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Raising $150M to build the AI platform for marketers

Hightouch raised $150M at a $2.75B valuation, led by Goldman Sachs and Bain Capital Ventures.

Introducing Hightouch Ad Studio: Create scroll-stopping ads on demand with AI agents

Ad platforms reward creative volume and variety. Performance marketers can now deliver it without sacrificing brand quality with Hightouch Ad Studio.

What is a brand context layer? How enterprises make brand knowledge usable by AI

A brand context layer is the operational, queryable form of your brand knowledge. Here's what belongs in one, what breaks without it, and what makes it work.

The composable advantage for financial services, part one: What to know about modern CDPs

Learn why a composable CDP is purpose-built for financial services data complexity

Introducing Hightouch’s zero-fee solution for offsite media monetization

Onboard audiences directly to DSP marketplaces and recover revenue lost to “double-dip” revshare fees.

Signal engineering: the new frontier of ad performance

Signal engineering isn't another buzzword for performance marketers. It's a fundamental shift in advertising. Here's a practical understanding of why it matters, and how marketers can get started.

How enterprise marketing teams use AI agents in 2026

Most enterprise organizations already have some form of AI marketing in place, but many still lack an operating model for how agents fit within a real marketing team.

How to get faster campaign execution in enterprise marketing

How to solve for enterprise marketing teams that spend more time fixing issues than creating new programs and campaigns.

Generative AI in sales and marketing: from content creation to revenue execution

Learn why the gap between teams that generate generic sales and marketing content with AI and those that drive pipeline lies in the context foundation and orchestration layer.

How to evaluate AI agents for marketing campaign automation

Can your existing stack truly support AI agents for marketing campaign automation at enterprise scale?

The complete guide to AI tools for data analysis in marketing

Learn how agentic analytics tools turn insights into action and close the analysis-to-action gap.

Introducing Content Assembly: Remix your existing creative for endless new campaigns

Open up your content bottlenecks with agents that assemble marketing assets from your existing creative

Marketing Suite Relief

Practical options for alleviating Marketing Suite Fatigue

What is an agentic marketing platform? Definition, principles, and how to evaluate one

An agentic marketing platform lets marketers hand whole campaign workflows to AI agents. Here's the definition, and how to tell a platform from a feature.

AI in marketing use cases: 5 customer stories with quantified results

AI marketing use cases explained through customer stories and examples.

AI-powered marketing automation: why rules-based workflows hit a ceiling

Discover how AI in marketing automation shifts marketing execution from rule-based workflows to goal-driven outcomes.

Every marketer should be a manager (of agents)

Introducing the Agentic Marketing Platform

AI tools for email creation: a decisioning buyer’s guide for 2026

Compare the best AI tools for email creation, moving past basic AI email generators to scale 1:1 email content.

What are the best AI tools for ad creation? 7 options compared by use case

Learn how to choose tools that create high-performing AI ads with customer data and brand context.

Marketing Suite Fatigue

Is the “safe choice” of using a marketing suite starting to sour? My recent conversations with enterprise teams suggest the answer is yes, and this post explores why.

Learn from our favorite 2025 campaigns like “Spotify Wrapped”

Get inspired by brands that shared usage with their customers this year to deepen loyalty and engagement.

Making your ML models more valuable with AI Decisioning

Amplify your ML investments with AI Decisioning

How smart retailers protect holiday profit: Maximizing retail media margins

Retail Media Networks are a valuable new profit center, but inefficient processes and traditional onboarding platforms introduce costly delays and fees. Discover how a composable, warehouse-native CDP model simplifies the workflow and unlocks a faster, higher-margin retail media operation.

How smart retailers protect holiday profit: Reducing waste in paid media

See how retailers decrease wasted impressions, expand audience reach, and boost ROAS by resolving fragmented customer identity and activating cleaner data signals with a Composable CDP approach.

How smart retailers protect holiday profit: Plugging costly LTV leaks

Learn how retailers plug lifetime value leaks caused by slow data, fragmented identity, and disconnected channels, and how a Composable CDP turns customer signals into high-impact loyalty, cross-sell, and winback campaigns.

Data Warehouses 101 for Marketers

Too many tools can hide the real issue holding marketing back. Discover how a data warehouse creates a true single source of truth.

Introducing Hightouch's integration with Google Ads Data Manager API

Sync audiences and conversions to a single destination and use them across Google Ads, Display & Video 360, Google Analytics 4, and more.

Lessons from +10 billion marketing decisions made by AI

What two years of real AI deployments taught us about modern marketing, enterprise scale, and building the future of marketing workflows.

Are traditional CDPs marketing's most disappointing tool?

Learn about the limits that keep CDPs from delivering on their promise of a real customer 360, and how a composable approach changes what’s possible.

Understand why your messages perform — and what to do next

Introducing Content Analysis & Suggestions for AI Decisioning

Hightouch Agents: An AI platform purpose-built for marketing teams

Move 10x faster across the entire marketing workflow with Hightouch Agents.

How we Uncovered a Race Condition in Aurora RDS

The same week us-east-1 went down due to a race condition bug in their DNS management system, we found another race condition bug in AWS Aurora. Here’s how we proved it 😎 .

The data warehouse powers the best AI

Today’s launch of Snowflake CoWork exemplifies the potential of AI that’s powered by your complete data.

Introducing ID Express: One-click UID2 activation to The Trade Desk

Sync audiences and conversion data to The Trade Desk in a faster, easier, and privacy-conscious way.

Introducing Hightouch’s Batch integration

Create, test, and automate your CRM strategy with Hightouch and Batch

The complete Conversion API schema resource: Better attribution and optimization, across each ad platform

As pixels break and privacy tightens, Conversion APIs offer a more effective way to send event data server-to-server. But every platform is different. Our guide breaks down what each one requires.

Your ESP is not the problem.

Replatforming won't fix your marketing. Rethinking your methodology will. AI Decisioning is the missing piece.

What is a winback campaign? Fix the timing, targeting, and discount trap

Winback campaigns are deceptively simple. And easy to get wrong. This breakdown examines common pitfalls related to timing, targeting, and over-discounting.

What if the best marketing decision is no message at all?

Introducing Smart Suppression for AI Decisioning: Predict which messages will drive results, and send only those that matter