
Forrester: Marketers need to say goodbye to campaigns, hello to AI-driven conversations with custome
Marketers will need to transform from campaigns to real-time, continuous interaction with customers via intelligent agents. So says...

Optimizely releases new products signaling its emergence as ‘an Experimentation Platform’
You may know Optimizely as the A/B testing company for Web and mobile. But today, the San Francisco-based firm is unveiling a new version...

Adobe Target expands beyond A/B testing to automated optimization of user experience
Adobe is today evolving its Target solution — part of its Marketing Cloud — away from the testing of discrete A/B variables and toward...

Salesforce opens up Lightning Bolt portal templates for specific business needs
Salesforce has added bolts to its Lightning. Last year, the company released generalized self-service portal templates using...

BlueJeans Network offers first many-to-many video conferencing at scale for Facebook Live
BlueJeans for Facebook Live Video communications provider BlueJeans Network is out with a service that it says is the first to turn...

Why sales chat needs to be part of your multi-channel strategy
Research indicates that 85 percent of US online consumers like to give repeat business to e-commerce companies that resolve their issues...

Should you still be using an SEO enterprise platform?
Enterprise SEO platforms such as Searchmetrics, Linkdex and BrightEdge are used by a large number of brands and agencies. As the...

When you buy marketing software, know that you are buying into an ecosystem
While it may seem obvious that marketing technology makes companies more efficient, making the wrong choices, especially in favor of...

Five free Chrome extensions for SEO practitioners
Did you know that you can increase your SEO task efficiency by using extensions in Google Chrome? If you perform most of your SEO tasks...

Kontakt’s product releases point to a new phase of beacon evolution
Kontakt Gateway, with Location Engine software New products from a Kracow, Poland-based international company give a glimpse of where...

Fuisz partners with Sizmek for automated object-recognition in video ads
Image from Fuisz Video Way back in the last century, I worked with interactive video’s first commercial incarnation, videodiscs tethered...

Reactful offers web optimization platform to stimulate visitors’ behavior
From the Reactful website Marketers looking for ways to entice reluctant site visitors have another option today. San Francisco-based...

Akamai: When creating responsive sites for mobile, consider dynamic image optimization
Responsive web design across several screens Since the end of the last decade, responsive web design (RWD) has been a popular way for...

How to solve the event marketing data problem
In-person events have become a critical source of leads for B2B marketing and sales organizations. In fact, face-to-face events account...

Parse.ly now provides site and app publishers with full raw data
Parsely is the leaf garnish that fans say offers so much more than you think. And today its namesake company, Parse.ly, is offering a...

Moz drops Followerwonk to focus on search, lays off 28% of staff
Moz has announced they are refocusing their toolset platform to focus on search. That means they are going to no longer offer the Moz...

How CRM brings control and collaboration to advertising & media agencies
Recently, Insightly (my employer), worked with TechValidate, an independent third party, to conduct a survey of creative professionals,...

Xperiel announces cloud-based platform so marketers can build apps for the Internet of Things
Xperiel’s visualization of its platform The huge and growing archipelago of devices, screens and sensors represents an enormous...

Zeta Interactive acquires Acxiom’s marketing division, Impact
Zeta Interactive wants to be included in any grouping of major marketing clouds, like those from Adobe, Salesforce or Oracle. Today, it...
























