One version of the Sirius Demand Waterfall Research firm Forrester announced today that it will buy B2B research and advisory firm SiriusDecisions. The deal, which is expected to close in January, will cost the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Forrester $245 million in cash. ‘Demand Waterfall.’ Forrester’s reports on various business, technology and marketing topics are designed for […]
Virgin Holidays, which provides packaged travel tours in the UK market, has launched a new online Trending Travel Guide of hot spots in U.S. cities that taps into word-of-mouth opinions. More specifically, it utilizes the Crimson Hexagon social analytics platform to assess hashtags and positive comments in posts on Facebook, Twitter and other social networks,
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Janrain’s depiction of a client company’s calls to its cloud platform, over the OIDC (OpenID Connect 1.0) protocol. Identity management platform Janrain is out Wednesday with its new Identity Central platform, which it says is the first such end-to-end cloud-based solution. Identity Central is all-hosted. Before, CEO Jim Kaskade noted, his company offered a suite
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Walmart is making it even easier for kids to discover the toys they want this holiday season. The retail giant has launched an interactive video Toy Lab, where children can see and, to some degree, interact with 20 selected toys that have been rated highest by kids. This is Walmart’s first interactive video effort. “Everyone
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The continued success of Account-Based Marketing depends not only deploying on the right technology, but also having the right processes and mindset toward adoption and growth in your organization. As marketers get deep into planning for 2019, now is a great time to address fundamental considerations for how you can best build and grow your
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If marketers think brand trust is just a nice-to-have, a new SurveyMonkey survey shows it’s a must-have. “Businesses that fail to establish trust — the foundation of any relationship — will lose to businesses who can,” said SurveyMonkey CEO Zander Lurie in a statement accompanying the survey results. The survey conducted by his company found
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Screenshot of the AR game on a smartphone. Last month, cinema ad network National Cinemedia launched a Halloween-themed short augmented reality (AR) game for moviegoers, part of a series of theater-based AR experiences it began about six months ago. On Friday, the company is releasing what it says is the first movie theater AR game
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How do you reach a demographic that doesn’t watch cable TV, blocks online ads and isn’t too keen on email, for a product that has a hard launch date? That, essentially, is the marketing challenge faced by Vote.org, a non-profit and non-partisan organization. It is trying to reach young voters, such as students, people of
Image from Reve Marketing It’s best to think of a text-based chatbot as an “automated customer service rep.” That’s the advice from Kaye Chapman, learning and development manager at digital engagement platform Comm100. As a conversational format sometimes assisted by AI, chatbots provide a different opportunity for marketers than, say, the structure and presentation of information
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