
Why AI for PR may be different than AI for marketing
Digital marketing and ad platforms are already adding artificial intelligence at a furious pace, providing insights and campaign...

Forrester announces a new Customer Experience Cloud, plus two acquisitions to power it
Research firm Forrester is announcing this week that it is evolving its CX (customer experience) Index into a real-time CX Cloud,...

The Trade Desk launches its ‘Next Wave’
Demand-side platform The Trade Desk is out this week with what it says is the biggest product launch in its history. So big, in fact,...

Squadhelp adds AI to help invent successful brand names
Naming a product or a company can make or break the effort. Traditionally, it has involved branding agencies engaging a variety of...

Facebook takes fight against fake news to more countries & ups machine learning efforts around
Facebook is continuing its efforts to fight fake news and stop the spread of false information on the platform. Today, the company...

Hey, email marketers — Take a load off and embrace automation
More and more, automation is proving to be the email marketer’s knight in shining armor. It’s an efficient and systematic way of sending...

Salesforce adds Interaction Studio, integration with Google Analytics 360
Salesforce is out today with new features for its Marketing, Commerce and Service Clouds that more tightly connect customer interactions...

The story of data, Part 5: Where are we going?
So, what does the crystal ball say about the future of data? Buckle up. No matter what happens, it’s going to be an interesting ride. A...

Is your marketing platform really intelligent?
Let’s face it, the future isn’t turning out to be what we were promised in decades past. No flying cars, and the closest thing to robot...

The story of data, Part 4: Will it ever be truly secure?
Data is an inherently vulnerable thing. Numbers and words, bits and bytes: It can have great power, but it is continually in peril of...

Microsoft acquires Semantic Machines, signaling a deeper move into ‘conversational AI’
announced the news on Monday. Microsoft says that the Berkeley-based technology company has created a “revolutionary” new approach to...

Six Google Shopping opportunities you may be overlooking
As of Q1 2018, Google Shopping ads drove 76.4 percent of retail search ad spend, eclipsing text ads in markets around the world. As these...

Influ2 launches what it calls the first person-based marketing B2B ad platform
“Account-based marketing is not very efficient because it targets a lot of people inside one company, but you can’t really target...

Using machine learning to get more value out of your Facebook campaigns
Understandably, the recent scandals have cast this revelation in a distinctly negative light — some users feel uncomfortable with their...

Bottos launches a marketplace for data to train AI models
Countless marketing platforms are utilizing artificial intelligence, such as predictive modeling that recognizes patterns. But, to...

How the acceleration of AI will drive digital transformation: Automation and personalization
As the digital world continues to shape and consume the physical world, the scope of digital transformation within businesses keeps...

Facebook to require authorization and labeling on all political and ‘issue’ ads, verific
Cambridge Analytica misused Facebook user data. In a blog post Friday, Facebook executives Rob Goldman and Alex Himel announced several...

Smart marketing still hinges on humanity, not technology
Now, it seems as if we think everything would work better if it were smart. We can buy smart umbrellas that tell us where we left them...

Helpshift unveils AI designed for customer service
Artificial intelligence is being employed by many chatbots, but Helpshift is now out with what it says is the first AI specifically built...
























