Enterprise business teams now have fine-grained security control and detailed engagement data for everything they publish online. Brandcast, the first no-code content platform for enterprise, is proud to release Personal Engagement Analytics, a new platform feature that raises the standard for creating, delivering, and tracking personalized digital experiences. With Brandcast, enterprise business teams now have fine-grained security control and detailed engagement data for everything they publish online. Marketing…

New $3.4 Million Funding Round Led by VMG Catalyst Fuels Product Development, Product Enablement and Marketing Efforts Daasity, the premiere analytics and data platform that empowers direct-to-consumer and omni-channel brands to understand and leverage their data, announced today the completion of their $3.4m seed round. VMG Catalyst is leading the round, along with new participation from Centre Street Partners and a group of e-commerce founders and operators. These new supporters of Daasity join the impressive list of…

MeritDirect, the leading provider of B2B data and performance marketing solutions, today announced that the company is rebranding to MeritB2B. The new name provides the company with the platform for their specialized analytics, advanced technology, customized demand generation and digital solutions that enable growth for the B2B marketer. The announcement is part of a series of strategic company growth initiatives including the recent acquisition of 180bytwo, as well as a variety of key hires and partnerships. Marketing…

Acquisition Enhances Yum! Brands’ Ability to Make Smart Data-Driven Marketing Decisions; Integrates New Technology Talent into Company Yum! Brands, Inc., today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the leading artificial intelligence-based consumer insights and marketing performance analytics business of Kvantum, Inc. By acquiring the Kvantum business, Yum! and its KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and The Habit Burger Grill brands enhance their ability to apply powerful consumer…

Combined analytics business provides competitive advantage by delivering insights across all customer engagements Merkle, a leading technology-enabled, data-driven customer experience management (CXM) company and part of dentsu, has announced that it is retiring its data analytics brand Merkle Aquila. The business will now be known as Merkle. The rebrand marks the final step in Aquila’s integration into Merkle’s combined analytics offering in EMEA, which includes its market leading customer and digital analytics…

The new omniearnedID platform empowers communications leaders to demonstrate ROI of earned media Communicators and marketers have long sought a solution for the problem of evaluating the effectiveness of earned media on business outcomes with the same precision as paid media. That is now possible with the launch of Omnicom Public Relations Group's (OPRG) patent-pending precision communications platform, omniearnedID™. "Being able to consistently link earned media to sales is a game changer, not just for PR, but a…

First-of-its-kind intelligence platform will help brands make smarter, faster decisions by connecting consumer and market insights to performance marketing Kenshoo, a global leader in marketing technology, announced its intent to acquire Signals Analytics, a pioneer in AI-powered analytics for market intelligence. The acquisition positions the company to solve the biggest challenge brands face in the post-COVID-19 era: How to catch up with accelerated e-commerce adoption and be best positioned to understand, engage and…

News Highlights: Treasure Insights provides a brand-new suite of customer analytics to give marketers better visibility into evolving customer behaviors and greater marketing effectiveness. A new set of integrations has been added to an extensive connector network to simplify data ingestion and support any martech stack. A new, in-store SDK delivers a rich set of connected shopper data to marketers, store associates and customer service representatives. Treasure Data introduced new product capabilities for its…

INcapital Ventures Leads Latest Funding BrandTotal, the brand marketing analytics company providing social media competitive intelligence to brands and organizations, announced that it has raised $12 million in its Series B investment round. The Series B round was led by INcapital Ventures, in participation with Maor Investments, Glilot Capital Partners, Flint Capital, KDC Media Fund, and FJ Labs. Today's announcement brings the total capital raised by BrandTotal to $20 million to date The company plans on…

Digital consumer intelligence company, Brandwatch, and Kinetiq, the pioneer of real-time TV intelligence for brands, announced a partnership to provide the most comprehensive cross-channel marketing intelligence solution on the market. The deal brings Kinetiq's data from over 2,600 TV stations across more than 85 countries into the Brandwatch Consumer Research platform alongside the world's largest social data archive and its suite of AI-powered analytics, alerting and reporting tools. This new integrated solution lets…

Qualtrics, the leader in customer experience and creator of the experience management (XM) category, announced new advanced analytics capabilities to their industry-leading BrandXM solution. New Brand Driver Analysis built into BrandXM gives organizations of all sizes the power to quickly prioritize which actions will improve consumers' brand preferences and perceptions. Typically brand driver analysis is time and resource-intensive, with much of the work completed by a data scientist or outside consultant. Qualtrics'…

MarkMonitor to focus exclusively on Domains Management Clarivate Analytics plc, a global leader in providing trusted insights and analytics to accelerate the pace of innovation, announced the completion of the previously announced agreement to sell the MarkMonitor brand protection, antipiracy and antifraud business to OpSec Security, a global leader in anti-counterfeiting and brand protection solutions. As a result, MarkMonitor and its domain management business will continue to be an integral part of Clarivate's…

Nearly half of U.S. employees say their company has embedded AI into their standard business processes, and more than half of employees fear that they’ll lose their jobs to advanced automation and robots. However, in the midst of the chatter around how AI may be taking jobs away, we’re neglecting a very important discussion: how can AI actually improve jobs? This is a particularly necessary conversation for brands and marketers looking to use technology to boost sales or reduce customer churn, but what areas are important…

The Company Releases the Industry's First Brand Awareness Analytics for Consumer Recognition of TLDs BRS Media, a diverse and growing marketing and e-commerce firm that assists traditional and interactive companies build and brand on the power of the Internet, announced the first ever Top-Level Domain (TLD) Industry Data Quadrant Brand Analytics. BRS Media is a leading-edge firm that provides data-driven content strategy, unparalleled digital branding expertise, and world-class storytelling to the Top-Level Domain…

Scoop Has Been Incubated by Netcore Solutions, a Global Marketing Automation Provider In a recent development that highlights how rep-customer interactions can be leveraged to gain market intelligence, Scoop, a Netcore incubated startup, has developed an AI-powered conversational analytics platform designed to help Inside Sales teams to maximize sales conversion optimization. Scoop leverages machine learning to mine insights from customer conversations across voice, video, and text sources to discover sales…

A global data analytics and advisory firm, Quantzig, has announced the completion of their latest social media analytics engagement for a leading logistics player. During the course of this engagement, the analytics experts at Quantzig helped a leading logistics player based out of Germany to transform their business model and monitor the effectiveness of media investments and digital marketing campaigns. Quantzig's social media analytics solutions help businesses to analyze the effectiveness of company communications and…

ACTIVATE, the leading end-to-end influencer marketing marketplace, has become an official Pinterest Partner. The partnership will allow for ACTIVATE's marketplace of influencer and marketer partners, ranging from agencies, brands and media companies, to access deeper influencer performance analytics -- from views and impressions to actions taken on Pinterest including saves, clicks and close-ups. Marketing Technology News: TA Digital Welcomes Brian Meade as the Sr. Director Digital Commerce Channels…

New capabilities enable digital marketers to identify the objects and image colors in branded social content that drive the most positive audience engagement Unmetric, an enterprise solution for branded content analysis and discovery, announced new image analytics capabilities that enable digital marketers to identify the most engaging objects and colors in images that they or other brands post on social media. These insights will enable brands to make strategic decisions about the use of specific object tags and colors…

Following the announcement that Lowe’s Companies Inc. has acquired the Retail Analytics platform of Boomerang Commerce, Inc., Boomerang has announced it will rebrand and operate as CommerceIQ focusing on helping consumer brand manufacturers succeed on Amazon. Boomerang Commerce Rebrands As CommerceIQ after retail analytics platform is acquired by Lowe's Boomerang Commerce was founded in 2012 by Guru Hariharan, an Amazon and eBay veteran, and is based in Mountain View, CA with offices in Seattle, Chicago and Bangalore.…

Leading Content Technology Platform Deepens Investment in Attribution to Help Marketers Better Measure and Optimize Their Content ROI Measurement, distribution and optimization for content marketing just got easier. Nativo, the leading technology platform for brand content advertising, has completed its acquisition of SimpleReach, the platform used by agencies, advertisers, and publishers to help measure and improve the value of their content investments. Going forward, Nativo will support SimpleReach’s leading advertiser…