
Brandwatch, Crimson Hexagon join Twitter’s channel partner program
Twitter announced Wednesday two more participants in its new channel partner program, Brandwatch and Crimson Hexagon. This brings to five...

IBM enlists Watson to define customer segments and insights
IBM is now using Watson’s brain to predict customer behavior. The tech giant has released Watson Marketing Insights, which collects and...

Oracle adds chatbots, smarter recommendation engine to its Clouds
This week, Oracle is livening up its Clouds with chatbots and other kinds of intelligent apps. First, it is bringing chatbot creation,...

Why B2B needs artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is more than a stylish trend. It goes beyond rules, providing the ability to understand content or language,...

TapClicks buys Raven Tools
TapClicks’ reporting and analytics platform, geared toward mid-sized and enterprise agencies and media companies, gathers data from over...

Fohr Card launches a service to identify bots that follow Instagram influencers
The New York City-based company says it is the only one to charge brands for the activity of verified human followers on Instagram, and...

Weather Company’s data now available to any advertiser through LiveRamp
The Weather Company is going big with weather. The IBM-owned firm has announced a partnership with Acxiom-owned data management platform...

Using a social management platform: What you need to know
Social has become a key component of most brands’ marketing and engagement strategies. As a result, there are quite a few complexities...

Bizible launches ‘first B2B revenue planning tool based on attribution’
B2B attribution service Bizible has decided that it doesn’t want to look just into the past anymore. The Seattle-based company announced...

Top 15 promising project management tools to make your productivity skyrocket
No sane person would try to manage a project without the help of dedicated software. But with so many options and so little time, how do...

Oracle adds ad verification to its data wheelhouse by acquiring Moat
Oracle has taken another step to enlarge its data capabilities, announcing Tuesday that it has agreed to buy ad verification firm Moat....

Optimizely buys Experiment Engine for its optimization tools
Last year, testing service Optimizely said it was going beyond A/B as it launched Optimizely X, which it described as the “world’s first...

6 ways that IBM Watson is changing digital marketing
While IBM’s Watson supercomputing service is named after former IBM chairman and CEO Thomas Watson, the name also recalls another famous...

The 8 time- & money-saving SEO tools I pay for (& 17 more I use for free)
In a recent interview with SEO and Credo founder John Doherty on Dan Shure’s excellent Experts on the Wire podcast, he mentioned the...

TapInfluence adds tool to automatically check influencers’ posts for FTC compliance
Influencer marketing — where bloggers, YouTube celebrities and others are paid to wax enthusiastic about a new shampoo or whatever — is a...

Sprinklr, the former social platform, emerges this week as a customer experience cloud
Sprinklr had “a coming-out party” this week. That’s the characterization by founder and CEO Ragy Thomas. He told me that the company,...

The first Forrester Wave on Digital Intelligence tools tackles customer interaction
Customer interactions create a lot of data, and a lot of tools track that data. To help evaluate those tools and organize the kinds of...

AI, intent data boost new B2B marketing tools from Demandbase, Get Smart Content & Leadspace
There’s a veritable cornucopia of advanced targeting solutions for B2B marketers this week, with new announcements from Demandbase, Get...

Salesforce’s Einstein adds velocity to its Sales Cloud
In the most famous formula ever written, the real Einstein understood that the speed of light drives the amount of energy you can...
























