The 2019 Stackie Awards kicked off this year’s MarTech Conference, an event that brought together the marketing technology community to honor its brightest stars. With nearly 50 entries submitted, five winners were announced by the conference’s Program Chair Scott Brinker. “I’m incredibly grateful to all of the companies who participate in The Stackies. It gives […]
IAB Tech Lab’s has released the final version of its app-ads.txt (Authorized Sellers for Apps) specifications. An extension of IAB Tech Lab’s ads.txt file, the app-ads.txt support apps distributed through mobile and OTT app stores. Why you should care The app-ads.txt enables apps to take advantage of ads.txt protocol by linking their app store listings
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For the first time, a brand leader will sit on the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) board of directors, the industry trade group announced Sunday at its annual leadership meeting. Jesse Horwitz, co-founder and co-CEO of contact lens subscription company Hubble, is the first representative of a brand to be elected to the board. Up to
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Competition for talent closely followed client in-housing as a top challenge facing digital agencies, Marketing Land’s Digital Agency Survey 2019 of agency professionals found. Forty-five percent of respondents cited competition for talent as a key issue for their businesses. Many agencies say they are meeting hiring challenges head-on and are focused on growing and retaining
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Client in-housing has always been a factor for agencies, but the availability of ad tech and martech, the rise of automation and data management requirements have added new pressures. Half of digital agencies say clients moving marketing services in-house is a key challenge, according to our Digital Agency 2019 survey, released Wednesday. To better understand
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SAN JOSE — Digital agencies have been on the leading edge of digital transformation for several years. They are not, however, immune to the challenges of adapting to changing technologies, advances in automation and evolving client capabilities and staff skill requirements that come with transformation. To better understand how digital agencies are evolving to meet
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On Monday, content delivery network Akamai announced it will acquire customer identity provider Janrain. The move means that the two leading once-independent identity providers are now integrated into other platforms. In the fall of 2017, marketing/e-commerce/enterprise resource planning platform SAP bought Janrain competitor Gigya. Maintaining ‘digital trust.’ In its announcement, Akamai said the Janrain addition
The average tenure for a CMO is just over three and a half years, according to new research from Winmo, a sales intelligence platform. With more than eight years of research analyzing the career track of 2,400 CMOs across various industry, the report revealed the average tenure for a CMO was 42.7 months, with the
One version of the Sirius Demand Waterfall Research firm Forrester announced today that it will buy B2B research and advisory firm SiriusDecisions. The deal, which is expected to close in January, will cost the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Forrester $245 million in cash. ‘Demand Waterfall.’ Forrester’s reports on various business, technology and marketing topics are designed for
Pedowitz Group’s Chief Strategy Officer Debbie Qaqish presenting at the MarTech Conference in Boston. “Today’s CMO lives in a tech-infused world,” says Debbie Qaqish, the chief strategy officer for the Pedowitz Group. As a veteran marketing operations expert and author of “The Rise of the Revenue Marketer,” Qaqish believes the three primary challenges facing CMOs
