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Media Between craft and code: the human dilemma in AI-driven marketing automation Media experts comment on how marketing automation is eroding media skills and why human insight still matters.MarkLives MEDIA19 August 2025
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Media Big data, small thinking. How an industry obsession with numbers misses the point Ryan Sauer of Redwood Analytics warns that marketers are misusing big data by overlooking the importance of structure and context,…MarkLives MEDIA5 August 2025