Fanplayr, a leader in online behavioral personalization for the past 10 years, announced it has added Product Recommendations to its menu of offerings. The addition of Product Recommendations is an intuitive next step in the development of Fanplayr's fully integrated approach to behavior personalization and real-time responsiveness. Fanplayr is an early adopter utilizing Recommendations AI through the Google Cloud Platform. Marketing Technology News: FedEx to Acquire ShopRunner to Expand E-Commerce Capabilities…

Bloomreach, the leader in commerce experience, announced new feature enhancements to the ‘Recommendations’ module of the Bloomreach Experience Platform (brX). Marketing Technology News: Telestax Announces Partnership with Proximus to Deliver Full CPaaS Capabilities to Belgian Market “Great recommendations provide unified experiences that are relevant, personalized, and memorable,” said Arje Cahn, Chief Product Officer, Bloomreach. “The key to that is deep understanding of product and customer data. That’s what makes…

Searchspring delivers 1:1 personalization for ecommerce merchants in its new Personalized Recommendations Searchspring announced the beta launch of its new Personalized Recommendations feature. Early adopters are already trialing new Personalized Recommendations to display hyper-relevant products that engage shoppers and boost conversions. With ecommerce experiencing accelerated growth during the pandemic, this release comes at a time when online retailers are looking for automation to enhance their overburdened…

PathFactory, a member of Oracle Partner Network (OPN), announced Website Tools – a new suite of AI-driven content intelligence solutions that automatically analyzes website content, informs marketers who is engaging on the website and how they’re engaging and provides micro-personalized experiences to visitors based on their unique behaviors. “As website traffic surges in an all-digital business world and humans are consuming AI recommended content from the likes of Netflix and Amazon, marketers continue to struggle to keep…

RichRelevance, a leader in experience personalization, announced the launch of first-of-its-kind 'Deep Recommendations', a set of advanced personalization technologies that, unlike traditional recommender engines, does not need historical events and behavioral data to immediately generate relevant product recommendations. The new approach solves two problems: (a) it removes constraints associated with traditional recommendations which don't work for retailers and brands with sparse data - seasonal products, fast-changing…

Early adopters of Recommendations AI have experienced a 90% increase in click-through rate and 40% uplift in conversions Qubit, a leader in AI-led merchandising and personalized experiences, announced it has furthered its partnership with Google Cloud, making Recommendations AI available for eCommerce teams. The product recommendations solution is deeply integrated within Qubit’s new product interface for merchandising, enabling eCommerce teams to leverage Google Cloud’s latest AI technology. Included in the offering is…

Affle India has announced that it has signed a deal to acquire Tel Aviv-based Appnext, to strengthen the app recommendation technologies across the mobile industry. As part of the martech acquisition deal, Affle would acquire 66.67 percent of Appnext Singapore, and later on acquire 100% equity ownership. Together, Affle and Appnext are expected to merge their intelligence platform with app discovery and recommendation solutions to drive seamless experiences on mobile devices. Currently, Appnext has a user base of over 300…

Stardust Users Will Experience More Curated Recommendations to Create a Seamless and Personalized In-App Experience Stardust, the leading social app for fans to follow and discuss their favorite movies and TV shows, announced “Weekly Recs”, a new recommendation flow for their users worldwide. The integration provides a GDPR compliant, streamlined solution to improve customer experiences through a new platform powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning. This creates a customized set of movie and TV…

Natural Language Processing Engine to Activate Text-Based Similarity Algorithm for Improved Relevance Across Industries Selligent, the intelligent omnichannel marketing and experience cloud platform, announced the addition of a text-based algorithm as part of the Smart Content functionality within its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered engine, Selligent Cortex. Unlike most marketing cloud solutions today that offer only product-based recommendations, Selligent’s new capability leverages Natural Language Processing…

eCommerce Solution Creates Upsell and Cross-Sell Opportunities, Driving Sales Second Phase, a Billtrust solution and the leader in B2B eCommerce for wholesale distribution companies, has added artificial-intelligence (AI)-based Automatic Product Recommendations to their web store offering, creating upselling and cross-selling opportunities to drive sales, as well as a differentiated customer experience. Marketing Technology News: ZypMedia Expands Product and Engineering Leadership Team Using past buying behavior to…

Meredith Corporation has announced its acquisition of SwearBy. SwearBy is a digital platform for word of mouth recommendations designed to crowdsource and share products that women "swear by" based on their personal experiences. Meredith is the leading media company for women reaching nearly 100 million American female consumers each month and nearly 90 percent of U.S. millennial women. Marketing Technology News: TechBytes with Scott Gifis, President at AdRoll "At Meredith, we have a rich community of our own editors…

New Offering Gives Mid-Market Customers the Ability to Build Search-Driven Experiences with Richer Personalization Coveo, the AI solutions leader, and Sitecore®, the global leader in digital experience management software, today announced an expanded offering that includes the development of a new AI-powered search and recommendations solution for mid-market customers that will provide best-in-class capabilities, previously accessible only to enterprise-level customers. The two companies have signed their intent to form a…

Kentico EMS Integrates with Recombee, AI-Powered Recommender as a Service, Enabling Companies to Increase Customer Engagement by Providing Personalized Content and Product Recommendations Kentico Software, the leading provider of digital experience and Content-as-a-Service solutions, announced their integration with Recombee thanks to which companies are now able to deliver content that is most relevant to their customers. Marketers nowadays struggle to produce relevant content across web, email, mobile, and other digital…

New Study Examines Consumer Preferences Related to New UI Options New research from Parks Associates finds 70% of US broadband households with a major video service consider its user interface to be good, with 48% rating it "very good," and these scores impact their willingness to recommend the service to others. Analysis of consumer responses reveals quality of the UI and the ease of finding content are the most likely factors to drive willingness to recommend a video service. UI Preferences and Content Discovery …

Proprietary Algorithm Identifies the Best Vehicles for Each Dealer's Inventory Needs ADESA, a business unit of global vehicle remarketing and technology solutions provider KAR Auction Services Inc., announces the launch of the industry's first personalized vehicle Recommendations carousel for used-vehicle dealers. Available to eligible subscribing customers on ADESA.com, the Recommendations carousel provides unique, real-time buying recommendations tailored for each individual dealer directly on their ADESA.com home page.…

The Conversation Intelligence Leader Delivers Role-Based Suggestions, Users Automatically See Important Moments from Hundreds of Meetings Chorus.ai, the leading Conversation Intelligence Platform for high-growth sales teams, announced a new  AI-based feature to its arsenal, Recommendations, for deals, meetings, reviews and coaching. Recommendations uses Chorus’s AI technology to provide role-based suggestions that help users automatically see important moments from hundreds of meetings. Highlighted moments can include…

Done right, Product Recommendations increase conversions, boost average order value and strengthen Customer Loyalty. They also automate content, freeing up labor costs so creative efforts can focus elsewhere. But not all Product Recommendations are created equal. Sure, you can easily make recommendations based on best sellers, current trends or current sales, and that’s usually moderately successful. But if you want to see a significant lift that truly impacts your bottom line, recommendations should be personalized based…

With the growth of Business Intelligence (BI) and Analytics, dashboards are now pervasive and considered commonplace in the modern enterprise. We see them visualizing information for every type of organization, across every industry. They are embedded in websites, and they even (on occasion) make cameos in movies. Despite its ubiquity, the day of the dashboard as a static, stand-alone technology is quickly coming to an end. On the continuum between minds and machines, they are overly reliant on human inputs and are…

In Study Conducted by IRI, Sales Lift Beats Benchmarks for Digital Campaigns Influenster, the leading product discovery and reviews platform, featuring 35 million+ reviews written by 5 million+ members, shared the results of third-party research fielded by IRI, demonstrating the value of peer-to-peer recommendations in driving conversion. The research, conducted on behalf of a well-known global color cosmetics brand, reveals how ratings, reviews and user-generated content can drive an increase in incremental sales and…

New Feature Leverages Proprietary Data Science Models to Provide Actionable Suggestions Based on Evolving Consumption Patterns Mobile marketing automation platform CleverTap announced the release of their new product, Recommendation Engine, giving marketers a data science-driven way to reach customers with timely and relevant content, proven to drive conversions by up to 70 percent. The feature is the latest in a rapidly-expanding list of CleverTap's customer lifecycle management capabilities. With the new feature,…