Here's how AI is set to transform the digital marketing landscape
AI & Automation

Here's how AI is set to transform the digital marketing landscape

6y Jonathan Brown

Here's how AI is set to transform the digital mark...

Artificial intelligence is the buzzword of the moment, and for good reason. The technology is being incorporated in digital products more frequently t...

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Alphabet beats earning expectations. What’s next for Google?
Ecommerce

Alphabet beats earning expectations. What’s next for Google?

6y Tereza Litsa

Alphabet beats earning expectations. What’s next f...

Alphabet announced its Q2 2018 earnings managing to beat the analysts’ expectations with a revenue of $32.7 billion, which is 26% higher than their pe...

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Goliath vs. Goliath: Amazon's ad spend continues to soar
Search

Goliath vs. Goliath: Amazon's ad spend continues to soar

6y Mike O'Brien

Goliath vs. Goliath: Amazon's ad spend continues t...

Consumers spent more during Prime Day than any other day in Amazon history. A new Merkle report shows that marketers are also spending more than ever....

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Alexa, what's for dinner?: Why Campbell's is doubling down on voice
AI & Automation

Alexa, what's for dinner?: Why Campbell's is doubling down on voice

6y Mike O'Brien

Alexa, what's for dinner?: Why Campbell's is doubl...

Sharing recipes for consumers has always been a part of Campbell's marketing strategy. They have branched out into using artificial intelligence for t...

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What does Prime Day mean for retailers other than Amazon?
Ecommerce

What does Prime Day mean for retailers other than Amazon?

6y Mike O'Brien

What does Prime Day mean for retailers other than ...

Prime Day broke sales records for Amazon in both 2016 an 2017. However, there's also an opportunity for every other retailer to have a great day, as w...

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For brands like REI, Indochino, and Swarovski, the future of retail stores goes past product
Ecommerce

For brands like REI, Indochino, and Swarovski, the future of retail stores ...

6y Mike O'Brien

For brands like REI, Indochino, and Swarovski, the...

Executives from REI, Indochino, and Swarovski discuss the future of retail stores and how they're far more than places where they can sell products. R...

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How a shoppable fashion show gave Roots a record-breaking quarter
Ecommerce

How a shoppable fashion show gave Roots a record-breaking quarter

6y Mike O'Brien

How a shoppable fashion show gave Roots a record-b...

How do you stand out during the holiday season? Canadian retailer Roots created a Black Friday fashion show that was shoppable, Shazam-style. Read Mor...

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5 brands that prove chatbot-powered marketing is the future
Chatbots

5 brands that prove chatbot-powered marketing is the future

6y Emily Alford

5 brands that prove chatbot-powered marketing is t...

As personal assistants like Siri and Alexa become a normal part of consumers’ digital experiences and our interactions with devices get increasingly m...

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Uber, Airbnb and how their affiliate marketing strategies differ
Leadership

Uber, Airbnb and how their affiliate marketing strategies differ

6y Mike O'Brien

Uber, Airbnb and how their affiliate marketing str...

Uber and Airbnb have a lot of surface things in common: they're unicorns who have disrupted their respective industries and evolved into global powerh...

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3 examples of technology disrupting marketing
Leadership

3 examples of technology disrupting marketing

6y Mike O'Brien

3 examples of technology disrupting marketing

On the surface, "digital disruption" sounds like one of those marketing terms that's so overused it's been rendered meaningless. But Scott Brinker, Hu...

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A technology company that sells ribs: Q+A with TGI Fridays' Sherif Mityas
AI & Automation

A technology company that sells ribs: Q+A with TGI Fridays' Sherif Mityas

6y Mike O'Brien

A technology company that sells ribs: Q+A with TGI...

When you're a restaurant that sees 500,000 people a day, how do you make sure they all feel engaged? For TGI Fridays, artificial intelligence is the k...

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How Oreo, 7-Eleven and The New York Times are thinking outside the box with AR
AR & VR

How Oreo, 7-Eleven and The New York Times are thinking outside the box with...

6y Mike O'Brien

How Oreo, 7-Eleven and The New York Times are thin...

Plenty of retailers are using augmented reality (AR) in innovative ways. But not every brand has such an obvious use case. From Oreo to 7-Eleven, we’v...

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What's your Alexa strategy?: Smart speakers and their role in the customer journey
AI & Automation

What's your Alexa strategy?: Smart speakers and their role in the customer ...

6y Mike O'Brien

What's your Alexa strategy?: Smart speakers and th...

Voice commerce is projected to explode over the next few years, from $2 billion today to more than $40 billion by 2022. But marketers don't have four ...

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Decoding the product page with eye tracking research
Ecommerce

Decoding the product page with eye tracking research

6y Olivier Tilleuil

Decoding the product page with eye tracking resear...

Product pages are one of the stop signs where online shoppers decide whether to go through with the purchase or not. Eye tracking research unveils how...

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5 first-party data strategies to power your personalization
Analytics

5 first-party data strategies to power your personalization

6y Mike O'Brien

5 first-party data strategies to power your person...

The most valuable data is the first-party data brands get directly from their customers. Here are five strategies that will help brands and advertiser...

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Informed delivery and the omnichannel future of the United States Post Office
Leadership

Informed delivery and the omnichannel future of the United States Post Offi...

6y Mike O'Brien

Informed delivery and the omnichannel future of th...

Don't let Amazon's dominance fool you—the United States Post Office is the real biggest player in ecommerce. When it's not delivering millions of pack...

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Google, Yandex and Baidu: Strategies for expanding your search marketing
Search

Google, Yandex and Baidu: Strategies for expanding your search marketing

6y Mike O'Brien

Google, Yandex and Baidu: Strategies for expanding...

Most marketers plan to expand their global footprints very soon... but they also have a difficult time getting insight into how their content performs...

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"Trading can be fun": A look at TradeStation's omnichannel rebrand
Finance

"Trading can be fun": A look at TradeStation's omnichannel rebrand

6y Mike O'Brien

"Trading can be fun": A look at TradeStation's omn...

A pop-up hair salon and partnership with Cheddar highlights the omnichannel rebranding efforts of TradeStation, an online brokerage firm that's spent ...

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Google, Amazon and the relationship between paid search and ecommerce
Search

Google, Amazon and the relationship between paid search and ecommerce

6y Mike O'Brien

Google, Amazon and the relationship between paid s...

Amazon has always threatened retailers, but as the ecommerce juggernaut grows its digital ad business, it's also posing a challenge to Google, which h...

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How 3 retailers are looking ahead in the wake of Toys ‘R’ Us
Leadership

How 3 retailers are looking ahead in the wake of Toys ‘R’ Us

6y Mike O'Brien

How 3 retailers are looking ahead in the wake of T...

Earlier this month, Toys ‘R’ Us shut its doors for good, proving once and for all that retail is incredibly disruptable. Three brands that don’t plan ...

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Mass one-to-one marketing: Procter & Gamble Chief Brand Officer Marc Pritchard on the future of marketing
Leadership

Mass one-to-one marketing: Procter & Gamble Chief Brand Officer Marc Pr...

6y Mike O'Brien

Mass one-to-one marketing: Procter & Gamble Ch...

At WHOSAY's ANA Masters of Marketing event, Procter & Gamble Chief Brand Officer Marc Pritchard discussed “mass one-to-one marketing" and why it's...

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ClickZ's Super Bowl LII winners, with a technology twist
Digital Advertising

ClickZ's Super Bowl LII winners, with a technology twist

6y Mike O'Brien

ClickZ's Super Bowl LII winners, with a technology...

"Super Bowl winners" is usually based on the public's favorite ads, which often involve puppies tugging at the heartstrings. This year, we're focusing...

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Brands and blockchain: How Walmart, Burger King and De Beers are snuggling up to decentralization
Blockchain

Brands and blockchain: How Walmart, Burger King and De Beers are snuggling ...

6y Mike O'Brien

Brands and blockchain: How Walmart, Burger King an...

We often talk about blockchain in a speculative way, but brands like Walmart, Amazon and Burger King are already embracing the technology. Diamond pow...

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[Report] The Past, Present, and Future of Speech Recognition Technology
Emerging Technology

[Report] The Past, Present, and Future of Speech Recognition Technology

6y Sam Lawson

[Report] The Past, Present, and Future of Speech R...

In our latest report, we cover the surprising history of speech recognition technology evaluating the current landscape (Amazon, Google, Apple, Micros...

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Personalized video and the future of marketing
Content

Personalized video and the future of marketing

6y Mike O'Brien

Personalized video and the future of marketing

Marketers love video content because consumers love video content. The problem is, there's a ton of it; 300 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube eve...

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6 retail brands who are nailing the app game
Ecommerce

6 retail brands who are nailing the app game

6y Mike O'Brien

6 retail brands who are nailing the app game

Researching how retailers can improve their apps, everyone named a few examples of brands with exceptionally good apps. Amazon, Target and Sephora are...

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How can retailers improve their mobile app experience?
Ecommerce

How can retailers improve their mobile app experience?

6y Mike O'Brien

How can retailers improve their mobile app experie...

We spend the majority of our time on smartphones in-app, but our usage is concentrated on a select handful of apps. What do retailers have to do to en...

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