- 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. ...
- Truliant Federal Credit Union Promotes Tricia Beeker To Senior Director Of Marketing
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, February 16, 2021
Beeker is responsible for all marketing communications and strategic planning. ...
- Senate Democrats Propose Broad Curbs On Websites' Protections For Users' Speech
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Saturday, February 6, 2021
Three Senate Democrats have unveiled a new bill that would strip tech companies of their protections against civil lawsuits for a broad range of posts by users. Critics say t ...
- 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. ...
