
Optimizely lets marketers create ideas and access experiment data through new Slack integration
From Optimizely: An idea collaboration screen in Slack. Optimizely users can now share ideas and check the status of experiments through...

Is your DevOps team allergic to marketing?
Nobody likes the idea of being “marketed to,” but developers especially are inherently allergic to marketing. Try traditional marketing...

Adobe makes its venerable PDF more collaborative
If you can remember back to the time in the last century before Adobe launched its PDF, software-constructed documents were fickle things...

Pandora rolls out new Dynamic, Sequential and Short-Form Audio ads
Today Pandora has changed that. The audio platform unveiled new audio ad capabilities on Tuesday, and it says it’s the first to test them...

Blippar launches indoor visual positioning system to anchor AR
If augmented reality (AR) is going to offer a reliable overlay for physical reality, it needs to be anchored into place. In many cases,...

CDPs: Why now?
For much of this century, marketing software vendors have promised “a single view of the customer” or “a single source of truth.” So, why...

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...

Genesys is offering the first ‘fully integrated’ use of Google Contact Center AI
Google’s visualization of its Contact Center AI Last week, Google announced a variety of new AI offerings, most notably the alpha release...

IAB Tech Lab launches primer and resource hub on ad-oriented blockchain tech
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Tech Lab has been moving quickly to catch up with blockchain. A week ago, its Blockchain Working...

New report: Consent management platforms are purchased less often than other privacy tools
With the massive new requirements for user consent in the General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) and the new California privacy law,...

Gartner releases first Magic Quadrant on mobile marketing platforms
A key question about mobile marketing is whether marketers should employ platforms specifically designed for those devices or utilize...

Vivoom turns user-generated content into user-created ads
Individual clips from Maroon 5’s Vivoom-powered “Confessionals” The biggest difference between today’s advertising and advertising in the...

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,...

Why MediaMath ‘unjoined’ the Ad ID Consortium
About a week ago, the Advertising ID Consortium said it will offer the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s (IAB) Tech Lab’s DigiTrust ID as...

IAB Study: Podcast ad revenues are shooting through the roof — $314M in 2017
A new study released Monday by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) reveals that podcast revenues in the US have broken records,...

Outbrain acquires UI optimizer AdNgin to provide personalized, interest-based recommendations
announced Tuesday that it has purchased AdNgin, a user interface (UI) optimization company specializing in personalized, interest-based...

IAB Tech Lab releases a Data Transparency Framework
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Tech Lab is out today with a new framework for minimum disclosure requirements for data sellers....

Outbrain adds IAS integration to contextually shield for brand safety
Content discovery platform Outbrain is boosting its brand safety, with its recent announcement of a partnership with ad-quality...

First Forrester forecast for marketing automation finds it is still ‘early innings’ for adoption
In the hubbub over all the new technologies, the workhorse marketing automation platforms keep doing their jobs. And in “Marketing...
























