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B2B used to be a boring software category. When the rise of affordable Cloud Computing dropped the cost of starting a new company, that changed — innovation took place in every sphere of business and we all ended up with a set of amazingly powerful tools to work better together. Now a new wave of change is happening. B2B companies are adapting their Sales, Marketing and Product playbooks with techniques that were formerly found only in the consumer space. This creativity is necessary now, because of the rise in remote…

Industry Veteran Ruth Fitzsimons Hired as Managing Director to Lead London-Based International Expansion Podcast leaders Stitcher and Wondery are joining forces to provide advertisers and brands in the United Kingdom with the ability to buy premium advertising inventory locally and globally into a top-tier roster of podcast shows. The joint venture, Podfront UK, represents the first time advertisers in the U.K. have the opportunity to directly access a large catalog of household-name podcasts from Wondery and Stitcher.…

Vector Capital, a leading private equity firm specializing in transformational investments in established technology businesses, announced closing of the sale of Triton Digital, Inc. (“Triton”), a leading technology provider to the audio streaming and podcast industry, to The E.W. Scripps Company for $150 million. Based in Los Angeles, Triton provides audio publishers with measurement, streaming, ad serving and audience engagement solutions in over 40 countries. Triton’s diverse, blue chip customer base includes broadcast…

SiriusXM & Pandora to Continue with Their Products, Services, and Offerings.The Acquisition Values Pandora at $3.5 Billion SiriusXM has officially announced that it will acquire Pandora for $3.5 billion in an all-stock transaction. Together, these companies have declared that they will see revenues in excess of $7 billion by the end of 2018 and long-term growth opportunities. The acquisition automatically transforms SiriusXM as a leader in the subscription radio domain. SiriusXM is renowned for curating exclusive…

Smart Home Speakers, AI-Enabled Video Search, Speech Recognition and AR/VR Technologies Have Ensured a Surge in the Popularity of Podcasts  Podcasts recently have been hailed as the 'in thing', especially among millennials, who claim podcasts to be a big boon for their on-the-go lives. Podcasts are a millennial's go-to channel to procure information on politics, sports, spirituality etc. Moreso, with claims of subscriptions getting cheaper and content getting richer, the marketing strategy behind promoting podcasts does…

Crossover Media Group Sales to Leverage Longstanding Relationships with Major Personalities, Distributors Veterans of some of the largest companies in terrestrial and satellite radio, television and digital video have formed a new company specifically developed to provide advertising-sales representation across multiple platforms for an array of established and emerging program personalities and formats. Crossover Media Group Sales, with offices in New York City and Los Angeles, launches with an initial…

Wailin Wong Host, Basecamp Audio marketing is growing in popularity and it could be a very important aspect of your content marketing in 2018 and beyond. In this interview, Wailin Wong, an audio content marketer/podcast host at Basecamp, tell us what audio content strategies and benchmarks you should follow to make podcasts more relevant and engaging. Tell us about your role at Basecamp and how you arrived at this position? I co-produce and host Basecamp’s podcast, Rework, based on Jason Fried…

OfficeLink, Shared Office Concepts, a professional co-working and private executive office suite in Quincy, MA, has opened The Studio at OfficeLink, a full audio and video production studio at its Quincy location. The studio will be available at a discounted rate to tenants and members of OfficeLink and will be a resource for local businesses to create professional video content for their own use. Also Read: Mobile-First Collaborative Learning Platform Hive Learning Raises $ 4.9 Million "Our production company, Real…

STACK & FLOW: The Sales & Marketing Technology Cast MarTech Series presents Stack & Flow, a podcast series hosted by MTS Expert - Infer’s Sean Zinsmeister and EventHero’s John Wall. Featuring Jeff Marcoux, CMO Lead for Worldwide Enterprise Marketing at Microsoft. In this episode Jeff talks about Customer Experience being the next big thing and: Data analysis vs. Emotional Intelligence vs. Diversity The components all stacks have in common 3 ways to get the biggest gains from predictive The blind…