Drift, the leader in Conversational Marketing, Conversational Sales and Revenue Acceleration, announced the launch of Virtual Selling Assistants. This new offering enables sales teams across the globe to increase quality pipeline and closed won revenue, without adding additional sales representatives. “According to McKinsey, over 80% of B2B seller interactions have moved to digital, and 99% of B2B buyers say they will make a purchase in an end-to-end digital self-serve model,” said Leo Tenenblat, Chief Product Officer at…

Revenue Acceleration leader cites demand for digital transformation momentum as catalyst for growth Drift, the world’s leading Revenue Acceleration Platform that is transforming how sales and marketing work together to deliver more revenue, faster, with the help of Conversational Marketing and Conversational Sales, announced a year of record-breaking growth. As the COVID pandemic drove industries everywhere to accelerate their digital transformation, companies turned to Drift’s platform to more effectively engage their…

Seasoned technology executive and entrepreneur joins to lead product development and strategy as company continues to revolutionize the way businesses buy from businesses Drift, the world’s leading Revenue Acceleration Platform, announced that Leo Tenenblat, Ph.D., has joined the company as its first Chief Product Officer. Leo’s appointment as CPO comes on the heels of another record year for the company, and in this role, he will oversee product, design and engineering. Marketing Technology News: AnyClip Launches VPAID,…

Revenue Acceleration leader experienced 35,474% revenue growth from 2016 to 2019 Drift, the world’s leading Revenue Acceleration Platform, announced it ranked 6th on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™. Now in its 26th year, Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 provides a ranking of the fastest-growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and energy tech companies — both public and private — in North America. Award winners are selected based on percentage fiscal year revenue growth from 2016 to 2019. Drift grew…

Revenue Acceleration Leader Paves the Way for Event-Based Dialogue Managers October 28, 2020 Drift, the leading Revenue Acceleration Platform, announced that the United States Patent & Trademark Office (“USPTO”) has granted a patent for its Artificial Intelligence-based chatbot solution. Patent #10,818,293, titled Selecting a response in a multi-turn interaction between a user and a conversational bot, represents the company’s commitment to industry-disrupting innovation and paves the way for event-based dialogue…

Market leader launches Revenue Acceleration category to help companies grow revenue and increase customer lifetime value faster Drift, the leading sales and marketing platform that created the Conversational Marketing category, announced a new category: Revenue Acceleration. Whereas Conversational Marketing focused on serving marketing, Revenue Acceleration powers an organization, uniting sales and marketing and touching all stages of the customer journey, from the moment someone first interacts with your business to the…

Conversational Marketing leader announces new product integrations with enterprise meeting platform Zoom Drift, the world’s leading Conversational Marketing platform, today announced it will offer three unique integrations with leading enterprise meeting platform Zoom. The integrations -- which include solutions for Drift Chat, Drift Meetings, and Drift Video -- give sales teams the power to transition meetings into pipeline faster than ever before. Marketing Technology News: Blippar Accelerates International Growth…

Digital transformation leader awarded for innovation and delivering significant results across the company’s revenue-generating functions PTC  has been recognized as a SiriusDecisions Program of the Year winner for the company's Revenue Orchestration and Intelligence Engine (ROI Engine) initiative, a collaborative effort involving 6sense, Drift, and People.ai. In order to provide best-in-class buying experiences, B2B companies today must have a holistic understanding of their customers’ digital journeys. As part of a…

"The successful marketers of the future are going to be the ones who are able to balance both the creative and empathetic emotional side of marketing with the more scientific, analytical side." Hi Tricia, from Salesforce to becoming a CMO- How did you plan your transition through the Dotcom era to the modern AI era? When I started my career, the computer was just becoming a thing people had on their desks, Windows was a new thing. I had the choice to be a designer at a top firm in Boston or NYC but they weren’t using…

New product unifies sales and marketing data so you can engage in real-time conversations now, not later Drift, the leading conversational marketing platform, announced the launch of Drift Audiences. This is the first solution that unifies your sales and marketing data silos to reveal who is on your website and where, so you can engage in real-time conversations and unlock new revenue. “There are a lot of tools that can tell you who is on your website, and a lot of others that can give you a report that you can act on…

Partnership More Accurately Identifies Hidden, High-Value Prospects for Drift Customers 6sense, the leading Account Based Orchestration Platform, powered by AI, announced at HYPERGROWTH that it has partnered with Drift to provide account identification capabilities to customers using the company’s Drift Intel feature. The integration between 6sense’s Company Graph and Drift provides curated company-level data of website visitors to Drift Intel customers. Account Based Orchestration Platform, @6senseInc, to power company…

Bottomline Technologies, a leading provider of financial technology that helps make complex business payments simple, smart and secure, announced that it has added AI-enabled chat inside its payment solutions to make signing up and accessing support even easier for its Paymode-X and PTX customers. By leveraging capabilities from Drift, an innovative conversational marketing platform, Bottomline is assisting its Paymode-X and PTX customers intelligently and in real-time. In North America, AI-enabled chat will be used to…

Joint Research Gives Business Leaders Actionable Insights into Alignment Creation and Performance Impact LeadMD, the world’s leading performance marketing consultancy, announces the results of its Sales & Marketing Alignment Report (SMAR). The report was conducted in partnership with the leading conversational marketing platform Drift and leveraged hundreds of executives’ feedback in order to produce a study focused on quantifying the term “sales and marketing alignment” and distilling the concept down into actionable…

Conversational Marketing leader unveils first marketing automation product built for the customer era at HYPERGROWTH 2019 Drift, the leading conversational marketing platform, announced the acquisition of Giant Otter and the launch of Drift Automation. Giant Otter was led by Jeff Orkin, Ph.D., who has been developing AI systems to understand human behavior and language for the past 20 years. As CEO of Giant Otter, Dr. Orkin built on research he conducted at the MIT Media Lab. Prior to MIT, Dr. Orkin spent a decade…

Conversational Marketing Leader Unveils Drift Video at HYPERGROWTH London Drift, the world's leading conversational marketing platform, announced the launch of Drift Video, the first enterprise-ready video platform built to start conversations and make B2B buying easy. "Since starting Drift, we've said there are two mega-trends that would shape the future of B2B sales and marketing: messaging and video," said David Cancel, founder and CEO of Drift. "Over the last few years we've built an industry-leading messaging…

The New Integration Makes It Easy for Marketers to Give Buyers the Personalized, Real-Time Experiences They Now Expect from B2B Brands PathFactory and Drift announced an integration that brings exciting new capabilities to B2B buyer enablement, and helps marketers and salespeople better understand the role content and chatbots play in the buying process. The seamless integration between PathFactory’s Content Insight and Activation Platform and Drift’s conversational marketing and sales platform adds chatbots and…

Conversational Marketing Leader Adds Former CarGurus and LogMeIn Sales Leader to Executive Team Drift, the world’s leading conversational marketing and sales platform, announced that Josh Allen has been appointed the company’s first Chief Revenue Officer. Josh Allen Joins Drift as Company’s First Chief Revenue Officer As CRO, Allen will be responsible for building and executing Drift's long term go-to-market sales strategy as the company strives to transform businesses’ sales and marketing into the now. He joins…

Drift, the world’s leading conversational marketing and sales platform, introduced new products and partnerships built to connect businesses with customers now, not later, at HYPERGROWTH 2018. The company announced Conversational Advertising, Drift Assistant, the acquisition of Siftrock and partnerships with Marketo, Demandbase and Outreach. “The last decade in B2B sales and marketing was all about the business following up later,” said David Cancel, Drift Founder & CEO. “But today, B2B sales and marketing has to be…

Conversational Marketing Leader Unveils New Technology That Gives Businesses All of the Information They Need to Provide a World-Class Buying Experience to Every Website Visitor -- Without Relying on Lead Forms Drift, the world’s leading conversational marketing and sales platform, brings B2B marketers one step closer to a world without forms with the launch of Drift Intel. This powerful new feature -- included in the latest update to the Drift platform -- changes the game for B2B buyers who are looking to provide a…

Drift Enables Marketers to Cut out Traditional, Tedious Sales and Marketing Processes Using the Power of a Conversation Drift, the world’s first conversational marketing and sales platform, has been named a “Cool Vendor” in Gartner’s new report, Cool Vendors in Conversational Marketing. Gartner conducts annual evaluations of emerging technology companies that are changing the market by addressing a wide array of industry issues and trends. For the Cool Vendors in Conversational Marketing report, Gartner identified…