Simply having predictive models that suggest what might be done won’t be enough to stay ahead of the competition, Bill Frank states in his article “Let algorithms decide – and act – for your company”, part of the Harvard Business Review “Predictive Analytics in Practice”.

A year ago, MediaMath Founder and CEO Joe Zawadzki and IBM Chief Digital Officer Bob Lord partnered and laid out their vision of how to help unlocking the full potential of brand engagement to deliver marketing that customers would truly love. Both companies were committed to join forces to reshape the advertising industry by connecting paid and owned media into a single view of the end-to-end customer journey using AI-powered marketing technology and they just presented the result – the IBM Media Optimizer, powered by MediaMath.

EU regulators just sentenced Google to pay a record-breaking €4.3 billion ($5 billion) fine for Android antitrust violations, in their attempt to force the tech giant to stop the ‘illegal tying of Google’s search and browser apps”.

Today, most shoppers are researching information on the internet - even in the business-to-business (B2B) context. Around 90% of all B2B purchases are already influenced by the website of the provider. In modern inbound marketing, B2B companies can significantly increase the effectiveness of marketing and sales through automated lead management, making it worthwhile to set up their own lead management for some simple reasons:

Google Voice Search doesn’t seem to be a dream of the future anymore, although it is clearly still in its infancy. In a few years, however, experts predict voice-based search will have revolutionized online user behavior fundamentally. So, seize your chance to ensure your presence in the ‘market of the future’ by taking appropriate SEO measures now. Get a head start, since there are still only a few retailers aligning their marketing strategy in this area.

Reuters just unveiled a personalized news app designed to help business professionals make better decisions.

When Hootsuite was born back in November of 2008, four-year-old Facebook had 100 million users (2.27 billion today) and new kid on the block Twitter had just 6 million (336 million today). The world was without Instagram (more than 1 billion users today) as it wouldn’t exist for another two years, and Snapchat (300+ million users today) wouldn’t come on the scene for another three.

As many reports reveal, the festive e-commerce market in Southeast Asia is worth billions of dollars, rewarding those brands willing to digitally reinvent themselves constantly and matching consumer demands and expectations steadily. Or as Meltwater describes it in one of their recent reports, “the common thread between the winning brands – whether that is Lazada, Amazon or Shopee – lies in their understanding of consumers and willingness to provide the best experience through price, value, quality and service.”

Marketing without analytics is unthinkable today since analytics are the nexus between processes and technologies that enable marketers to evaluate the success of their marketing initiatives, providing invaluable assistance in driving marketing efforts forward.

Born in the mid-nineties and raised with smartphones, apps and social media, the Generation Z is cultivating an almost natural approach to modern technologies. In order to find out what attitudes and expectations, but also fears, this generation, that right now puses for the job market, is bringing to work, Dell Technologies conducted a study, revealing the following:

There is hardly an online shop that has not fallen for at least one of the fancy tricks of a cheater’s line and suffered consequently financial loss. One way to reliably detect fraud is classic identification. This helps online shops to distinguish real people with honest buying and paying intentions from fraudsters.

Hong Bao Media launched a blended learning course for the marketing community to help them cut time and cost when producing video content.

Appier a leading artificial intelligence (AI) company, announced the launch of AIQUA, a proactive marketing automation platform that helps marketers harness the power of AI to preemptively understand and segment their audience, and to engage users with AI-based messages across channels.

Lazada, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with South Korea’s intellectual property regulator, Korea Intellectual Property Protection Agency (KOIPA), to set up a framework that will safeguard the intellectual property rights of Korean brands, and curb illicit trading on the eCommerce platform.