Tell us about your role and the team/technology you handle at PubMatic. I head up PubMatic’s UK business, with a core responsibility for commercial success. My role encompasses two main areas: growing our premium publisher client base, and building trusted relationships with agencies and advertisers. I also hold responsibility for our account management teams who are central to client retention and delivering ongoing success for our clients and the business as a whole. What is the essence of your Partner-Customer…

Sales forecasting is part of every company’s standard operating procedure. Each sales leader has their own process for arriving at a forecast, but the end result is the same-- sales leaders live and die by the forecast. There is nothing more frustrating than sorting through the mountains of data that get rolled into a forecast. Each rep makes an estimate, which rolls into managers, who eventually present their forecast to a leader. Some managers allow reps to make an estimate based on dollars-- without specifying which…

Innovation in advertising takes many forms. As technologists in Mobile Advertising, we spend a lot of time thinking about the creative palette itself--how the properties of the palette can enhance consumer experiences. As more content consumption moves to smaller devices, having the ability to transform those small screen experiences into larger, more immersive ones will be critical to the future of advertising. Following Huawei's latest announcement of the Mate X phone, which has both 5G capabilities and a foldable…

Acquia, the open source digital experience company, announced that it has acquired Mautic, creator of the world’s only open marketing automation and campaign management platform. Together, Acquia and Mautic form the only open alternative to expensive, closed, stagnant marketing clouds, expanding Acquia’s vision to offer the industry’s first Open Digital Experience Platform. Customers can now automate, personalize, and measure the entire customer lifecycle – across every channel, at every stage, and at every interaction.…

iQIYI's First Immersive Interactive Drama "His Smile" Coming Soon iQIYI, Inc., an innovative market-leading online entertainment company in China, announced the world's first Interactive Video Guideline (IVG) and Interactive Video Platform (IVP) during the 2019 iQIYI World Conference. With surging demand for personalized content in the mobile and 5G era, iQIYI has launched world's first interactive video guideline and interactive video platform, enabling new means of storytelling and creating new market opportunities…

Tell us about your role and the team/technology you handle at Zoho. I'm part of the European regional team and am responsible for looking after our marketing efforts in the continent. We have had a physical presence in Europe for around a year since opening our European HQ in Utrecht, The Netherlands and have since added further team members in other European countries.  While we had previously seen mostly organic growth in Europe, we have been driving proactive campaigns to engage prospective customers and to strengthen…

Online travel and hospitality represent one of the most competitive and sophisticated markets in the world. However, until recently, one of the fastest-growing digital marketing channels in the travel industry—metasearch—was lagging behind other channels when it came to the data revolution that has taken hold within the broader marketing world. That’s changing fast, and the shift represents a fundamental sea change in how travel marketers must manage and optimize their online budgets. Across the rest of the digital…

"The relationship between social media and shopping is rapidly evolving, and brands and retailers are exploring ways to take full advantage." Far from the days when it was a channel to simply connect and mingle with friends, social media has now become intrinsically tied to marketing and sales strategies. From awareness to conversion, social media plays a key role throughout the entire shopping journey. The relationship between social media and shopping is rapidly evolving, and brands and retailers are exploring ways to…

"The challenge for advertisers is that the audience data they’re collecting is siloed within a given campaign channel. What they learn about a customer on SnapChat they’re not able to incorporate into a programmatic display campaign." Tell us about your role and journey into Technology. What inspired you to start KORTX IO? I’ve been writing software since I was a teenager. After studying computer science, I was fortunate to land a job at a traditional ad agency. Here my colleague and I were tasked with developing the…

Throughout the buying process, each interaction a customer makes with a brand results in multiple data points. Email clicks are tracked, purchases are saved, abandoned carts are recorded, loyalty actions are rewarded. A complete record of interactions exists whether or not a marketer is using a system to do so. However, marketers who leverage this data are likely to provide stronger messaging that resonates with customers while creating exceptionally engaging experiences. Creating more loyal customers and driving more…

Programmatic is held up as the savior of marketing efficiency and is undeniably a useful addition to the marketer’s toolkit. But when poorly executed it can have an adverse effect on efficiency. Almost £5.7 billion will be spent on programmatic display ads this year, nearly 90% of UK display, but just because this spend will be deployed via programmatic channels doesn’t automatically mean it will not be wasteful. Waste is likely to come from various sources. Budget will be misspent on excessive retargeting. It will be…

A key challenge for all marketers today is finding digital audiences as media consumption continues to become increasingly fragmented. This is no different for healthcare marketers, who are frequently looking to reach highly specific individuals, who are interested in or have specific conditions; no matter how small or niche the population, and in a manner that is compliant with strict privacy standards. There's no doubt that the growth of programmatic is the ad industry's biggest success story of the past 10 years and…

The rise of Instagram created a new class of celebrities and ushered in the age of Influencer Marketing. Today, A-list influencers boast follower counts in the tens of millions and sponsorship prices in the hundreds of thousands. Mass-market brands might be able to justify these exorbitant fees but for most, investing in all that extra reach is just overkill. Challenges notwithstanding, Influencer Marketing is here to stay, but to keep winning big, brands have to start thinking small. That’s why savvy marketers are…

Is Identity Resolution on the Brink of Being the Next In-Vogue Digital Technology? It’s beginning to seem that way. Once a niche topic, only on the radar of the savviest programmatic ad buyers, the broader industry has taken notice of a common denominator between industry heavyweights such as Google, Facebook and Amazon — the ability to accurately identify users at scale in real-time. This awareness comes at a time of increased focus on and regulation of consumer data usage and privacy, and the combination of those…

"In today’s multichannel landscape, marketers need a better and deeper understanding of the entire customer journey to provide better customer experiences and maximize return on investment."What is Fospha and how does it fit into a CMOs technology stack? Fospha is a marketing optimization specialist, helping brands solve their biggest challenges through the integration of siloed customer data and data-science measurement products. According to the latest report by Boston Consulting Group, three technical enablers are…

mute"Facebook and Google are the only two dominant players when it comes to both driving discovery- and intent-driven marketing campaigns — there isn’t a dominant player after them." Tell us about your role and journey into technology. How did you start at MuteSix? I was born and raised in New Jersey by a single mother who actually bought the first computer for my sister and me when I was 14. It was out of my sheer web addiction that I started tinkering around with programs such as Photoshop and Unix while building…

HUAWEI CLOUD Summit Singapore themed "+AI, Grow with Intelligence" was held on April 24-25. Together with more than 30 partners, Huawei showcased a series of advanced cloud and AI solutions and innovative products and practices in Cloud computing, AI, and Big data. During the summit, Huawei signed Memorandums of Understanding (MoU) with multiple companies to deepen cooperation in Cloud computing and AI for Asia Pacific markets. During the summit, HUAWEI CLOUD signed individual agreements with Thai carrier CAT,…

The humble-but-powerful act of clicking a mouse cursor on a hyperlink has long served as the cornerstone of the now decades-old digital media revolution. The click enabled digital media to unlock new doors of measurement and analytics, making it possible to more closely understand engagement and marketing campaign performance, drive direct responses, and rapidly grow audiences. The click is the essential commodity that built giants such as Google and Facebook, and the beacon by which every digital marketer and advertiser…

Huawei Holds Global FSI Summit 2019 with Partners in Shanghai The Huawei Global FSI Summit 2019 held in Shanghai , under the theme "Holistic Digital Transformation, Taking the Pulse of Smart Finance". The summit has attracted more than 2,000 global financial customers, partners and experts from global institutions, such as Deloitte, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, China Life Insurance, Sberbank, Erste Bank, Shenzhen Stock Exchange, Bradesco, Guotai Junan Securities, and Zhejiang Rural Credit. Centering on the new…

What if you had a crystal ball that could tell you which leads are sales-ready and which need some nurturing? Or what type of content will most engage a specific visitor; which customers are most likely to purchase which products and through which channel; or how much demand will increase during peak holiday time? This is predictive analytics: The statistical analysis and identification of attributes that have a direct correlation to a future event or condition. There’s been so much hype about predictive analytics…