Survey finds consumer adoption of circular practices hinges on convenience, availability and understanding of sustainable options offered by companies A new global survey commissioned by ING shows consumer attitudes have reached a tipping point, leading them to avoid brands that don’t prioritize sustainability and environmental issues. Despite demanding change, customers will still engage in the linear ‘convenience economy’ model of ‘take, make and waste’ unless companies offer a more seamless transition towards the…

"AI and Machine Learning have the potential to enhance the value of the Marketing tech stack and even how we approach Traditional Marketing strategy." Tell us about your role and journey into technology. What inspired you to start at Optimizely? At Optimizely, I work with a very talented team of Marketing, Sales Development, and Communications professionals to help tell the story of a startup that encourages its customers to embrace a culture of experimentation. In my 25-year career, I’ve kept a tight focus on helping…

In what we can call the first major MarTech acquisition of 2020, Salesforce acquired Evergage, the makers of Omnichannel personalization and customer experience software solutions. Evergage's CEO and Co-founder Karl Wirth announced the Salesforce deal through a blog on his company website. Why Salesforce Bought Evergage? Last year, Evergage's competitor Monetate was acquired by Kibo. At that time, we had predicted that companies that make Content Personalization engines, CDPs and Mobile Marketing tools would cause a…

As we move into the next decade, data is set to become the cornerstone of MarTech. Marketers today have access to a more detailed, wider pool of data than ever before. However, this raises a number of key questions. How should businesses evolve sound data strategies that deliver tangible results? How can developments in data capture and storage be brought in consonance with evolving legal and compliance standards? When collecting data from users, it’s important to keep in mind the evolving nature of the legal and compliance…

Infutor’s Enhanced Audience Data Gives Marketers More Insights to Better Segment and Target Customers Consumer identity management expert Infutor announced that Vibes, a mobile marketing leader, has partnered with Infutor to help brands enhance their audience data and market segmentation for optimizing mobile engagement. Vibes' Customer Data Intelligence solution enables brands seamless access to Infutor's ID Max solution to enhance consumer data by matching customer profiles and improving segmentation and audience…

Leader in Revenue Intelligence and Leader in B2B Sales Come Together to Help Customers Succeed Gong, the revenue intelligence platform leveraging artificial intelligence to replace opinions with true customer reality and transform revenue teams, announced a partnership with Sandler Training, the largest sales, management, and leadership training organization in the world in order to help revenue teams learn and implement data-driven practices. As a global award-winning leader, Sandler is focused on helping its…

New Partnership Enables Organizations to Better Engage With Customers in Real Time by Unifying Inbound Call Analytics Data, Conversational Insights, and Rich Customer Profiles Tealium, the trusted leader in real-time customer data orchestration, and Invoca, the leading enterprise provider of AI-powered call tracking and conversational analytics, announced a strategic partnership that enables organizations to combine customer data and conversational analytics insights in real time to better inform contact center interactions…

Part 1 and Part 2 revealed fascinating angles on how to deal with Data Privacy. Yet, we found out that Data Privacy Day continues to be celebrated as an event. Instead, we should ensure that Data Privacy becomes a wholesome practice throughout the industry, delivering consistent guidelines to all the organizations included in the system. Recently, DoubleVerify (DV) announced the first programmatic platform certification program for comprehensive Connected TV fraud protection. We read how Sourcepoint's OTT data privacy…

What is the most fascinating development you expect to happen in 2020? How is LogMeIn poised to deal with the future? For me, 2020 will be "The Year of the (Employee) Golden Rule". 2020 is the year companies need to start applying the golden rule of business to both the customer and employee experience. When customer-facing employees are armed with the right tools they need to succeed and do their jobs effectively, it translates into a better experience for customers on the other side. This should be the year that…

"Brands need to reach the right audience, with the right message, through the right channel, at right time." Tell us about your role and journey into technology. What inspired you to take the role at Experian? The evolution of data and technology continues to play a significant role within the Advertising ecosystem. Brands want to have a more substantive relationship with their customers. As more and more people consume information and transact from different devices, brands need to cut through the noise and deliver…

"I consider data and technology to be necessary for Advanced Marketing to work, and Advanced Marketing must work for brands to stay relevant" What led you to create this research for travel marketers? We wanted to shed light on how travel brands are advancing their capabilities to deliver customer engagement and personalization. Over the past several years, many brands have invested in various digital engagement technologies to upgrade their ability to tailor guest interactions. Sky-rocketing consumer expectations and…

Findings Show Consumers Favor Brands That Provide Efficiency, Respond to Real-Time Needs Valassis, the leader in marketing technology and consumer engagement, released a new research report “The Future of How People Shop,” offering brands and marketers a deeper understanding of the evolving behaviors and attitudes of consumers, and catalysts that drive engagement. “Marketers have an opportunity to better connect with consumers by shifting focus beyond the traditional purchasing journey and addressing individual…

Want to know the real trick to standing out from your competitors and driving in higher Sales volumes? Improve your online customer experience (CX). I know this is nothing new. A killer CX has always been (and always will be) one of the best ways to build brand awareness. This is truly the bottom line to success in any type of business – and the customer experience will only continue to become more of a major selling point for consumers. This year, it is expected that customers will care more about the experience a…

Our screens are filled every day with an array of adverts tempting us to spend, spend, spend – but in an era when consumers value more personal experience, is the power of the traditional paid ad coming to an end? With thousands of retailers competing to advertise their products on almost every platform we view, it’s natural that they are looking for new ways to get their messages across. And that’s where the power of influencers comes in. Current trends show a shift in the consumer mindset, with people wanting to feel…

Brands continue to pour more and more billions of dollars into digital advertising campaigns – nearly all of which are visually designed and/or wordsmithed to compel consumers to click. Research by AppNexus finds that advertisers in the US. spent nearly $100 billion on digital ads in 2018, and projects that digital ad spend will surpass offline ad spend by the end of 2020. Naturally, criminals willing to engage in fraudulent behavior are eager for their own piece of this gigantic pie. A report by The&Partnership…

PathFactory (the leader in content intelligence) announced a partnership today with 6sense (the leading Account Based Orchestration Platform, powered by AI) that will give marketers complete visibility into the quality of account engagement, as well as what content and topics are accelerating them through their customer journey. Since today’s buyers are empowered to do 67% of their own research digitally before contacting sales teams, according to SiriusDecisions, forward-thinking marketers need visibility into this…

Continues Global Momentum, Named 2020 BIG Innovation Winner After raising $120 million since 2017, and following the acquisitions of Clicktale and Pricing Assistant, digital experience analytics leader Contentsquare announced record results for the full year 2019. For its vision and accomplishments, the company has been named a 2020 BIG Innovation Award winner by the Business Intelligence Group. "The digital experience analytics industry is growing at a rapid pace and Contentsquare is leading the way. Our company had…

Today, Artificial Intelligence (AI) can perform advanced functions such as powering the self-driving car, enabling drone deliveries, identifying cancer early and even authoring creative articles. But the wide, successful adoption of AI in the business world largely depends on how we personalize it for the end-user, and the vendor as well. Personalization, within business, already exists with applications like product recommendations on e-commerce sites and AI-powered service chatbots using Natural Language Processing, but…

Customer Engagement Platform Also Announces Updates to AI-Powered Intelligence Suite, New Tools and Three New Partnerships Braze, the comprehensive customer engagement platform, announced new features and product expansions to bolster cross-channel capabilities, increase retention and amplify customer loyalty. These include updates to Braze's automated decision making Intelligence Suite as well the introduction of Braze Predictive Suite, a new lineup of tools which will help brands increase retention using machine…

Today, we have over 75+ Sales Enablement vendors and enablers who help B2B Sales companies better manage their Sales operations. In this MarTech primer on Sales Enablement definitions, we have tried to provide the current context of enabling every B2B Marketing team with the relevant tools and information. What is Sales Enablement? Various departments in the company could use Enablement techniques for a wide array of purposes to sell its ideas, insights, services, and products. In a purely SaaS or Cloud economy, we would…