
IAB Tech Lab launches new Tool Repository with a viewability SDK
The Tech Lab at the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has made its first acquisition for a new Tool Repository. The Lab announced late...

Local SEO is about so much more than tools
Welcome to my first Local SEO column of the year on Search Engine Land! While most other sites are publishing roundups or predictions for...

MarTech Landscape: What is a beacon?
An assortment of beacons from (starting upper left) Gimbal, Kontakt.io, Estimote, Radius Networks, GPShopper, Aruba Consumers’...

Sisense lets you ask for analytics by voice — or by checking the color of your desk lamp
A desk set up for Sisense Everywhere, with Amazon Alexa and a multi-colored connected lamp. Want to find out how last year’s revenue...

Hey Santa, here’s our 2016 ‘Marketing Naughty & Nice’ list
Even a Jewish guy like me knows that Santa — trying like everyone else to satisfy his customers — can barely keep up. Like many of us,...

Amazon Alexa is now the voice agent for marketing analytics platform Datorama
The family of Amazon Alexa devices If you thought intelligent voice agents were only for handlessly searching the web or calling up your...

IBM’s Watson is now working as a psychologist for ad tech firm Unruly
Marketers have run psychological profiles on consumers for quite a while, but they take time and money to do well. Now, IBM’s Watson...

Demandbase survey: Marketers sure like them some AI
Once upon a time, we writers would note whether some new tech was cloud-based or not. Now, it’s often assumed that all business software...

Salesforce moves beyond first-party data with Krux integration
In October, Salesforce announced it was buying data management platform (DMP) Krux. This week, the CRM/marketing giant unveiled the...

Ad tech firm Dstillery enters B2B arena with intent data from Bombora
Bombora makes its living by tracking what products B2B users research on the web, and then it provides data so others can market to those...

MarTech Landscape: What are those DAM systems?
Instead of shoeboxes of photos, many businesses employ specialized software to manage their images. These Digital Asset Management (DAM)...

With its new cloud-based header bidding, Amazon is taking another step toward building ‘an adtech po
Twin Design / Shutterstock.com Amazon made two announcements last week to grow its adtech business and make its shoppers’ data available...

Invoca embeds IBM’s Watson so call centers can better understand their customers
IBM’s Watson supercomputing service is adding yet another job skill to his resume. This week, Invoca announced that it will offer a...

New B2B analytics platform called Proof correlates sales results with marketing efforts, despite tim
Unlike B2C sales, B2B deals often take many months to close. But how can you determine which marketing, ad, PR or other spending drove...

Lotame launches what it calls ‘first TV data management platform’
In March, data management platform (DMP) Lotame announced Smart TV Audiences, where it partnered with an unnamed smart TV maker to get...

Nielsen-backed OurCart startup launches Snapstar app to incentivize brand loyalty for grocery shoppe
For shoppers, grocery receipts are ribbons of paper they sometimes check, but often throw out. For brands, grocery receipts are data...

Pathmatics acquires WhatRunsWhere
A still image from a video on the WhatRunsWhere site Santa Monica, California-based Pathmatics allows enterprises to monitor their...

AdQuick launches open platform for online booking of billboard ads
If you’ve noticed that more and more billboards have essentially become giant TV screens, then you’re watching the out-of-home (OOH)...

iQ Media’s new platform can automatically find logos in all TV transmissions
This week, the six-year-old iQ Media announced the launch of a new TV search platform that automatically finds still or moving imagery of...
























