SAP moves to a composable commerce offering
Composability is the latest stage on SAP's commerce journey along with a range of new composable storefronts.
Kim Davis is the Editorial Director of MarTech. Born in London, but a New Yorker for over two decades, Kim started covering enterprise software ten years ago. His experience encompasses SaaS for the enterprise, digital- ad data-driven urban planning, and applications of SaaS, digital technology, and data in the marketing space. He first wrote about marketing technology as editor of Haymarket’s The Hub, a dedicated marketing tech website, which subsequently became a channel on the established direct marketing brand DMN. Kim joined DMN proper in 2016, as a senior editor, becoming Executive Editor, then Editor-in-Chief a position he held until January 2020. Prior to working in tech journalism, Kim was Associate Editor at a New York Times hyper-local news site, The Local: East Village, and has previously worked as an editor of an academic publication, and as a music journalist. He has written hundreds of New York restaurant reviews for a personal blog, and has been an occasional guest contributor to Eater.
Salesforce, Google partner on local commerce
A new integration will help merchants using Commerce Cloud highlight local availability of products across Google surfaces.
Email creation platform Stensul expands its offering to landing pages
Email creation and collaboration platform Stensul is strategically expanding its offering across other assets.
Marketing artificial intelligence (AI)
Adobe announces Firefly for AI-driven creative
At Summit today, Adobe also announced a new Product Analytics solution and Sensei GenAI.
SAP gives up its stake in Qualtrics
The experience management platform will be acquired by Silver Lake and CPP investments for $12.5 billion.
Data management platform (DMP)
The future of data management platforms in the era of CDPs
With third-party cookies going away and a fast-growing market for customer data platforms, is there a role for DMPs?
Stacey Ackerman: Spotlight on the expert
A discussion with our expert contributor about how she got into agile marketing and what the future holds for the space.
Marketing artificial intelligence (AI)
Bard and ChatGPT will ultimately make the search experience better
But it's early days and we're still trying to envision what the future of search will look like.
Marketing artificial intelligence (AI)
AI-generated content is detectable, new study claims
ChatGPT-like content might not be able to keep its origins a secret.
Marketing artificial intelligence (AI)
ChatGPT set to shake up search
Microsoft Bing is working with ChatGPT itself while Google is set to launch its own tool, Bard.
How data clean rooms might help keep the internet open
The IAB sees encouraging signs that DCRs might sustain addressable advertising outside the walled gardens and without the help of cookies.
HubSpot to cut around 7% of workforce by end of Q1
The cuts come against a background of very rapid growth by the company over the last two to three years.
Introducing an in-depth guide to the Agile Marketing Navigator
Download a free ebook containing all you need to know about the Agile Marketing Navigator.
Lotame launches first-party data accelerator
Spherical will extend first-party data from data warehouses and CDPs into the "madtech" space.
Marketing artificial intelligence (AI)
ChatGPT to support digital experience analytics
Glassbox will integrate conversational AI into its digital experience analytics platform.
Salesforce announces retail media network innovations
Salesforce for Retail and Commerce Cloud announce the twin aims of helping optimize the retail advertising business and improve the retail customer experience.
Final 2022 holiday numbers break ecommerce records
Despite economic concerns, consumers responded to discounts in key categories like toys.
EU hits Meta with $414m fine over advertising practices
Ireland's data privacy board punishes Meta for effectively forcing users to accept targeted ads.
Integrate and 6Sense announce ABM partnership
Integrate's new 6Sense connector joins real-time buying behavior insights to demand acceleration campaigns.
Digital experience is important to diners too
Diners expect restaurants to be tech savvy and digitally agile.
Salesforce: The trends underlying a record-breaking Cyber Week
As the Salesforce World Tour hit the Javits Center in New York City, conversation turned to the retail roller coaster.
How marketing compensation and roles are changing: Take the MarTech Salary and Career Survey
Spend a few moments to help us better understand the dramatic changes affecting the marketing and martech spaces.
Kanye West too much even for Musk’s Twitter
Ye has brought Musk to a fork in the road and marketers are waiting to see which route he takes.
Sendoso launches a freemium eGifting service
The corporate gifting service is offering unlimited eGifting aimed primarily at the SMB market.
Channel99 will help marketers measure the performance of channels and vendors
A new company from the founder of Demandbase is seeking to meet the B2B attribution challenge, leading with a free mobile app.
G2 launches Market Intelligence dashboard
G2 is providing a new way to consume and manage real-time data from its 1.9 million software reviews.
Adobe releases data on early holiday shopping and prices
Good news for marketers and consumers: Spending increases while prices decline.
Marketers make identity solutions an urgent priority
Email-based identities are seen by marketers and publishers as of limited value.
Brands are betting heavily on CTV advertising
It's almost unanimous. 98% of brands believe Connected TV advertising will be bigger than mobile in the next two to three years.
Genie is a step beyond the Salesforce CDP
Genie represents a rethinking of Salesforce's approach to customer data.
Cirque du Soleil spotlights its digital strategy
The world's largest contemporary circus deploys a composable martech stack with key components from Sitecore.
PolyientX launches self-service NFT platform
The platform is no-code and aims to deliver an NFT-based loyalty and rewards program.
The digital transformation of a traditional business publisher
Publisher Wolters Kluwer explains the scale and speed at which it switched from online chaos to delivering digital experiences.
Adobe reports growing opportunities for “non-professional” content creators
The "side hustle" content creator economy is thriving, with earnings growing and influencers highly valued.
Oracle launches industry-specific AI models for its Unity CDP
Oracle announces vertical-specific models for the Unity CDP and talks about connecting front- and back-office to boost CX.
Sitecore adds new products to its composable DXP
Sitecore announced new product components for its composable digital experience platform at this week's Symposium conference.
Drift launches features to support sales teams
Conversational marketing and sales platform Drift looks to help sales teams in a time of turnover and burnout.
NIL as well as pro female athletes attract big endorsements
A college athlete and TikTok star is competing with world famous female athletes for valuable endorsements.
B2B marketing confidence survives budget pressures
Content and digital marketing are top strategies for B2B teams despite flat or cut budgets.
Marketing artificial intelligence (AI)
Persado introduces new API to drive consumer behavior through words
The API will allow marketers to integrate Persado's AI-generated motivational language suggestions with their other systems.