Summertime M&A has put the spotlight on email. The obvious example is Salesforce.com’s purchase of ExactTarget, though Adobe’s Neolane buy also covers messaging to some extent. Clearly enterprise platforms believe email will eventually be managed centrally through the same workflow as display, video and search campaigns – giving companies a better handle on the fractional […]
When people talk to StrongView (was StrongMail) CEO Bill Wagner about his company’s decision to re-brand (see last week’s release), he says that it’s often less about why they re-branded, but more about why they waited so long. StrongView was originally founded in 2002 as an email infrastructure company and, like other email infrastructure companies […]
Salesforce.com added another notch to its marketing belt with the news that it had purchased email marketing and marketing automation provider ExactTarget for $2.5 billion in its biggest acquisition yet. AdExchanger reached out to several analysts and asked their thoughts on the ramifications of this deal. Rebecca Wettemann, vice president, Nucleus Research Paul Greenberg, president, […]
Salesforce.com has said it will acquire the digital marketing platform ExactTarget for $2.5 billion, making this the cloud software company’s largest acquisition to date. One driver of the deal was Oracle’s acquisition of marketing automation provider Eloqua last year. At the time, AdExchanger and others speculated that Salesforce.com would snap up ExactTarget or Eloqua competitor […]
Like your run-of-the-mill 728×90 display ad unit, email can be taken for granted. Yet it remains a powerful channel powered by unique engagement for the email consumer and advertiser alike. LiveIntent EVP of Operations Jerry Sandoval has learned the nuance of email over the years, and in his most recent role at email ad targeting […]
Silverpop CEO Bill Nussey says his company doesn’t “do” the advertising side, but that depends on your definition of advertising. “Advertising is media,” says Nussey. “We only deal with that peripherally. We bring a degree of automation to marketing overall, with an emphasis on the relationship side where the ROI is high.” The former Greylock […]
Investment in all corners of ad tech shows no sign of slowing, but email marketing firms tend to be overshadowed by “big data.” So it’s fitting that as part of Sailthru’s new $19 million second round, the email marketing platform company hopes to generate attention for its set of offerings being marketed as “Smart Data.” […]
Boring? Maybe, but email remains a powerful channel for online retailers. As a means to reactivate latent customers and shopping cart abandoners, it’s hard to argue display, affiliate, or even search is more effective. But the bar is getting higher in the space, thanks in part to Amazon’s email retargeting platform. Enter Listrak, whose Lifecycle […]
Neil Capel is CEO and co-founder of SailThru, an email delivery platform. AdExchanger.com: What is the biggest misconception right now regarding email advertising campaigns? NC: The first thing that pops into my mind is that Ecommerce people realize the more email they send, the more revenues they can make. But at the same time they […]
Scott Olrich is CMO of Responsys, an email and cross-channel, digital marketing firm. The company recently announced its new display product here. Olrich discussed the product and the company’s overall strategy with AdExchanger.com. Why is Responsys moving into display advertising now? What is it that you are seeing that is causing you to add this […]
