Canadian tech investment firm Redbrick has acquired Paved, a programmatic newsletter platform for publishers that specializes in native ad formats.
Due to declining paid social traffic, Wildgrain, a subscription box company that built its brand on Facebook, has ramped up its email marketing efforts through a partnership with LiveIntent.
The dormant subscribers Daily Voice has reactivated so far this year are more engaged and attract higher CPMs for their impressions than its wider subscriber base.
Show me a digital publisher, and I’ll show you a team of people busily doing their best to collect first-party data before the clock runs out on third-party cookies. But, depending on the site, roughly 5% of the emails that publishers collect from their readers – fine, call it zero-party data, if you must – are generated by machines.
Matt McGowan, head of strategy for Google’s America’s ad agency business, has jumped to UK-based email automation platform Adestra, where he will serve as president, effective immediately. McGowan spent two and a half years at Google, where he supported sales to big brand and agency buyers. During his tenure, Google made major inroads into brand […]
Once again, a private equity firm has bought a majority stake in a marketing tech company. Email marketing solutions provider StrongView will get a strategic growth investment from private equity firm HGGC. The deal is expected to close in 30 days, and financial terms weren’t announced. Read the release. HGGC has a solid background in […]
Kahuna, a mobile marketing automation startup going against Adobe, Oracle and Salesforce.com, revealed Wednesday it had raised $45 million in Series B funding. The round, led by Tenaya Capital, Sequoia and SoftTech, will be used for product development and to expand Kahuna’s team of 80. Kahuna’s clients like Dollar Shave Club, Overstock.com, The Weather Channel […]
A recent article by New York Times media columnist David Carr revealed a radical publishing technology catching on in news media companies everywhere: email newsletters. Carr wrote that email is a marketing tool many people tend to forget about. But, he argued, email is the most consistent and useful medium for advertising. Email and search drive […]
La Quinta Inns & Suites knows while most travel within the United States is leisure-based, business travelers offer more lucrative messaging opportunities for marketers. These individuals travel more frequently than recreational visitors, rack up more repeat visits to the same hotels and are less subject to price sensitivity, which are attractive qualities for hotel chains, […]
From 2010 to 2013, enterprise giants like Adobe, IBM, Oracle and Salesforce.com collectively spent close to $30 billion acquiring digital marketing technologies. Yet, enterprise platform companies will continue to invest to fill gaps in their marketing stacks in 2014, experts predict. Email, one of the oldest of digital channels, still remains an attractive target for […]
Two announcements last week underscored the importance of email as a means for bridging the gap between online and offline customer data. The first was the acquisition of Rapleaf, a provider of email marketing personalization solutions, by email data services provider TowerData. And Facebook announced it was adding a feature within Custom Audiences that links offline […]
Summertime M&A has put the spotlight on email. The obvious example is Salesforce.com’s purchase of ExactTarget, though Adobe’s Neolane buy also covers messaging to some extent. Clearly enterprise platforms believe email will eventually be managed centrally through the same workflow as display, video and search campaigns – giving companies a better handle on the fractional […]
When people talk to StrongView (was StrongMail) CEO Bill Wagner about his company’s decision to re-brand (see last week’s release), he says that it’s often less about why they re-branded, but more about why they waited so long. StrongView was originally founded in 2002 as an email infrastructure company and, like other email infrastructure companies […]
Salesforce.com added another notch to its marketing belt with the news that it had purchased email marketing and marketing automation provider ExactTarget for $2.5 billion in its biggest acquisition yet. AdExchanger reached out to several analysts and asked their thoughts on the ramifications of this deal. Rebecca Wettemann, vice president, Nucleus Research Paul Greenberg, president, […]
Salesforce.com has said it will acquire the digital marketing platform ExactTarget for $2.5 billion, making this the cloud software company’s largest acquisition to date. One driver of the deal was Oracle’s acquisition of marketing automation provider Eloqua last year. At the time, AdExchanger and others speculated that Salesforce.com would snap up ExactTarget or Eloqua competitor […]
Like your run-of-the-mill 728×90 display ad unit, email can be taken for granted. Yet it remains a powerful channel powered by unique engagement for the email consumer and advertiser alike. LiveIntent EVP of Operations Jerry Sandoval has learned the nuance of email over the years, and in his most recent role at email ad targeting […]
Silverpop CEO Bill Nussey says his company doesn’t “do” the advertising side, but that depends on your definition of advertising. “Advertising is media,” says Nussey. “We only deal with that peripherally. We bring a degree of automation to marketing overall, with an emphasis on the relationship side where the ROI is high.” The former Greylock […]
Investment in all corners of ad tech shows no sign of slowing, but email marketing firms tend to be overshadowed by “big data.” So it’s fitting that as part of Sailthru’s new $19 million second round, the email marketing platform company hopes to generate attention for its set of offerings being marketed as “Smart Data.” […]
Boring? Maybe, but email remains a powerful channel for online retailers. As a means to reactivate latent customers and shopping cart abandoners, it’s hard to argue display, affiliate, or even search is more effective. But the bar is getting higher in the space, thanks in part to Amazon’s email retargeting platform. Enter Listrak, whose Lifecycle […]
Neil Capel is CEO and co-founder of SailThru, an email delivery platform. AdExchanger.com: What is the biggest misconception right now regarding email advertising campaigns? NC: The first thing that pops into my mind is that Ecommerce people realize the more email they send, the more revenues they can make. But at the same time they […]
Scott Olrich is CMO of Responsys, an email and cross-channel, digital marketing firm. The company recently announced its new display product here. Olrich discussed the product and the company’s overall strategy with AdExchanger.com. Why is Responsys moving into display advertising now? What is it that you are seeing that is causing you to add this […]
Matt Keiser is CEO of LiveIntent, a trading desk and exchange solution for email and display. AdExchanger.com: First, can you share a little bit about your background and how you got to forming LiveIntent? Prior to founding LiveIntent, I co-founded and served as the President of Datran Media. I architected Datran System, the underlying technology […]
