
Research firm Ipsos buys social listening platform Synthesio
Market research firm Ipsos announced on Tuesday it is acquiring social listening platform Synthesio, the latest in a series of...

6 of the best social listening tools for 2019
In your personal life, reading people’s minds is a questionable superpower; but the business benefits of being able to listen in on...

Fizziology employs Watson linguistic analysis to match endorsing athletes’ personalities with brands
If you’re looking for a soulmate, personality matching via a dating site is one way to better the odds of compatibility. And, if you’re a...

InMobi becomes Sprint’s exclusive in-app, CTV ad platform by buying the telco’s ad firm
Graphic provided by InMobi When a brand wants to advertise to telco subscribers, the process can involve many participants. But today...

Autopilot debuts real-time collaborative customer journey map
A screenshot of Autopilot’s new Annotate and Collaborate feature. Since customers’ choices are the key dynamic in modern marketing, the...

From funnel to flywheel
If you’re like most marketers, you could name the basic parts of the sales funnel in your sleep: Awareness, Interest, Evaluation,...

Semcasting unveils ‘first self-serve deterministic attribution platform’
Attribution is one of those services that seems to take place inside a black box, where all kinds of algorithms make all kinds of...

Facebook opens Audience Network SDK beta program for developers, publishers
Facebook announced last week it is opening its Audience Network SDK Beta Program, giving app developers and publishers early access to...

Do you still need a PPC tool with the new Google Ads?
On the surface, it’s easy to wrongly conclude that Google and Bing are automating PPC pros right out of relevance. Basic PPC tasks can...

Brandwatch, Crimson Hexagon merger gives rise to social-based market intelligence
The merger between social intelligence firms Brandwatch and Crimson Hexagon — announced Thursday — will lead to a new platform that...

Facebook is giving more Instagram developers access to AR camera features
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the company’s 2017 F8 Developer’s Conference. Facebook just renamed its Camera Effects Platform as Spark...

Ad groups unveil a new Data Transparency Label
Last May, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Tech Lab began releasing for comment a new framework to set up a kind of “ingredients...

Today’s CMO must tackle these 3 challenges
Pedowitz Group’s Chief Strategy Officer Debbie Qaqish presenting at the MarTech Conference in Boston. “Today’s CMO lives in a...

With 600 vendors, sales tech landscape is 1/10 the size of martech — and still overwhelming
Source: Nancy Nardin, Smart Selling Tools, Inc. “Only 35 percent of a sales rep’s time is spent selling,” says Nancy Nardin, founder and...

Adobe makes its venerable PDF more collaborative
If you can remember back to the time in the last century before Adobe launched its PDF, software-constructed documents were fickle things...

Customer data platforms ‘not a silver bullet,’ says CDP Institute founder
David Raab, founder of the vendor-neutral CDP Institute, shared his insights into what CDPs (customer data platforms) can and can’t do,...

Ad ID Consortium will work with tech firms to help marketer access critical exposure data
Exposure data refers to information about ad campaign measurement, such as where the ads were served and to whom. The group’s tracking...

IAS media quality report paints a slightly more optimistic picture for programmatic ad buyers
Overall, the industry is seeing a healthy jump in viewability, based on IAS’s view across its customer base. Desktop programmatic display...

Salesforce, Apple partner to spur mobile enterprise development
strategic partnership that will provide new tools for Salesforce developers, including its first mobile SDK, and developer training to...
























