- Preserve Section 230, Watchdogs Urge Biden
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Dozens of civil rights groups and other watchdogs are urging the new administration to avoid repealing or weakening Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a 25-year-old media law th ...
- COMvergence Reports Smaller And Fewer Marcom M&A Deals in 2020
MAD, Steve McClellan - Tuesday, January 26, 2021
Total M&A deals in the marketing communications space fell for the fifth straight year. In terms of total staff acquired, the year-on-year drop was 66%. ...
- TikTok Ban Raises 'Constitutional Alarms,' Watchdogs Say
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, January 25, 2021
The government's attempt to ban TikTok should "ring constitutional alarms," the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and the digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation are telling a feder ...
- Supreme Court Urged To Preserve Ruling Against Trump Over Twitter Blocks
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, January 22, 2021
The Supreme Court should leave in place a lower court's ruling that former President Trump violated the First Amendment by blocking critics on Twitter, a free speech advocacy group arg ...
- All Talk, Very Little Action In Nation Of Yakkers
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Friday, January 22, 2021
Forget about baseball or football -- America's national pastime is talking, either doing it or listening to it. ...
- Trump-Era FCC Issues Cheery Broadband Report
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, January 20, 2021
A divided FCC said for the third straight year that broadband is being deployed in a "reasonable and timely" fashion, even though more than 14 million Americans lacked access ...
- The 2021 Email Blast: Channel Is Even More Important Than It Was Last Year
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Brands hope for drop-and-drag editors and strong personalization and segmentation capabilities, Campaign Monitor reports. ...
- The Trillion-Dollar Payday: Online Sales Exploded During Holidays, Salesforce Reports
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, January 13, 2021
Firms saw a 50% increase in digital sales YoY for a global total of $1.1 trillion, but retailers should prepare themselves for "returnageddon." ...
- Contextual Advertising Moves To Next Stage In 2021
Data & Programmatic Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, December 28, 2020
AI and machine learning can now recommend the dominant color in an ad image based on historical ad performance. But this is just the beginning. Marketers will see advancements th ...
- RingCentral Acquires Event Intelligence Firm DeepAffects
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, December 23, 2020
DeepAffects provides speaker and emotion recognition, the company says. ...
- Senate Rebuffs Trump On Section 230 Repeal
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Saturday, December 12, 2020
Rejecting a demand by President Trump, the Senate on Friday passed a defense spending bill that doesn't include a repeal of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Earlier th ...
- Trump Demands Repeal Of Section 230 In Military Bill
Social Media Insider, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, December 1, 2020
On Thanksgiving, President Trump not only repeated his call to repeal Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, but made the ludicrous claim that doing so was urgently required f ...
- Nielsen Names Former Wells Fargo Exec Moldafsky As CMO
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Monday, November 30, 2020
Moldafsky will be responsible for all marketing including global brand strategy and management, product marketing, media, research and analytics, meetings, events and sponsorships and reputation. ...
- Marchex Ties Revenue-Generating Conversations To Campaigns
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, November 25, 2020
Marchex has developed technology that ties revenue-generating conversations to the specific marketing campaigns that generated them. ...
- House Dems Urge FCC To Halt Work On 'Controversial' Items
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, November 10, 2020
"As a traditional part of the peaceful transfer of power -- and as part of our oversight responsibilities -- we strongly urge the agency to only pursue consensus and administrati ...
- CallRail Launches Lead Management, Communications Hub For SMBs
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, October 29, 2020
The new tool provides "a single inbox" for all customer interactions, the company says. ...
- T-Mobile Joins Virtual Pay TV Provider Race
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, October 27, 2020
TVision Live will offer 35 channels including ABC, Fox, NBC, Turner and ESPN starting Nov. 1, as well as live news and sports channels. It does not include CBS. T ...
- FCC Counsel Defends Plan To Tinker With Web Publishers' Legal Protections
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, October 22, 2020
When Ajit Pai took over as FCC chairman, he promised to "fire up the weed whacker" and dismantle the previous administration's regulations. But his deregulatory approach doesn't apply to conte ...
- COVID-19 Drives Decline In Customer Preference For Email: Study
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, October 22, 2020
The phone remains the top customer communication channel. And video chat is rising, Vonage reports. ...
- PoliteMail Upgrades Its Internal Email Tools
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, October 2, 2020
The new features can help firms identify gaps in communication, the company says. ...
- Internet Society Urges FCC To Reject Trump's Attempt To Regulate Social Media
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, September 15, 2020
The nonprofit Internet Society is warning that the Trump administration's attempt to tamper with a law protecting web companies poses risks to the security and stability of the internet. ...
- B2B Disconnect: Customers Are Frustrated With Communications
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, September 16, 2020
Many want faster email response and clearer answers to questions, Drift and Heinz Marketing report. ...
- Republicans Introduce Bill To Curb Publishers' Protections For Posts By Users
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, September 9, 2020
The "Online Freedom and Viewpoint Diversity Act," unveiled by Sens. Roger Wicker, Lindsey Graham and Marsha Blackburn, would tie web companies' potential liability for users' speech to the companies' conte ...
- AT&T Says Tech Platforms Should Be Required To Disclose Algorithms
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, September 3, 2020
"Leading tech platforms should now be required to make disclosures about how they collect and use data, how they rank search results, how they interconnect and interoperate with others, a ...
- Latest Ad-Spend Data Reveals Much About Marketing And Society As A Whole
Media Insider, Maarten Albarda - Friday, September 4, 2020
Forecasters are looking to 2021 as the year of recovery, but the fallout from industries, business and services that are partially open, re-opened or re-opening and closing again is h ...
- AT&T Aims To Restrict Web Companies' Protections For Users' Speech
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, August 31, 2020
Telecom giant AT&T plans to push for changes to a federal law that protects companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter from liability for users' posts. ...
- Catch Them At Their Desks: Email Is The Most-Used Channel For Employee Messaging In Pandemic
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, August 26, 2020
Almost all companies use email for worker communications, and over half are using it more during the pandemic, PoliteMail reports. Does that mean you can reach them with marketing ema ...
- Email Is The Least Trusted Communication Channel: Report
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, August 14, 2020
A study in the "Journal of Applied Psychology" finds that email is "inauthentic," and not useful for expressing emotions. ...
- Four Email Marketing Tools For SMBs: Analysis
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, August 12, 2020
Small businesses have a plethora of tools to choose from to support their email marketing campaigns. Here are four solutions that can help drive profitable email communications. ...
- Word-Of-Mouth Remains Vital To Consumers During COVID-19
MediaDailyNews, Ed Keller - Friday, July 31, 2020
During the pandemic, consumer conversations overall have risen, with more at home and more via video call. Consumer talk is up by double digits in social media vs. a ye ...
