A9.com Buys SnapTell
A9.com, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, has purchased SnapTell, a startup that offers users a way to search for product information from their mobile phones. Its free iPhone and Android apps let lets users take a photo of the cover of any CD, DVD, book, or video game, and...
Hexaware Acquires Mobiquity Inc.
Hexaware Technologies Ltd, one of India's fastest growing IT Consulting firms, announced the acquisition of Mobiquity Inc for a total consideration of ~ $182 million. Mobiquity creates awesome digital products for some of the most well-known brands in the world, such...
What is Content Security?
Content Security means different things to different organizations. For enterprises, it's often about confidentiality and legal concerns. For the media and publishers, it's about making sure content - or intellectual property - isn't stolen or illegally...
A Guide to Digital Experience Management for Nonprofit Organizations
Digital experience management (DXM) connotes the coming together of strategy, technology, and process to provide the True North of highly satisfying digital interactions to customers. This fundamental notion of DXM remains relevant across industries, including...
Why the Sky is Far From Falling in the Ad Tech Industry
As quickly as a smartphone screen refreshes, ad tech has opened the door for brands to reach any digital touchpoint, across any channel, device, and format. In just a few decades, advertisers have evolved from courting only a few hundred newspapers, magazines, and...
Machine Learning in Your Marketing Mix
Marketers can be excused if they are facing cognitive dissonance about artificial intelligence (AI). They may be struggling to implement foundational marketing/technology tools, but they are expected to be ready for new AI applications that are way more complex.AI can...
Reaping the Benefits of Tighter Media/Creative Collaboration
Media planning and buying were once considered two separate functions. Planners would develop the strategies and the overall campaign direction, and buyers made the inventory purchases and optimized the campaign once performance data was compiled.Then over time,...
How to Integrate Content and Commerce
Today’s consumers expect to be able to buy what they want, when they want, and where they want. They value retailers that demonstrate an understanding of their needs and that create personalized offers tailored to their preferences without crossing the line into...
How to Reverse Engineer the Customer Experience
Digital channels have transformed the customer experience battlefront. The terrain has changed and it’s more challenging than ever, as the battle for customer experiences is a 24/7 job. Today’s consumers expect access to information and services whenever...
Tools You’ll Use: Jeff Campagna, Creative Director, Compass Cultura
The right tools are an integral part of getting any job done. In the world of digital content tools are plentiful, so finding the right one for you can be tricky. That's why we ask the experts what tools they use to get their jobs done.What are your three favorite...
What is Customer Communications Management?
Customer communications management—or CCM—is a term that has been making its way into marketing and customer relations circles and conversations lately. But, is it something new, or just a repositioning of the same, classic approach to communication...
Curiosity and Social Media Success
After a particularly tough winter, spring cleaning has hit our neighborhood hard, and we recently received a bag of old electronics for the kids. Buried underneath a phone and handheld organizer were three versions of portable CD players. My 7-year-old daughter became...
A Guide to Chatbots for Publishers
Chatbots exploded onto the scene in 2016 when Facebook Messenger enabled anyone to create a chatbot hosted on the Messenger platform. Soon after, tech companies of all sizes were getting in the game, including Google, Amazon, and Apple. Publishers were quick to...
Real-Time Marketing Can Keep Businesses Successful—But How?
Imagine you are walking out of a store where you just bought some jeans. As your feet hit the pavement, you get a text. The text reads, "Spend just $10 more and you will qualify for a $100 gift certificate!" Is this great? Is this creepy? Is this effective? No matter...
LiveNote Launches LiveNote Stream
LiveNote, Inc. officially released its Internet Realtime product family, re-branded LiveNote Stream. The enhanced version includes two components, LiveNote Stream Manager 1.0, formerly Onsite Transcript Server (OTS), used by court reporters to send realtime data, and...
Hummingbird Connectivity Division Releases Connectivity 2008
Open Text Corporation, an independent provider of enterprise content management (ECM) software and solutions, has announced the immediate availability of Hummingbird Connectivity 2008, a suite of software focused on providing organizations with solutions to integrate...
Bridging the AdTech-MarTech Gap: How Email is Driving the Convergence
Growing digital advertising revenue is a primary business objective for virtually every publisher. But, consumers have lost patience with over-saturation and poorly targeted ads that detract from their experience. Looking to drive revenue without driving audiences...
Information Arbitrage
I've recently become fascinated by the views of pointy-headed pundits, the legion of so-called experts who pontificate about what's good in the content world. In every market and vertical industry, power-users and pundits consume different content sets than the...
Transforming the Future of Digital Journalism
Having worked with web CMSs (WCMS) for more than 15 years, I’ve seen a wide range of CMS products—including bespoke solutions built by digital agencies to suit the needs of their existing customers, open source platforms developed and supported by large...
Interwoven to Acquire MediaBin
Interwoven, Inc., a provider of content management for the enterprise, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MediaBin, a digital asset management (DAM) company. Building on an existing, partnership with MediaBin, Interwoven extends its offerings by...