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Rakuten Advertising Launches Innovation Labs to Advance AI in Affiliate Marketing

Rakuten Advertising Launches Innovation Labs to Advance AI in Affiliate Marketing

Rakuten Advertising Innovation Labs marks a strategic expansion of how artificial intelligence is applied across affiliate marketing, as the company moves to accelerate smarter targeting, improved efficiency, and stronger collaboration between brands and publishers. The launch is significant for the…

Bloomreach Announces Loomi Connect, Bringing Brands Search Intelligence to the OpenAI Marketplace

Bloomreach Announces Loomi Connect, Bringing Brands Search Intelligence to the OpenAI Marketplace

Bloomreach, the AI company for personalization, announced Loomi Connect, making the company’s product discovery technology available through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Loomi Connect brings a brand’s ecommerce search intelligence directly into ChatGPT and other conversational AI platforms. As a…

Pipe17 Extends Its Network To Support Order Management for Agentic Commerce

Pipe17 Launches Agentic Post-Checkout Commerce Solutions

Order Operations Platform further advances its mission to unify commerce after the buy button by partnering with Shopify, Stripe, and PayPal to power seamless post-checkout order management for agentic commerce. Pipe17, the AI-native Order Operations Platform, announced comprehensive post-checkout agentic…