Top MarTech RADAR-listed company, Optimove has announced today that Gartner has identified it as a Challenger in its 2020 Magic Quadrant for Multichannel Marketing Hubs. This is the first year Optimove has been positioned in the Challengers quadrant and third consecutive year that it has been included in this market’s Magic Quadrant. The previous two inclusions were as a Niche Player. Gartner defines the multichannel marketing hub as a technology that "orchestrates a company's communications with and offers to customer…

Oracle Responsys continues industry leadership, scoring highest in strategy category and achieving the highest possible score in the artificial intelligence, analytics, and vertical capabilities criteria Oracle today announced that it has been recognized as a Leader in the Forrester Research, Inc. May 2020 report, The Forrester Wave™: Email Marketing Service Providers, Q2 2020. This year's report evaluated 13 email marketing service providers based on 23 criteria, which are split into three categories—current offering,…

The newly launched marketing firm seeks to solve business owners’ biggest marketing headaches by arming them with proven, easy-to-employ DIY marketing strategies Brainito, an exciting collective of entrepreneurs who deliver winning marketing solutions to businesses across the globe, recently opened its virtual doors for business. The solution-driven firm’s mission is to arm businesses with the tools needed to help them see prolific marketing results by solving customers’ biggest problems. Brainito’s suite of services and…

Enterprises around the world turn to ON24 to execute a digital-first marketing strategy and drive sustainable revenue growth With businesses no longer able to connect with audiences in person, digital-first events are now the new normal. That's why companies of all industries and sizes are turning to ON24, the technology leader helping businesses innovate their marketing through interactive, data-rich digital experiences. Because of the engaging, data-rich format of ON24 webinars and virtual event experiences,…

Influencer marketing spend was expected to reach as much as $15 billion by 2022. But, as budgets are drastically reduced due to the global pandemic, marketers are under intense pressure to accurately track spend, optimize budgets, and properly measure return on their investments. Today Traackr, a leading influencer marketing platform, announced the release of a Budget Optimization toolset for marketers to better analyze spend and increase ROI. Traackr's new capabilities enable brands to take control of their influencer…

Programmatic OOH marketplace brings in Chief Marketing and Chief Product Officers to newly created roles to help drive global expansion. VIOOH, the premium marketplace for digital out of home (OOH), has made two strategic senior hires as the business continues to invest in its ambition to become the world's leading programmatic out of home marketplace. The newly created roles see Helen Miall named Chief Marketing Officer while Jon Block becomes Chief Product Officer. Miall is best known for her tenure as EMEA Head of…

We are living in unprecedented times. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally upended every aspect of our global economy and professional careers. According to experts, this crisis will create a “new normal” and change the trajectory for many commonplace facets of our everyday lives. This shift also holds for B2B enterprises and marketing teams, and I’m ecstatic for the opportunities that lie ahead.   Winston Churchill famously said, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” Adversity -- and even some chaos --…

The Zeta Marketing Platform Receives Highest Possible Scores in Ten Criteria, including Data, Artificial Intelligence, Personalization & Optimization, Analytics and more Zeta Global, a leading data-powered marketing technology company that helps brands acquire, grow and retain customer relationships, today announced that it has been recognized as a Leader in "The Forrester Wave™: Email Marketing Service Providers, Q2, 2020, which evaluated the Zeta Marketing Platform among the 13 most significant email marketing…

The Zeta Marketing Platform Receives Highest Possible Scores in Ten Criteria, including Data, Artificial Intelligence, Personalization & Optimization, Analytics and more Zeta Global, a leading data-powered marketing technology company that helps brands acquire, grow and retain customer relationships, announced that it has been recognized as a Leader in "The Forrester Wave: Email Marketing Service Providers, Q2, 2020, which evaluated the Zeta Marketing Platform among the 13 most significant email marketing service…

Merkle, a leading technology-enabled, data-driven performance marketing agency, released the Q2 2020 installment of its Customer Engagement Report. Acting as an extension of the previous report, which highlighted the barriers to great personalization, the Q2 report discusses how marketers are leveraging agile marketing to better align organizations and create successful, data-driven campaigns. The report features original research, showcasing strong agile adoption numbers across organizations, with 89% of respondents…

JRNI, a leading SaaS scheduling platform designed to optimize the customer journey through powerful personalized experiences both in-person and remotely, today announced the availability of JRNI Analytics. The tool is designed to provide retailers, retail banks, wealth management firms, and other businesses with insights into consumer behavior, business trends, and conversions. Marketing Technology News: Adfone Announces the Closing of a $7.5M Seed Funding Round to Expand its Play2Pay Rewards Platform As scheduled…

Cognism drives European expansion into the German market by acquiring the Mainz based firm. New combined solution helps marketers adapt to the ‘stay at home’ era of marketing. Cognism, the world’s leading all-in-one globally compliant prospecting solution, has acquired email signature marketing platform, Mailtastic, in a seven-figure deal. Cognism will bolster its world-leading GDPR compliant prospecting solution with Mailtastic’s email signature technology, allowing clients to lower customer acquisition costs by using…

Higher-ed marketing leader to champion Ellucian’s digital transformation solutions Ellucian, the world’s leading provider of software and services built to power higher education, today announced that it has appointed Sharon Loeb as its chief marketing officer (CMO). Loeb is a seasoned marketer, strategist and business leader, with an extensive background in education technology. “Under Sharon’s leadership, Ellucian marketing will engage more deeply with customers, empowering innovation at this time of rapid change and…

Amazon YoY Growth surged at 118% for Sponsored Brands; Google Records Weak Growth for Search Ad Spend Merkle, a leading technology-enabled, data-driven performance marketing agency, released its Q1 2020 Digital Marketing Report (DMR), a quarterly research report that analyzes and highlights key metrics and trends within paid and organic search, paid social, and display ad spend. The report provides insights into year-over-year (YoY) growth for Amazon, Google, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube, and illustrates the impacts…

Are you investing in the right Marketing efforts for your organization? Marketing Analytics means to collect, manage and study key metrics for determining the success and ROI of your Marketing strategy. Additionally, it helps you identify the key areas to improve. Often, enterprises use the terms ‘analytics’ and ‘metrics’ interchangeably but, there is a slight difference. Marketing metrics refer to the data points while Marketing Analytics is the process of extracting relevant insights from the collected data that will…

605, a leading television measurement and analytics company, today announced the hire of Jonathan Kalsched as Senior Vice President of Marketing. Kalsched brings more than two decades of experience in strategic marketing, market development and advanced television product marketing to the company. In his role as SVP of Marketing, Kalsched is responsible for driving the organization's marketing, public relations and brand positioning initiatives. He is tasked with overseeing 605’s product positioning and promotion, brand…

For the first weeks of COVID-19, it felt like the end of the world was indeed finally here. The stock market was falling, companies were laying people off, people were forced to work from home, grocery shelves emptied, and, almost every country in the world had infections and deaths soaring - there seemed to be no end in sight. Many of us who have been through other crises before could not help make comparisons of past crises -- the dot-com bust of 2000, 9/11 in 2001, the financial crisis of 2008. However, even the most…

Two of the customer experience (CX) tech spaces leaders are partnering to deliver a complete package to their clients. SANDSIV, with their core product sandsiv+, delivers the most powerful AI-driven customer intelligence system in the world. Tech Mahindra is a leading provider of digital transformation, consulting and business reengineering services and solutions. The partnership will allow some of the world’s best known companies to turn their zettabytes of customer data into actionable information and even predictive…

Companies integrate campaign optimization and marketing operations solutions to deliver insights that empower actions TapClicks, the leading unified marketing platform for analytics, intelligence, reporting, workflow and orders management, announced that it has acquired AdStage, a leading provider of marketing and advertising intelligence solutions for campaign optimization. Known for its cross-channel analytics and optimization platform, AdStage will be integrated into TapClicks' family of brands, which includes Raven…

With more than two decades of experience in technology go-to-market strategy and planning, Suzy Meriwether joins core team driving new business growth and customer support Revionics, a provider of retail pricing, promotions, markdowns and advanced analytics solutions, today announced the hiring of Suzy Meriwether as director of product marketing. Meriwether is a portfolio marketing leader with more than 20 years of experience creating and executing go-to-market plans that drive revenue for technology companies of all…