This recent recognition highlights global excellence in digital marketing strategies, coming just a day ago from Australia and covered internationally.[1] The Perth-based agency specializes in SEO and data-driven marketing. The awards, … Read more

March 13, 2026 — Tokyo, Japan LINE Plus, a subsidiary of LINE Corporation, unveiled ActEngine AI, a B2B AI agent infrastructure platform designed to automate customer service and sales workflows within messaging apps. The launch, announced around March 10-12 depending on time zones, aims to drive enterprise revenue growth through action-oriented AI agents that go … Read more

March 14, 2026 — Tokyo, Japan — LINE Plus launched ActEngine AI, a B2B platform deploying AI agents for customer service and sales tasks within messaging apps, as detailed in LINE Corporation’s press release on March 10. The platform goes beyond simple chatbots by enabling action execution, first deployed at Thailand’s LINE MAN Wongnai platform. … Read more

March 13, 2026 — Tokyo, Japan — LINE Plus, the developer of the popular LINE messaging app, launched ActEngine AI, a B2B platform deploying AI agents for customer service and sales tasks directly within messaging apps. LINE’s AI agents are transforming messaging apps into direct sales channels (March 13, 2026), according to MarketingTech, which highlights … Read more

March 14, 2026 — A Graphite.io study titled “AI is Much Bigger Than You Think” has determined that AI Assistants Make Up 56% of Global Search Volume, equivalent to 45 billion monthly sessions worldwide and 34% in the U.S. The analysis by CEO Ethan Smith compared top AI assistants including ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok and … Read more

March 14, 2026 — A Graphite.io study reports that AI Assistants Make Up 56% of Global Search Volume, with top AI assistants generating 45 billion monthly sessions worldwide, equivalent to the volume from the top six traditional search engines. The analysis by Graphite.io CEO Ethan Smith, titled “AI Is Much Bigger Than You Think”, compares … Read more

March 9, 2026 — New York Horizon Media is piloting an AI solution to detect cultural shifts mid-campaign, developed by Sightly and Vurvey Labs, within its HorizonOS ecosystem. The tool integrates Vurvey’s real-time human sentiment analysis from social platforms with Sightly’s cultural and contextual data, enabling brands to adapt messaging swiftly to emerging news and … Read more

March 14, 2026 — San Francisco Webflow acquired AI-powered Vidoso to strengthen its marketing platform suite, an announcement made on March 12, 2026, to enhance its agentic web marketing capabilities with multi-modal AI for brand-aligned content generation. The acquisition includes Vidoso’s four-person team joining Webflow full-time, though financial terms were not disclosed. Acquisition Details Vidoso, … Read more