Xaxis, GroupM’s programmatic media arm, surveyed around 5,000 digital media marketers across 16 markets to find out how satisfied marketers around the world were with their existing methods of measuring the success of digital display campaigns - especially in terms of how they deliver against their strategic business and marketing goals.

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.

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:

Considering that digitization was still smiled at a few years ago, two-thirds of retailers look at it today as an opportunity to thrive, aware of the fact that shop systems will be much more than just additional distribution channels in the future. The boundaries between online, offline and mobile will continue to merge and the distribution channels no longer coexist but used in combination the way consumers want them to. Hence, the cross-channel shopping experience is at the top of every merchant’s list when it comes to customer expectations.

Many website operators and shop owners have recently received an important email regarding the PHP update - which shouldn’t be disregarded, but considered important, not to make a mistake that can lead to the loss of your website and consequently revenue losses.

WARC, the global authority on advertising and media effectiveness, released Marketer's Toolkit 2019, an annual report outlining companies’ priorities and the challenges brands are facing in the year ahead. The report is centred on a survey of more than 800 senior marketing and advertising professionals from around the world and takes an in-depth look at strategic priorities, technology and media challenges, besides covering interviews with nine leading marketers, as well as examples, best practice guidance and a round-up of what this all means for brands, media owners and agencies.

Marketing has many years of experience in the use of digital media and, in part, marketing automation. Some marketers are even using Big Data and Predictive Marketing successfully by now. Consistent digitization includes processes as well as business models and data-driven (as opposed to data-informed) approaches. For short, technology is gaining in importance.

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.

Vodafone just launches its 2019 Global Trends Report, highlighting customer centricity, ethics and purpose, and the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as key business priorities for the next 12 months.

To get the best possible results with Google Ads, marketers create sophisticated campaigns based on search terms, products, users' location or devices. Now even more efficient results can be achieved with the new AI-driven Google algorithm, that delivers data-driven decisions and better campaign results with the same budget. Best of all, these results can be topped with the Triple-A Approach (Audience, Automation, and Attribution) that has been incorporated into the algorithm, developed by the pure Google Ads agency Smarketer.

According to a study of the consulting firm Bain & Company, 80% of CEOs are convinced to offer their customers an excellent Customer Experience (CX), however only 8% of their customers felt the same way, which describes the dilemma.

Indi, the digital word of mouth engagement and monetization platform, has been selected by Jakarta-based online marketplace Tokopedia to enhance customer engagement and user experience.

As you probably already heard, Adobe entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Marketo, the market-leading cloud platform for B2B marketing engagement. For the grand sum of $4.75 billion, Marketo’s engagement platform can then be added to Adobe Experience Cloud

Hootsuite just released its Social Media Barometer Report 2018, a global survey on the importance and use of social media within small, medium and enterprise organizations across industries.