The tech stack and IP address history for Beadfest.com, per Notablist Two New York City-based companies are — separately — making available their internal marketing data: Parse.ly is unveiling its “attention map” of Net topics, and Notablist is detailing the tech stacks behind brands’ emails. About the Currents platform. Parse.ly’s new Currents attention platform is […]
A site visitor’s gaze is being shared via Tobii Pro Sprint. Eye-tracking firm Tobii is out Wednesday with its first web-based eye-tracker, a lightweight product that is designed for fast user experience testing. Called the Tobii Pro Sprint, it offers a strip-shaped USB-linked camera that sits under a user’s computer screen, plus an extension for
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Thunder Experience Cloud and LiveRamp are announcing a new partnership that offers the first personalization and measurement ad platform for the entire LiveRamp identity graph. “We are the first people-based ad server,” Thunder CEO Victor Wong told me. His company provides a creative ad management platform and server. People-based profiles versus cookie-based. LiveRamp’s IdentityLink provides
The B2B side of Salesforce has always had a single data model of customers across the Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Pardot and other components. But that hasn’t been the case for the B2C side, where brands themselves had to implement the platform connectors to tie together different customer records across applications for point-to-point connectivity. In
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The best helper is the one who knows what you’re looking for before you ask. That’s the idea behind Adobe’s new Virtual Analyst in its Analytics Cloud, announced Monday. It employs the company’s Sensei artificial intelligence layer to find the “unknown unknowns,” even when the user hasn’t asked for that specific info. How it works.
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Adobe’s image for its Sensei AI layer. With the announcement Thursday that Adobe is buying Marketo, the world of major marketing platforms looks different. “This deal,” wrote IDC research director Gerry Murray and program vice president Melissa Webster in a blog post today, “solidifies Adobe’s position as the market leader in marketing campaign management.” “The
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Viewing the agenda for our upcoming MarTech®Conference in Boston this October, a theme emerges: collaboration and integration. As martech’s expansion reaches critical mass, we’re seeing an age of acquisitions and mergers, consolidations and partnerships. Integration between previously siloed groups of marketers and tech fits right into this theme. The New York Times’ Pamela Della Motta, director of product
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When a smart speaker aggregates customer data, or a car dashboard highlights the nearest McDonalds, the marketer and the consumer assume the devices can be trusted. But recent research by Israeli security firm vpnMentor raises red flags about whether the Internet of Things could turn into the Internet of Spying Things. What vulnerabilities were discovered?
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Segment’s visualization of its product stack Segment took another step Thursday toward becoming the data steward for brands using multiple platforms, with the launch of a data governance product called Protocols. How does this help marketers? Segment provides a data tracking plan across a company, setting the standards for incoming data with a shared data
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Adobe has confirmed it is acquiring Marketo Inc. for $4.75 billion, with the deal expected to close during the fourth quarter of Adobe’s 2018 fiscal year. Last week, unnamed sources had revealed to Reuters that Adobe was in negotiations to purchase Marketo, but neither company would comment at the time. Why marketers should care Adobe’s
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