
HubSpot Is Worth Nearly $1 Billion After Gaining 20% On First Day Of Trading
HubSpot had a good first day on Wall Street. The Massachusetts-based marketing software company is worth about $914 million after its...

Weak & Unethical Agency Sales Pitches: How To Spot Them And Why You Shouldn’t Make Them
The widespread apathy about charlatanry in digital marketing never ceases to amaze me. Rewarding those who place business ethics as a...

SEMPO Announces Call For “Search Congress” To Draft Search Engine Marketing Code Of Ethi
Search engine marketing organization SEMPO announced a call for search engine marketers to participate in a proposed “Search Congress” to...

Snack King Mondelez Strikes YouTube Video Ad Deal With Google
Candy giant Mondelez International, which announced it would be shifting budgets to digital in June, says it is making a “substantial...

Rakuten To Buy Ebates For $1 Billion In Cash
Japan’s Rakuten Inc. has confirmed it will acquire San Francisco-based Ebates Inc. for roughly $1 billion in cash. The acquisition will...

Internet Marketing Dominates Inc.’s List Of America’s 5000 Fastest-Growing Companies
Inc. Magazine published its annual list of the 5000 fastest-growing, privately held companies in the United States last week, and the...

HubSpot Files For $100 Million IPO
HubSpot, the Massachusetts-based online marketing software company, has filed paperwork to go public in an IPO that could raise up to...

The Most Successful Businesses Will Be Customer Obsessed Says Forrester’s Sheryl Pattek
“The world is changing and it’s time to get customer obsessed,” Sheryl Pattek, VP & Principal Analyst, CMO and Marketing Leadership...

Yahoo Acquires Anti-Ad Blocker Startup ClarityRay
Little is known about the company’s ad security efforts alluded to in the acquisition announcements. As of August 6, ad-blocking...

Ad Management Platform AdStage Lands $6.25 Million In Series A Funding
While more and more marketers are looking for solutions that bring both mobile and desktop campaigns together, it turns out investors are...

Rakuten’s Quarterly Report Shows Growth On All Fronts, With Mobile Commerce Up 87%
Based on its 2014 2Q results, Rakuten Marketing has experienced year-over-year growth on all fronts, including mobile, search and...

Merkle Acquires RKG To Form Largest Search Ad Agency In US
“RKG represents the best of breed in search, display, social and other digital media marketing solutions, and we are delighted to have...

Media Ratings Council Greenlights New Viewable Ad Impression Metric For Video Ads
After more than a year-long review process, the Media Rating Council (MRC) gave the go-head for the digital media industry to being...

One Tech Stack To Rule Them All: Potential Programmatic Pitfalls
Agencies tend to pigeonhole programmatic vendors. Some vendors are used for specific goals such as prospecting, others for specific...

TrustInAds.org Takes On Weight Loss Scam Ads, Offenders Still Spotted
Source: TrustInAds.org Bad Ads Trend Alert: False Claims in Online Weight Loss Advertisements Lose weight without changing a thing! It’s...

The New Anything/Anyone Goes Competitive Landscape For Content Marketing Firms
Recently, I was chatting with the CEO of one of the leading digital agencies. Talk turned to competitors, and I asked what firms his firm...

IMGlance.com: Think Of It Like A Techmeme For Internet Marketing News
Our own such site, Sphinn, thrived (and survived) for four years with a combination of news curation and forum discussion. (Today, we do...

Yext Gets $50M In Venture Funding, Moving It Closer To An IPO
CEO Howard Lerman told AdWeek, “This is the last round before we go public.” Led by Insight Venture Partners and including Marker LLC...

Omnicom & Publicis Merger Dead: CEOs Blame Differences In Opinions & Cultures
Originally announced in July, the Omnicom-Publicis deal would have resulted in the largest advertising agency in the world, with Publicis...
























