Salesforce.com introduced today a new addition to its Marketing Cloud – Social.com, which allows marketers to apply their CRM and social listening data to their social ad campaigns. Creating targeted ads, marketers frequently run into the “silo issue” of being unable to connect their various customer data sources, noted Gordon Evans, VP of marketing at Salesforce.com. […]
Marketing automation vendor Marketo has filed for a $75 million IPO, adding fuel to speculation on whether it will soon be snapped up in an acquisition. From 2010 to 2012, Marketo’s revenue grew from $14 million to $58.4 million, according to its S1 filing. The San Mateo, Calif.-based marketing automation firm has raised $108 million in venture funding […]
Following its string of social media acquisitions, Oracle has pulled all its social capabilities into one product, allowing marketers to create and publish content, listen to and engage customers, and analyze interactions from a single interface. Unveiled at the South by Southwest conference, Oracle’s Social Relationship Management (SRM) product ties together capabilities gained when the […]
Salesforce.com added new mobile customer service solutions to its offerings, the company announced this week. Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff spoke about the new focus for the company, and demonstrated the new features, at an event at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York on Tuesday. The company currently offers three cloud-based products: the Marketing Cloud, which […]
As part of our year-end coverage, AdExchanger is publishing a variety of perspectives on a single question: “What will happen next year in marketing and advertising that hasn’t happened before?” The below response is from Michael Lazerow, Chief Marketing Officer of Salesforce Marketing Cloud and CEO of Buddy Media. Buddy Media’s sale to Salesforce.com in […]
Today at Salesforce’s Cloudforce conference in New York, CEO Marc Benioff said CMOs are like “fighter pilots without a cockpit” when it comes to social campaign management. “They’re going to want all the analytics, the ability to listen, place media, test media, run A/B tests,” he said in response to an AdExchanger question. “They’re going […]
On Monday, Salesforce.com announced the acquisition of social marketing software company Buddy Media for $689 million. Read more. Marcel LeBrun, CEO of Salesforce Radian6, and Michael Lazerow, CEO of Buddy Media discussed the transaction with AdExchanger. AdExchanger: Marcel – can you talk a little bit about why Salesforce’s Radian6 is part of the discussion when […]
It’s official. CRM loves social as it looks to make actionable its vast data sets. The announced acquisition of Vitrue by Oracle a couple of weeks ago has been followed today by the $689 million purchase of Buddy Media by Salesforce.com. Jeff Pashalides, Head of SaaS Advisory at Blackstone offfered his thoughts on the acquisition: […]
