A Nonprofit Group Has Already Lodged GDPR Complaints About Google and Facebook
After months of preparation, companies shutting down and the endless deluge of "updates to our privacy policy" emails, the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) finally went into...
View ArticleFacebook IQ Explored Why People Like to Shop at Local Businesses
Why do people choose to shop locally? More than 85 percent of people surveyed by Facebook IQ, the social network's research arm, cited trust and security as their main motivation. Facebook IQ...
View ArticleMany Marketers Aren’t Prepared for GDPR, SAP Study Says
Not all marketers seem to have a very clear idea of what GDPR means for them, according to a recent study from German business software company SAP. The study--which surveyed 165 marketers within a...
View ArticleHow NBCU and A&E’s Partnerships Might Revitalize TV and Radio
This month two major television networks, NBCUniversal and A&E, announced partnerships with platforms that not only help measure ad engagement but guarantee audience viewership. In the past,...
View ArticleSnapchat Quietly Rolled Out a New Way for Friends to Share Their Locations
Snapchat has been quietly rolling out a new way for users to share their locations or request the whereabouts of their friends. The messaging application said the feature has been rolling out over the...
View ArticleFacebook Introduced 2 User Privacy Protection Tools for Developers of Apps,...
Facebook Friday introduced two new tools aimed at helping developers respond to the privacy concerns of their applications' users and comply with the European Union's General Data Protection...
View ArticleCorona Introduces First Bottle Redesign for Summer 2018
Nothing is more indicative of summer than an Instagram picture of someone's knees against an endless, turquoise ocean. Of course the picture isn't complete without a bottle of beer and it definitely...
View Article5 Mistakes Small Businesses Make That Cripple Their Social Media Advertising ROI
Facebook's earnings report for the first quarter of 2018 surpassed all expectations. The social giant reported $4.99 billion in quarterly profits and $11.97 billion in quarterly revenue. While Facebook...
View ArticleMarketers Need to Use Behavioral Data Responsibly to Really Connect With...
I feel for marketers, not only because they are my clients and lifeblood, but because they are under siege in more ways than ever in the history of business. For one, consumer control over content and...
View ArticleThe Cult of Peloton: Reinventing the Fitness Industry, and Becoming a...
Until a month ago, I had never taken a spin class. While friends and colleagues made regular pilgrimages to boutique fitness studios like SoulCycle or Flywheel, the allure of sweating buckets and...
View ArticleWhy a TV Show Sponsored a Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon
Female entrepreneurship. Second-wave feminism. Women who broke the glass ceiling in industries far and wide. Odds are the Wikipedia entries for these topics were written and edited by men. In fact,...
View ArticleInfographic: TV Is Steadily Sinking as OTT Skyrockets
There's been plenty of hype surrounding the shift from traditional TV to over-the-top media services like Netflix and Hulu. However, new research cuts through the noise and shifts the focus to numbers,...
View ArticleHow Influencer Marketing Is Fueled by an Age-Old Social Theory
One of the biggest misconceptions about influencer marketing is that it's all about product placement. Most people think they should pick an influencer solely based on their stream of beautiful curated...
View ArticleTo Show Its Focus on Openness, This Company’s Annual Report Was Designed to...
Most companies love to talk about openness, though in practice they'd rather say as little as possible outside the confines of their own executive meetings. Croatian conglomerate Adris, which until...
View ArticleWhy Blockchain Could Be the Solution to Many of the Problems Brands Are Facing
It might seem like the promises of blockchain have arrived out of nowhere and not without a crypto wallet full of doubt. Even so, executives are ready to take the technology--which creates an...
View ArticleQ&A: SAP’s Digital Marketing Chief on Why Some Marketers Were Unprepared for...
Despite the weeks of hype leading up to last week's deadline to comply with the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation, a recent report from SAP found that a fair number of marketers still...
View ArticleQ&A: What This CEO of a Cannabis Retail Platform Wants Marketers to Know...
It's not easy going green. Ben Curren, co-founder and CEO of Green Bits, a cannabis retail platform, knows this all too well. His company, Green Bits, helps cannabis brands with a point-of-sale system...
View ArticleCheech Reveals Rigorous Testing Methods for His New Pot Brand
Being a successful brand requires extensive research and development. Richard Anthony Marin knows it--even if his approach to R&D is, well, a bit informal. "We get a bunch of strains, then we go...
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