2026 marketing trends blending technology and humanity
WATCH: WJ Agency CEO and marketing expert Ryan Townend explains what’s shaping the industry heading into 2026 while incorporating AI, personalization, and experiences.
For the food manufacturing industry, 2025 brought tariff pressures, major acquisitions and consumers’ increasing concerns over health and wellness. FOOD ENGINEERING expects to see those themes return in 2026, in addition to advances in artificial intelligence and sustainability. We outline our reasoning below. Tariffs At the start of 2025, anxiety around the form and impact…
Getting your marketing right for 2026 means looking at the big picture. The online world is always changing, and what worked last year might not work next year. This guide is here to help you sort through all the noise and figure out the best ways to reach people. We’ll talk about how to make…
An SEO crafting a newsletter with AI spotted a hallucination about a March 2026 Google Core Update and decided to publish it as an experiment to see how misinformation spreads. While search marketing industry publications ignored the fake news some independent SEOs picked it up and ran with it without first checking the factual accuracy…
A decade ago, influencer marketing in India was largely transactional. Brands paid creators for posts, measured likes and views, and moved on to the next campaign. The industry was informal, largely unregulated, and driven by visibility rather than accountability. By the early 2020s, that model had already begun to crack. The creator economy exploded alongside…
Marketing Week Partner This year, the eighth edition of CX50 – in partnership with Cognizant and Google Cloud – reflects the growing influence and importance of AI in creating stand-out customer experiences that deliver commercial value. 4 Jun 2026 10:07 am
Right then, let’s talk about social media and digital marketing for 2026. It feels like things are changing all the time, doesn’t it? One minute everyone’s on one platform, the next they’ve moved on. Keeping up can feel like a full-time job in itself. This guide is here to make sense of it all, breaking…