35 updates tagged marketing.
On September 16, 2026, OpenAI began piloting Sponsored Agents, clearly labeled advertiser-run chats, inside ChatGPT with US brands like Angi and Wayfair, and shipped its first ecom…
On September 15, 2026 Profound announced a $180M Series D at a $1.8B valuation, co-led by Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins, nearly double its February valuation. The platform tracks and…
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 takes place October 13 to 15 at Moscone West in San Francisco, drawing about 10,000 founders, investors and operators across 200-plus sessions and the Start…
Web Summit 2026 runs November 9 to 12 at the MEO Arena and FIL in Lisbon, Portugal. Organizers expect more than 70,000 attendees from over 160 countries, 900-plus speakers and 2,00…
Slush 2026, the founder-focused startup event, takes place November 18 to 19, 2026 in Helsinki and draws more than 13,000 founders, VCs, and executives for curated matchmaking, key…
On September 8, 2026 OpenAI released GPT Image 2.5, exposing two developer APIs: Flare, its fastest model generating high-quality images at two to four times the speed of GPT-Image…
On September 3, 2026 Google rolled out Gmail Live, Docs Live and Keep Live, letting users query their inbox, draft documents (pulling from Gmail, Drive, Chat and the web) and take…
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 takes place October 13-15 at Moscone West in San Francisco, drawing 10,000+ founders, investors and operators. Its Startup Battlefield features 200 pre-Seri…
How to Web Conference 2026 runs October 6 to 8 at Face Convention Center in Bucharest, with an Investors Summit and satellite events opening October 6. Organizers expect 500+ found…
Web Summit 2026 runs November 9-12 at the MEO Arena in Lisbon, Portugal, historically drawing 70,000+ attendees including founders, investors and press. The 2026 speaker lineup inc…
OpenAI's ChatGPT advertising business crossed a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate as of August 31, 2026, fewer than 200 days after its February 2026 pilot launch. It marks the…
On 31 August 2026 the FTC and 22 state attorneys general sued Amazon in the Western District of Washington, alleging it secretly manipulated Sponsored Products, Sponsored Brands, a…
San Francisco Tech Week 2026 takes place Oct 5-11, an a16z-presented, decentralized series of independently hosted founder dinners, pitch nights, workshops and investor panels acro…
The All-In Summit returns Sept 13-15, 2026 at the Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall in Los Angeles, hosted by the All-In Podcast (Jason Calacanis, Chamath Palihapitiya, David Sacks,…
On August 26, 2026, FedDev Ontario announced nearly $15 million in non-repayable funding for nine organizations supporting Black entrepreneurs across southern Ontario, with funding…
As of August 24, 2026 Perplexity is discussing a new equity round valuing it above $30B, up from roughly $20B a year earlier. Its annualized revenue climbed from under $250M at the…
On August 24, 2026 Alibaba unveiled Wan3.0, an AI video model that generates roughly 30-second videos directly from documents and spreadsheets. Alibaba paired the launch with a rep…
Salesforce's Dreamforce 2026 takes place September 15-17 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, centered on the 'Agentic Enterprise' with 1,600+ breakout sessions and 50+ keynotes…
Step San Francisco returns Aug 26-27, 2026, with Day 1 kickoff events across the Bay Area and the main conference Aug 27 at The Midway (900 Marin St). It draws founders, investors,…
Announced Aug 13, 2026, Delaware's Division of Small Business and partner Launcher opened applications (deadline Aug 31, 2026) for the free 8-week Business on Main Street Accelerat…
On 5 August 2026 national charity Venture for Canada launched Solopreneurship, a six-week hybrid program helping Canadians build a business around a single skill or service without…
FinovateFall runs Sept 9-11, 2026 at the New York Marriott Marquis, showcasing seven-minute live product demonstrations across fintech, payments, lending, and banking-tech sectors.…
Startup Boston Week runs Sept 14-18, 2026, with 100+ free panels, workshops and networking events—Monday-Wednesday at Boston University and Thursday-Friday in Downtown Crossing. Re…
TechCrunch and Stripe are running the first Startup Battlefield Australia, with eight selected startups pitching live at Stripe Tour Sydney on 19 August 2026. It is free to enter a…
On 7 July 2026 Austrade released its 2026-27 Landing Pads calendar, offering Australian tech scaleups government-backed international expansion support across five markets: Indones…
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 takes place October 13-15 at Moscone West in San Francisco, drawing 10,000+ founders, VCs and operators and featuring the Startup Battlefield pitch competit…
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 runs October 13-15 at Moscone West in San Francisco, expecting 10,000+ attendees across 200+ sessions and the Startup Battlefield competition, whose alumni…
Web Summit 2026 runs November 9-12 in Lisbon (Nov 9 is a pre-conference registration/mentorship day), gathering 70,000+ founders, investors and operators. Early registration is run…
Money20/20 USA, the sector's largest payments and fintech gathering, runs October 18–21, 2026 at The Venetian Expo in Las Vegas, with 11,000+ senior attendees from 3,400+ companies…
Web Summit 2026 runs November 9-12 at the MEO/Altice Arena and FIL in Lisbon, expecting 70,000+ attendees from 160+ countries, 2,300+ startups, and 1,200+ investors. Attendee ticke…
On June 26, 2026, the NPC Standing Committee passed China's revised Trademark Law, taking effect January 1, 2027. It bars applications lacking genuine intent to use, penalizes bad-…
SXSW Pitch, the Austin showcase for early-stage startups, opened applications June 23, 2026, with regular entry running Sept 14 through the final deadline of Nov 13, 2026. Selected…
SXSW announced on June 23, 2026 that its 2027 conference and festivals run March 15-21 in Austin, with badges priced roughly $820-$1,995 by access level. Signing up early locks a 1…
From 1 July 2026 Australia's SMS Sender ID Register (run by ACMA) is mandatory: businesses must register the branded/alphanumeric sender IDs they use in texts via an ACMA-approved…
After the Eighth Circuit vacated the amended Negative Option Rule on July 2, 2025, the FTC issued an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on March 11, 2026 seeking comment on revi…