 - Top Story - Cheetah Mobile, a Chinese software company, announced its recent acquisition of News Republic, a mobile news service that aggregates content from leading newspapers around the world. Read the full story by Ben Frederick 
- News - Email marketing company Campaign Monitor released a new marketing automation feature on Wednesday that makes segmentation as easy as drag-and-drop. Read the full story by Jess Nelson 
 - Commentary - Virtual reality and augmented reality may be traveling in the same basic direction but for agencies and brands, they're on different roads. The SapientNitro display at the annual eTail East … Read the full story by Chuck Martin 
- News - Online publication The Drum and the Trade Desk have partnered to analyze the state of programmatic video in 2016, releasing a study showing rapidly increasing adoption of programmatic video across … Read the full story by Philip Rosenstein 
 - News - Vice Media site Broadly is losing its founder and editor-in-chief, Tracie Egan Morrissey, just a year after the women's interest site launched. Read the full story by Sara Guaglione 
 - News - Business intelligence platform CrunchBase is offering a new Autopilot messaging application that the company says boosts performance. Read the full story by Jess Nelson 
 - News - While one doesn't necessarily exclude the other, new research does find that 44% of Millennials now own a smartwatch, while just 43% cite Facebook as their preferred social network. Read the full story by Gavin O'Malley 
 - News - The campaign, created by 72andSunny, centers on a zombie geofilter rollout that features "rabid zombies" lunging into focus from the perimeter. The concept is inspired by the setting of 1980s … Read the full story by Larissa Faw 
- Commentary - Consumers have a victim mentality about advertising now. They feel like they are being stalked. Read the full story by George Simpson