- Senate Bill Threatens Web Companies With Lawsuits Over Recommendations
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, October 20, 2021
The "Protecting Americans from Dangerous Algorithms Act" would allow people to sue social media platforms that algorithmically amplify or recommend user-created speech "directly relevant" to violations of civil rights law ...
- Sinch To Acquire Pathwire, Owner Of Mailgun, Mailjet And Email On Acid, For $1.9B
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, September 30, 2021
The news comes just three months after Pathwire's purchase of Email On Acid. ...
- New Apple Feature Can Leak IP Addresses: Report
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, September 24, 2021
Apple reportedly has patched iCloud Private Relay, but not for iOS 15, The Hacker News says. ...
- The Text Tide: Channel Is Moving Up On Email, Especially Among Gen Zers
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Thursday, September 23, 2021
The majority of consumers still prefer email for brand communications. But 85% have recently received a brand text. ...
- Google To Enable Calls Via The Gmail App
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, September 8, 2021
Co-workers can hold ad-hoc conversations through Gmail, using the Google Meet capability. ...
- Vanilla Sky -- And Beyond
Media Insider, Steven Rosenbaum - Monday, August 30, 2021
Think about the complex challenges those working for the rebirth of cities will have to tackle. ...
- Salesforce And Slack Are Now Getting Integrated
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, August 18, 2021
The combined platforms offer workflow notifications and other tools for sales teams. ...
- Email Love: Consumers Prefer It When Shopping Online
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, August 17, 2021
People are shopping more online, and they rate email as the best marketing channel in general and for cart abandonment messages, Wunderkind reports. ...
- Consumers Value Privacy But Are Still Shopping Online, Study Finds
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, August 17, 2021
Most prefer email for marketing communications, with text a distant second, Treasure Data reports. ...
- Foreign Language Capability Is Available To Email Marketers
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, August 12, 2021
Influitive can help brands engage customers in all touchpoints in eight languages, the company says. ...
- WARC Report Identifies Trends Among 2021 Cannes Lions Effectiveness Winners
MAD, Amy Corr - Thursday, August 5, 2021
WARC interviewed both jurors and Creative Effectiveness Lions winners and analyzed the metadata from all entries and found four themes that led to commercial success. ...
- Personalization Rage: What Consumers Will Do When Brands Get It Wrong
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, August 3, 2021
They'll unsubscribe, drop your app and complain to customer service, Movable Ink reports. ...
- B2B The Force: Should Executives Be Sales Drivers Or Growth Enablers?
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Friday, July 30, 2021
Marketing and digital design play important roles in B2B development, Stein IAS and WARC report. ...
- Bill Seeks To Strip Websites Of Protections For False COVID-19 Information Posted By Users
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, July 22, 2021
President Joe Biden recently accused Facebook of "killing people" by allowing false information about the COVID-19 vaccines to spread on the platform. ...
- Mobile App Spend Tops $34B Worldwide In Q2 2021: App Annie
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, July 2, 2021
Consumers spent $34 billion worldwide in Q2 2021 on mobile apps -- up $7 billion year-over-year, breaking an all-time record, according to an App Annie report released this week. ...
- Study: Texting On the Rise Among Consumers And Marketers
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, June 29, 2021
Almost two-thirds of consumers have subscribed to texts from at least one business in the past year, SimpleTexting reports. ...
- The Email Love Bug: Channel Tops Four Global Markets
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Thursday, June 17, 2021
Most prefer email, right up to the C-suite. But mobile is emerging as a second choice, MoEngage reports. ...
- Starcom And Telenor Group Create Data Partnership
Data & Programmatic Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, June 7, 2021
Starcom will broker data to support the brand and its corporate identity under the deal. Telenor collects first-party customer data, similar to Verizon Communications in the U.S., and supports abo ...
- Verizon Media Ad Formats Rely Heavily On Tech As It Transitions To New Parent
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, June 1, 2021
The latest ad formats are part of a push to improve services as Verizon Media settles in with its new parent company and prepares to change its name to Yah ...
- Russia, U.S. Take Different Approaches As Google Given 24 Hours To Remove Content
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, May 24, 2021
Russia's communications watchdog Roskomnadzor on Monday gave Google 24 hours to delete content it deemed prohibited or face a fine, as well as eventually slow down the company's traffic ...
- Biden Revokes Trump Order Targeting Social Media
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, May 14, 2021
President Joe Biden on Friday revoked former President Trump's controversial executive order that aimed to regulate social media companies' editorial policies. ...
- BSSP Bolsters Leadership Team, Taps OMD's Stumpo
MAD, Larissa Faw - Tuesday, May 11, 2021
Among the new hires are Kerri Stumpo who joins from OMD to lead client media communications strategy and Liz Corsini, the agency's new head of production. ...
- Overstock Hires CMO From Amazon To Focus On Mobile And Brand
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Overstock CEO Jonathan Johnson is "stoked" to have Elizabeth Solomon join the company from Amazon, where she most recently was head of global private brands. ...
- Would Biden's Infrastructure-Broadband Plan Impact A DirecTV/Dish Merger?
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Total U.S. pay TV subscriber homes dropped 7.3% in Q4 2020 -- the fifth in a series of consecutive 7% quarterly declines. ...
- Segment Founder Discusses APIs And $3.2 Billion Twilio Deal
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Thursday, April 8, 2021
Segment founder Peter Reinhardt explains why he is bullish four months after Twilio acquired Segment for $3.2 billion. It has to do with APIs and the use of data to dri ...
- T-Mobile Shuts Down TVision, Cuts New Deals With YouTube TV, Philo
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, March 30, 2021
Both deals will give what amounts to a $10-a-month price break exclusively to T-Mobile customers. ...
- Supreme Court Lets Stand Anti-Facebook Ruling In Battle Over Tracking
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, March 23, 2021
The Supreme Court has rejected Facebook's request to intervene in a closely watched privacy battle over online tracking. ...
- Free Branding Advice For A New Social Media Platform
Red, White & Blog, Joe Mandese - Tuesday, March 23, 2021
I would like the impeached former President to do us a favor, though, because our country has been through a lot. ...
- IPG's Sherman Joins McKinsey's Marketing & Sales Practice
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Wednesday, March 10, 2021
Long-time Interpublic communications executive Eric Sherman has joined McKinsey & Co.'s Marketing & Sales Practice as manager of external communications. He joins from vice president-global brand marketing & strategy ...
- Emotive Raises $50 Million, Bringing Valuation To $400 Million
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, March 1, 2021
Text platform provider Emotive apparently wants to replace email and do away with crowded inboxes. ...
