MarTech Watch: Week 22, 2026

Week 22, 2026
Coverage window 22–28 May 2026.

For the interpretation of this week, see the companion essay: Weekly MarTech Signals That Matter to Me: Part 5, Week 22.

This page is the record; the essay is the read.

This week’s record

Salesforce shipped an MCE MCP Server early, with Braze and Tealium catch-ups and the 2026 Gartner CDP Magic Quadrant landing.

Note on this edition: several items below are dated catch-ups (Braze’s 23 Apr agentic launch, Tealium’s 7 May AI batch, the Gartner MQ, Pacvue, the CDP Institute update) that surfaced during expanded sourcing this run.

What changed this week

PlatformWhat changedStatusCategorySource
Adobe AEPMay pre-release: new Delta Sharing, LAVA, Meta Ads (Beta) sources, array-field export (Beta), a B2B breaking change (account audiences with experience events no longer directly supported), auto-disable of dataflows failing 30 days.Pre-releasePre-releaseAEP pre-release notes
Adobe Journey OptimizerMay ‘26 usability batch: bulk actions across Campaigns/Fragments/Templates, sorting and column resize, inline profile-attribute editing extended to Push, cross-org Assets Selector, June 1 items confirmed.ShippedProduct releaseAJO release notes
Bloomreach Engagement1.310: Loomi Analytics fixes (edit analyses in place, event vs. customer counts, running aggregates, Data Manager access).ShippedProduct releaseChangelog 1.310
Braze(catch-up, 23 Apr) BrazeAI Operator, Agent Console, Creative Studio (Figma and Canva) to GA. (28 May release) Push Performance dashboard, geolocation in Catalog Selections (GA), workspace time zones (GA), Content Optimizer for SMS/MMS/RCS (Beta), WhatsApp inbound_profile_name, orphaned SMS cleanup, Flutter/Unity/Segment-Swift breaking SDK updates.GA / ShippedAgentic AI / Product releaseBraze 23 Apr · Braze 28 May
HubSpotAssociate one asset to multiple campaigns, Sales Documents access extended to core seat users (limit 5 to 5,000).Shipped (week of May 26)Product releaseOrange Marketing recap
InsiderOne#1 Leader across 44 G2 Summer 2026 categories (ninth consecutive year).Market signalMarket signalInsiderOne news
Mailchimp (Intuit)Intuit cuts around 3,000 roles (17%); CEO explicitly names Mailchimp as reduced investment.Market signalMarket signalMarTech.org
Salesforce (MCE)Marketing Cloud Engagement MCP Server released ahead of schedule (create Data Extensions, inspect journeys, query assets via Claude/Gemini), RCS in Marketing Cloud Next, Dynamic Email Sender Information.Shipped (early)MCP / Product releaseSFMC Tips #300 · SalesforceBen
Tealium(catch-up, 7 and 14 May) AI at the Edge (on-device inference), AI Decisioning with Invoke-Your-Own-Model, MCP Configuration Agent, AI Recommended Audiences, OpenAI/Bedrock/Pinecone/LangChain connectors, Snowflake Native App (Audience Discovery).ShippedAgentic AI / MCPTealium, 7 May · Tealium, 14 May

Industry signals this week. Chief Martech 2026 Landscape: 15,505 products, +0.79% (“peak martech, maybe”). (catch-up) Gartner CDP Magic Quadrant 2026: Salesforce sole Leader, Adobe sole Visionary, Tealium moved to Challenger. (catch-up) Pacvue Report MCP. (catch-up) CDP Institute / CDA 18th Industry Update (H2 2025 data).

No changes this week
(scanned, nothing net-new)

Scanned for the 22–28 May window with no net-new release:

Watching next (Week 23)





How this is compiled. Each edition is assembled from official vendor release notes, changelogs, and corporate newsrooms, with AI assistance for the first-pass scan, then reviewed and edited by me before publishing. Items are checked against the primary source; anything I could not confirm is flagged inline.

Corrections and method notes. Found something inaccurate or out of date? Tell me and I will fix it in the next edition.