Aziz Rofat’s day starts with a cup of strong coffee. After his morning cuppa, Aziz, who heads category management for one of the Middle East’s luxury retailers, logs into his system to access his daily sales report trying to make sense of the numbers. This has been his routine for the last 15 years. But […]
Data has become a vital part of marketing strategies world-wide. How can marketers leverage it? Data provides marketers with an opportunity to overcome challenges by offering a deeper understanding of the needs of their customers and anticipating their next move. It helps them design campaigns that drive up the sales numbers. US-based satellite media provider […]
IBM Security announced the results of its annual study examining the financial impact of data breaches on organisations. According to the report, the cost of a data breach has risen 12 per cent over the past five years and now costs USD 3.92 million on average. These rising expenses are representative of the multiyear financial impact […]
250ok study analysed DMARC implementation across 25,700 domains in 10 sectors. 250ok, an Indianapolis-based email intelligence platform, recently released their report, Global DMARC Adoption 2019, revealing 79.7 per cent of all domains analysed have no DMARC policy in place. By implementing DMARC, brands lower the odds of their domains being spoofed and used for phishing […]
Drift, a leading conversational marketing platform, and SurveyMonkey, a leading global survey software company, announced the release of the 2019 State of Conversational Marketing Report. Based on a survey of 1,000+ US consumers, the 2019 State of Conversational Marketing is a follow-up to the 2018 State of Chatbots report and highlights key conversational marketing trends and […]
Manthan Systems, a leading cloud analytics company, will be the Gold Sponsor of Vibe Marketer’s Fest – the region’s first, largest, and most credible marketing technology event. Scheduled on 5 and 6 November 2019 in Dubai, the summit will examine how companies can build a marketing blueprint connecting MarTech stack to goals, strategies and priorities. […]
What are the top core benefits users want from the future of social media? In a privacy conference in Brussels last year, Apple CEO Tim Cook expressed his concern about the way companies are collecting and using user data, “Platforms and algorithms that promised to improve our lives can actually magnify our worst human tendencies. […]
Salesforce, the global leader in CRM, announced that the company was named a leader by Forrester Research in its report, The Forrester Wave™: Data Management Platforms, Q2 2019. Salesforce’s Data Management Platform (DMP), Audience Studio, is part of the Salesforce Marketing Cloud, which enables marketers to know, personalise and engage their customers across every touchpoint. […]
On 25 May 2018, the European Union passed the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). One year on, and privacy laws and data across the globe haven’t been the same. “25 May marks the anniversary of Europe’s new data protection rules, the General Data Protection Regulation, also widely known as the GDPR,” Andrus Ansip, Vice-President for […]
Contentsquare, a leading digital experience insights platform, announced that it had acquired experience analytics company Clicktale. Clicktale boasts of clients such as Dell, RBS and T-Mobile, while Contentsquare’s list of clientele includes AccorHotels, Sephora and Walmart. This combination creates a definitive global leader in the experience analytics market. The combined entity serves 600 enterprise clients […]
