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The Former Facebook & Google Executive to Help Further Strengthen IQuanti's Vertical Specialization in Banking and Financial Services Digital marketing company iQuanti announced that former Facebook & Google executive Jerry Canning is joining them as an Advisor. Jerry Canning joins with over 20 years of digital sales leadership and C-level client engagement experience. In his role, Canning will advise iQuanti's leadership team on delivering solutions to drive superior results for financial services clients.…

For 75 million sports video highlights consumers in the U.S., YouTube is the most popular social app for viewing highlights. Ring Digital's Fall 2020 #FutureOfTV Survey shows 53% used it on a regular basis vs. only 45% using Facebook, a dramatic shift from a 2017 survey. The August 2020 survey of 1,400 sports video highlights viewers represents a decline of eighteen points for Facebook from June 2017, when Facebook was the most popular app for highlights, used by 63% of respondents. YouTube saw a ten-point rise in the…

GoDaddy Inc., the company that empowers everyday entrepreneurs, announced its award-winning Over app is now available in 12 new languages: Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Spanish, and Swedish. Over by GoDaddy provides the tools small businesses need to enhance their brands and promote their products and services by easily creating impactful visual content on a mobile device for any platform online. Marketing Technology News: AdCellerant…

To fill its empty CMO position, Facebook just promoted to the C-suite a longtime Facebook executive focused on product growth. Former VP of product growth and analytics Alex Schultz, who has been with the company since 2007, announced the move Tuesday in a Facebook post. Schultz will fill the position left open by Antonio Lucio, who joined the company from HP in 2018 and announced his departure last month. Lucio said he was leaving the company to "dedicate 100% of my time to diversity, inclusion, and equity." Marketing…

Websites + Marketing Natively Enables Customers to Sell More Places Online Than Any Other SMB eCommerce Offering GoDaddy Inc., the company that empowers everyday entrepreneurs, announced customers can now sell their products on Instagram and Facebook through Websites + Marketing Ecommerce, further expanding the opportunity for them to find new customers and grow sales. As an official Facebook Marketing Partner, GoDaddy is one of the early adopters of Facebook's Business Extension. Marketing Technology News: Infogroup…

Starting, Zimbabweans who are between 18-65 years old, will have the option to sign up as blood donors on Facebook Facebook in partnership with the National Blood Service Zimbabwe (NBSZ) announce a new feature to encourage people to donate blood. Starting today, Zimbabweans who are between 18-65 years old, will have the option to sign up as blood donors on Facebook, be notified when blood donor centres near them have an urgent need for donations and invite friends to donate. With Zimbabwe being the eighth country in…

Anand Tharanathan Joins MetaCX Exec Team After a Three-Year Run as a Product Research Executive for the Social Media Giant MetaCX, the pioneer in a new outcomes-based approach for managing the customer lifecycle, announced its appointment of Anand Tharanathan to the newly created role of chief product officer. Tharanathan joins MetaCX from Facebook where, as the head of user experience research, he led end-to-end product research for Facebook Search, Identity, News and the overall App Platform. In this role, he was…

As part of its Agreement Cloud strategy to automate the agreement process for companies of all sizes around the world, DocuSign promoted chief financial officer Michael Sheridan to President of International and announced board member and audit committee chair Cynthia Gaylor as the new CFO. The company also appointed Teresa Briggs and James Beer to its board of directors. After more than five years as CFO, Sheridan will now focus on driving growth in DocuSign's $200+ million business outside the United States. The move…

CedCommerce always believes in creating new opportunities for businesses. Especially in these times when they need it the most. CedCommerce is enabling eligible Shopify retailers to leverage checkout on Instagram in the U.S. These retailers can now allow shoppers to checkout directly on Instagram without leaving the app.Using CedCommerce's Facebook and Instagram Shopping integration, Shopify retailers can easily onboard and connect their store catalog to Instagram—providing customers with a secure and seamless way to buy…

BigCommerce, a leading open SaaS ecommerce platform for fast-growing and established brands, today announced the availability of checkout on Instagram for eligible US merchants. BigCommerce merchants can be among the first to adopt the new feature, which provides shoppers an intuitive, seamless and secure way to purchase products they discover on Instagram in a few clicks, without leaving the app. Leveraging BigCommerce’s native integration with Facebook Commerce Manager, merchants can easily connect their ecommerce…

By working from live customer data and breaking down barriers that limit data access, MessageGears is furthering its mission to allow marketers to use data to create better brand experiences MessageGears, the customer marketing software company, announces an update to its Segment product. The update includes support for Facebook Custom Audiences and Google Customer Match, and the ability to join and enhance data within MessageGears’ Engage product. Enterprise marketers are limited by their toolsets in one of two ways:…

Kochava Intelligent Consent Manager TM Can Help Advertisers with Changes Beginning August 1st Kochava, the leading attribution platform for real-time data solutions for mobile and connected devices,  announced the company has updated its integration with Facebook to help with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) to pass user-specific Limited Data Usage (LDU) status. Kochava Intelligent Consent ManagerTM prompt’s users and captures the CCPA consent string, which will dictate the LDU status sent to Facebook.…

Delivers an ‘Arena Style’ LiveXLive Performance to Fans Worldwide at Home During COVID-19 LiveXLive Media, Inc., a global platform for livestream and on-demand audio, video and podcast content in music, comedy and pop culture, announced that since launching its livestream Pay-Per-View (PPV) and digital touring platform in May 2020, LiveXLive has sold over 32,000 PPV tickets in over 96 countries at an average price of $27, generating over $850,000 in ticket sales. LiveXLive PPV initiative was created as a revenue-share…

IZEA Worldwide, Inc., the premier provider of influencer marketing technology, data, and services for the world’s leading brands, announced that Shake has added support for Instagram Reels, just two days after public availability of the new feature was announced by Facebook. Shake is IZEA’s first platform to offer sponsorships of Instagram Reels, and influencers are invited to begin submitting Shake listings for Reels starting today. Currently in pre-registration, Shake is a new online marketplace that allows creators to…

Digital automotive agency, Dealers United, continues to guide their dealer customers to success by utilizing Facebook's newest feature for automotive, Click to Marketplace, or C2MP, Ads Facebook Click to Marketplace Ads were created to help reduce friction in the auto shopper journey, and keep users shopping without ever having to leave Facebook's platform. The new feature gives dealerships the power to connect with auto shoppers more frequently and drive leads for less money than other ad types. At the beginning of…

Shannon Brayton, recent CMO of LinkedIn, joins Quizlet Board of Directors, and Brad Ramsey, of Twitter, joins as Chief Marketing Officer Quizlet, the global learning platform known for its AI-powered study tools, announced it has appointed Shannon Brayton to its Board of Directors and has appointed a Chief Marketing Officer, Brad Ramsey. "We are so excited to welcome Shannon and Brad, as veteran tech executives and experts in their fields," said Matthew Glotzbach, CEO of Quizlet. "They bring decades of leadership in…

Online business is more crowded and competitive than ever. Digicrown is a dynamic new force that helps clients stay ahead of the pack and raise their bottom line Businesses who are active online have found themselves in circumstances that were difficult to predict. The coronavirus has created an environment where there's more people at home than ever and ordering online on one hand, but on the other, competition is likely to be hitting new peaks in numbers as well. Fortunately, help is out there for those who know where…

LiveChat Software, a provider of a SaaS-based suite of products for managing business communication, now allows brands to send and receive text messages while contacting their customers through its chat software. The new solution combines LiveChat’s technology with the features of Twilio. Although people have different preferences when it comes to communication with businesses, the trend for using messaging platforms within customer service has increased over recent years. In addition to popular applications like Facebook…

Users can now generate leads with high performing ads and exclusive audiences LionDesk, one of the world’s most innovative CRM, Marketing and Transaction Management platforms, announces the introduction of a powerful advertising portal that gives users the ability to generate leads using proven ad templates and custom audiences directly from inside the platform. This is the next step of innovation from LionDesk allowing users to generate leads in addition to qualifying and nurturing all within one easy to use and…

Mobius closes the loop on performance marketing by uniting every data touchpoint to unify, optimize and activate insights  Tinuiti, the largest independent performance marketing agency across the triopoly of Google, Facebook and Amazon, introduces a proprietary intelligence platform, Mobius. The customizable aspects and dynamic analytic possibilities of Mobius can enhance a brand’s data to be more actionable than ever before through an impressive suite of products that dramatically accelerates speed to insight and…