A pair of smart glasses using duct tape and zip wires that allowed an artist with Lou Gehrig’s disease to draw again. An artificial arm made via 3D printing that brought mobility back to bombing victims in Sudan. A vibrating wristbrand that may be able to stop those with Parkinson’s from trembling. If you have […]
Lee Odden knows he’s no Kylie Jenner, but he’s excited enough about the potential of B2B influencer marketing that he gave it a try. In his Content Marketing World session on the subject last week, Odden — founder and CEO of TopRank Marketing — showed a self-portrait that mirrored an image from Instagram in which […]
Adobe says it has been able to tie the results of enterprise social media activity like its recent ‘Hack The Bracket’ campaign directly to revenue for the first time thanks to a system designed by content marketing agency, Stoke. Speaking at Content Marketing World in Cleveland last week, Adobe’s head of social media for its […]
I’m not the first one to say this, but there’s something about the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame that turns one of the most subversive musical genres into a stuffy, almost archaic collection of content. Walking through the museum during the opening party at Content Marketing World in Cleveland this week, I dutifully checked […]
HubSpot’s annual marketing conference wrapped up on Friday. With over 23,000 attendees, 300 sessions and half a dozen keynote and spotlight addresses (from Deepak Chopra to Alex Rodriguez), this year’s INBOUND 2018 event was bigger than ever. While Hubspot doesn’t name an official theme for each year’s event, it becomes clear over the course of […]
It may be the world’s de facto social network for B2B professionals, but LinkedIn’s content marketing lead says the company has had to overcome all the same challenges as its customers in creating the right approach to storytelling and engaging an audience. Speaking at Content Marketing World 2018 in Cleveland, Megan Golden said the company […]
Even before she began her Content Marketing World keynote about an unexpected twist in her career, Ann Handley experienced another one. The chief content officer at Marketing Profs was still backstage at Cleveland’s Huntington Convention Center on Wednesday when she was announced as the first-ever recipient of a new ‘Hero Award’ given by the Content […]
Sangram Vajre wants you to fill in this sentence: “In B2B marketing, the value of marketing is defined by _______.” The chief evangelist and co-founder of Terminus got a number of responses from the audience at CONEX on Wednesday, which ranged from “leads” and “engagement” to customer success. His answer? “Sales.” “It took me a […]
Companies need to move past using analytics and artificial intelligence to merely inform business decisions and allow the technologies to actually make decisions on their own across all functional areas, according to the director of data science at Samsung. In his keynote at the Big Data Toronto conference on Tuesday, Matthew Fitz suggested enterprises are […]
It was not the feedback the team of innovators at Bloomberg may have wanted to hear, but according to Jessica Hatch, it was what they needed to hear. As the COO of Bloomberg’s Sell Side Trading division told the TakeOver innovation conference in Toronto on Monday, the team was presenting a few offering — something even […]
When she joined software giant SAP as its marketing leader about nine months ago, Alicia Tillman did something she said most CMOs don’t often to: look backwards instead of forwards. Speaking at the company’s annual user conference, Sapphire Now, Tillman said she wanted to figure out her strategy by looking at the original purpose behind […]
SAP on Tuesday used its annual Sapphire Now user conference to announce a customer experience software suite dubbed C/4HANA that will include a what it called a “fourth generation” customer relationship management tool, along with the acquisition of a field service software firm called Coresystems. C/4HANA will include SAP’s Sales, Marketing, Commerce and Service Clouds, […]
It’s been called the world’s oldest content marketing vehicle, so David Jones is not surprised when people look at The Furrow and ask the publications manager at John Deere for the secrets of its success. “We do things consistently and we do things well, and we do things consistently well,” he told the audience Wednesday […]
Blockchain will help clean up and validate the data used in artificial intelligence applications, make predictive capabilities more accessible and allow individual people to treat their data as a commodity, experts told the AiDecentralized conference. Orgnaized by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and held in Toronto on Tuesday, AiDecentralized brought together researchers and practitioners […]
Marketo this week said it would add significant capabilities for its customers to better attribute the results of work managed through its marketing automation platform through the acquisition of Bizible, while a partnership with Google will focus on bringing helping CMOs make better use artificial intelligence (AI). Financial terms of the deal to buy Bizible were not […]
I can only feel pity for those who are forced to bring forward the most completely insane ideas of their boss or senior leadership team. At least, I did in this case. I was developing an executive conference in partnership with another organization, which was trying to apply a degree of influence that was vastly disproportionate […]
Ambition Data is raising the stakes for CMOs and other senior marketers attending its Customer Centricity Conference late next month by putting them into groups to compete in an online simulation to test what they will have learned about customer lifetime value. Running May 17-18 in San Francisco, Ambition Data recently announced a speaker lineup […]
Adobe is working on enhancements to its Sensei artificial intelligence tool that will make it easier for marketers to search for images through its stock service without having to use words to describe what they need. In a presentation to designers at the Flash In The Can Toronto event on Monday, Adobe stock group product […]
Less than 10 per cent of Canadian sales and marketing organizations say their functions are completely aligned to buyer needs, according to research released by SiriusDecisions as part of its first-ever Canadian Summit on Thursday. While 69 per cent of organizations said their functions are at least partially aligned to buyer needs, 22 per cent […]
Account-based marketing was an obvious area of focus for those attending the 2018 B2B Marketing Exchange conference (B2BMX) this week, and a case study from Windstream and Quarry offered a glimpse at how best practices in the use of technology and creativity are shaping up. Executives from Windstream, a Little Rock, Ark.-based provider of networking […]
