Many recommendation engines rely on patterns of consumer behavior — which are not very useful for new products that have no browsing or purchase histories. That’s the view of Carl Theobald, CEO of shopping personalization platform RichRelevance, which announced Monday enhancements that are designed to overcome this “cold start” problem on retailers’ sites. Understanding intent. […]...

Marketing executives today are in charge of dozens of martech applications to manage, analyze and act on a growing volume of first-party customer data. But instead of increasing efficiency, the emerging martech ecosystem has created problems with data redundancy, accuracy and integration. Automating customer data accuracy and integration through a customer data platform (CDP) can […]...

Pinterest Catalogs dashboard for retailers. Pinterest announced a new way to showcase products with the launch of Catalogs Monday. The feature that allows brands to upload multiple product images, organize the products by category and turn the images into dynamic Product Pins. The company is also finally making Shopping Ads available via Ads Manager so […]...

Content is king but it doesn’t funnel money directly into your bank account (it takes time). Ads do. Every marketer, given their choice, could sell ads on their page if people would let them. Unfortunately, that choice is increasingly shifting to users through their use of ad blockers. A recent survey from Visual Objects outlined […]...

In a world where customers are bombarded across every possible channel with brand messages, targeting is more important than ever before. Small businesses need to be able to make their campaigns feel relevant and personal in order to keep up, but the processes involved – collecting, organizing and interpreting customer data to make it actionable […]...

Unbounce has built a drag-and-drop feature for creating AMP landing pages that removes the need for HTML or JavaScript coding expertise. Why you should care Accelerated Mobile Pages effectively reduce mobile page load times and optimize the overall user experience on mobile devices, but creating AMP content can be time-intensive and usually takes the expertise […]...

Web visitors today don’t have time to browse all over your site. They want to search for – and find – what they need quickly and easily through personalized experiences. With site search users being up to 5 times more likely to convert, the stakes for relevant results and recommendations are higher than ever before. […]...

Instagram confirmed it is exploring more ways for brands to amplify content from influencers. The company has been testing a new branded content ad format since last year that allows brands to turn posts created by influencers into ads on the platform. Why you should care Brands on Instagram have long been cultivating relationships with […]...

There is less concern this year about the technology available to manage data in the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s annual report, “The Outlook for Data 2019,” than in last year’s. Conducted with the Winterberry Group consulting firm, the fourth annual report was released Tuesday and is focused on how “digital marketing and media practitioners are using […]...

Cloud-based survey provider SurveyMonkey is boosting its enterprise suite of voice-of-customer feedback services, with its announcement on Tuesday that it is acquiring Usabilla. “Website feedback collector.” Based in Amsterdam, Usabilla provides technology to collect user feedback in real-time for more than 450 enterprises in three dozen countries, including Lufthansa, Philips and Vodafone. The deal is […]...