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Best Marketing Automation Software in 2026

46 Marketing Automation tools tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by velocity_score — a blend of release cadence and editorial spark count. Updated continuously as new releases ship.

Email marketing, marketing automation, and customer engagement platforms

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Weekly report · May 18, 2026

Marketing automation split between MCP control planes and creator-commerce consolidation — email is now the wrapper, not the product.

The sector's most directional move came from Gumloop, which spent the week converting from a workflow builder with AI nodes into a full enterprise MCP control plane — hosting and proxying servers, defining plain-English app policies, exporting data to customer-owned warehouses, and tracking proxied activity for attribution. The collaboration around MCP is no…

By Onur ÖztürkRead full report →

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