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What happens when a student stops just learning about marketing performance… And builds an AI agent to analyse it? Meet Anisha Jain from Mesa School of Business, who built an Automated Marketing Campaign Analyser as part of her learning journey with Mesa. Her AI-powered agent takes raw Excel campaign data, calculates key performance metrics like ROAS, CTR, and CPC, detects anomalies, generates optimisation recommendations, updates master sheets, and even sends instant email alerts to stakeholders. In simple terms, it reduces hours of manual marketing analysis into just a few minutes. But what stands out is not just the automation. It is the shift in thinking. From manual reporting to smarter decision-making. From reactive analysis to proactive campaign optimisation. From learning AI as a concept to building something directly relevant to her domain. This transition is exactly what Mesa School of Business is bringing about in their students. Real-life, practical learning experiences with an AI-first approach - something that is very much needed in today's world Proud to see students like Anisha applying AI with clarity, context, and purpose, and Mesa paving the way for creating such future leaders.

You’re probably using the wrong AI. And in 2026, that mistake is expensive. Most businesses grab Generative AI for everything. Then they wonder why results are underwhelming. The issue isn’t AI. It’s using the wrong layer of AI for the problem. In digital marketing, AI is no longer one tool. It’s a stack. Here’s the framework 👇 🧠 Machine Learning Purpose: Predict outcomes Use when you need: • Demand forecasting • Customer churn prediction • Lead scoring • Conversion probability 2026 Marketing Use: ML predicts who will convert before the campaign even launches. Without prediction, you’re guessing. 🔎 Neural Networks Purpose: Pattern recognition Use when you need: • Image recognition • Voice processing • Recommendation systems • Behavioral pattern detection Marketing example: Product recommendation engines that power e-commerce growth. Pattern recognition drives personalization at scale. ✍️ Generative AI Purpose: Creation + synthesis Use when you need: • Content generation • Ad copy • Campaign summaries • Code generation • Strategic analysis This is the layer most companies jump to first. Because it’s visible. But it’s not the foundation. 🤖 AI Agents Purpose: Execute workflows Agents don’t just generate. They do. • Pull CRM data • Update dashboards • Launch reports • Trigger workflows In marketing: AI agents can monitor campaigns and trigger actions automatically. Execution begins here. ⚙️ Agentic AI Purpose: Run operations This is the autonomy layer. AI: • Sets sub-goals • Allocates resources • Optimizes decisions • Runs systems continuously Think: AI reallocating ad spend across channels based on real-time performance. That’s autonomous marketing infrastructure. 🎯 The Mistake Most Companies Make They start at the top. Generative AI first. But AI capability should stack bottom → up. No ML foundation → weak predictions Weak predictions → blind automation Blind automation → expensive mistakes That’s how AI budgets get wasted. 🚀 The Companies Winning in 2026 They’re not chasing trends. They’re stacking capability: Prediction → Recognition → Creation → Execution → Autonomy Layer by layer. Problem by problem. Because AI success isn’t about tools. It’s about architecture. The 2026 Leadership Takeaway AI in digital marketing is no longer about: ❌ Writing content faster ❌ Testing random tools ❌ Adding chatbots everywhere It’s about: ✅ Designing layered AI systems ✅ Connecting data → prediction → execution ✅ Automating decisions safely ✅ Turning growth into infrastructure Use the right AI layer. For the right problem. At the right time. That’s the difference between AI experiments and AI advantage. 📌 Save this it’s your AI capability stack for 2026 🔁 Repost if you believe systems beat shortcuts ➕ Follow Sandeep Gulati🎯for AI × digital marketing × operating model frameworks built for what’s coming next 👉 Join Proptifi.com for more AI-powered home interior & design ideas IC: Aditya Sharma

A new AI Research Lab is launching at WPP today, and I couldn't be more excited about what it represents. Three of the lab's first active workstreams give a sense of where the work is heading. 1. The AlphaEvolve Pod is using Google DeepMind's Gemini-powered agentic framework to autonomously propose, evaluate and evolve the marketing models that predict campaign performance and generate recommendations. Manual experimentation hits a ceiling fast - slow, costly, and limited by what a human team can try. Letting the framework iterate instead has produced up to 10% improvement in prediction accuracy and up to 7% in recommendation scores against competitive baselines, in a fraction of the time. For marketing teams, that's the difference between a model that's directionally right and one that meaningfully shifts campaign outcomes. 2. The Synthetic Dataset Generation Pod is building synthetic data infrastructure for marketing ML, using LLMs to encode compatibility knowledge - which combinations of brands, audiences, platforms and geographies tend to work together, and which conflict - into signed graphs that produce labelled campaign performance datasets at scale. That unblocks model training before real campaign data exists, and gives teams precise control over what they're training on. 3. The Campaign Intelligence Dataset Pod is unifying fragmented campaign data into a single AI-ready schema across platforms, markets and creative. Most ad data today gets used to answer "how" questions - how did this campaign perform, how did it compare. The deeper signal sits in the combinations: audience, geography, platform, creative, device. Surfacing that at scale, while respecting hard client and legal constraints around data access and privacy, opens up a different class of model entirely. Huge credit to Stephan Pretorius, Rob Marshall, Ted Lappas and the whole team for the vision and ambition behind this. If you want to look further ahead, test earlier, and learn faster about where AI in marketing is genuinely going - get in touch. Link in the comments - happy exploring.

What if everything we knew about telco marketing was wrong? Last month, Totogi worked with a brave Tier-1 operator that agreed to test a radical hypothesis: Could it outperform decades of traditional marketing wisdom? The results shocked everyone—including us: Not the usual 1-2% improvements that make for nice quarterly reports. We're talking about a 10% revenue jump in 12 weeks. A 60% surge in offer acceptance. Data usage more than doubled. The secret? We eliminated the biggest bottleneck in telco marketing: human meddling. Think about it. Right now, your marketing teams are building campaigns the same way they did in 2010. Analyzing data. Designing offers. Running them through approval chains. By the time these carefully crafted campaigns reach your subscribers, the opportunity has evolved or vanished. But what if your marketing could move at the speed of your network? That's what we proved is possible. Our AI system creates and deploys personalized offers in minutes, not months. It's like giving each of your millions of subscribers their own personal marketing team, working 24/7 to find the perfect offer at the perfect moment. Here's the fascinating part: The more we got humans to trust the AI, the better the results became. Not because humans aren't brilliant at marketing—they are. But because even the best human marketers can't analyze millions of behavior patterns in real-time. I'm curious: What's holding your team back from embracing AI-driven marketing? Is it trust? Technology? Or something else entirely?

Still sending manual emails to your customers? Here’s how we automated the entire email marketing funnel for our client. Most large enterprises have already embraced AI to track SKUs, forecast hiring, and optimise financial decisions. But when it comes to marketing? They’re still stuck with batch-and-blast emails… generic content, poor timing, zero personalisation. AI is improving how companies work but not yet how they connect with customers. Recently, we helped a retail client move from batch emails to AI-driven journeys using Salesforce Marketing Cloud. 📍We mapped customer data across touchpoints to build unified audience profiles 📍We set up automated, trigger-based journeys tailored to user behavior and purchase history Within 3 months: ↪️ Customer engagement increased by 38% ↪️ Repeat purchases rose by 22% especially among previously inactive users By connecting customer data and automating responses, their marketing became timely, relevant, and proactive. Remember, when AI powers the backend and the customer experience, that’s when real growth happens. Which part of your marketing funnel do you think AI should automate next?

Most sales teams don’t need more reps. They need fewer tabs, fewer guesses, and fewer wasted hours. That’s what happens when AI actually supports the workflow instead of sitting on top of it. Here’s how Apollo’s AI Assistant helps teams work faster without adding chaos. 8 practical ways it changes daily execution: 1. One clean workflow → Replace scattered tools with a single system → No tab switching → No lost context → Everything ready for action 2. Predictive open insights → Know when prospects are most likely to open → Time outreach using real behavior patterns → Less guessing, better engagement 3. Target lists built in seconds → No manual digging → AI filters the right accounts fast → Reach the right audience, not a bigger one 4. Credit warnings before you burn budget → See credit impact before executing → Prevent waste → Stay in control of spend 5. Outreach sequences auto-created → Turn one idea into a full GTM sequence → Messages, follow-ups, and steps included → Built on proven best practices 6. Clean, export-ready CSVs → No manual cleanup → Structured, formatted data → Ready for handoff instantly 7. Smarter subject lines → Optimized for opens → Backed by performance patterns → Emails that actually get read 8. Campaigns you can run anywhere → Launch from desktop or mobile → Work on the go → Results stay consistent The real win isn’t speed. It’s clarity. When execution gets simpler, teams stop reacting and start scaling. If outreach feels heavy, it’s probably not your strategy. It’s your system. Join here: https://lnkd.in/gDPAXcRC ♻️ Share this with someone still juggling five tools to send one campaign.

AI can give you back time to focus on the things that actually matter in your charity ✨ If you work in a #nonprofit, chances are your day is filled with: ✉️ Endless emails 📅 Back-and-forth scheduling 📝 Meetings that generate more notes than actions 📊 Reports that take hours to pull together Here’s where #AI can actually help you right now - no hype, just real tools charities are already using to make the day to day less painful: Emails 📫 Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini or ChatGPT can draft supporter updates, thank-you notes, or funding bid cover letters. You still keep the human touch, but the first draft is done in seconds. Scheduling 📆 Tools like #Copilot in Outlook or #Gemini in Workspace can scan calendars and suggest meeting times across multiple agencies, then auto-generate an agenda. Note taking 📝 Meeting assistants like Sembly AI will transcribe your board meeting, pull out action points, and email a neat summary to your team. Reports 👩💻 Instead of staring at a blank Word doc, Copilot can turn monitoring notes into a structured funder report, which you edit and polish. Been working in the open? Feed all those blog posts and LinkedIn updates into Perplexity or Claude. Data analysis 📊 Excel with Copilot or Gemin in Sheets will look at your housing, service, or fundraising data and spit out trends and charts. No pivot tables required. Content 🤳 Whether it’s social media posts or training slides, AI tools like Gamma or Canva can turn text into polished materials quickly. This isn’t about chasing shiny tech. It’s about reducing repetitive admin so your team can spend more time with service users, volunteers, and communities. If you’re not sure where to start, pilot one small use case. Draft an email. Summarise a meeting. Generate a chart. Build confidence step by step. 👉 The charities already using AI day-to-day aren’t waiting for “the perfect moment.” They’re experimenting, learning, and saving hours every week. Where could AI save you time this month? ❓ PS Any tools, approaches or pitfalls I missed? Leave your comments 👇

𝗔𝗜 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗯𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱; 𝗜𝘁 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗳𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿. Most small teams spend 20+ hours/week on marketing tasks that could run themselves. Here's the problem: They're trying to "AI-ify" everything instead of automating the RIGHT things. I call this the ACT Method, and it's helped startups save 15+ hours/week while INCREASING results. Step 1: ANCHOR (Pick Your Battle) Don't automate random tasks. Find your biggest marketing bottleneck that's: ✅ High-impact (drives real leads) ✅ Repeatable (same process, different content) ✅ Time-consuming (eating founder bandwidth) Step 2: CONSTRUCT (Build the Engine) Encode your brand DNA into systems using: → LLMs (Claude/GPT) for smart decisions → Context storage (Airtable) for brand voice → Automation tools (n8n) for workflow → Output channels (LinkedIn/WordPress) for distribution Step 3: TEST (Make It Bulletproof) Add guardrails: • Human approval checkpoints • Quality checklists • Fallback protocols • Performance tracking 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁: 𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗯𝘆 𝟴𝘅 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘁 < 𝟭 𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗿/𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘀, 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗯𝘆 𝟰𝟯% 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝟯.𝟱𝘅 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀. The ACT Method doesn't just save time, it creates predictable, scalable marketing systems that work whether you're in the office or on a beach in Thailand. What's your biggest marketing time-suck right now? Comment below 👇 Want more tips like this? Subscribe to my LinkedIn newsletter, AI Marketing Solution Architect: https://lnkd.in/gbbmMrBp #MarketingAutomation #StartupGrowth #AIMarketing

AI for marketing: from hype to how I’ve witnessed firsthand how AI has transformed from a futuristic buzzword to an essential tool in our daily marketing efforts. Early on, AI seemed like an exciting possibility, but now, it’s a game-changer. 1. Personalization at Scale: A Dream Come True Personalization used to be a challenge. We tried to manually segment customers, but it was time-consuming and often inaccurate. Then we integrated AI tools like Segment and Dynamic Yield, which analyze customer data in real time, enabling us to deliver personalized experiences automatically. These tools track behavior, preferences, and interactions, helping us target the right customers with the right message, whether through email campaigns or product recommendations. Thanks to AI, we can now personalize at scale, delivering relevant content to each customer without the manual effort. The result? Increased engagement and higher conversions, all while saving time. 2. Content Overload, Solved The demand for fresh content was overwhelming, and keeping up while maintaining quality was difficult. Enter AI tools like Jasper and Copy.ai. These platforms use AI to generate blog posts, social media content, and email copy. They can create content drafts based on simple prompts, significantly speeding up the creation process. AI also helps us optimize content. Tools like Headline Analyzer and Convert.com assist with A/B testing, ensuring we’re using the best headlines, calls to action, and tone. This allows us to produce more content faster, without sacrificing quality, and improve its effectiveness over time. 3. Smarter Decisions with Predictive Analytics In the past, we’d react to past campaigns, but with AI-powered predictive analytics tools like HubSpot and Pardot, we now predict future customer behavior. These tools analyze past data to forecast which leads are likely to convert, enabling us to focus our efforts on the most promising opportunities. AI provides us with actionable insights that help us prioritize leads, tailor messaging, and increase conversions. It’s like having a roadmap for what’s coming next, allowing us to make smarter decisions and improve our marketing ROI. 4. Real-Time Customer Insights – No More Waiting Traditionally, gathering insights involved waiting for surveys or reports to come in. Now, with Google Analytics 4 and Crimson Hexagon, AI tracks customer behavior in real time, providing immediate feedback on how campaigns are performing. These tools help us monitor customer sentiment, identify trends, and adapt campaigns quickly. Real-time data allows us to be agile and responsive, adjusting our strategies as needed to meet customer expectations and improve satisfaction.

More and more marketers I support are using AI. Practical examples of my last few weeks: • Exporting sales calls notes from Hubspot to classify via Claude to report on status of SQL to Opportunity. Saving time manually reading or trying to arm wrestle with sales to get the required info.    • Using Clay to enrich prospect info ahead of call. Centralising all the info, instead of jumping from linkedin to website to company page including showing headcount in different departments & potential segments & personas the prospect business is targeting. This helps sales save time ahead of the call, with that specific client sales were barely doing it as they were slammed due to inbound. • Mass classifying job titles of Hubspot records to assign relevant Persona type (e.g. is this head of operations OR head of marketing). This is for email nurture sequences marketing send out by function. This helps increase conversion rates as it's more personalised and relevant. • Using synthetic personas (these are 70-90% accurate) to define publicly available criteria for defining the ideal buyer's profile. This is critical for targeting. Many marketing & sales teams are not efficient as targeting too many irrelevant companies & people with generic messaging. Some people say it's hype, but looking at Nvidia's revenue skyrocketing from last year I don't see evidence of this.