Category Archives: Marketing Platforms

Infutor suite of identity resolution services integrated into Snowflake Media Data Cloud

New function aims to let users enrich and activate first-party data. Constantine von Hoffman on March 21, 2022 Infutor’s suite of identity data and identity resolution services are now integrated in Snowflake’s Media Data Cloud. This allows Snowflake’s brand, agency, platform and publisher clients the ability to enrich and activate first-party data and utilize data … Continue reading Infutor suite of identity resolution services integrated into Snowflake Media Data Cloud →

Walgreens Advertising Group Launches Self-Serve Programmatic Effort

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Walgreens Advertising Group Launches Self-Serve Programmatic Effort by Fern Siegel , February 18, 2022 Walgreens Advertising Group has launched a self-serve programmatic effort that gives brand advertisers better control of their campaigns. It extends the company’s belief that retail media is solidly positioned to be a core disruptor in any market to any customer. Advertisers … Continue reading Walgreens Advertising Group Launches Self-Serve Programmatic Effort →

Instacart Adds CPG Brand Pages, Suite Of Display Ad Products

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Instacart Adds CPG Brand Pages, Suite Of Display Ad Products by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, January 26, 2022 Instacart on Wednesday introduced its first display ad units, as well as branded pages that serve as the hub for consumer product goods and food brands on the site. The units are free, and present an opportunity for … Continue reading Instacart Adds CPG Brand Pages, Suite Of Display Ad Products →

Taboola automates personalized homepages

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The new Homepage For You solution uses AI to curate relevant, personalized homepage content. Kim Davis on January 26, 2022 The new Homepage For You offering announced by native advertising and discovery platform Taboola will use AI to automate the curation of relevant and personalized content on websites’ homepages. The automated surfacing of content likely … Continue reading Taboola automates personalized homepages →

FLoC is off the table as Google switches to targeting by Topics

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Forget FLoC says Google, betting instead on topics of interest as a means of segmenting and targeting audiences. George Nguyen on January 25, 2022 Google will replace Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) with a new interest-based targeting proposal called Topics, the company announced Tuesday. The Topics API will share a limited number of topics of … Continue reading FLoC is off the table as Google switches to targeting by Topics →

OpenAP unveils cross-platform management framework

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Open AP is piloting holistic campaign measurement across multiple linear and streaming TV channels. Kim Davis on December 9, 2021 OpenAP, the advertising platform for both linear and digital TV, today announced the launch of XPm, a cross-platform management solution powered by OpenID. XPm will support cross-screen reporting on campaigns run across multiple publishers in … Continue reading OpenAP unveils cross-platform management framework →

Email platform Litmus acquires content automation

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Picking up Kickdynamic gives Litmus content automation tools and AI-powered product recommendations. Kim Davis on November 11, 2021 Litmus, the email marketing platform which provides optimization and collaboration tools, has acquired U.K.-based Kickdynamics, an AI-powered content automation and product recommendation solution. The move will enable Litmus customers to create personalized email content at scale. The … Continue reading Email platform Litmus acquires content automation →

MOPS Rundown: What matters in Marketo and Bizible’s Q4 release

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Marketing operations agency Perkuto shares its monthly take on new features relased for Marketo and its add-on app Bizable. Alexandre Pelletier on November 5, 2021 Predictive Audiences Predictive Audiences were first offered as an add-on in 2020 including filters like Lookalike of Program Members, Likelihood to Register, Likelihood to Attend, and Likelihood to Unsubscribe. According … Continue reading MOPS Rundown: What matters in Marketo and Bizible’s Q4 release →

“But Will It Scale?”

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That question might mean many different things, but it’s a critical question businesses must ask when evaluating marketing tech. Tony Byrne on October 29, 2021 Before becoming famous for Trump lip-synching, the comedian and ex-Googler Sarah Cooper published a great book about how to sound impressive during meetings, and among the top-ten pieces of advice she doles out is to ask, … Continue reading “But Will It Scale?” →

The Real Story on MarTech: Is platforms vs. products replacing suites vs. best of breed?

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Thinking of solutions as sitting on a spectrum between platforms and products will help clarify your business and operations models. Tony Byrne on October 20, 2021 For as long as I can remember, the dichotomy of “suites vs. best of breed” has dominated marketing tech architectural decision-making considerations. You can understand why. As stacks expand … Continue reading The Real Story on MarTech: Is platforms vs. products replacing suites vs. best of breed? →