
Content monetization platform Piano launches Composer for content personalization and paywalls
An illustration from Piano’s website Marketers who want to present customized experiences to segments of their website visitors — and...

Microsoft’s user-response Pulse platform now supports on-demand video
The live video version of Pulse on CNN Microsoft Pulse is the real-time voting platform that you might have seen on TV, as viewers give...

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...

Nielsen launches Marketing Cloud with eXelate infrastructure
A year ago, audience measurement service Nielsen bought the data management platform (DMP) eXelate, which collects and makes available...

SurveyMonkey adds mobile analytics to its resume
SurveyMonkey is expanding on the meaning of its name. Not the “monkey” part, of course. With the recent launch of SurveyMonkey...

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...

New “Emotit for President” app measures your emotional response to Clinton, Trump et al.
Two screen shots of Emotit. On the left, a clip of Republican Senator Ted Cruz is apparently really liked (9.3) by Democrats (blue)....

Segment adds more data sources besides apps and sites to its hub
When it began in 2012, Segment (formerly Segment.io) had one purpose in life: take data from mobile apps and web sites, and make them...

Tag management systems and DMPs — a match made in heaven?
If you’ve been in marketing long enough, you’re probably familiar with John Wanamaker’s famous quote: “Half the money I spend on...

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...

OTT television joins the world of user profiles in Tru Optik/Experian partnership
It’s ironic that television, the original mass marketing channel, is the last to become a full-fledged citizen of the consumer profile...

Startup Pyze launches free business intelligence and personalization platform for mobile apps
Mobile app marketers need a better data tool, and they need it for free. That’s the mission of startup Pyze, which today is launching its...

Lotame’s new Smart TV Audiences adds your TV shows to your device and online profile
Television, the granddaddy of marketing channels, is just now becoming a full citizen of online-focused marketing platforms. Last week,...

What can predictive analytics REALLY do? Three case studies in seeing the future
If you’re already using predictive analytics within your organization, then you know just how impactful they can be, and you’re likely on...

London buses test out the first consumer experience of the Physical Web
The Google-backed Physical Web is now operating in the physical world. UK-based mobile commerce provider Proxama, in partnership with...

New report: Almost all bad bots are highly sophisticated and hard to detect
There is one bright spot in Distil Network’s third annual report on bad bots, out this week: Human-generated internet traffic outnumbered...

MarTech Conference: Vendor roundtable on the future of martech
As the MarTech Conference headed down the final stretch earlier this week, conference chair Scott Brinker moderated a panel called “A...

MarTech Conference: 10 myths martech vendors tell
Why do vendors dislike marketing technology analyst firm Real Story Group? According to Theresa Regli, Principal Analyst & Managing...

MarTech Conference: Ultimate guide to building a martech stack
Travis Wright speaks about building a martech stack at MarTech. Travis Wright, Chief Marketing Technologist for CCP Global, had his work...




















