
For Scott Brinker, marketing is designed to balance the ‘4 Forces’
Like some physicist discovering the hidden nature of marketing, Scott Brinker recently unveiled his own theory of the relativity of...

Video platform Innovid launches first multi-platform OTT video-ad composing tool
Innovid’s OTT Composer screen, along with an interactive ad it created for Target The good news for TV watchers is that there are many...

How USA Today uses AR to promote a podcast series
A screenshot from the AR promotion for “The City.” Augmented reality has a new job: promoting a podcast series. That’s how USA Today is...

With Marketo mega-deal, Adobe’s reach just got a whole lot wider
Adobe’s image for its Sensei AI layer. With the announcement Thursday that Adobe is buying Marketo, the world of major marketing...

Security firm shows how a second-hand Amazon Echo can become a spy
When a smart speaker aggregates customer data, or a car dashboard highlights the nearest McDonalds, the marketer and the consumer assume...

Gartner’s Andrew Frank: Third-party validation of brands, content is coming
In five years, a video player will show some indicator, like a star, that validates the brand video as genuine by a third-party...

Shared learning from the martech OASIS companies — Investment, innovation and integration
marketing technology solutions from 6,242 vendors. This is a collection of many crowded sub-industries, given that “martech” covers...

Salesforce adds process improvements to Sales Cloud, Einstein AI to Pardot
Salesforce has updated its Sales Cloud to provide what the company said is a more integrated process, plus it has added its Einstein AI...

Lithium and Spredfast merge into a social management/customer care platform
San Francisco-based Lithium primarily focuses on social communities and digital customer care. Spredfast, headquartered in Austin, is...

IBM’s Michael Trapani: AI may never understand a great meal, but it understands performance
“How AI will let us be marketers again.” That’s the topic that IBM Global Product Marketing Leader for IBM Watson Michael Trapani will...

Are brands approaching a crisis in authenticity?
Google has demonstrated how its Duplex voice agent can successfully trick a hair salon into booking an appointment over the phone. “Deep...

Podcasting continues its meteoric rise, creating more opportunities for marketers
survey last quarter showed that the number of self-identified “avid” podcast fans rose from 13 million homes in 2016 to 16 million in...

[24]7 launches ‘emotional intelligence’ for its virtual agent
What’s the next step for virtual agents? Customer engagement platform [24]7 thinks it’s recognizing when the customer is angry, so it can...

T-Mobile whips out a new secret weapon for customer service: Humans
In a T-Mobile online video, actor Rainn Wilson demonstrates the value of human agents. It was only a matter of time before the oldest...

Digitas report: Brand loyalty is at risk with voice-based purchases
The base of the Amazon Echo, a smart speaker home of voice agent Alexa With projections that more than half of US homes will have a smart...

Quantcast reports more than 90% of visitors to EU domains grant GDPR consent
After all the teeth-gnashing, what if the vast majority of visitors give their consent for use of their personal data under General Data...

Marketing analytics platform CaliberMind launches ABM Converter
Over the last few years, a variety of vendors have offered account-based marketing (ABM) capabilities as standalones or as additions to...

Swrve’s new platform enables ‘payload’ targeting and triggering
Marketing platform Swrve is out with version 3.0 of its platform, key new features of which are “payload” targeting and triggering. The...

Gartner’s first MQ report on Personalization Engines points to the category’s robust evolution
“Personalization” is almost synonymous with marketing these days, since automation, AI and addressable content make individualized...
























