Last week, Cologne, Germany became a hub of advertising news, discussions and deals when roughly 26,000 marketers and vendors descended on Germany’s fourth largest city for the 5th annual Dmexco conference. In many respects, Dmexco is like any other large ad tech conference with breakout sessions and an exhibit hall, but done on a much […]
As more marketers use data to deploy targeted offers, clear differences are emerging in how industry verticals embrace digital strategies, a study has found. Digital technology company Lyris and the Economist Intelligence Unit found in “The Digital Marketing Gap” that some of the most widely growing areas of strategic importance to marketers include: content to guide product research, the […]
IBM unveiled today a new initiative, Digital Experience, that allows organizations to create customized versions of IBM products. Noting that clients want the option of deploying either on-premise or in the cloud, this initiative is a reaction to new purchase patterns, explained Gary Dolsen, director of IBM’s digital experience software. “What we’ve found is customers […]
As a number of large technology vendors race to create full-spectrum digital marketing suites and omnichannel customer experiences, one player is here to remind them that it knows a thing or two about commerce. And, when it comes to its advertising and paid media play, eBay’s launch of eBay Enterprise Marketing Solutions today has much […]
Among Adobe’s visions for its Marketing Cloud suite of products is enabling a streamlined process of creating content and delivering it all the way through to campaign execution, the company said. Just weeks after Adobe’s announced $600 million acquisition of marketing automation company Neolane (See AdExchanger story) to round out its creative and content capabilities […]
Ecommerce is on the upswing. This sector saw a compound annual growth rate of 18.7% between 2008 and 2012, suggesting it’s one of the fastest-growing industries, according to new research compiled by global boutique merchant bank Siemer & Associates. Worldwide spending on ecommerce totaled $820.5 billion in 2012, which was nearly 21% higher than the […]
In what ways do the various components of digital marketing intersect and how can a company use that knowledge to its advantage? Gartner asked itself those questions and came up with the “Digital Marketing Transit” map, which resembles the map of the London Underground, with color-coded routes bearing names like mobility, analytics, and ad tech […]
After a relatively quiet period following its acquisition by WPP Group for $540 million last year, AKQA’s executives popped up in New York on Friday to deliver what the digital agency described as an “experiment” in reaching out to clients and the media. “We wanted to give back to our customers by sharing with them […]
Yuchun Lee is svp and general manager, Enterprise Marketing Management Group, IBM. Lee co-founded Unica which was acquired by IBM in 2010. Lee discussed industry trends and his company’s positioning – especially as it relates the CMO. Click below or scroll for more: Unica: Then And Now The Problem Unica (IBM) Solves Where Advertising Fits […]
Jeff Zwelling is CEO and Co-Founder of Convertro, a marketing metrics attribution company. AdExchanger.com: What problem is Convertro trying to solve? JZ: Marketers today are in large part “flying blind” when it comes to properly allocating their marketing dollars among their various marketing channels. I say this because most advertisers are relying upon outdated tracking […]
