MarTech Today: A third of top US news sites block EU users, how to start a marketing operations function & AgilOne partners with Criteo

Here’s our daily recap of what happened in marketing technology, as reported on MarTech Today, MarTech and other places across the web.

From MarTech Today:

• Report: 1/3 of top US news sites block EU users rather than comply with GDPR
  Aug 8, 2018 by Robin Kurzer
  The list includes a third of the top US news sites, including the Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News, Dallas Morning News, Newsday and The Virginian-Pilot.
• Is your organization ready for a dedicated MO function?
  Aug 8, 2018 by Debbie Qaqish
  Maybe you’re eager to get a marketing operations function started at your company, but is it really ready? Contributor Debbie Qaqish explains how to figure that out.
• CDP AgilOne partners with Criteo to prevent wasting ads on an already-sold customer
  Aug 8, 2018 by Barry Levine
  Since it tracks offline purchases as well as online activity, the CDP can tell the remarketer when the sale has already been made.
• Snapchat revenue reaches $262M in Q2, but daily active users drop to 188M
  Aug 8, 2018 by Amy Gesenhues
  Compared to its first quarter reports, the company reported a 2 percent drop in the number of daily active users on the app.

From Marketing Land:

• Pinterest opens up wide-format Promoted Videos to all advertisers
  Aug 8, 2018 by Amy Gesenhues
  Launched in May to a limited group of brands, the max-width video ad units are now available to all advertisers via Pinterest’s Ads Manager.
• Report: Amazon internal data suggest ‘voice-commerce’ virtually nonexistent
  Aug 8, 2018 by Greg Sterling
  Contradicting consumer surveys, article claims only 2% of device owners have made purchases through smart speakers this year.

About The Author

Barry Levine

Barry Levine covers marketing technology for Third Door Media. Previously, he covered this space as a Senior Writer for VentureBeat, and he has written about these and other tech subjects for such publications as CMSWire and NewsFactor. He founded and led the web site/unit at PBS station Thirteen/WNET; worked as an online Senior Producer/writer for Viacom; created a successful interactive game, PLAY IT BY EAR: The First CD Game; founded and led an independent film showcase, CENTER SCREEN, based at Harvard and M.I.T.; and served over five years as a consultant to the M.I.T. Media Lab. You can find him at LinkedIn, and on Twitter at xBarryLevine.