James Smith March 13, 2026 — Menlo Park, California Meta integrated Meta’s Manus AI Tool: Revolutionizing Digital Marketing Automation into its Ads Manager in February 2026, following a reported $2 billion acquisition of startup Butterfly Effect, to automate digital marketing workflows using natural language queries powered by large language models. The tool, accessible via the Tools menu … Read more
March 13, 2026 — Tokyo, Japan — LINE Plus, developer of the popular LINE messaging app, launched ActEngine AI, a B2B platform deploying AI agents for customer service and sales within messaging apps. LINE’s AI agents point to messaging apps becoming sales channels, enabling businesses to handle inquiries, complaints and targeted promotions via chat, particularly … Read more
March 13, 2026 — Menlo Park, Calif. Meta has rolled out its Manus AI agent in Ads Manager, providing advertisers with automated tools for competitor analysis, campaign reporting, and audience research, marking a step toward fully autonomous ad buying by late 2026. The integration, which began in February 2026 via prompts in the Tools menu, … Read more
March 13, 2026 — San Francisco Webflow announced its acquisition of Webflow acquires AI content-generation platform Vidoso to bolster its marketing suite1, bringing Vidoso’s AI technology for generating brand-aligned marketing assets into its platform. The deal, revealed on March 12 by TechCrunch, positions Webflow as an agentic web marketing platform. Vidoso’s four-person team will join … Read more
March 13, 2026 — San Francisco — LiveRamp (NYSE: RAMP) launched agentic AI upgrades to its platform on March 3, enabling specialized AI agents to automate audience building, campaign planning, measurement, and optimization through data collaboration, as detailed in the company’s press release. The enhancements position LiveRamp’s Agentic AI Positioned as Essential Tool for Digital … Read more
March 13, 2026 — Tokyo LINE Plus, the developer arm of LINE under LY Corporation, unveiled ActEngine AI on March 10, a B2B platform deploying AI agents for customer service and sales automation within messaging apps. The platform is already live at LINE MAN Wongnai, Thailand’s leading food delivery and services app serving over 700,000 … Read more
March 13, 2026 — OpenAI launched a pilot advertising program in ChatGPT at approximately $60 per 1,000 impressions (CPM) through partner Criteo, enabling 17,000 advertisers access in the Free and Go tiers in the US, as Google AI Mode reached more than 75 million daily active users globally. The ChatGPT advertising goes live at $60 … Read more
March 10, 2026 — Foxwell Digital announced the release of the Foxwell Founders Releases 2026 State of Digital Marketing Agencies Report, a comprehensive survey-based analysis produced in partnership with Motion and drawn from hundreds of agency founders and executives in the Foxwell Founders community spanning more than 30 countries. The report benchmarks challenges in the … Read more
March 2, 2026 — OpenAI partnered with Criteo to launch its ChatGPT advertising pilot for programmatic ad placements, granting approximately 17,000 advertisers access to the Free and Go tiers in the United States. The collaboration, announced by Criteo, enables commerce-focused ads in conversational AI interfaces as part of OpenAI’s ongoing ad testing that began on … Read more
March 13, 2026 — New York Sprinklr (NYSE: CXM), the AI-native platform for unified customer experience management, announced it has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Voice of the Customer Platforms. The recognition, from a Gartner report dated March 9, 2026, highlights Sprinklr’s completeness of vision and ability to execute … Read more