
PullString unveils all-purpose intelligent conversation platform
As the automated, intelligent conversation settles into its role as a major marketing channel, a variety of chatbot authoring platforms...

Oracle updates its Marketing Cloud
Oracle is beefing up its Marketing Cloud, with announcements of an updated interface for coordinating multichannel campaigns and a new...

With brains like Einstein’s, who needs marketers?
Last week, Einstein went to work for Salesforce. The company enlisted the name of the smartest person ever to brand its new platform-wide...

Forrester: Here are some ways marketers can adapt to messaging apps
From the Forrester report: Tools to create branded conversations in messaging apps Like shopkeepers in previous centuries who talked to...

Navigate your marketing automation options with this checklist
Marketing Automation is a clear need. How do you identify the solution that’s right for your organization? Download this checklist from...

For Chevrolet and Hollywood, IBM’s Watson is learning how to understand emotions and personalities
The movie poster for “Morgan” IBM’s Watson cognitive computing system is learning all about human personality and emotions. In...

Loyalty a key tool to drive retailer app adoption, says Belly
Most retailer apps have fallen flat with consumers, and adoption and retention are generally poor. Indeed, Walmart is the only...

Forrester: Marketers need to say goodbye to campaigns, hello to AI-driven conversations with custome
Marketers will need to transform from campaigns to real-time, continuous interaction with customers via intelligent agents. So says...

Oh no! ABM is resurfacing bad habits for B2B marketers
One of my favorite stops when I come to our company’s headquarters is a restaurant in Scottsdale, Arizona, called “Cold Beers &...

Optimizely releases new products signaling its emergence as ‘an Experimentation Platform’
You may know Optimizely as the A/B testing company for Web and mobile. But today, the San Francisco-based firm is unveiling a new version...

Adobe Target expands beyond A/B testing to automated optimization of user experience
Adobe is today evolving its Target solution — part of its Marketing Cloud — away from the testing of discrete A/B variables and toward...

Marketo adds native ABM capabilities to its platform
Marketing platform Marketo is jumping into Account-Based Marketing (ABM) with both feet today, unveiling what it says is the most...

BlueJeans Network offers first many-to-many video conferencing at scale for Facebook Live
BlueJeans for Facebook Live Video communications provider BlueJeans Network is out with a service that it says is the first to turn...

Pokémon Go generates sales from visiting game players, but the data’s predictive value may be overra
The Pokémon Go craze is a boon for digital marketers, right? Maybe yes, maybe no. That is, a recent survey indicates that the game is...

When you buy marketing software, know that you are buying into an ecosystem
While it may seem obvious that marketing technology makes companies more efficient, making the wrong choices, especially in favor of...

Kontakt’s product releases point to a new phase of beacon evolution
Kontakt Gateway, with Location Engine software New products from a Kracow, Poland-based international company give a glimpse of where...

Two new projects target ads at your car
The Ocean campaign Two new and separate advertising projects are based around the idea that “you are what you drive.” The new efforts —...

Startup Life in Hi-Fi launches mobile news feed of publisher content, selectable by hashtags
Content in a curated hashtag site. Mobile users spend little time viewing web content on their mobile browsers, preferring to read most...

Personalization platform Blueshift now allows marketers to create their own service
From the Blueshift web site Blueshift, which has offered a personalization platform since 2014, is today launching a new service that it...