Marketers Add New Capabilities To Meet Growing Digital Customer Engagement, Resulting in Higher Average Order Value for Many Companies, MeritB2B Reports MeritB2B, the leading provider of B2B data and performance marketing solutions, today announced the results of a survey of B2B marketers that shows a dramatic increase in digital marketing over the course of 2020 and a focus on digital growth in 2021. With business buyers mostly online for the past year, B2B marketers reported added investment into digital channels for both…

Casted, the first Amplified Marketing Platform and the only audio and video podcast solution made for B2B marketers, announces $7 million in Series A funding led by Revolution Ventures. The round also includes current investors High Alpha Capital, Elevate Ventures, and Tappan Hill Ventures. Casted enables B2B enterprises to leverage audio and video content as a highly effective sales and marketing tool. With Casted, marketing teams can publish content, access a fully searchable content archive with transcription services…

This April Fool's Day the joke is on marketers who ignore the importance of quality, accurate data As the saying goes, "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." True Influence®, the technology leader of intent-based sales and marketing solutions, wants to make this April Fool's Day about telling the truth because there is already too much soothsaying, fortune telling, and bamboozling in the B2B world. Truth matters when it comes to turning data into authentic, actionable intelligence. Marketing Technology…

True Influence®, the technology leader of data-based sales and marketing solutions, today announced a partnership with Lotame, the leading global provider of data enrichment solutions to drive customer insights and turn personas into addressable advertising. Under the new partnership, True Influence will be providing access to its data for Lotame customers to use for programmatic display advertising through the Lotame Data Exchange (LDX), the world's largest second- and third-party data marketplace. Marketing Technology…

Research Compares Performance of 30,000+ Campaign Experiments Using Different Ad Types, Audiences, Creatives and Offers Metadata.io, the autonomous demand generation platform, unveiled a comprehensive analysis of all paid social campaigns their customers ran using the platform in 2020. The report, What We Learned from $15M in Spend on Facebook and LinkedIn, identifies key trends that shaped the most successful B2B marketing programs last year. The analysis and raw data are available for B2B marketers to…

PathFactory’s Intelligent Content Platform now allows B2B marketers to build fully custom microsites for ABM and other campaigns at scale PathFactory announced Microsite Builder, a highly-requested feature that helps B2B marketers develop flexible, effective, engaging content destinations for account-based marketing strategies. Marketing Technology News: Domo Invests For Growth, Welcoming New Executives To Lead Company’s Demand Engines “ABM is a top priority for most B2B marketing and sales organizations in 2021, and…

New product enables companies to see which actions are driving pipeline and revenue, closing the loop for marketing and sales teams DemandJump, the leading marketing insights and attribution platform, announced  the launch of Account-Based Attribution, a new product enabling marketing and sales teams to measure the true revenue impact of every touchpoint. Due to siloed tools, offline touchpoints, longer sales cycles, and disparate CRM data, B2B marketers have struggled with attribution more than their B2C counterparts -…

Most of us have succumbed to the “Netflix effect”—the company’s ability to draw us in with personalized, binge-worthy movies and shows. The business of filling our evening and weekend hours is a lucrative one: Netflix reported more than $20 billion in revenue in 2019. And in recent months, the company’s power has only intensified as other entertainment options fell by the wayside. When lockdowns first hit this spring, Netflix touted 16 million new sign-ups. I’ve always been fascinated by Netflix’s unique, and highly…

Drift, Integrate, 6sense and others join ON24 in a virtual, always-on trade show aimed to support next-gen revenue marketers as they build resilient growth strategies Marketers are increasingly responsible for not just generating leads, but driving true business impact. But, according to Deloitte, while 95% of marketers say revenue is the top growth metric defined by their organization, only 70% feel confident that they’re prepared to impact revenue. That’s why ON24, a digital experience platform that enables businesses…

Octane11 announced the launch of new digital marketing analytics offering to help Business-to-Business companies return to growth more confidently in 2021. Octane11 is a digital marketing analytics and collaboration platform, spun out of digital advertising leader MediaMath, that is focused exclusively on the unique needs of Business-to-Business (B2B) marketers. Octane11's new Year-End B2B Digital Marketing Audit provides B2B companies and their agency partners with an instant analysis of their entire digital marketing…

Marketers can now leverage contact level Intent data across multiple digital channels using Intentsify’s data activation platform LeadSift, a leading buyer-intent data platform, and Intentsify, a powerful intent data activation software, are partnering up to deliver and activate intent data for B2B companies at the contact and account level. This strategic partnership will allow B2B marketing teams to pinpoint which contacts and companies are actively researching specific solutions and product categories or engaging…

When the subject line “canceled” appears after months of planning (and a huge chunk of budget) have gone toward an event, marketing and sales teams have to scramble to go back to the drawing board. It’s gut-wrenching (my stomach is dropping even writing this) and they’ve potentially lost a primary source of leads for the year. Events across the globe have been canceled amidst the COVID-19 outbreak. As a result, large enterprise and consumer companies are taking their announcements virtual and sharing the huge…

Marketers learn how to prioritize their target audiences by reaching them using MetaData’s autonomous demand gen platform without using IP address matching LeadSift, a B2B Intent Data company announces a strategic partnership with MetaData.io, the AI-powered marketing operations platform to help B2B Marketers run digital campaigns without relying on IP Matching. Marketing Technology News:  Druva and FireEye Join Forces to Strengthen Enterprise Cyber Resiliency With less than 5% of your total market actively…

Build skills from the comfort of your couch Let’s face it; we’ve never had to deal with circumstances like this before. COVID-19 has spread its tentacles across the globe in an alarming way, cutting us off from our friends, families, and colleagues with surprising speed. Like other companies, Demandbase's marketing team has gone from weekly in-person meetings in Journey, our main conference room, to entirely virtual Zoom-fests. Granted, we have done our level best to keep the energy up and maintain our sense of humor,…

Online Events, Webinars to Replace Live Events in 2020 Aggregage, Inc., the publisher of B2B Marketing Zone and more than 40 other B2B publications, today announced the results of a survey about the impact of COVID-19 on 2020 B2B marketing plans. More than 450 B2B marketing professionals responded and provided details about how they expect to adjust their marketing plans because of the pandemic. The survey was conducted in late March by B2B Marketing Zone, a site and newsletter for B2B marketers, and Webbiquity LLC, a…

MRP releases industry leading ABM functionality to put control in the hands of marketers: data management, AI modeling and scoring, audience activations, and cross platform account based reporting MRP Prelytix, the only enterprise-class predictive ABM platform, announced the launch of MRP Prelytix version 2.5, the latest upgrade to the industry leading predictive analytics and account-based marketing platform. Recently cited as the leading ABM platform in Ovum’s ABM Market Radar Report, MRP Prelytix 2.5 delivers a single…

Initial launch partners include Marketo an Adobe Company, Oracle Data Cloud, Linkedin, Lotame, The Trade Desk, and Pubmatic 180byTwo announced today the launch of its AI-powered Customer data and Identity platform to meet the growing needs of Business-to-Business marketers looking to simplify data work-flows and centralize their technology stacks. Developed off 180byTwo's AccountLink™  B2B graph, AI, and DAAS solutions; the platform enables B2B and Account-Based Marketers to seamlessly execute and measure marketing…

Solid customer intelligence is the foundation for any successful Marketing campaign. But when it comes to B2B Marketing, the process of gathering customer intelligence can be significantly more complex than B2C for a variety of reasons. Solid customer intelligence is the foundation for any successful Marketing campaign. In order to be effective, it’s important for B2B marketers to be aware of the reasons why gathering customer intelligence is more difficult and how to best address said difficulties. There Are Numerous…

Insight 2020, a recent research report conducted by leading B2B PR consultancy, EC-PR has revealed that more than half (53%) of UK B2B companies do not have a communication strategy, hampering their ability to accelerate business goals, increase brand awareness and promote cross-team collaboration.  1 in 4 marketers also noted the senior leadership team see no value in a communication strategy. EC-PR’s Managing Director, Lorraine Emmett comments: “It’s staggering to think that there is still such a high percentage of…

Communigator has collaborated with Smart Insights to bring us their recent survey results in relation to Marketing Automation. For both B2B and B2C companies, Marketing Automation is a valuable tool. These survey results show how applications and attitudes have changed since a similar study from 2016. 1 in 8 businesses in 2019 is not using Marketing Automation, compared to 18% in 2016. Of those businesses who have opted for this incredible technology, only 5% are taking advantage of all the features available to them,…