Digiday Technology Awards finalists show the AI-CMS turn

The shortlist is a map of where the industry is heading: WordPress VIP (with the Pew Research Center) turning the CMS into machine-readable infrastructure for AI discovery, Google's Ad Manager applying first-party signals for The Guardian in a post-cookie setup, and ShopMy using creator-led curation for commerce. Published: 08 Sep 2026, 19:37 CEST.