Now in movie theaters in the US and Canada: an augmented reality (AR) Halloween-inspired experience before the feature film. Called the Noovie ARcade Halloween Experience, it will be available through Halloween night by National Cinemedia, which describes itself as the largest cinema advertising network in North America. Invading 20,800 screens. The rollout covers 20,800 screens […]
In May, Adobe bought open source commerce platform Magento, creating a Commerce Cloud. On Tuesday, Adobe unveiled how it is integrating Magento into its Experience Cloud. In Adobe’s sky, there are clouds that contain other clouds. So, the Experience Cloud contains the Marketing Cloud, the Analytics Cloud, the Advertising Cloud — and, with the acquisition,
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Graphic by Digital Element. (Click to enlarge.) Location data is most useful when it can tell advertisers the proximity of physical locations to potential customers. To better accomplish that task, geo-location data provider Digital Element is out with its new NetAcuity Point of Interest (POI) database. The Atlanta-based company says this is the first such
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Last week, Pandora launched analytics tools for advertisers to use on its audio platform. The move represents another step in the platform’s ascendancy to a major platform for advertisers. It’s about time. Prior to this announcement, the streaming audio platform offered minimal online analytics to its advertisers, relying on offline impact and incremental visitation lift through
The new privacy blockchain proposal — announced last week by the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s Tech Lab in conjunction with identity resolution provider LiveRamp — could solve one of the biggest problems of consent management. Background on the TCF and the Big Issue. In early March, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Europe unveiled its Transparency &
A LivePerson interaction between bot, live agent and customer. (Click to enlarge.) The acquisition last week of Conversable by LivePerson is designed to create an expanded platform for brands that can handle customer service, custom bot creation and more. What each company brings. Conversable founder and CEO Ben Lamm told me via email that his
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Pedowitz Group’s Chief Strategy Officer Debbie Qaqish presenting at the MarTech Conference in Boston. “Today’s CMO lives in a tech-infused world,” says Debbie Qaqish, the chief strategy officer for the Pedowitz Group. As a veteran marketing operations expert and author of “The Rise of the Revenue Marketer,” Qaqish believes the three primary challenges facing CMOs
The merger between social intelligence firms Brandwatch and Crimson Hexagon — announced Thursday — will lead to a new platform that integrates social media listening and research about markets, brands and consumers. That’s according to Brandwatch CEO and co-founder Giles Palmer. He acknowledged that both companies have essentially “solved the same problem” of helping brands
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Last May, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Tech Lab began releasing for comment a new framework to set up a kind of “ingredients label” for sellers of audience segment data sets. The idea was to provide answers about how offered data was sourced, its age, to what extent it had been modeled or manipulated, and
Alistair Croll speaking at Martech Conference East 2018. The 2018 MarTech East conference in Boston ended Wednesday with a keynote presentation imploring marketers to be “a little evil.” Well, not “evil” in the sense of throwing a kitten out an open window. More like “subversion,” as in finding unused opportunities in platforms and thus gaining
