
Pinterest adds measurement, data vendors to its Marketing Partners program
rvlsoft / Shutterstock.com On Wednesday, Pinterest added marketing measurement and data companies to its Marketing Partners (née...

Forrester: Here are some ways marketers can adapt to messaging apps
From the Forrester report: Tools to create branded conversations in messaging apps Like shopkeepers in previous centuries who talked to...

For Chevrolet and Hollywood, IBM’s Watson is learning how to understand emotions and personalities
The movie poster for “Morgan” IBM’s Watson cognitive computing system is learning all about human personality and emotions. In...

Marketers: Here are a dozen authoring tools to help you get chatty with chatbots
In case you didn’t get the memo, marketers now have another channel to wrangle: continuous, intelligent conversations with customers. One...

Imperson unveils chatbot platform so you can create your own character
Sample chatbot conversations with Miss Piggy and Judy Hopps, from Imperson Imperson has specialized in character-based chatbots, like the...

Nasdaq adds the ability to discover top online influencers
The Nasdaq stock exchange can now locate influencers through its press release operation. The New York City-based company has launched...

Simply Measured offers “first social measurement API” for marketers
Social analytics firm Simply Measured is today releasing what it describes as “the first social measurement API designed for marketing...

Wayin + EngageSciences = a different push/pull engine for user expression or a new Frankenstein?
From EngageSciences’ website Sometimes, when two companies combine, they create a kind of Frankenstein monster — disparate parts not...

Social intelligence platform Unmetric launches Discover feature so marketers can see what other mark
An image board in Unmetric’s new Discover feature When a brand wants to conduct a social media or other online campaign, the first step...

API limitations & fluctuations lead to the end of social insights tool ThinkUp
If you build your house on someone else’s land, you have to abide by their rules. ThinkUp, a social insights tool, has learned this the...

Lithium launches Reach, a Klout-informed social content marketing tool
Social community provider Lithium Technologies is today announcing a new social content marketing product called Lithium Reach that is...

Email provider Bluecore, UGC platform Olapic team up to use consumers’ photos in marketing emails
User-created photos, from the Olapic web site Email marketing took another step toward becoming an outlet for user-generated content...

Startup SolidOpinion offers “Promoted Comments” for publishers
Have you ever felt so strongly about something you read online that you wanted your posted comment to stand out? This week, a New York...

LiveWorld launches first public tool — a high-speed management platform for social conversatio
From the LiveWorld website The job description of the modern brand includes managing countless streams of conversations across social and...

Social management system Hootsuite adds new APIs to open up its platform
Hootsuite is acting today to make its social media management platform a more complete citizen of the marketing ecosystem. The...

Customer service provider [24]7 ports its chat bot/live agent service to Facebook Messenger
Move over, telephone. Facebook Messenger in particular, and messaging apps in general, are on their way toward becoming the main live...

Merger of Experticity and ReadyPulse combines offline and online influencers
Some of the products promoted by ReadyPulse’s influencers Experticity is an influencer network that finds and supports offline advocates...

AdStage Launches “Automate” To Power PPC Automation Across Search And Social Ad Networks
Self-serve campaign management platform AdStage has announced the launch of a new product called Automate to help advertisers optimize...

Lithium Gives Its Community Owners A Holiday Present They Need: Stats
As with many other kinds of social initiatives, marketers often have a hard time justifying their online communities. To give them some...
























