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ActiveCampaign Launches Active Intelligence: Wavelength, Marketing AI Tuned to Your Business, Not the Industry Average

ActiveCampaign launches Active Intelligence: Wavelength, marketing AI tuned to your business, not the industry average.

ActiveCampaign Launches Active Intelligence: Wavelength

ActiveCampaign announced Active Intelligence: Wavelength, an AI-driven capability within its platform that learns from each customer's account using 500+ signals to generate and act on marketing recommendations. The product drafts campaigns, builds segments, detects broken customer journeys, and automates recurring tasks across 300+ platform capabilities. ActiveCampaign claims Wavelength delivers a 75% higher engagement rate for users and can lift click-through rates by up to 17% in early data. The release emphasizes automating execution (not just insights) and personalization grounded in a business's own data.

• ActiveCampaign launched Active Intelligence: Wavelength, a marketing AI capability within its platform.
• Wavelength uses over 500 signals from each business account to generate recommendations and act on them.
• ActiveCampaign claims businesses using Active Intelligence see a 75% higher engagement rate.

ActiveCampaign Launches Google Ads Connector

ActiveCampaign announced a Google Ads connector for Active Intelligence, its AI-powered marketing engine, enabling marketers to create and manage Google Ads Performance Max campaigns directly inside ActiveCampaign using conversational prompts. The integration guides users through account setup, goal selection and ad copy creation, and can leverage Google’s gen AI asset builder (beta) or assets from ActiveCampaign’s Content Manager. The connector expands Active Intelligence’s ecosystem — which already includes Wix, Calendly and Stripe — and is available now to ActiveCampaign customers on Plus plans and above. The feature aims to let marketers stay in a single AI-driven workspace while executing campaigns across Google inventory (Search, YouTube, Gmail, Maps, Display, Discover).

• ActiveCampaign launched a Google Ads connector for Active Intelligence to create and manage Google Ads Performance Max campaigns inside ActiveCampaign.
• The integration supports conversational prompts to guide users through campaign creation, account setup, goal selection and ad copy proposals.
• The connector can use Google’s gen AI asset builder (in beta) to generate images or use assets from ActiveCampaign Content Manager.

Developer-Focused Newsletter Platform Comparison

This technical comparison evaluates six newsletter platforms (Beehiiv, Kit, Mailchimp, Substack, Ghost, MailerLite) from a developer perspective. It breaks newsletter platforms into core layers — email delivery, subscriber management, content engine, public website, monetization, and developer surface — and examines API quality, webhooks, DNS/custom domain control, template customization, data portability, and deliverability. The article finds Kit and Ghost offer the best developer APIs, Ghost provides the strongest data portability (open-source and self-hostable), Beehiiv balances power and simplicity, Mailchimp delivers the deepest feature set at the cost of complexity, and Substack prioritizes simplicity but limits API and webhook access. The piece emphasizes verifying exportability of critical datasets, webhook authentication/retry behavior, sender authentication (DKIM/SPF/DMARC), and payment ownership before committing to a platform.

• The article compares six newsletter platforms: Beehiiv, Kit, Mailchimp, Substack, Ghost, and MailerLite.
• Ghost provides both a Content API and an Admin API, is open source and self-hostable, and is identified as offering the strongest portability.
• Kit and Ghost are identified as offering the best API and developer experience for building integrated publishing systems.