Marketers are struggling to react quickly to customer behavior: half need more than one week to measure campaign impact, according to this CMO Council report. Even worse, just 29% orchestrate customer treatments based on real time behavior and 81% feel they are not fully meeting customer expectations. Disconnected systems and data complexity rank high on the list of obstacles.

SurveyMonkey is making it easier for non-experts to run their own market research projects by bundling research designs, a global survey panel, and AI-driven results analysis. They’ve released seven packages, called Expert Solutions, to analyze ad creative, video creative, product concepts, packaging design, logo design, brand names, and messaging statements. Who said AI would replace truck drivers first?

Disney has agreed to license more than 200 characters, costumes, and environments (but not voices or talent likenesses) to OpenAI for Sora, its gen AI video platform. This is highly unusual for Disney, which generally sues AI models for copyright infringement; in fact, it sued Google for that a day before announcing the OpenAI deal. Disney will also invest $1 billion in OpenAI, nicely illustrating how very eager they are to join the AI party.