
Pinterest signs visual search & advertising deal with Target to license its Lens technology
People will be able to use Target’s app to scan items in the real world and find similar products sold by the retailer. Pinterest has...

6 ways the Era of Bots could dramatically change how products are marketed and sold
Let’s assume that software bots continue to proliferate, grow more intelligent and capable, and even generate a bot-to-bot ecosystem,...

IDC’s Gerry Murray: AI isn’t just one thing
The big thing about artificial intelligence (AI), IDC Research Director Gerry Murray told me, is that it isn’t just one thing. “It’s many...

Adobe adds email features in Campaign, releases survey vouching for the channel’s robust health
For Adobe, email is still a king. The marketing tech giant is out this week with a new survey showing email’s enduring appeal across...

Real Story Group: Good time to get your informational house in order
It seems like nearly every marketing tool or platform these days is happy to tell us how smart it is. Whether described as artificial...

Performance Horizon can now predict campaign results for its affiliates & partners
Performance Horizon is a partner marketing platform that lets site and app publishers make money from affiliate links or from customized...

Engagio CEO: The one-to-one relationship is the key driver behind marketing’s evolution
Marketing software has been evolving toward the goal of one-to-one marketing, says Engagio CEO and co-founder Jon Miller. Miller, who...

3 strategies for keeping your marketing job in the age of AI
Artificial intelligence-based marketing tools can now learn, predict, personalize, strategize, make decisions, take action, provide...

Intercom releases what could be the first civilized bot
The civilized bot has arrived. As bot makers begin to differentiate their wares, customer communications platform Intercom is out this...

Forrester report: Automation is taking over customer interaction
A robotic lawn mower If you think you’ve finally gotten a handle on customer engagement, buckle up. That’s because “automation is...

Salesforce’s Social Studio can now see
This week, Salesforce is giving eyesight to its Social Studio. Social Studio is the social management tool in the company’s Marketing...

Demandbase boosts its B2B early warning system
Metaphorically, Demandbase’s new Real-Time Intent is a kind of early warning system for business sellers. Demandbase helps marketers...

Crimson Hexagon boosts its visual recognition of social pics
Images have become central to social conversations, and social intelligence platform Crimson Hexagon has boosted its image analysis to...

Will autonomous vehicles provide the next screens for publishers and advertisers?
If and when autonomous vehicles arrive, it’s difficult to envision anything more frightening than a massive tractor-trailer truck...

Even Financial launches tool to semi-automate financial compliance for online ads
Compliance-at-scale is a growing need for marketers, given the Federal Trade Commission’s rulings on influencers and the coming of the...

Facebook’s newly purchased Ozlo may have jobs beyond Messenger
Facebook announced Monday that it was acquiring for its Messenger platform an intelligent agent called Ozlo, created by the Palo Alto,...

Zeta follows Boomtrain acquisition with AppNexus integration
Zeta Global — co-founded by former Apple CEO John Sculley — has taken another step in its quest to become a marketing platform that can...

Are neural networks the next marketing creatives?
If you take comfort in knowing that we’re a long way away from the day when computer systems recognize a beautiful photo, you might want...

Linqia unveils ‘first’ platform for predicting influencer engagement
Linqia is out this week with a new version of its platform that it says offers the first predictive analysis of influencers’ performance....
























