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03/24/2023: New Tools in Customer Engagement, Mobile Marketing, Email Platforms, Conversational Marketing, Analytics, Lead Generation, Marketing Resource Management, Web Development, Social Media Monitoring and Identity Resolution

New Products

  • CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT: Intense Technologies launched UniServe Reach, a digital customer engagement platform that provides businesses with the ability to create, execute, and manage complex marketing campaigns across multiple channels.
  • MOBILE MARKETING: Adjust unveiled Pulse, a monitoring and alerting solution that empowers marketers with essential insights to know when to optimize their mobile campaign performance.
  • EMAIL PLATFORMS: GMass announced the launch of The Reply Project, an email response tool that helps users respond to emails 10x faster than before.
  • CONVERSATIONAL MARKETING: Botpress launched a chatbot builder powered by AI that helps users to quickly build intelligent personal assistants, teaching bots, coding copilots, and more.
  • ANALYTICS: AnswerRocket launched Max, a conversational AI assistant designed to help businesses explore, analyze, and uncover insights from their data.
  • CONVERSATIONAL MARKETING: Verneek announced One Quin, a Consumer Experience AI platform that provides enterprises with one holistic consumer-facing AI solution to accurately answer personalized questions through voice activation or text.
  • LEAD GEN: Terminus launched Prospect Engine, a new data solution to uncover previously unknown, high-quality accounts and contacts showing in-market buying signals.
  • MARKETING RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: Adobe announced Adobe Express for Enterprise, a universal creative tool enabling anyone in the enterprise to easily create, share and collaboratively review on-brand content.
  • WEB DEVELOPMENT: Infomaniak launched Site Creator, a website builder that requires no technical expertise.
  • ANALYTICS: DemandLab released Insentric, a marketing intelligence platform that accurately measures and confidently proves marketing's impact on B2B revenue. 
  • SM MONITORING: SureCritic launched Social Campaigns, a new product that simplifies social media management for businesses.
  • IDENTITY RESOLUTION: Ping Identity announced PingOne Neo™, a multi-standards decentralized identity management solution that gives control of identity data back to your users.

Product Updates

  • ANALYTICS: Tellius announced Copilot, a new set of GPT-integrated product enhancements that leverage OpenAI’s large language models. 
  • PRODUCTIVITY: Kanban Tool launched its AI Assistant, a new feature that helps users work more efficiently, stay ahead of the curve, and achieve their project goals.
  • SM NETWORK: LinkedIn rolled out new features to help B2B marketers schedule content without a 3rd-party tool and host live audio events on the platform.
  • WEB PERFORMANCE: Opera announced new AI features including contextual AI prompts and a sidebar integration of popular GPT-based services ChatGPT and ChatSonic.
  • WEB DEVELOPMENT: Stensul announced the addition of a Landing Page Builder to its creation platform, that utilizes templates and predefined, no-code modules that allow non-technical users to easily and confidently create landing pages. 
  • ANALYTICS: Amplitude announced an expanded suite of product features for its experimentation offering, Amplitude Experiment, including Experiment Groups, Formula Metrics, Controlled-experiment Using Pre-existing Data (CUPED), and a Data Quality Checklist.
  • ANALYTICS: DataRobot announced the newest version of the DataRobot AI Platform, along with deeper partner integrations, AI Accelerators, and redesigned service offerings.
  • CX: InMoment announced its new Smart Summary Generator technology that uses OpenAI to transform hundreds of pieces of individual and discrete feedback into easily consumable short, structured paragraphs to surface the most important topics and trends to help organizations take immediate action on their customer feedback. 
  • AI: Tome announced a new document-to-presentation feature powered by GPT-4 that enables users to take an existing text-based document and instantly transform it into a synthesized, AI-generated presentation, story, or narrative. 
  • EMAIL: Front announced new generative AI features using ChatGPT’s API that are fully integrated within its platform, including Compose with AI, for quicker higher-quality responses, and Summarize with AI, for summarizing long conversations.
  • AUTOMATION: Bloomreach announced a new feature that gives marketers the ability to experiment with personalized recommendations on their website through an easy-to-use visual editor and template blocks that require no coding.
  • INFLUENCER: affable.ai launched a new content approval feature to help brands streamline the content collaboration process with influencers.

Acquisitions

  • CX: Vendasta announced that it has acquired Broadly, a company that offers a customer engagement platform for small and medium-sized businesses.
03/17/2023: New Tools in Marketing Automation, Customer Service, Mobile Marketing, Conversational Marketing, and Advertising

New Products

  • MARKETING AUTOMATION: Wishpond announced the launch of Propel IQ, an all-in-one marketing and sales solution designed to help businesses conveniently manage all their marketing needs in an easy-to-use solution.
  • CUSTOMER SERVICE: Factoreal announced Agent App, an app that provides powerful chat routing capabilities to satisfy business routing needs, ensuring visitor chats are always directed to suitable agents, leading to an improved customer service experience.
  • MOBILE MARKETING: Sendbird announced Sendbird Notifications, a low-code, API-based solution that enables product managers and marketers to customize and launch a persistent in-app notifications experience in minutes, delivering 2X the conversion at half the cost of SMS.
  • CONVERSATIONAL MARKETING: Juji announced its new generative AI tool that enables any organization to rapidly generate custom AI chatbots with no code or additional IT resources.
  • ADVERTISING: AppsFlyer announced the launch of ROI360, a comprehensive return-on-investment (ROI) measurement suite that provides a unified platform for both cost aggregation and revenue measurement. 

Product Updates

  • ADVERTISING: Choozle announced the launch of its new Campaign Manager with improved ad buying capabilities, real-time optimization resources and expanded in-platform reporting.
  • CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT: ZineOne announced its official rebrand to Session AI, representing an important evolution of ZineOne and reflects the company’s focus on in-session marketing and privacy-forward ecommerce solutions.
  • VIDEO CREATION: Screencast-O-Matic has completed its rebrand to ScreenPal, in response to company growth, product expansion, and a renewed commitment to its corporate vision, making video creation and sharing easy and accessible to all.
  • ADVERTISING: Firefly announced the release of its OOH retargeting capabilities by partnering with Connected Media Ad-Tech vendor, Blue Bite.
  • WEB DEVELOPMENT: Appy Pie announced the launch of its new AI Text to Image Generator feature that allows users to create eye-catching images for social media, blogs, and other marketing channels with just a few clicks.
  • EVENTS: Eventbase launched its advanced new personalization feature that lets event organizers delight attendees by crafting the perfect personalized and highly-branded first screen in their Eventbase-powered mobile event app.
  • CDP: Lytics launched Lytics Reports, a powerful tool to visualize and gain critical insights from data in the Lytics CDP.
  • CI: Spot Trender announced its new AI features that use natural language processing to quickly summarize open-ended answers, sentiment analysis to provide deeper insights into customer responses, and automatically scans business data to generate actionable insights.
  • SECURITY: Perception Point announced that it has added Browser-Centric Data Loss Prevention (DLP) capabilities to its Advanced Browser Security extension.

Acquisitions

  • CRM: Splio announced the acquisition of Tinyclues, the SaaS predictive marketing provider based on deep learning AI, that together will enable brands to easily orchestrate large-scale, hyper-personalized marketing plans.
  • ADVERTISING: Simpli.fi announced the acquisition of Bidtellect, a contextual and native demand-side platform (DSP) that together will provide customers with access to a full omnichannel suite of solutions through a single platform.
03/10/2023: New Tools in Advertising, Brand Management, Conversational Marketing, Web Development, Audience Segmentation, Social Media Monitoring, Analytics, and AI

New Products

  • ADVERTISING: Mitgo launched Takeads, a privacy-first native advertising platform that utilizes native ad formats and contextual relevance to reach customers without revealing personal information.
  • BRAND MANAGEMENT: Ethos launched as a brand empowerment platform that makes it easy to create a beautiful and organized digital Brand Guideline that becomes the single source of truth for a company’s brand content. 
  • CONVERSATIONAL MARKETING: Sceyt introduced In-App Chat API, a messaging platform that enables developers to integrate full-featured chat functionality into their applications effortlessly.
  • WEB DEVELOPMENT: Anvil announced Anvil X, a platform designed to help organizations using Salesforce’s Tableau software turn their dashboards into applications.
  • AUDIENCE SEGMENTATION: Tunnl launched their new audience intelligence platform that offers a singular, cloud-based access point to all of Tunnl’s audiences, insights, planning, and measurement tools.
  • SM MONITORING: BrandBastion launched BrandBastion Lite, an AI-driven platform that automates comment moderation and sentiment analysis, enabling social media marketers to manage conversations much faster and more efficiently.
  • ANALYTICS: ThoughtSpot announced the launch of ThoughtSpot Sage, a new search experience that gives organizations the ability to use natural language to safely and securely explore, interact, and interrogate data, automatically generate narratives to explain insights, and augment data modeling through AI-created descriptions and synonyms to quickly prepare data for search.
  • AI: Grammarly unveiled GrammarlyGO, a new generative AI product that accelerates productivity where people write, enabling people and businesses to unlock their potential, save time, and get more done—while prioritizing trust, security, and authenticity.

Product Updates

  • CRM: HubSpot announced the launch of two new AI-powered tools, content assistant and ChatSpot.ai, to help its customers save time while creating better connections with their audiences.
  • RETAIL: Evocalize announced the launch of EVOLVE, a new artificial intelligence layer applied to its Collaborative Marketing Platform designed for franchises to save time, maximize efficiency, and improve ROI on local digital marketing initiatives.
  • EDM: LiveRamp introduced a new module for privacy-safe, multi-party collaboration to unlock cross-screen measurement, giving customers exclusive access to more partner datasets so all parties can increase revenue and enhance customer experiences while maintaining control over their data.
  • PRIVACY: DataGrail launched a new Privacy Dashboard that provides actionable recommendations to improve privacy management in an ongoing and scalable way.
  • PODCASTING: CoHost announced the launch of its innovative B2B Analytics, a powerful new feature designed to help B2B brands and agencies uncover which companies are listening to their podcast. 
  • AR: Nextech AR announced that it has rebranded to Nextech3D.ai, to better reflect its current technology and business. 
  • CDP: Zeta Global introduced new Zeta Marketing Platform innovations that provide enterprise companies with powerful AI-enabled capabilities that deliver more predictable results from marketing investments, and includes True Omnichannel Forecasting, Enhanced Propensity Scoring, and No-code Data Warehouse Mapping.
  • DAM: Acquia announced new integrations for its digital asset management platform, giving customers more control over brand consistency, extend the value of content and data created in other systems, and help marketers and content creators become more productive.
  • PRODUCTIVITY: Engageware launched Peer Analytics, an appointment-scheduling analytics feature engineered to provide Engageware’s bank and credit union customers benchmarking abilities against similar-sized financial institutions.
  • EVENTS: MeetingPulse announced the launch of platform templates, designed to provide quick-start solutions for MeetingPulse’s most popular use cases for enterprise, human resources, IT, and event teams.
  • EDM: SAP announced the next generation of its data management portfolio, now called the SAP® Datasphere, which gives customers easy access to business-ready data across the data landscape. 
  • PRODUCTIVITY: Freehand by InVision announced the release of the Intelligent Canvas, helping cross-functional teams unlock productivity by adding never-before-seen automation to the canvas — saving teams valuable time on every task they do.

Acquisitions

  • MOBILE MARKETING: Jitterbit announced it has acquired Zudy, a no-code / low-code application development platform provider for enterprise organizations.
  • OMNICHANNEL: Criteo announced its acquisition of Brandcrush, an omnichannel media platform that enables the buying and selling of omnichannel retail media.
03/03/2023: New Tools in Advertising, AI, HR, Analytics, Mobile Marketing, Customer Service, Email, Conversational Marketing, and Audience Data

New Products

  • ADVERTISING: Moloco announced a new monetization solution for streaming media and OTT providers that helps users transform their monetization strategy by driving outcomes for advertisers throughout the entire funnel.
  • AI: Wochit announced the launch of the Wochit Wizard, its new video creation tool that leverages AI capabilities made available by ChatGPT and allows users to generate professional-looking videos from a simple text description.
  • HR: Brightcove announced the launch of Brightcove Communications Studio, a new video-first solution designed to help HR and communications professionals build deeper relationships and better engage with their internal stakeholders.
  • ANALYTICS: Modulos announced the launch of Data Copilot™, a GPT-based conversational AI platform designed to significantly speed up the development of AI models and bring businesses closer to the use of AI by introducing a new way to interact with data and models.
  • MOBILE MARKETING: Appy Pie introduced its new AI App Generator, which will allow users to build and launch apps simply by entering a text describing the type of app they require and their preferences.
  • CUSTOMER SERVICE: Level AI announced AgentGPT a secure, omniscient generative AI system for customer service teams, trained on a client’s proprietary customer conversational data.
  • EMAIL: Emailsforce launched its email marketing solution designed to help businesses of all sizes create, send, and optimize effective email marketing campaigns that drive engagement, conversions, and revenue.
  • CONVERSATIONAL MARKETING: VDQ.app announced its new SaaS product that can turn every website into a video chat experience.
  • AUDIENCE DATA: DrivenIQ launched AMP, an Audience Intelligence Customer Data Platform that helps brands and marketers identify and engage with new in-market audiences, while ingesting and normalizing their existing customer data to craft more effective marketing campaigns and maximize ad spend.

Product Updates

  • WEB DEVELOPMENT: Thunkable unveiled Thunkable Organizations, a full suite of collaboration and administration tools to enable organizations of any size to seamlessly work together on a single workspace to create mobile-first experiences.
  • SEM: Yext announced the addition of Content Generation to its Knowledge Graph product.
  • PARTNER MARKETING: Impartner has launched Rewards Management in Impartner PRM, helping channel leaders drive more partner loyalty and profitability.
  • CONTENT MARKETING: Quark announced the newest release of Quark Publishing Platform NextGen, taking self-service a giant step further with simplified role-based dashboards and enhanced analytics capabilities to help enterprises accurately understand how published content is being consumed. 
  • EDM: Talend announced the latest update to Talend Data Fabric, introducing advanced capabilities and enhancements to simplify and automate cloud migrations and data management, expand data connectivity, and improve data visibility, quality, control, and access.
  • CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT: Factoreal launched its new Omnichannel Chatbot feature to ensure businesses maintain an open channel to their customer base. 
  • MARKETING AUTOMATION: Integrate announced new dashboards for greater visibility into account insights and campaign success included within the Integrate Demand Acceleration Platform.
  • SALES ENABLEMENT: Seismic announced new capabilities to simplify and optimize go-to-market programs, including a GPT integration for Seismic Knowledge.
  • CX: Birdeye announced that businesses can now utilize Birdeye’s AI platform to quickly generate personalized, human-like responses to customer reviews and surveys.
  • MOBILE MARKETING: Quickbase announced new AI-powered Smart Builder and interactive Gantt Chart capabilities designed to help organizations build intuitively and move faster.
  • INTEGRATIONS: Fivetran announced advanced capabilities for on-premises, change data capture, and AWS GovCloud that provide the most comprehensive data movement platform to address complex, highly-secure data requirements.
  • CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT: Pegasystems announced plans to extend its use of AI in its platform with a set of new generative AI capabilities across Pega Infinity™.

Acquisitions

  • PR: Quantexa announced that it has acquired Aylien, a natural language processing and advanced AI provider that will empower its customers to collect, analyze, and understand unstructured text data.
  • SEM: Geniee has announced its acquisition of Zelto, a technology solution provider for web publishers, that together will help Zelto be able to serve publishers with a larger pool of resources, give them access to a wider range of products and boost their revenue with more advertiser relationships.
02/24/2023: New Tools in Productivity & Workflow, Social Media Marketing, Customer Service & Support, Customer Experience, Content Management System, Enterprise Data Management, Product Lifecycle Management, AI, and Training

New Products

  • PRODUCTIVITY: APITable launched its APITable Cloud edition that offers businesses advanced no-code database capabilities to help improve efficiency and create new opportunities.
  • SM MARKETING: Gigopost launched as a new AI-assisted social amplification tool that helps businesses and individuals amplify their social media presence as thought leaders, engage with their target audience, and boost their online visibility.
  • CUSTOMER SERVICE: Kyndi announced Kyndi Clarity, a natural language-enabled self-service customer support solution that delivers accurate results instantly.
  • CX: Medallia announced Medallia Experience Orchestration (MXO), a platform that helps companies use omnichannel customer insights to understand and personalize what their customers want in order to provide the best experience.
  • CMS: TerminusDB launched TerminusCMS, an open-source content management system that is designed to allow content creators to work with a graph database to manage and distribute their content, offering advantages such as greater flexibility, richer relationships and more effective content reuse.
  • EDM: Snowflake launched the Telecom Data Cloud, helping telecommunications service providers break down data silos within companies and across the ecosystem, and allows organizations to easily and securely access data in near real-time, enrich it with ML models, and then share and analyze it to drive better decisions.
  • PLM: Lumavate launched its Product Information Management (PIM) solution that allows marketers to easily create and manage all of their product data and digital assets in a centralized location.
  • AI: JustAnswer launched a new tool that enables people to quickly verify the accuracy of results generated by ChatGPT with board-certified doctors, licensed accountants, lawyers and other vetted professionals in over 150 categories.
  • TRAINING: Arist launched Sidekick, a generative AI course builder that uses AI specifically to craft bit-size learning moments and deliver it the Arist way, in messaging apps like MS Teams, Slack, and SMS.

Product Updates

  • CONVERSATIONAL MARKETING: Yellow.ai announced Dynamic Conversation Designer, a new feature that revolutionizes the design process of chat and voice conversational workflows with Generative AI. 
  • ADVERTISING: MGID announced the development and integration of generative artificial intelligence into its existing intelligent solutions offering.
  • AUTOMATION: Bloomreach announced the launch of the app inbox, a mobile messaging tool from Bloomreach Engagement that creates a versatile new communication channel within the mobile app experience. 
  • SM MARKETING: Later unveiled an AI-driven Caption Writer for Instagram posts that allows users to generate relevant captions in their brand’s tone of voice just by entering keywords.
  • CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT: Agora announced the launch of two new extensions, AI Noise Suppression, a new audio solution that removes background noise, and Agora 3D Spatial Audio, a solution that allows developers to add immersive, dynamic audio into real-time digital experiences.

Acquisitions

  • EVENTS: Hubilo has acquired fielddrive, an on-site event technology company that supports event organizers globally, that together will deliver leading products and customer experiences.
  • BLOCKCHAIN: ConsenSys announced the acquisition of HAL, a no-code blockchain development tooling platform that helps individuals and organizations query and automate blockchain data, together allowing developers to create alerts and notifications at the protocol level for various signals. 
  • TRAINING: Semrush announced the acquisition of Traffic Think Tank (TTT), a marketing education company and community featuring premium content by and for world-class marketing and growth leaders.
02/17/2023: New Tools in Advertising, Analytics, Security, Conversational Marketing, Enterprise Data Management, AI, Productivity & Workflow, and Web Infrastructure

New Products

  • ADVERTISING: SeenThis launched a creative platform which enables clients to access its proprietary streaming technology to seamlessly build their own creatives.
  • ANALYTICS: Knoema and Seek Data announced the launch of its new and unified brand Seek, and introduced two new complementary products, Seek Insights and Insight Cloud.
  • SECURITY: Descope announced it launched a frictionless, secure, and developer-friendly authentication and user management platform.
  • CONVERSATIONAL MARKETING: Yext launched Yext Chat, a new product that empowers organizations to create conversational experiences with cutting-edge AI.
  • EDM: Spectra Logic announced Spectra Digital Archive, a modern archive solution that enables organizations to manage and archive terabytes to petabytes of unstructured data, digitally preserving that data on any combination of disk, tape and cloud, without sacrificing reliability or data availability.
  • AI: Otter.ai launched OtterPilot, the smart AI meeting assistant that automates meetings from start to finish to help professionals and teams save time and increase meeting productivity.
  • WORKFLOW: Alchemer announced the launch of Alchemer Workflow, a no-code workflow feedback engine that gives you the fastest and easiest way to build customer-centric workflows.
  • WEB INFRASTRUCTURE: FullHost announced the launch of FullHost.Cloud, a new cloud platform designed to provide businesses with a cost-effective and scalable solution for hosting their web applications.
  • AI: Lumina Datamatics launched ARTY, a cloud-based workflow solution that helps publishers create, manage, and re-use alt text using Lumina Datamatics’ artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithm.

Product Updates

  • AUTOMATION: Bloomreach announced the expansion of its AI/ML capabilities with the launch of a ChatGPT integration for Bloomreach Engagement, helping marketers quickly scale campaigns and reach every customer segment with personalized communications.
  • AI: Jasper announced Jasper for Business, a suite of product enhancements built to meet the emerging AI needs of businesses.
  • CDP: Acquia announced new Acquia Customer Data Platform tiers and partner models, expanded industry focus, and configurability to meet the needs of organizations of all sizes.
  • WEB DESIGN: Wix announced the launch of its AI Text Creator within the Wix Editor, providing users with technology that significantly improves the quality of their site content and streamlines the website-building process.
  • TEXT TOOLS: Fireflies.ai announced the launch of AskFred, a tool that helps users simply ask questions about what happened during meetings and receive answers in a conversational style.
  • PLM: inriver unveiled a new breed of PIM that powers a customers’ entire product journey, by delivering even more operational efficiency, built-in digital shelf analytics, expanded sales opportunities, and greater sustainability benefits.
  • ANALYTICS: Alteryx announced new self-service and enterprise-grade capabilities to its Analytics Cloud Platform to help customers make faster and more intelligent decisions.

Acquisitions

  • SECURITY: Accenture has acquired Morphus, a cyber defense, risk management and cyber threat intelligence services provider, expanding its practice capabilities in Brazil and Latin America.  
  • ANALYTICS: Kochava has acquired Machine Advertising, enhancing the company’s measurement solutions with Machine’s Always-on Incremental Measurement (AIM) product.
  • SM MARKETING: Augeo announced that it has acquired Brand Networks, a social media marketing pioneer that will deliver powerful social activation platform solutions that complement Augeo’s engagement technology systems. 
02/10/2023: New Tools in App Development, SMS Marketing, Security, Contact Center Systems, Product Information Management, eCommerce, AI, Productivity & Workflow, and Digital Experience

New Products

  • DEVELOPMENT: Fresh Consulting launched an innovative new platform, Brancher.ai, which allows users to create their own AI-powered apps without coding.
  • SMS MARKETING: Textr announced the complete beta release of Textr Team, a business texting and calling app that allows your team to communicate on one platform across any device. 
  • SECURITY: ThreatLocker announced the launch of ThreatLocker Ops, a community-driven threat detection tool that assists administrators to detect attempted breaches or weaknesses in their systems.
  • CONTACT CENTER: Observe.AI launched its new Real-Time AI product suite, designed to help agents with customer interaction and boost productivity with live guidance, supervisor coaching and automated actions for after-call work.
  • PLM: Pimly launched The Product Cloud, the first Salesforce-native Product Information Management platform, allowing employees, prospects, partners and customers to become experts on product information.
  • eCOMMERCE: Zmags released Fastr Frontend, a Frontend-as-a-Service agile storefront that enables organizations to highlight the right products for the right people at the right time.
  • AI: Textbroker announced the launch of the free tool Transparent.ai to help distinguish between human-written and AI-generated content.
  • PRODUCTIVITY: Zoho unveiled Trident, its unified communications platform that helps you meet all of your communication, productivity, and business needs.
  • DX: Infosys launched Infosys Equinox Studio, their low-code/no-code cloud-native platform that enables businesses to seamlessly manage their digital experiences across channels and provide easy integrations to all enterprise and cloud-based service-oriented applications.

Product Updates

  • MARKETING AUTOMATION: Bloom Intelligence launched a new feature in the Bloom reputation management module to help restaurant owners save more time managing their online reputation, now with the ability to create reply templates to use when responding to reviews on Google and Facebook.
  • WEB DEVELOPMENT: Pretty Links released a new Link Health feature that alerts users on broken links found on their WordPress website.
  • LIST MANAGEMENT: ZeroBounce announced the relaunch of its email validation and deliverability platform, now offering faster, more accurate email validation tools and increased security features on a seamless, intuitive platform.
  • AI: Expert.ai released new features for its Natural Language (NL) platform enhancing purpose-built natural language processing (NLP) workflow support. 
  • SEM: MatchCraft announced its newest feature, YouTube Video Ads, providing resellers and agencies with campaign management and in-depth reports for their video ads.
  • PERSONALIZATION: Justuno announced their completely rebuilt platform with custom automation and robust upgrades that empowers marketers to automate complex website strategies for greater personalization and sales.
  • WEB DEVELOPMENT: Wix announced the launch of the SEO Dashboard, a unified place for everything SEO related, that provides Wix users with SEO tools, insights, and reports from Google Search Console.

Acquisitions

  • ADVERTISING: Kargo announced the acquisition of VideoByte, a video advertising platform focused on a viewer-first experience across connected TV and OTT.
  • SEM: Conductor announced the acquisition of Searchmetrics, their SEO competitor, that will help accelerate their expansion in the European market.
  • MARKET RESEARCH: Infillion has acquired Phonic, a global market research platform designed to build voice and video surveys, analyze insights, and create media-enabled research for its partners. 
  • CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT: Sendinblue announced the acquisition of Captain Wallet, a mobile wallet marketing platform that will help Sendinblue address the needs of retailers by adding a customer loyalty and retention channel.
02/03/2023: New Tools in Marketing Automation, Search Engine Marketing, Social Media Management, Photography, SMS Marketing, Privacy, AI, Mobile Marketing, and Social Media Marketing

New Products

  • MARKETING AUTOMATION: NetElixir launched LXRInsights, their proprietary AI-powered digital marketing platform that combines the power of machine learning with a human touch.
  • SEM: Gale Force Digital Technologies announced ClickForce, its paid search marketing software that allows agencies and businesses to execute and optimize pay-per-click campaigns at scale.
  • SM MANAGEMENT: Synup announced the launch of Synup Social, an AI-Assisted Social Media Management platform that simplifies social post creating, publishing, and engagement tracking for marketers to boost their brand presence.
  • PHOTOGRAPHY: Pixelonl announced the launch of its e-commerce platform that offers timely delivery of stock photo solutions for business purposes with images independently taken, produced and designed by the team members at Pixelonl.
  • SEM: Botify launched Botify Activation, a solution that empowers organizations to regain control of how search engines and consumers find products and services organically online.
  • SMS MARKETING: Deltapath announced its Deltapath Business Texting – SMS solution, a solution engineered to create targeted business experiences, extend communication reach, and increase engagement through one-to-one and group texts with consumers, partners, suppliers, and other businesses.
  • PRIVACY: Trulioo launched a global identity platform for person and business verification that allows you to quickly build, launch and optimize onboarding workflows through Workflow Studio or connect to specific verification services through API Direct.
  • AI: AI Detector Pro released an online tool that detects content written by AI algorithms, such as ChatGPT.
  • SM MANAGEMENT: Birdeye announced the launch of Birdeye Social, a social media software platform designed from the ground up to revolutionize social media management for local businesses with multiple social media accounts.
  • MOBILE MARKETING: Tapcart launched Custom Blocks, a low-code product that allows merchants and developers to design, build and customize their mobile apps.
  • SM MARKETING: Avaturn released a next-generation avatar platform, Avaturn.me, which generates realistic 3D avatars from 2D photos in real time using generative AI.
  • MOBILE MARKETING: Openscreen announced Openscreen Engage, an end-to-end solution for publishing QR Code led interactive content for on-location marketing, education and promotional campaigns.

Product Updates

  • MARKET RESEARCH: Momentive announced three new survey creation features for SurveyMonkey Enterprise, including language personalization features, additional best/worst question types, and a multilingual email collector.
  • EVENTS Ungerboeck announced that they changed their name to Momentus, to meet the dynamically changing needs of the venue and event management industry.
  • WEB DEVELOPMENT: Appy Pie introduced a brand new selection of fully customizable templates for creating stunning, high-quality websites without coding.
  • BPA: Tines introduced a series of innovative features, including its new pages function, alongside the Storyboard, forms, formulas, and email or chatbot push notifications, all designed to further bridge the gap between humans and automation.
  • CDP: Digital Air Strike rebranded to DAS Technology, reflecting the company’s expanded CDXP technology solutions and unique capabilities.
  • ANALYTICS: Lucy announced SynopsisSM, a new feature that enables Lucy to respond to users’ questions with a short summary of the best answers, equipping teams with the exact information they need.
  • ENGAGEMENT: LivePerson announced enhancements that will empower enterprises to safely and productively leverage Generative AI within its Conversational AI platform, including Knowledge AI, Conversation Assist, and an Agent Productivity tool.
  • PRODUCTIVITY: Airtable announced new updates to help you manage multiple fields at once, protect your data with new API authentication features, and updates to streamline collaboration.

Acquisitions

  • PLM: OpenText closed its acquisition of Micro Focus, a provider of mission-critical software technology and services that help customers accelerate digital transformation.
  • ANALYTICS: Precisely announced it has acquired Transerve, a location intelligence and data provider with expertise in spatial data handling, processing and analysis.
  • PERSONALIZATION: OpenWeb announced it has acquired the proprietary audience management platform Jeeng, strengthening OpenWeb’s ability to create one-to-one relationships with millions of users.
  • ANALYTICS: Uniphore announced it has acquired Red Box, the open enterprise platform for capturing voice, screen and metadata from conversations.
  • WEB OPTIMIZATION: Netlify announced that it has acquired Gatsby, providers of an advanced cloud platform for web delivery and content orchestration.
01/27/2023: New Tools in Sales Enablement, Artificial Intelligence, Email Personalization, Video Distribution, Campaign Management, Targeting, Productivity & Workflow

New Products

  • SALES ENABLEMENT: Actifai announced the launch of Actifai Digital, an end-to-end digital sales solution that utilizes AI and ML to guide broadband providers’ online shoppers to the right products and services that best meet their needs.
  • AI: Shutterstock announced the launch of its Generative AI platform that converts prompts into larger-than-life, ethically created visuals ready for licensing.
  • EMAIL PERSONALIZATION: OKZest released an email marketing tool that can embed personalized messages into images to provide a higher engagement and click rate, resulting in a higher ROI.
  • VIDEO DISTRIBUTION: MediaPlatform unveiled MediaPlatform Autocaster®, an automated webcasting platform that allows enterprise video production teams to schedule and monitor autoplay events that have been pre-produced and scheduled to run in advance without requiring producers or engaging control studio equipment.
  • CAMPAIGN MANAGEMENT: Dash Hudson announced the launch of Campaigns, an intuitive, cross-channel social commerce reporting tool that takes the guesswork out of measuring ROI.
  • TARGETING: Fyllo announced the launch of Hypertail PMP, a solution that helps advertisers contextually reach their target audiences through the unique set of websites essential to their passions and lifestyles.
  • PRODUCTIVITY: Craft.io announced the launch of its Product Portfolio Management Solution that is designed to help enterprise product organizations and product leaders manage their product portfolios.

Product Updates

  • MARKET RESEARCH: Voxco introduced six new features to its online survey platform including Multi-Factor Authentication, Panelist Traceability, Survey Automation, NPS Feedback Collection, Real-Time Sentiment Analysis, Sentiment Trends Chart, all enabling seamless research experience and enhancing data insights.
  • AI: Metatron announced the release of new services for content generation including human-like AI text generation for ads, blogs, essays, social media posts, emails, business plans, resumes, books and any type of creative copywriting.
  • CONTACT CENTER: Cogito announced its latest product innovations to transform real-time conversation intelligence in the contact center with enhancements that include a combination of topic-based ML models, self-service admin for easy topic generation, real-time transcription with emotion AI markup, and PCI/PII redaction.
  • CUSTOMER SERVICE: SugarCRM introduced new digital self-service capabilities that empower customers to self-serve and connect with brands via 24/7 anytime, anywhere access, with speed and convenience via desktop or mobile devices.
  • EDM: Semarchy announced data-driven workflows for the xDM module that now allows organizations to collaboratively manage, transform and orchestrate raw data into “single source of truth” golden records for any business use case.

Acquisitions

  • SM MONITORING: Sprout Social announced the acquisition of Repustate, an innovative sentiment analysis and NLP company that will increase the power, breadth and automation of their social listening, messaging and customer care capabilities.
  • AI: McKinsey & Company announced that it has acquired Iguazio, an AI and ML company that will help McKinsey accelerate and scale AI deployments dramatically.
  • ADVERTISING: Tinuiti announced the acquisition of Ampush, a growth marketing agency with a core focus across social platforms that provide end-to-end performance creative and customer acquisition capabilities.
  • WEB DEVELOPMENT: Awesome Motive announced the acquisition of Thrive Themes, a simple-to-use WordPress suite of website tools to help create conversion-optimized plugins and themes that give a real boost to your business.
  • CONTACT CENTER: SupportLogic announced the acquisition of Emtropy Labs, a provider of technology that automates quality assurance for enterprise support centers.
01/20/2023: New Tools in Advertising, eCommerce, Influencer, AI, Analytics, ML/AI Enablement, Competitive Intelligence, Enterprise Data Management, and Conversational Marketing

New Products

  • ADVERTISING: WideOrbit announced the launch of ZingX™, the only buy-side platform offering direct access to inventory from thousands of broadcast TV stations using WideOrbit’s premium sell-side exchange, WO Marketplace.
  • eCOMMERCE: commercetools launched commercetools Frontend, a FaaS solution that helps businesses gain all the advantages of implementing headless commerce such as unlimited customization, freedom to experiment, and scalability without sacrificing time to market.
  • INFLUENCER: pieFi announced the launch of Upside.coop, a revolutionary platform that gives companies the tools they need to achieve a new level of authentic connection with their customers and fans.
  • AI: DeepL announced the release of the beta version of DeepL Write, an AI writing companion that will help users improve their writing and express themselves precisely—regardless of their language proficiency.
  • ANALYTICS: AdTheorent announced the launch of its AdTheorent Predictive Audience Builder, a transformational suite of platform tools designed to enable users to create and activate predictive models which score audience quality.
  • ML/AI ENABLEMENT: CloudFactory launched Accelerated Annotation, an AI-assisted labeling solution for 2-D images that learns and adapts to your use case to improve annotation speed and quality. 
  • COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE: Spot Trender introduced their brand tracking platform for marketers that tracks insights on a daily or weekly basis, providing granular insights that allow for better decision making and faster optimization of marketing strategies.
  • EDM: Immuta announced Immuta Detect, the solution that alerts data and security teams about risky data access behavior, enabling quicker and more accurate risk remediation and improved data security posture management across modern cloud data platforms.
  • CONVERSATIONAL MARKETING: Gupshup announced the launch of Auto Bot Builder, a powerful tool that harnesses the power of GPT-3 to automatically and effortlessly build advanced chatbots tailored to enterprise requirements.
  • EDM: Integrate.io announced their Data Observability product that allows teams to continuously verify and alert on the health of their data.

Product Updates

  • IDENTITY RESOLUTION: LoginRadius announced that its platform now offers a CLI (command-line interface) that will help developers streamline their work through a conventional yet robust interface.
  • CX: InMoment announced new XI Platform features to help organizations take a proactive approach to improving experiences that have a positive impact on business performance.
  • ANALYTICS: Entytle introduced the first Installed Base Segmentation workflow, to address gaps in traditional segmentation such as insights, behavior, and buyer intent.
  • WEB OPTIMIZATION: UserTesting announced product updates to the UserTesting Human Insight Platform that provides individual users with easier access to high-value content through workspaces that curate tests, drafts, and highlight reels into scannable, personalized views that are tailored to recent engagement.
  • MARKET RESEARCH: Pollfish announced its new feature, Pollfish AI, allowing users to generate a professional-grade insightful survey questionnaire in 30 seconds or less, all based on a single sentence a user enters on their topic of interest.
  • CAMPAIGN MANAGEMENT: CM Group introduced Marigold, their new brand name, which brings together the company’s global, cross-channel email and martech solutions, technologies and services under one brand.

Acquisitions

  • TEXT TOOLS: Unbabel announced its acquisition of EVS Translations, a single-source translation supplier for all language requirements.
  • MOBILE MARKETING: MessageGears announced that it has acquired Swrve, the world’s premier mobile app marketing platform that helps enterprise brands deliver stunning mobile experiences for their customers.
  • PAYMENTS: JW Player announced it is acquiring InPlayer, a subscription and identity management technology provider that will help broadcasters and other video-driven businesses more easily monetize their subscription-based business and by providing rich audience insights.
  • EDM: Scaleworks announced the acquisition of Import.io, the web data extraction provider for enterprises.
01/13/2023: New Tools in Analytics, Product Discovery, eCommerce, Productivity, Video Creation, Enterprise Data Management, Email Platforms, Augmented Reality, CMS, Influencers, Artificial Intelligence, and Digital Asset Management

New Products

  • ANALYTICS: DataRobot announced DataRobot Notebooks, a fully integrated notebooks solution within the DataRobot AI platform that enables data scientists to collaborate across code-first workflows with one-click access to embedded notebooks.
  • PRODUCT DISCOVERY: We Think North launched Toolcano, a martech tool finder that lets users sift through the hundreds of apps that help with different marketing functions, compare capabilities, and curate the best solutions for their needs.
  • eCOMMERCE: Coveo announced the release of the new Coveo Merchandising Hub that provides a comprehensive feature set that enables brands to deliver a highly relevant shopping journey that helps to build loyalty and increase profitability.
  • PRODUCTIVITY: Cordoniq has officially launched, providing custom interfaces that frees organizations from privacy issues, broken APIs and meeting rooms expiring.
  • VIDEO CREATION: DCM announced the launch of PRSNL, a full-service, end-to-end, personalized video content platform.
  • EDM: TapClicks announced its TapClicks Data Exporter that allows users to blend all campaign information in the automated TapClicks data warehouse, and push it to the platform of their choice. 
  • EMAIL: Validity announced the relaunch of Sender Score, a destination for email marketers looking to level up their programs and deepen their sending knowledge.
  • AR: ARize announced the launch of its innovative frictionless platform that allows businesses to easily create and deploy AR experiences that enhance customer engagement, satisfaction, and brand awareness.
  • CMS: Solodev announced the launch of Solodev Serverless CMS: a cloud-native enterprise content management system that runs serverless on AWS.
  • ANALYTICS: Nielsen announced Nielsen ONE Ads, a comprehensive self-service platform that provides marketers with powerful insights into audience behavior based on their usage of media platforms such as TV, radio and digital.
  • INFLUENCER: Banzai announced the launch of Boost, a new product offering that enables your registrants to become your promoters to increase registrations for virtual live and automated webinars and events.
  • AI: Copyleaks announced the official launch of its enterprise-level, multi-language AI Content Detector for educational institutions, businesses, and individuals.
  • DAM: NewSpark.io announced the release of Media Manager, a simple and intuitive digital asset management platform.

Product Updates

  • eCOMMERCE: Miva released the newest version of its popular ecommerce platform, now featuring PageBuilder, a flagship feature for the easy creation and management of pages on Miva websites.
  • PRODUCTIVITY: FileCloud announced the addition of Zero Trust File Sharing, which will enable users to collaborate securely, not just with other employees, but also with external partners, vendors, and clients. 
  • CONTENT CREATION: Beautiful.ai announced DesignerBot, a generative AI designed to automate presentation creation and custom image generation.
  • CONTENT MARKETING: Bloomreach announced a new Catalog Management feature that gives merchandisers greater control over their product catalogs, allowing merchandising teams to use business user-friendly tools to easily configure and manage all product catalogs within their account.

Acquisitions

  • DATA MIGRATION: Awesome Motive announced their acquisition of Duplicator, a popular WordPress backup and migration software.
  • BUDGETING: Apptio announced that it has acquired Cloudwiry, a multi-cloud savings automation and FinOps provider that automates commitment management and optimization on behalf of its enterprise customers.
  • ANALYTICS: Snowplow announced the acquisition of Poplin Data, the data-specialist consulting firm that helps organizations achieve a competitive advantage through deployment of sophisticated data-led strategies.
  • ANALYTICS: Raydiant deepened their AI and computer vision capabilities with the acquisitions of Sightcorp and Perch, bringing expanded capabilities onto one platform to enable retailers to create dynamic and data-driven experiences.
  • WEB OPTIMIZATION: Thoma Bravo announced the completion of its acquisition of video-based human insight company UserTesting.
01/06/2023: New Tools in Analytics, Security, Web Development, Events, Productivity, and AI

New Products

  • ANALYTICS: SeaChange announced the launch of the SeaChange Xstream™ platform, a cloud-based content monetization platform helping OEMs and content owners maximize advertising revenue on Connected TVs.
  • SECURITY: ZenPrivata launched Privacy Observatory™ 2.0, a turnkey privacy and data protection platform to help companies of all sizes safeguard data and understand and comply with new privacy and data requirements.
  • WEB DEVELOPMENT: WebLime launched Limey, a landing page builder that allows users with no prior coding knowledge to create their own professional pages.
  • EVENTS: Captello announced the launch of EventGen, an event management platform with a comprehensive suite of solutions to help organizers plan and execute events seamlessly.
  • PRODUCTIVITY: Prezi announced it has teamed up with Zoom to launch Prezi Video for Zoom, which provides Zoom customers with the ability to launch Prezi Video from within Zoom to interact with on-screen content and create a video meeting experience that’s up to 75 percent more engaging and impactful.
  • AI: Picsart announced a new standalone app, SketchAI, which gives anyone the ability to turn a sketch or image into a new picture made by AI.

Product Updates

  • DAM: Avid released updates to the MediaCentral workflow platform, including the new MediaCentral | Acquire IP-based ingest scheduler, along with remote collaboration and improved hybrid working support.

Acquisitions

  • MOBILE MARKETING: Alchemer announced the acquisition of mobile feedback technology company Apptentive, providing Alchemer customers with a more in-depth method of collecting feedback from mobile customers and gives Apptentive customers access to survey and workflow functionality across communication channels and within platforms such as Salesforce, Microsoft Teams, and Slack.
  • PRODUCTIVITY: PTC announced that it has completed its acquisition of ServiceMax, adding important field service management capabilities to PTC's closed-loop product lifecycle management and digital thread offerings.
12/23/2022: New Tools in Marketing Automation, AI, Social Media Management, and Text Tools

New Products

  • MARKETING AUTOMATION: Bloom Intelligence unveiled their automated restaurant reputation management tool, allowing restaurateurs to dramatically increase and improve online ratings and reviews.
  • AI: Press Hook announced a free press release generator tool that allows companies to produce rapid, automated press releases relating to their products or services.
  • SM MANAGEMENT: Gale Force Digital Technologies announced SocialForce, its newest software for social media management that allows businesses to take charge of online profiles at scale with advanced integrations.
  • TEXT TOOLS: FineShare announced the launch of FineVoice, its voice processing product that can transform voice and record sound from multiple sources with ease and offers a variety of features including text to speech, speech to text, audio extractor, and file voice changer.
  • AI: Tome launched as an AI-powered generative storytelling tool that enables creators to generate entire narratives from scratch, complete with intelligent titles, outlines, pagination, page layouts and page content supported by GPT-3 and AI-generated images.

Product Updates

  • MARKETING AUTOMATION: Inflection.io introduced a WYSIWYG email editor that makes creating personalized emails a breeze with consistent brand elements and product-led content using the Visual editor.
  • AI: Jasper announced Jasper Chat, a new way of engaging with its AI that helps remove much of that learning curve associated with generative AI tools by making it as easy to converse with Jasper as you would talk to a human assistant.
  • VIDEO CREATION: FlexClip announced its auto subtitle feature that enables individuals to quickly add subtitles to any video, without the need for expensive editing equipment, specialized knowledge, or time-consuming effort.

Acquisitions

  • DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT: Dropbox announced it has acquired FormSwift, a cloud-based service that gives individuals and businesses a simple solution to create, complete, edit, and save critical business forms and agreements.
12/16/2022: New Tools in Email Security, Analytics, AI, Content Creation, Content Marketing, Video Creation, and Contact Center

New Products

  • EMAIL SECURITY: OPSWAT announced MetaDefender Cloud Email Security, an email security solution that gives the added benefits of reduced costs, scalability, ease of operation and improved efficiency.
  • ANALYTICS: Appier launched AIRIS, the next-generation AI-powered CDP to support brands and marketers to achieve the fastest time-to-insight with smarter decision-making and execution by leveraging its advanced AI and ML technologies.
  • AI: Tailwind released its new generative AI tool Ghostwriter that helps users of the small business marketing platform to generate natural-sounding, effective copy for their digital marketing efforts.
  • CONTENT CREATION: Sqribble launched as a tool to create unlimited professional eBooks that business owners can edit and customize to publish within minutes.
  • CONTENT MARKETING: Lumina Datamatics introduced a new fast-to-the-market journals platform called JournalXPress that automates the publishing workflow, and also has a payment collection feature for open-access payment acceptance that speeds up the payment process to the publishers.
  • VIDEO CREATION: Spatial announced the Spatial Creator Toolkit that takes away the friction for digital designers and architects by allowing them to publish first-class visuals and interactive spaces across mobile, desktop web and VR in one click.
  • CONTACT CENTER: NICE announced ElevateAI, an AIaaS solution that brings the power of Enlighten AI, its purpose-built CX AI, to the developer community.

Product Updates

  • AUTOMATION: Inflection.io announced the general availability of their Salesforce integration to supercharge product-led growth with new audience and personalization capabilities.
  • CONVERSATIONAL: LivePerson announced four new AI-powered capabilities to its Conversational AI including AI Search, On-Demand Recommendations, “Small Talk” NLU, and Repeat Intent Rate measurement.
  • CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT: Clarus Commerce officially rebranded as ebbo, signifying the company’s movement in comprehensive loyalty and customer engagement capabilities to deliver end-to-end solutions for brands of all sizes.
  • SM MANAGEMENT: SocialFlow by Piano announced a new ‘Link in Bio’ feature for Instagram, that provides a dedicated page for every client Instagram handle powered by SocialFlow.
  • PRIVACY: PossibleNOW announced the launch of its new and improved zero-party data platform, MyPreferences 3.0, giving enterprises a reimagined CX engine.
  • SECURITY: Uptycs announced the addition of agentless scanning, enabling security teams to scan 100% of their cloud workloads quickly to detect risk including misconfigurations, policy violations, exposed secrets, vulnerabilities, and malware.
  • CUSTOMER SERVICE: Zoho Corporation launched new tools for Zoho Desk, which includes Blended Conversations, a seamless combination of human-driven and bot-powered conversational service experiences. 
  • ANALYTICS: Qualtrics announced new XM Platform innovations to offer organizations the most flexibility to gain a complete understanding of their customers’ wants and needs, and take automatic action to deliver personalized experiences at scale and in real-time.
  • AI: Picsart introduced two new features to further enhance the creative workflow of its AI tool, including AI Background, and AI Replace.

Acquisitions

  • CONTACT CENTER: Spearline acquired Callstats analytics, diagnostics and optimization technology for WebRTC from 8×8, which together will help provide the best in class solution for testing and monitoring critical business telecommunication services for its global client base.
  • PERSONALIZATION: GetResponse announced that it completed its acquisition of Recostream, an AI/ML personalized recommendations technology company, that will help businesses using GetResponse display personalized product and content recommendations to their website’s visitors and grow their conversions. 
  • CMS: Tiugo Technologies announced the acquisition of ButterCMS, a provider of headless CMS software tools and solutions for developers.
12/09/2022: New Tools in Process Automation, Customer Experience, eCommerce, Content Creation, Productivity & Workflow, AI, and Marketing Operations

New Products

  • PROCESS AUTOMATION: Teramind announced a new Intelligent Business Process Optimization solution to help companies adapt to a complicated business environment, enabling teams to optimize business processes at a critical time.
  • CX: Quantiphi launched Qollective.CX, a one-stop experience management platform that enables organizations to provide best-in-class AI-powered customer, agent, and employee experiences.
  • eCOMMERCE: Prodigy Commerce has officially launched as a hosted eCommerce platform for WordPress that’s free at any scale and brings together the benefits of WordPress and a hosted eCommerce platform.
  • CONTENT CREATION: Originality.AI launched as the first tool that is built and trained to predict when text has been created by artificial intelligence tools, in order to help web publishers check for plagiarism.
  • PRODUCTIVITY: LocaliQ announced the launch of their new appointment scheduling software created to help small business owners take control of their time. 
  • AI: Ezoic launched Flickify, its new AI text-to-video tool that requires no video editing skills, video equipment or special training. 
  • MOPs: Tailwind has announced the launch of Copilot, a personalized marketing plan creation tool.

Product Updates

  • CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT: CleverTap unveiled RenderMax, a proprietary technology that can increase mobile push notification render rates up to 90% on low-end Android devices.
  • CONTACT CENTER: Five9 announced new capabilities that help businesses deliver more engaging and unified customer journeys across digital and voice channels and between virtual and live agents.
  • PRODUCTIVITY: RingCentral announced it’s expanding its End-to-End Encryption (E2EE) beyond support for video to include both phone and messaging within its flagship RingCentral MVP product, to prevent any unauthorized third party from accessing users’ communication content.
  • PRODUCTIVITY: LiquidPlanner announced new features including a 'Work Limit' that allows users to place a cap on the number of hours that should be spent on a work item, and 'Schedule Insights' have been made more accessible to users so they can quickly see and manage potential project risk.
  • ADVERTISING: Scala announced new features for their Digital Signage solution, including the ability to monitor and stop plan generation tasks with the click of a button, providing users with an overview of past, current and future plan generation tasks and letting them cancel certain jobs before they start.

Acquisitions

  • ANALYTICS: Accenture has acquired Fiftyfive5, a customer insights and advisory business, strengthening Accenture Song’s ability to help clients tap data insights and performance marketing to accelerate growth and innovation.
  • LIST DEVELOPMENT: Melissa has acquired ZipInfo.com, a longtime provider of ZIP code data, which strategically aligns with Melissa’s comprehensive product suite, grounded in address verification, correction, and enhancement.
  • AUDIENCE SEGMENTATION: Audiense announced the acquisition of SOPRISM, the digital consumer insight tool which supports leading agencies and brands in developing their audience understanding.
  • PRODUCTIVITY: LumApps announced it has acquired Vizir, an innovative no-code digital assistant technology that various business departments can use to automate mundane tasks and improve employee access to knowledge, resources, and third-party applications.
  • RETAIL: Ad.net announced its purchase of IntentX, the commerce platform for publishers at scale to increase their revenue.
12/02/2022: New Tools in Omnichannel Marketing, Optimization, Conversational Marketing, Mobile Marketing, Integrations, Search Engine Marketing, Data Migration, Web Analytics, Advertising, and Content Creation

New Products

  • OMNICHANNEL: Taradel announced the launch of its new omni-channel marketing platform designed to help advertisers easily create, manage, and measure local marketing campaigns integrated across today’s most popular media channels.
  • OPTIMIZATION: Eppo announced that it has partnered with Snowflake and launched an A/B experimentation platform that will allow customers to run more trustworthy experiments faster.
  • CONVERSATIONAL: Aivo launched Video Conversational AI, a solution that gives companies a new way to interact with their customers using AI and video.
  • MOBILE: GEORA announced the prelaunch of its innovative platform that uses beacon technology to share location-specific content, as well as increase customer engagement and obtain feedback more quickly and accurately than ever before.
  • INTEGRATIONS: Alation announced Alation Connected Sheets, enabling business users to pull trusted, governed, and up-to-date data from data sources into spreadsheets, including Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel, via Alation Data Catalog.
  • SEM: Gale Force Digital Technologies announced LocalForce, its newest platform for local search optimization, designed to build a vast online presence for any business and maximize its online visibility.
  • DATA MIGRATION: Wipro announced Wipro Data Intelligence Suite, a one-stop solution for accelerating cloud modernization and data monetization, focused on modernizing data estates running on AWS.
  • WEB ANALYTICS: Demandbase announced the release of the industry’s first completely free Account Identification solution that identifies accounts with unparalleled accuracy and match rates.
  • ADVERTISING: Wishpond announced that Brax.io has launched Braxy, an AI-powered advertising solution that automatically creates and optimizes campaigns to allow businesses to attract more customers in less time.
  • CONTENT CREATION: Bynder unveiled Studio, the next-generation solution for scalable content creation and templating of on-brand content in the form of images, videos and GIFs.

Product Updates

  • CAMPAIGN MANAGEMENT: Iterable introduced a new SMS feature with simplified pricing that allows marketers to deliver deeply personalized experiences to customers where they are most engaged and responsive.
  • CMS: Ceros released Editor, a new Ceros Studio add-on that allows designers to grant limited editing powers to non-designers, allowing them to edit and update designated sections of a project without risk of changing the design.
  • EMAIL: GetResponse announced AI Product Recommendations, a new feature that employs artificial intelligence to revolutionize the customer journey and experience.
  • AUTOMATION: Integrate announced new product features for their Demand Acceleration Platform that enables marketers to be more precise and powerful in their account-based marketing strategies.
  • BRAND MANAGEMENT: Yext announced a new Listings Verifier feature for their Listings product that gives customers the ability to measure Listings Accuracy in Report Builder and view field-by-field comparisons to confirm that the information on a listing matches content stored in the Yext Knowledge Graph.
  • INFLUENCER: Tagger announced its rebrand, including a new integrated affiliate marketing solution as part of their marketing platform that enables businesses to track and manage performance-based partnerships seamlessly through a single dashboard.
  • EDM: Starburst announced the launch of foundational Data Products capabilities for Starburst Galaxy that simplifies and streamlines the traditional ETL process for the curation of Data Products, accelerating data querying, access and analytics across the organization.
  • CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT: CleverTap announced the launch of CleverTap for Startups (C4S), and will now offer a full stack retention platform to all budding digital-native brands, in order to help them personalize and optimize all customer touchpoints, improving user engagement and conversion.
  • CONTENT MARKETING: Bloomreach announced Bloomreach Discovery has deepened its AI capabilities with easier customization for its search algorithms, giving users the ability to create product discovery experiences that are optimized for revenue generation based on the unique buying patterns of their customers.
  • SALES OPs: DecisionLink announced Express Value Insights, a new capability of the ValueCloud platform that, when enabled, promotes an easier, faster way to create a compelling value hypothesis for customers.
  • RETAIL: Uberall announced a Messages feature to their CoreX platform that helps multi-location businesses shorten their customer’s path to purchase via live agents and lifelike local AI chatbots.
  • ANALYTICS: Contentsquare announced it has enhanced its CS Insights product with new AI-powered capabilities that will improve the way businesses fix user frustration at scale.

Acquisitions

  • RETAIL: France based DL Software announced the acquisition of Openbravo, the Spanish vendor of a unified commerce platform for agile and innovative commerce.
  • CX: AppHub announced it acquired REVIEWS.io, the platform that helps businesses enhance the power of their customers’ voices to increase sales and build brand trust using its review, loyalty, survey and user-generated content solution.
  • ATTRIBUTION: ScanmarQED has acquired Roivenue, a cloud-based marketing attribution and digital data integration platform.
11/18/2022: New Tools in Productivity, Audience Segmentation, App Development, Customer Journey, Enterprise Data Management, Search Engine Marketing, Analytics, Advertising, AI, Events, and Customer Engagement

New Products

  • PRODUCTIVITY: Jotform launched Jotform Teams, a collaboration platform that enables users to create forms, tables, e-signature documents, reports, approvals and apps within a shared workspace.
  • AUDIENCE SEGMENTATION: Fast Simon announced its Personalization at Scale module that allows merchants to create relevant and personalized targeting by selecting suggested customer groups, including anonymous shoppers, frequent buyers, search abandoners, high-intent, and many more.
  • APP DEVELOPMENT: SAP announced SAP Build, a low-code solution that empowers business users to create and augment enterprise applications, automate processes, and design business sites with drag-and-drop simplicity.
  • CUSTOMER JOURNEY: Heap announced the release of Journeys, a tool that visually maps the paths users take through a digital product.
  • EDM: Bearer announced the general availability of the Bearer Data Security Platform, a SaaS platform that enables scalable deployments and workflow automation for security management.
  • SEM: Scorpion announced the release of Ranking.AI, a solution to help bring the power of AI to businesses by improving search engine rankings, generating leads and ultimately driving more revenue.
  • ANALYTICS: Pixability announced a contextual data solution for CTV, which will provide more insight around the suitability and contextual relevance of CTV content so advertisers know more about where their ads run ahead of time.
  • ADVERTISING: Gale Force Digital Technologies launched AdForce, its demand-side platform that allows users to purchase static, video, CTV/OTT, and audio inventory across 95% of ad spaces.
  • AI: Vermillio launched its initial set of AI-powered text-to-image and image-to-image styling tools and lineage tracing technology.
  • EVENTS: AudienceView released an integrated, white-label mobile app platform that will allow their clients to uniquely configure a fully branded consumer app experience in order to significantly expand their relationship with all event attendees.
  • CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT: MoEngage announced MoEngage Inform, a unified messaging infrastructure that enables brands to build and manage multichannel transactional alerts through one API.

Product Updates

  • CAMPAIGN MANAGEMENT: Iterable launched new capabilities that allow marketers to quickly build and deploy effective, personalized, and harmonized cross-channel campaigns that fit the evolving needs of their customers.
  • ADVERTISING: MGID announced the launch of interactive rich media ads across its portfolio of premium publishers, driving effectiveness for advertisers through increased audience engagement and attention.
  • SUPPLY CHAIN: FarEye introduced new solutions on-top of their all-in-one low code/no code delivery logistics platform oriented to key areas in the order-to-door delivery journey including, Ship, Track, Route, Execute, and Experience.
  • PRODUCTIVITY: Miro announced the launch of several new features and a suite of integrations designed to advance the visual collaboration experience for users.
  • CONVERSATIONAL MARKETING: ChatFunnels rebranded as Signals, the digital conversational marketing platform which will now reflect Signals’ broader company focus beyond its original approach as a chat bot and sales funnel company, to focus on the emerging approach of Signal Marketing.

Acquisitions

  • MARKET RESEARCH: Toluna announced the acquisition of Further’s qualitative research technology platform, and will provide customers with the most advanced end-to-end, quantitative-to-qualitative insights platform on the market.
  • PRODUCTIVITY: Bending Spoons announced that it has acquired Evernote, the note-taking and task management app.
  • PRODUCTIVITY: PDFTron Systems announced the acquisition of cloud-based electronic signature innovator, eversign.
  • PR: Cision has acquired Factmata Limited, an advanced social and news media monitoring and analytics product that uses AI to identify and track narratives online through articles, blogs, tweets and other social chatter, highlighting the ones that could either help or hurt brand reputation and value.
  • WEB OPTIMIZATION: Hotjar has acquired UX research platform PingPong to bring user research capabilities to its customers.
11/11/2022: New Tools in Analytics, Customer Experience, and Enterprise Data Management

New Products

  • ANALYTICS: AnalyticsIQ announced the launch of Connection+, their business-to-consumer linkage solution that gives B2B organizations access to the richest source of B2B2C linkage data.
  • CX: Emporix launched the Emporix Commerce Execution Platform (CXP), offering businesses the opportunity to dynamically personalize customer journeys based on real-time, and end-to-end process intelligence.
  • EDM: AllCloud announced the launch of the Matillion One Click solution, its latest Solutions Factory offering that accelerates customers’ journey to the cloud for data analytics by helping them acquire data faster and at scale.

Product Updates

  • EDM: Collibra unveiled new innovations including a new usage analytics dashboard designed to make data intelligence easy and accessible to more data users.
  • EMAIL: Klaviyo announced the launch of the Klaviyo SMS Assistant, an SMS tool that automates copywriting.
  • CONTENT CREATION: Marq announced the release of Marq Advanced Analytics, in-platform insights to give brands the visibility they need to make better design decisions and equip teams with templates they will actually use.
  • EMAIL: Litmus launched new Email Testing Profiles that level up the process of email optimization by giving users the ability to control and customize testing.
  • SECURITY: NordPass announced new features including Shared Folders and Items Transfer, both of which benefit business users who are working on various projects simultaneously, or users who lose a fellow employee.
  • HR: Digital signage company Four Winds Interactive (FWI), the workplace management innovator SmartSpace, and the employee communications company Poppulo, announced that they have combined under the Poppulo name.
  • CHANNEL & PARTNER: Chatmeter announced platform enhancements designed to drive real-time CX agility and improve customer loyalty and growth for multi-location enterprises.
  • WEB DEVELOPMENT: Unqork announced two major new product features, Unqork OS and Codeless Data Experiences, both of which will meet the evolving needs of enterprise customers looking for easier ways to manage software applications, with a focus on integrability and data functionality.

Acquisitions

  • ANALYTICS: Datadog announced it has acquired Cloudcraft, a visualization service for cloud and system architects to create real-time diagrams of their cloud infrastructures.
  • SECURITY: 1Password announced the acquisition of Passage, a developer-first passwordless authentication company, and will launch a passwordless authentication platform for enterprises using their technology.
  • WEB DEVELOPMENT: Klaviyo announced it acquired Napkin.io, a company that provides developers with an easy and secure way to write and deploy code directly from a browser.
11/04/2022: New Tools in Content Marketing, Analytics, and Partner Marketing

New Products

  • CONTENT MARKETING: Contentful announced their new Contentful Studio™ that empowers customers to streamline content workflows, development, and publication in one central location.
  • ANALYTICS: Ignite Visibility has released CertaintyTech, a platform designed to help marketers achieve the best ROI when it comes to digital marketing channels.
  • PARTNER MARKETING: KORE Software announced the launch of the Portfolio Optimization Platform that provides users with a place for managing, measuring and optimizing your portfolio all in one.
  • ANALYTICS: IBM has announced Business Analytics Enterprise, a suite of business intelligence planning, budgeting, reporting, forecasting, and dashboard capabilities that provides users with a robust view of data sources across their entire business.

Product Updates

  • CX: Freshworks announced new AI-powered support features across their customer experience solutions Freshchat™, Freshdesk™, Freshsales™ and Freshmarketer™ that will help agents improve response times, and help sales and marketers increase productivity.
  • MARKETING AUTOMATION: Weave has launched a new Phone Reporting Analytics feature to drive meaningful insights and efficiencies for multi-location practices.
  • CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT: Factoreal announced enhancements to their customer engagement platform that make it easier to deliver hyper-personalized consumer experiences that increase ROI across online, on-site, social, and mobile channels.
  • AI: Picsart announced new generative AI tools within their Quicktools suite of free-to-use photo, video and document editing tools, including an AI Image Generator, and AI Writer.
  • ATTRIBUTION: Reveal Mobile announced the release of enhanced attribution reports available in its geofencing platform, VISIT Local.
  • CMS: Ceros released Editor, a Ceros Studio add-on that helps companies scale their interactive content by allowing marketers, writers, and other non-designers to access only designated elements of a project so they can work without the risk of altering the design.
  • CONTENT MARKETING: Bloomreach announced a new Bloomreach Discovery feature to bridge the gap between marketing and merchandising, connecting any Email Service Provider with active and up-to-date product catalogs.
  • CONTENT CREATION: Piktochart introduced over 100 new business templates that focus on data visualization.

Acquisitions

  • SM MARKETING: Google has acquired Alter, an artificial intelligence avatar startup that helps creators and brands express their virtual identity.
  • CONTENT MARKETING: Emplifi announced the acquisition of Pixlee TurnTo, a provider of user-generated content, ratings and reviews, and influencer marketing solutions.
  • SECURITY: Newfold Digital announced that it has completed its acquisition of MarkMonitor™, the enterprise-level provider of domain management solutions from Clarivate.
10/28/2022: New Tools in Customer Experience, Market Research, Conversational Marketing, Productivity & Workflow, and Competitive Intelligence

New Products

  • CX: AnyRoad unveiled FullView, a solution that enables brands to collect GDPR-compliant, first-party data and feedback from every guest that attends an experiential activation or event, not just the primary booker.
  • MARKET RESEARCH: ​​Alida announced a new Conversational Surveys product that helps organizations retain and increase loyalty of existing customers, and drive improved business performance — all within one seamlessly integrated platform.
  • CONVERSATIONAL: Got It AI announced its new product suite that utilizes AutoFlows, which use generative AI models to create a complete and fluid conversational virtual agent from historical conversation logs.
  • PRODUCTIVITY: Wrike announced Wrike Lightspeed which includes a streamlined user experience, artificial intelligence capabilities, and powerful new features.
  • CI: Perpetua launched Prism, a fully-integrated market and competitive intelligence solution bringing efficiency and precision to how brands advertise on Amazon.

Product Updates

  • MARKET RESEARCH: Suzy announced enhancements to its consumer insights platform, including video open ends, MaxDiff, and Data Explorer, that will help simplify advanced research methodologies.
  • CONTENT CREATION: Grammarly launched tone rewrite suggestions, helping individuals and teams ensure their tone is positive, confident, or personable at the click of a button, even in the most difficult workplace conversations.
  • MARKETING AUTOMATION: Bloomreach announced the launch of Contextual Personalization, a new feature from Bloomreach Engagement that allows marketers to tap into the missed revenue opportunities presented by traditional A/B testing. 
  • CONTENT CREATION: Visme introduced a new digital whiteboard feature, allowing users to create and collaborate on projects in real time.
  • ANALYTICS: ThoughtSpot announced the launch of ThoughtSpot for Sheets, an entirely new web plug-in that brings modern, true self-service analytics directly to data in Google Sheets.
  • VIDEO CREATION: Vyond announced new AI-powered capabilities that make video creation more accessible and easy for business users, as well as new advanced charts, characters, and actions.
  • CMS: Contentful unveiled several new platform orchestration capabilities that help reimagine the way organizations compose and connect content to deliver customer experiences at scale.

Acquisitions

  • WEB DEVELOPMENT: TELUS Corporation announced a definitive agreement to acquire WillowTree, a premier, full-service digital product provider focused on end user experiences, such as native mobile applications and unified web interfaces.

 

10/21/2022: New Tools in Enterprise Data Management, Content Marketing, Lead Generation, Productivity & Workflow, Content Creation, Brand Management, Privacy, Audience Segmentation, and Financial Management

New Products

  • EDM: Seek AI announced the launch of its new B2B SaaS platform that allows data teams to automate and oversee database query projects.
  • CONTENT MARKETING: Vbrick announced the launch of Producer, giving users the ability to remotely capture, produce, and distribute studio-quality video directly from a web browser without the need for downloads, additional licensing, third-party software, or hardware.
  • LEAD GEN: ActionIQ announced its CX Hub for Acquisition Marketing, a solution that allows advertisers and marketers to prospect and acquire new customers in a world without third-party cookies.
  • EDM: Qualtrics announced CrossXM, a new product that gives leaders automated insights into how their employee, customer and brand experiences impact one another, helping them identify the actions they can take to drive the biggest impact across their business.
  • EDM: Veritas Technologies launched Veritas Alta, a cloud data management platform that helps enterprises transition mission-critical workloads to the cloud.
  • PRODUCTIVITY: Workflow Labs announced the launch of HelpDesk, an innovative eCommerce workflow management tool that will allow businesses operating on the Amazon eCommerce platform to reduce time spent on repetitive tasks.
  • CONTENT CREATION: Brightidea launched Brightidea Memo, a software solution designed to help memo writing teams write longform narrative memos fast, while organizing the entire program all-in-one place.
  • BRAND MANAGEMENT: FADEL announced Brand Vision, a unified platform for ensuring brand compliance by managing and monitoring marketing content and its license terms across the entire content lifecycle from pre-production to post-distribution.
  • PRIVACY: Transcend released Assessments, a privacy risk management product that helps reduce the work and risk associated with processing personal data.
  • AUDIENCE SEGMENTATION: Foundry announced the launch of Foundry Intent, an intent data product that helps you identify intent across your website, the public web, industry content, and Foundry’s opted-in audience to provide a more meaningful view of in-market buyer behavior.
  • FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT: Datadog announced Cloud Cost Management, a solution that helps to unify cost and observability data for finance, FinOps and engineering teams to understand and take control of cloud costs.

Product Updates

  • ADVERTISING: Quora expanded their brand advertising business with new video ads to help brands more effectively tell their story.
  • CONTENT CREATION: Piktochart added a screen recording option for users to create videos of their visual content.
  • CMS: Ceros announced the newest iteration of the Ceros creative ecosystem with updates to the three core platform suites—Studio, MarkUp, and Chartblocks, which now operate in one product ecosystem.
  • MARKETING AUTOMATION: Pegasystems announced the latest edition of its Pega Infinity™ software suite with enhancements to Pega Platform™, Pega Customer Decision Hub™, and Pega Customer Service™, to empower brands with enterprise-wide AI that works behind the scenes to increase efficiency, speed innovation, and improve customer interactions for optimal results.
  • ANALYTICS: Alteryx announced new enhancements to the Alteryx Analytics Cloud platform that will help put powerful machine learning tools in the hands of everyone.
  • PAYMENTS: Recurly announced new ramp pricing to enable recurring revenue companies to dynamically increase or decrease pricing within subscriptions.
  • VIDEO MARKETING: Wistia unveiled Wistia Live, a feature that empowers B2B marketers to easily create, host, market, and analyze the impact of webinars and live events.

Acquisitions

  • CX: QuestionPro has acquired SuiteCX, the customer experience and journey mapping platform provider, that together will create a “full stack customer experience” platform that offers capabilities across the lifecycle of the customer experience.
  • MARKET RESEARCH: Riddle announced the acquisition of Qzzr, the online quiz maker, which will help expand their suite of high-end interactive content creation tools for publishers.
  • CRM: WebFX announced the acquisition of Nutshell, a CRM and email marketing platform that helps B2B organizations work together to close more deals.
10/14/2022: New Tools in Productivity, Email Personalization, Email Creation, Security, Events, Advertising, and Enterprise Data Management

New Products

  • PRODUCTIVITY: Box announced the general availability of Box Notes, its real-time content collaboration and project management solution.
  • EMAIL PERSONALIZATION: 6sense announced their new Conversational Email solution that enables companies to engage in conversations with leads at scale to address missed revenue opportunities due to organizational constraints.
  • EMAIL CREATION: Knak launched its Inspiration Centre, providing marketers with collections of creative emails and landing pages based on successful campaigns, to help you go from inspiration to creation with no coding required.
  • SECURITY: ABBYY launched an all-in-one solution that offers instant identity proofing and affirmation anytime, anywhere – to simplify document-centric digital onboarding processes while giving organizations confidence that customers, constituents, employees, and partners are who they say they are.
  • EVENTS: Stova launched as a comprehensive event management solution for delivering exceptional experiences for global enterprise clients by combining Meetingplay, Aventri, and eventcore into one.
  • ADVERTISING: Emodo announced the launch of Adapt, a dynamically-optimized native ad offering that drives increased engagement and higher impact for brands and advertisers.
  • EVENTS: Airmeet released their new Event Experience Cloud, an all-in-one virtual and hybrid event platform for unlimited connection with anyone, anywhere, anytime.
  • EDM: Matillion announced The Data Productivity Cloud, a platform and ecosystem designed to help teams get data business-ready, faster, accelerating time-to-value and increasing the impact data can have.

Product Updates

  • CONTACT CENTER: Invoca announced new capabilities to their conversation intelligence solution including enhanced Conversational IVR technology, and Ring Group Call Routing to help brands answer more sales calls.
  • MARKET RESEARCH: Voxco introduced four new powerful features including Text Analysis, NPS Dashboard, Automated Translation, and New Distribution Status, all to make it easy for users to gather, measure, uncover, and act on data.
  • CX: Gainsight announced updates to its Customer Success Platform including a new Customer Goals feature that enables cross-functional teams to collectively capture, track, and report on customer goals to drive collaboration and showcase value.
  • CONTENT MARKETING: Bloomreach announced it launched more than 15 new product features in Q3, across the company’s Engagement, Discovery, and Content product pillars, now offering practitioners even more ways to drive impactful business results, fast ROI, and lasting customer loyalty.
  • EDM: Immuta announced its latest product enhancements and integrations designed to deliver advanced data security and monitoring across key cloud platforms at scale.
  • PRODUCTIVITY: Weave announced new features in its Online Scheduling tool that gives offices the ability to customize their online calendar with appointment types, providers, and schedule availability.
  • DIRECT MAIL: Taradel announced the launch of a free online design tool that enables users to choose from postcard format and size options, search for templates by keyword, and save or edit existing design projects – all within their Every Door Direct Mail production and fulfillment services.
  • PRODUCTIVITY: GSoft announced enhanced features to ShareGate, including provisioning, reporting, and automation, that will provide added usability to companies who have migrated using ShareGate, and those looking to manage their already-migrated environments with added ease and efficiency.
  • ANALYTICS: Fivetran announced an extended partnership and new product capabilities with Microsoft Azure to help joint customers accelerate their data-driven digital transformations.
  • ADVERTISING: FreeWheel announced an enhancement to its premium programmatic industry suite of offerings, namely a new, unified yield set of capabilities for publishers that protects the value of high quality, premium video while automating yield optimization.

Acquisitions

  • CONTENT CREATION: Copysmith has acquired Frase and Rytr, launching Copyrytr; a collective of AI-powered content and SEO marketing solutions that support millions of creators worldwide.
  • ANALYTICS: Appier announced that it has completed the acquisition of Woopra, a customer journey analytics SaaS company that together will allow businesses to integrate and synchronize customer data via one-click integrations, analyze every touch point throughout the customers’ journeys in real-time and apply the full strength of Appier’s AI-based decision and execution capabilities.
  • EVENTS: Events.com has acquired HelpGetSponsors, an event sponsorship technology company, that will help provide their customers with the tools and skills to find, sell, and manage sponsors, in-kind partners, vendors, and expo sales.
10/07/2022: New Tools in Marketing Automation, Business Process Automation, Productivity & Workflow, and Privacy, Compliance & Risk

New Products

  • MARKETING AUTOMATION: Dynamic Yield announced the launch of Experience OS, an operating system that creates one place for customers to seamlessly manage their consumer experience programs across teams and channels.
  • BUSINESS PROCESS AUTOMATION: Automation Anywhere revealed the Automation Success Platform, designed to accelerate business transformation by making automation accessible for everyone.
  • PRODUCTIVITY: Jotform launched Jotform Sign, an e-signature product that allows businesses to effortlessly send out signable documents.
  • PRIVACY: Veratad Technologies announced Veratad VX, a new global age and identity verification platform designed to deliver a no-code journey orchestration and automated verification experience that will leverage the industry’s most robust suite of verification providers and methods.

Product Updates

  • ADVOCACY: Sprout Social announced the launch of its rebranded advocacy solution, Employee Advocacy by Sprout Social, that enables users to manage both social media and employee advocacy in one place.
  • ABM: Folloze announced the latest version of their Buyer Experience Platform, which now allows B2B organizations to empower all marketers to build rich personalized experiences, in a simple, no-code environment.
  • PRIVACY: BigID announced Hotspot Reporting, a new feature that gives organizations the power to quickly and easily visualize and remediate their riskiest data.
  • ABM: RollWorks launched new capabilities for Hubspot users that allow customers to view their advertising campaign engagement metrics and other important account-level data from RollWorks in HubSpot.
  • PLM: Productboard unveiled new customer-centricity, strategic planning, and enterprise collaboration capabilities to help companies innovate, drive operational efficiency, and accelerate time-to-market.

Acquisitions

  • ADVERTISING: Tailwind has acquired Nectar 9, a paid advertising management platform that combines artificial intelligence and automation to help marketers save time and maximize ads results while cutting their cost of customer acquisition.
  • WEB OPTIMIZATION: Crownpeak announced the acquisition of ilumino, a digital accessibility services and consulting firm, expanding Crownpeak’s automated accessibility scanning technology with ilumino’s subject matter expertise in digital accessibility and usability.
  • CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT: AB Tasty announced that it has acquired Epoq, an AI-driven recommendation and smart search solution, accelerating both companies’ shared vision of empowering digital teams to deliver relevant and engaging shopping experiences along the consumer journey.
9/30/2022: New Tools in Video Creation, Analytics, SM Marketing, Security, AI, and SM Monitoring

New Products

  • VIDEO CREATION: Nextech AR launched Toggle3D, a new AI powered SaaS platform that enables the creation, design, configuration and deployment of 3D models at scale.
  • ANALYTICS: White Shark Media launched AdClicks, a new reporting software for marketing agencies and freelancers.
  • SM MARKETING: IZEA announced the rollout of IZEA Flex, the company’s next-generation influencer marketing platform that introduces end-to-end tracking of social commerce, allowing marketers to easily measure the impact of individual influencers on e-commerce revenue at scale.
  • SECURITY: TransUnion launched TruValidate Device Risk, developed to help businesses stop fraud based on device recognition, context, device and user behavior.
  • AI: Anyword launched its free Social Media Post Generator that can help you create engaging, high-quality copy for specific use cases and social media platforms.
  • ANALYTICS: Zeenk released Contribution Profit Analytics, a new e-commerce analytics solution that seamlessly integrates all necessary data from a customer’s sales channels and marketing channels into the Zeenk platform.
  • VIDEO CREATION: Dopple announced the Dopple platform, built to deliver best in class 3D configuration and AR experiences for leading eCommerce brands without the heavy lifting required from developers in more traditional 3D/AR applications.
  • SM MARKETING: LTK announced the LTK Creator app, which allows creators to schedule posts, share directly to social media, analyze to optimize earnings, and create collections of multiple posts.
  • SM MONITORING: QuestionPro launched CX Reputation, an all-in-one platform for reputation management that monitors and analyzes a company’s, brand’s or product’s public ratings and review sites, turning them into actionable insights.

Product Updates

  • WEB OPTIMIZATION: Contentsquare launched a Digital Experience Monitoring capability that combines both Speed Analysis Synthetic and Real User Monitoring to give brands a complete diagnosis of speed and user interaction.
  • CONTACT CENTER: GoTo announced a new Co-browse feature within GoTo Contact Center that gives agents the ability to collaboratively and securely assist their customers within their web browser so agents are more efficient.
  • LIST MANAGEMENT: Astera released an AI-powered data extraction feature in their ReportMiner module called AI Capture that automatically detects and captures data regions and fields using natural language processing algorithms and table detection.
  • VIDEO CREATION: simpleshow introduced a new language processing feature called Timing Engine so that users don’t have to worry about timing their voiceovers to match their videos.
  • PRODUCTIVITY: Cognito Forms launched workflow automation, a set of upgraded features that triggers meaningful connections while collaborating around data.
  • MARKET RESEARCH: Toluna announced multimarket research capabilities on the Toluna Start platform that enable users to target unlimited markets through a single, simplified setup process, and analyze global data through a single reporting link.
  • PRIVACY: BigID announced native data deletion capabilities that make it easy for organizations to quickly and effectively delete personal and sensitive data across their data stores.
  • EMAIL​​: Pipedrive announced the launch of its new beta workflow automation feature in Campaigns by Pipedrive, designed to help customers simplify marketing campaign management and bring their sales and marketing teams onto one platform.
  • ANALYTICS: LogRocket announced a new feature called Galileo, a machine learning-based solution to automatically surface and prioritize the most impactful issues affecting digital user experience.

Acquisitions

  • CONTACT CENTER: Sendinblue announced its acquisition of Yodel.io, a cloud-based business phone solution, to further support SMBs so they in turn can meet the evolving needs of their own customers.
  • PRODUCTIVITY: Calendly has acquired Prelude, a specialist in automating scheduling and organization around job recruitment, to build out more specialized products for verticals, starting with HR.
9/23/2022: New Tools in Advertising, Real-Time CRM, Web Design, Video Creation, and CDPs

New Products

  • ADVERTISING: Minute Media announced the launch of its own supply-side platform to provide a more efficient and direct connection between publishers and brands working within the programmatic advertising ecosystem.
  • ADVERTISING: Criteo announced the launch of Commerce Max, a self-service, all-in-one demand-side platform empowering enterprise marketers to plan, buy and achieve measurable sales results across the largest commerce ecosystem and enabling retailers to scale their media program.
  • REAL-TIME CRM: Salesforce unveiled Salesforce Genie, a real-time CRM that powers the entire Salesforce Customer 360 platform and allows companies to deliver seamless, highly personalized experiences across sales, service, marketing, and commerce.
  • WEB DESIGN: Designmodo announced the release of Siter.io, a no-code website builder that allows users to design directly in the browser.
  • VIDEO CREATION: D-ID launched its proprietary Creative Reality™ Studio, a self-service video platform that enables users to easily bring photos to life and seamlessly generate high quality and customized presenter-led content from a single image.
  • CDP: Ikue launched its new Customer Data Platform designed and built specifically for marketing teams within telecoms operators.

Product Updates

  • DAM: Acquia announced new Channel Portal capabilities for Acquia DAM, that allows businesses to easily create and share branded, secure, and up-to-date digital product catalogs with individual partners to accelerate sales and ensure products are accurately represented in the market.
  • WEB OPTIMIZATION: UserTesting announced the availability of new test templates for the UserTesting Human Insight Platform that helps businesses establish confidence with customers over privacy policies and protocols. 
  • ANALYTICS: Qualtrics announced Video Feedback, a new way for organizations to collect qualitative feedback on the Qualtrics XM Platform where they can analyze both words and emotions, and use that data to make business decisions quickly and with confidence.
  • ANALYTICS: Zeenk announced the launch of its new TikTok reporting and analytics capabilities that allows brands to now instantly access their TikTok campaign reports in the Zeenk dashboard and centralized along with their other sales and marketing channels.

Acquisitions

  • ANALYTICS: Viral Nation announced that it has acquired MediaKits, the easiest way for creators to share their analytics, and will integrate MediaKits’ data-aggregation abilities with its tech platform to help creators better understand and reach their audiences.
  • EVENTS: Concept3D announced the acquisition of Localist, the event calendar platform for higher education communities.
  • MOps: Volaris Group Inc. announced that it has acquired SaaS enterprise marketing workflow management software provider Crosscap, which will provide Volaris with a foothold in the marketing management vertical.
9/16/2022: New Tools in eCommerce, Mobile Marketing, SEM, Video Creation, Productivity, Corporate Social Responsibility, Conversational Marketing, and Content Marketing

New Products

  • eCOMMERCE: Kliken announced the launch of their AI-driven, purpose-built ad platform, Kliken Ads, providing store owners the opportunity to advertise on the Open Web, giving them reach beyond the walled gardens of Google and Facebook and enabling greater visibility at a lower cost.
  • MOBILE MARKETING: Appcues announced the launch of Appcues Mobile, a no-code solution that enables anyone to quickly build, publish, and experiment with on-brand mobile experiences that improve user activation and retention.
  • SEM: Sinch announced it is launching AskFrank, its AI-enabled intelligent question-answering search engine that uses AI to search content, adding value to chatbots as an extension by providing answers to questions that are not available in a chatbot’s database by expanding its information access.
  • VIDEO CREATION: Pictory launched their powerful AI software tool that enables users to easily create and edit high-quality branded videos.
  • PRODUCTIVITY: Hustle launched its Conversational Video Platform, a comprehensive suite of solutions that leverages short-form video to personally connect brands to consumers, scale communication efforts and deepen trust.
  • CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: C3 AI announced C3 AI ESG, an application that harnesses artificial intelligence and machine learning to enable companies to monitor, report, and improve their ESG performance.
  • VIDEO CREATION: Screencast-O-Matic introduced Stories, an integrated video planning and creation tool that incorporates a storyboard and scripting in an easy-to-use, drag-and-drop video creation tool.
  • CONVERSATIONAL MARKETING: Vonage launched Vonage AI Studio, a low code/no code tool to design, create and deploy customer engagement solutions that operate in natural language using artificial intelligence (AI).
  • CONTENT MARKETING: Outbrain released Keystone by Outbrain, a user journey and experience platform that offers a holistic view of performance, across all departments and all goals.

Product Updates

  • PRODUCTIVITY: Livestorm announced the addition of nine new features designed for enterprise customers including marketing automation integrations, custom reporting, additional workspaces, and more.
  • PRODUCTIVITY: RingCentral announced new video meeting capabilities for RingCentral Video, including AI-based advanced meeting insights and summaries, a whiteboard, live transcription, AI-powered noise reduction, participant reactions, and remote desktop control.
  • WEB PERFORMANCE: ForgeRock announced the availability of next generation identity orchestration capabilities to enable enterprises to more easily deliver world-class customer and employee experiences secured by AI-driven threat protection.
  • AUTOMATION: Customer.io announced a new messaging channel: in-app messages, which now allows customers using the platform to combine all of their communications in one place, creating a more seamless experience.

Acquisitions

  • MOps: Planful announced the acquisition of Plannuh, a marketing performance management cloud solution, that will now enable seamless collaboration between finance and marketing teams, and other business users.
  • SEM: Algolia announced the acquisition of Search.io, and will combine their market leading keyword search and Search.io’s Neuralsearch into a single API.
  • HR: AvePoint announced it completed its acquisition of tyGraph, the platform that allows organizations to organize, measure, and analyze human interactions to accelerate success in the digital workplace.
  • WEB ANALYTICS: Metadata has acquired Reactful, a real-time web optimization and personalization platform for B2B marketers, that will be integrated into Metadata’s Marketing Operating System to expand its offering beyond paid advertising.
  • PRODUCTIVITY: Ricoh announced the acquisition of Cenero, a service-focused audio visual technology, unified communications, and IT solutions provider, helping to bolster Ricoh’s outsourced digital workplace services capabilities to improve digital dexterity and business agility for customers across the globe.
9/9/2022: New Tools in Mobile Marketing, Analytics, eCommerce, and EDM

New Products

  • MOBILE MARKETING: BILDIT announced its official launch as a native mobile app development platform specifically designed for retail and brand eCommerce.
  • ANALYTICS: Forethought announced the launch of Discover, the complete platform to transform your entire customer service lifecycle, from resolving common cases instantly to tagging and routing tickets and assisting agents with relevant knowledge.
  • ANALYTICS: Alteryx announced Alteryx Server-FIPS, a version of its Server offering that is aligned with the Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) for data security and computer systems for scheduling, sharing, and running apps and models created in Alteryx Designer-FIPS for others in the organization to leverage.
  • ANALYTICS: Alation announced the launch of Alation Cloud Service for Snowflake designed for departments and organizations of all sizes to start cataloging data on Snowflake’s platform.
  • eCOMMERCE: Koji announced the launch of Video Shopping, a new app that gives creators the ability to earn revenue by sharing links within their video content.
  • EDM: Equifax announced the launch of the TotalVerify data hub, a multi-faceted data and analytics hub that delivers fast results and offers differentiated data and unique datasets through verification, investigation, and monitoring solutions.
  • eCOMMERCE: Bluehost announced the launch of its new commerce solutions that make it simple for customers to launch their online stores and makes using WordPress easier by bringing together YITH plugins and WooCommerce.

Product Updates

  • MOBILE MARKETING: Lumavate introduced Mobile Messaging as part of their DXP, enabling users to easily opt-in to text, segment their audiences, send real-time and scheduled texts, and analyze message data directly within the same platform where they build digital experiences.
  • AFFILIATE MARKETING: ZINFI announced it has launched a complete set of affiliate marketing management (AMM) solutions as a part of its UCM platform that will allow companies to promote their brands and drive referral and lead generation for their products and services via a globally distributed affiliate network.
  • CONTENT MARKETING: Anyword announced its Website Targeted Messaging feature, which analyzes the assets on a user’s landing page to optimize copy, generate new copy and maximize conversions.
  • PRODUCTIVITY: Airtable announced new options, including four new interface buttons, the ability to relabel records in your tables, and the ability to automatically update your Google Docs.
  • PLM: Productboard announced new reporting and customer board capabilities to empower product leaders to deliver business value faster while driving organizational efficiency.
  • ADVERTISING: Publica released Platform Connect, a new feature that will enable existing streaming publishers on the Publica platform to extend their audiences within a transparent and controlled ecosystem of trusted connected TV (CTV) publishers.
  • PRODUCTIVITY: Box announced a new set of features for Box Sign, allowing users to publish documents online for signature, edit signature requests in flight, enjoy an improved signer experience, and more.
  • MARKET RESEARCH: Typeform announced the launch of brand kits, a new feature that allows any user to easily create, edit and access shared assets in their Workspace, and deploy them consistently across all content, including forms, quizzes, surveys, polls and more.
  • COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE: Adthena announced the launch of its innovative Brand Activator automation tool that automatically pauses bidding on search terms when a brand is winning organically and when no other competitors are bidding.
  • MARKETING AUTOMATION: HubSpot announced new features including customer journey analytics, flexible payments, and connected data that gives businesses a deeper, more holistic view of the customer experience.

Acquisitions

  • CONTACT CENTER: Medallia announced it has closed its acquisition of cloud-based contact center callback technology company Mindful, together giving brands the ability to create more seamless and personalized experiences across every channel.
  • PRODUCTIVITY: HP Inc. announced the completion of its acquisition of Poly, a global provider of workplace collaboration solutions. Together they will deliver a complete ecosystem of devices, software, and digital services.
  • PRIVACY: Equifax announced that it has completed the acquisition of Midigator LLC, a provider of post-transaction fraud mitigation solutions.
  • BUSINESS MANAGEMENT: Relativity announced that it has acquired Heretik, a contract review company that combines machine learning technology and advanced analysis to help organizations gain immediate insight into contract data.
  • WEB DEVELOPMENT: TIME announced the acquisition of Brandcast, the no-code platform for creating and managing enterprise-grade websites.
  • EVENTS: Events.com acquired Evensi, the platform for discovering events, powered by AI and ML, and together will provide a one-stop-shop for event discovery, ticketing, sponsorship, marketing, and management.
  • EVENTS: Personify announced the acquisition of GTR Event Technology, allowing Personify to offer a complete event management platform for organizers of trade shows, conferences, corporate meetings, and other events of all variations and sizes.
  • ANALYTICS: Branch has acquired AdLibertas, a predictive data platform built for mobile apps, helping Branch extend its value as a mobile measurement partner for companies driving growth, engagement and revenue across all marketing channels.
  • BRAND MANAGEMENT: Smartsheet has acquired brand management, templating and creative automation platform, Outfit, deepening the company’s investment into its digital asset management offering, Brandfolder by Smartsheet.
  • VIDEO PLAYERS: Wowza announced that it has acquired Flowplayer, a video player specialist that adds enhanced player functionality, a lightweight code base and a rich plugin library to Wowza.
8/26/2022: New Tools in Virtual Events, SEM, Social Media Networks, Photography, Web Security, and Video Creation

New Products

  • EVENTS: WorkOutLoud launched WorkOutLoud Venue, a new all-in-one, intuitive virtual event platform that provides extensive management capabilities for hosting events of all sizes.
  • SEM: AdBeacon announced the launch of its first party data tracking and ad optimization platform that enables online advertisers, especially Facebook marketers, to use their own data to accurately target advertisers in real time.
  • SM NETWORK: Leap launched as a new video chat conversation app that brings curious minds together to learn and share insights from experts and people who share their passions.
  • PHOTOGRAPHY: Zenfolio launched PhotoRefine.ai, an app that employs AI to vastly reduce the amount of time photographers typically spend grouping, rating and culling images after a photo session.
  • SECURITY: Ntrinsec announced the launch of its new key security automation platform that eliminates security risks around encryption key reuse and poor key management.
  • SECURITY: PlainID announced the release of its “Authorization-as-a-Service,” SaaS-enabled Authorization Platform that simplifies management with its Policy-Based Access Control (PBAC) framework which allows you to create, manage and enforce the full policy lifecycle in a user-friendly way.
  • VIDEO: VideoVerse announced the expansion of its innovative services with the beta release of illusto, a cloud-based intuitive video editing tool that empowers creators, professionals and beginners to bring their impactful stories to life.
  • SECURITY: ReasonLabs launched Online Browser Security, a web extension that provides real-time, 24/7 protection against malicious URLs, phishing, harmful extensions, suspicious downloads, intrusive cookies and trackers, unauthorized notifications, and pop-ups.

Product Updates

  • EDM: Acceldata announced the expansion of its data observability cloud solution, that offers data observability options to enterprises regardless of where they are on their data journey – cloud native, multi-cloud, hybrid or on-premises.
  • PODCASTING: Zencastr announced the newest version of their platform that makes it an end-to-end video podcast platform to record, edit, launch and host podcasts all in one place.
  • MARKET RESEARCH: SoGoSurvey relaunched under the name Sogolytics, the company that provides research and experience management solutions to users worldwide.
  • PRODUCTIVITY: ON24 announced the next evolution of its webinar solution, ON24 Elite Explore, making it even easier for marketers to create engaging, intuitive, and impactful experiences for their audiences with the ability to customize and brand touchpoints and deliver interactive and personalized calls-to-action across a sleek and consumer-friendly interface.
  • SM MONITORING: ListenFirst announced the addition of paid TikTok analytics for brands within the ListenFirst platform.
  • SMS MARKETING: ProTexting added a new ‘Holiday and After Hours Autoresponders’ feature for clients using their SMS messaging services.
  • DIRECT MAIL: Sendoso announced a new suite of features to its sending management platform, that allows users in just a few clicks to create cohesive branded themes and tailored messages to incorporate within their sends.
  • ABM: Metadata.io announced the release of Display and Google Ads being run through its AI-powered marketing campaign platform, giving customers more control over campaign ad spend for better targeting.

Acquisitions

  • CRM: SS&C Technologies announced it has acquired the sell-side Tier1 CRM business and related assets from Tier1 Financial Solutions, helping to expand SS&C’s CRM capabilities.
  • HR: HireRoad announced the acquisition of workforce analytics software provider PeopleInsight, that seamlessly ingests, normalizes, and correlates data from any HR system, making it easy for customers to analyze data across all their HR systems in one place.
  • CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT: Blackbaud announced that it has acquired the activity-based engagement app Kilter, allowing Blackbaud to expand activity-based peer-to-peer fundraising engagement, to grow the ways individuals can connect with the causes they care about most through the activities they love.
  • EMAIL: Customer.io announced the acquisition of email coding platform Parcel, and together will offer a streamlined experience for marketers, designers, and email developers worldwide.
  • RESEARCH: QuestionPro acquired Digsite’s qualitative research capabilities and collaborative Insights Platform, and will now offer the Digsite qualitative solutions alongside its full suite of enterprise-level research, survey and customer experience software and services.
  • SEM: Optimal announced the acquisition of Effective Spend, and together will offer a full range of performance-based digital marketing services, including paid search and social, search engine optimization, Amazon marketing, programmatic activation, connected TV, performance creative, and more.
8/19/2022: New Tools in eCommerce, Analytics, HR, PR, AR and CDP

New Products

  • eCOMMERCE: AdAdapted announced add-to-cart, Shoppable Video Ads that allows brands to seamlessly tell their brand story, while increasing conversions and gathering critical customer insight through mobile browser, mid-article or stand-alone video.
  • ANALYTICS: Omni announced its public launch as a Business Intelligence platform that combines the consistency of a shared data model with the freedom of SQL.
  • ANALYTICS: integrate.ai announced the availability of its privacy-preserving machine learning and analytics platform that leverages federated learning and differential privacy technologies to unlock a range of machine learning and analytics capabilities on data that would otherwise be difficult or impossible to access due to privacy, confidentiality, or technical hurdles.
  • HR: Authenticx introduced a quality management solution to strategically analyze contact center conversations and proactively surface areas of improvement and opportunity.
  • PR: Graphika announced Atlas, a subscription-based product that provides intelligence derived from the communities engaged with online conversations related to today’s most pressing topics.
  • AR: Displai launched an AR platform that transforms regular product packaging into interactive digitally enabled packaging, opening the doors for brands to engage consumers via their products.
  • CDP: Cloudera announced the launch of Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) One, an all-in-one data lakehouse software as a service (SaaS) offering that enables fast and easy self-service analytics and exploratory data science on any type of data.

Product Updates

  • CONTENT CREATION: Visme launched its latest capability, wireframes, that allows users to be able to design a variety of fully customizable wireframes, including low-fidelity, annotated, and user flow, right from their Visme editor dashboard.
  • ANALYTICS: Quotient announced its digital out-of-home (DOOH) multi-touch media measurement capabilities within the Quotient Analytics Platform.
  • VIDEO MANAGEMENT: Rumble announced that the company has launched free unlimited livestreaming for content creators with over one hundred subscribers.
  • EVENTS: Delegate Connect, the end-to-end solution for delivering immersive virtual and hybrid events, officially rebranded as Joyn, reflecting the company’s commitment to innovation with exciting new goals and products in tow.
  • CONVERSATIONAL: Botco.ai launched Instachat Builder, an addition to their conversational marketing platform that helps to accelerate AI chat deployment by allowing Botco.ai customers to directly train Botco.ai’s chatbot on any type of text information.
  • PERSONALIZATION: Searchspring launched Searchspring Personalized Email Recommendations as another part of their Personalization Suite, allowing merchants to truly tailor their emails to make product discovery easier and extend personalization beyond the eCommerce site.
  • WORKFLOW: Spot announced Spot 2.0, their next-gen communication tool for teams to connect, collaborate, and build culture, combining a unique spatial experience with a powerful team-chat implementation.
  • TRAINING: WeVideo announced the acquisition of PlayPosit, a software company that offers an online interactive environment that seamlessly integrates layered learning experiences directly into video content.
  • ORDER MANAGEMENT: Kinaxis announced that it has acquired MPO, a unified global cloud-based SaaS platform for multi party orchestration of orders, inventory and transport.
  • PERSONALIZATION: Pantastic Networks announced its acquisition of LimeSpot, an AI-powered eCommerce personalization application.
  • VIDEO: Mediaocean announced that it has acquired Imposium and its technology that enables marketers to quickly create personalized videos that meet consumers in the moment with tailored messages.
  • INFLUENCER MARKETING: Pattern announced its acquisition of influencer marketing platform Current, helping brands drive category-leading traffic and conversion for product listings on D2C websites, global marketplaces, and other digital channels.
  • IDENTITY: Thoma Bravo announced the completion of its acquisition of enterprise identity security company SailPoint, helping to deliver increased value to their customers.
  • MARKETING AUTOMATION: Agency Revolution announced its acquisition of Forge3, the insurance agency website platform that together will provide a one-stop solution that meets all the marketing needs for insurance agents.
8/12/2022: New Tools in Security, Payments, Content Marketing, Web Performance, Sustainability, eCommerce, Analytics, Productivity, and Conversational Marketing

New Products

  • SECURITY: Seraphic Security announced a browser security solution for enterprises that works across any browser and any device.
  • PAYMENTS: Kibo announced Kibo Subscriptions Management, allowing retailers to provide their customers with convenient, ongoing, recurring subscriptions of frequently used products.
  • CONTENT MARKETING: Gracenote launched the Gracenote ID Distribution System, a platform that enables creators to leverage Gracenote IDs to manage their content, streamline distribution and ensure their content brands are well represented and easily discoverable on major streaming services, connected TV devices and MVPDs.
  • WEB PERFORMANCE: Mimecast announced Mimecast X1, the cybersecurity platform engineered to leverage a rich source of intelligence to learn about people and how they collaborate.
  • SUSTAINABILITY: o9 Solutions launched a set of sustainability solutions  embedded in its integrated business planning platform, helping improve the environmental and social impact of their global supply chains.
  • PAYMENTS: Attentive launched a text-to-buy solution built with Shopify’s Shop Pay payments tool, allowing customers to buy directly from within an SMS conversation.
  • eCOMMERCE: Shoppable released Instant Shop, a prebuilt, hosted shop that allows you to easily create an eCommerce storefront so that you don’t have to redirect your fans to other websites to purchase.
  • ANALYTICS: Kalibrate launched Competitive Insights, a mobility-based analytics solution that enables retailers to see a real-time view of consumer’s foot traffic patterns at a given location.
  • ANALYTICS: Iterable announced its AI Optimization Suite, allowing brands to deliver outcome-based marketing strategies that drive stronger, individualized customer experiences.
  • PRODUCTIVITY: Mimo Monitors launched their video conferencing software, Unify Meeting, that combines the top three video conferencing platforms into one user interface.
  • CONVERSATIONAL: Yellow.ai launched DynamicNLP™, enabling Dynamic AI agents to learn on the fly, helping enterprises to set up Conversational AI flows within minutes.

Product Updates

  • WEB DESIGN: Wix released a new Wix Editor with advanced AI features, bringing together their Wix ADI editor and their classic Wix Editor to simplify complex design capabilities.
  • PERSONALIZATION: Intellimize unveiled new capabilities to provide greater scale, speed, and agility for leaner marketing teams.
  • PRODUCTIVITY: Wondershare launched the latest version of their all-in-one diagramming solution EdrawMax which includes a wide range of designer-made templates, a comprehensive symbol library, file compatibility, and sharing options.
  • CONTACT CENTER: Tata Communications enhanced its InstaCC platform with digital features to transform customer engagement of enterprises, stitching a secure, connected digital fabric that allows global enterprises and end users to connect across varied channels.
  • PRIVACY: BigID announced new capabilities that add fully automated end-to-end remediation to ensure cloud data risk from open and over-privileged file access is quickly closed, preventing insider threats, data leaks and dangerous breaches.
  • EDM: Cyral announced it has added multi-factor authentication capabilities to its platform for centralized cloud data access management.
  • PRODUCTIVITY: Allo announced a new version of their platform that brings together Objectives and Key Result goal setting, remote collaboration, accountability and team building in one package.
  • SUPPLY CHAIN: Localz announced a new group chat feature to its customer engagement solution, looping the contact center into the conversation, enabling businesses to improve transparency and communication with their customers.
  • EDM: Concentric AI launched new functionality that uniquely protects sensitive data shared as text or attachments across popular business messaging platforms, including e-mail, Slack and Microsoft Teams.
  • OPTIMIZATION: Conductrics announced that it has integrated customer surveying capabilities into its platform to give CX professionals the ability to use direct customer feedback as an integral part of their testing and optimization practices.
  • AR: Blippar announced that it is making Blippbuilder, their easy-to-use AR creation platform, free to use.
  • SM MONITORING: Reputation announced a number of updates to its social CX product suite, enabling marketers to more efficiently manage social channels in one location and use industry feedback data to create more strategic brand campaigns.

Acquisitions

  • SECURITY: Datadog announced it has acquired Seekret, a highly innovative API observability company that will extend Datadog’s unified platform to deliver deeper API observability, governance and automation across the entire API lifecycle.
  • SALE OPS: VASS Group announced the acquisition of Hexagon Data, a digital marketing automation solutions company that develops and implements solutions to accelerate sales processes in strategic sectors such as media, retail, consumer goods, and telecommunications.
  • PRODUCTIVITY: Forsta announced its acquisition of HelloIgnite, a collaboration platform which enables companies to collect, share, and manage innovative ideas from employees to improve experiences for customers.
  • SEM: NinjaCat announced the acquisition of pay-per-click budget management software suite Shape, and together will deliver an all-in-one platform to store, report, monitor, analyze, and act on marketing data at scale.
  • VIDEO: Kargo announced the acquisition of Ziggeo, a video player and technology company that brings a suite of products to Kargo’s growing omni-channel platform, including a video player, video recording capabilities and numerous APIs.
8/5/2022: New Tools in Customer Engagement, Contact Center Systems, Social Media Management, SMS Marketing, List Development, Lead Generation, App Marketplaces, Advertising, Enterprise Data Management, and Content Creation

New Products

  • CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT: Synup announced the launch of Messenger, a multi-location customer communication solution that allows customers to get a consolidated view to manage, and respond to multi-location messages at scale.
  • CONTACT CENTER: S-NET Communications announced the launch of S-NET Engage, a comprehensive, multi-flow contact center solution that helps companies deliver seamless, automated, and personalized customer experience journeys across channels including voice, SMS, email, web chat, fax, and Facebook.
  • SM MANAGEMENT: PLANOLY announced the launch of Video Planner, a new tool that simplifies taking video content from “idea to post,” thanks to its ability to plan and publish video content from one place.
  • SMS: Hustle announced the launch of Broadcast, a new texting solution in the Hustle platform that equips businesses and nonprofits with the power to communicate with thousands of people in just one click.
  • LIST DEV: Lusha announced the launch of Salesforce Data Enrichment, an automated enrichment solution enabling users to continuously enrich their Salesforce contact and company database’s with fresh and relevant data.
  • LEAD GEN: Verse announced the launch of Verse Capture, a chatbot alternative that provides businesses with the ability to transform website traffic into real-time 2-way text conversations powered by Human-Guided AI.
  • MARKETPLACE: Zesty.io announced the release of the Marketplace, a portal for customers to integrate their favorite technologies with Zesty’s headless CMS at the core.
  • ADVERTISING: DISQO announced the launch of Outcomes Lift, the cross-platform advertising campaign measurement solution that provides advertisers with increased visibility into the entire customer experience journey.
  • EDM: Flow Security announced the launch of their data security platform that discovers and protects both data at rest and in motion.
  • CONTENT CREATION: Writer announced the launch of CoWrite, a GPT-powered AI writing tool that is trained based on a customer’s own content.

Product Updates

  • EMAIL SECURITY: RevBits announced the launch of RevBits Secure Email Gateway, adding an additional layer to its existing, client-side email security, and giving customers the capability to defend against sophisticated malicious emails from the point of email reception, down to the user inbox.
  • CONTACT CENTER: RingCentral announced several innovations across both its business cloud phone system and its unified business communications platform that help customers automate menial tasks, reduce app switching, and create custom workflows to solve unique business needs.
  • INTENT: Contentgine launched new AI and ML capabilities for its Content Indication Platform to uncover greater content consumption insights more readily for B2B marketers.
  • VIDEO CREATION: Wochit announced a self-serve version of their video creation product, designed to be easily embedded and white-labeled by organizations looking to add video editing to their platform for their customers.
  • ANALYTICS: ManageEngine announced that its IT analytics product, Analytics Plus, is now available as a SaaS offering, enabling users to set up a fully functional, integrated analytics platform in under 60 seconds.
  • PRIVACY: YouAttest announced YouAttest Enterprise, an enhanced and customized edition of the company’s cloud-based identity governance solution for companies and organizations requiring cost-efficient but effective security and compliance for users, roles and applications.
  • CMS: Storyblok announced the newest version of their CMS that includes a fresh user interface complete with an all new design experience, collaboration tools, and an enhanced digital asset manager designed to improve content workflows.
  • CDP: Lytics announced the launch of Lytics Private Instance and Lytics Private Cloud on Google Cloud, two new capabilities that help enterprises centralize and harness data from a myriad of sources to help improve the customer experience.
  • SM MANAGEMENT: Sprout Social announced the addition of Instagram Reels to its video management capabilities, to help support brands in organizing and growing their end-to-end video strategy.
  • VIDEO CREATION: Wondershare launched the latest version of Filmora with upgraded features like denoise and quick split mode for users to make their storytelling more compelling without boundaries.

Acquisitions

  • DATA: Accenture has acquired Tenbu, a cloud data firm that specializes in solutions for intelligent decision-making and planning through areas such as analytics, big data and machine learning.
  • ANALYTICS: UiPath announced it has acquired Re:infer, a natural language processing company for unstructured documents and communications, enabling UiPath software robots to understand email context and semantics, online chats, and voice sessions, delivering superior customer service interactions.
  • ANALYTICS: IRI and The NPD Group have completed their merger to create a leading global technology, analytics and data provider to offer clients a comprehensive, accurate view of consumer behavior and total retail purchasing and consumption trends across a broad range of industries.
  • PERSONALIZATION: mParticle announced that it has acquired Vidora, an AI personalization platform for customer data, that will help to improve decisioning, segmentation, and personalization.
7/29/2022: New Tools in Contact Center Systems, Identity Resolution & Registration, and Advertising

New Products

  • CONTACT CENTER: Nextiva unveiled a communications and productivity workhub that enables individuals and teams to manage all conversations from a single place, boosting their productivity and customer engagement.
  • IDENTITY: Persona launched Dynamic Flow, the first risk response and verification engine that customizes the identity verification process in real time for each user and use case.
  • ADVERTISING: Raydiant announced the launch of RaydiantTV, a new app that allows businesses to broadcast semi-live content to multiple television screens and personalize their own advertising space.

Product Updates

  • CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT: Helpmonks announced the latest iteration of its flagship product that combines shared inbox, live chat, CRM, and Email Marketing, making work easier and faster.
  • EDM: InfoSum announced Platform Sigma, the next evolution of their platform with enhancements that provide organizations with the safest, most secure, and most interoperable infrastructure to build and manage their own data clean rooms.
  • WEB DEVELOPMENT: Squarespace announced a next generation drag-and-drop website editor available on Squarespace 7.1 called Fluid Engine, which provides a truly customizable, fast, and easy website design experience for desktop and mobile.
  • ADVERTISING: Polar changed its name to Nova and also launched CTV and other new video formats to now be able to convert any video on social media into a VAST-enabled ad to run online or on CTV.
  • PRODUCTIVITY: RingCentral announced new feature enhancements for RingCentral Rooms that will enable interactive experiences for customers in hybrid work environments, including a digital whiteboard.
  • EMAIL: MailerLite launched a new mobile app that combines their email marketing platform and website builder tools into one.
  • PRODUCTIVITY: Airtable announced various new features that provide more support for your growing team, new filtering options, and a fresh UI redesign.
  • EVENTS: ARInsights announced Event Manager Scheduling Assistant, an enhancement to its popular Event Manager solution that makes coordinating analyst meetings during large company events or dedicated “analyst day” events even easier.
  • UX: UserTesting announced new test templates for their Human Insight Platform that help digital product teams learn from customers faster and earlier in the process with human insight, ultimately de-risking decisions without slowing them down.
  • ML: Expert.ai announced new features have been added to its natural language platform, enabling applications to be put into production faster, with the highest accuracy possible and at scale.
  • CONTENT CREATION: Visme announced their latest feature, Dynamic Fields, allowing users to autofill data into their Visme projects, ensuring ease of use and accuracy in presentations, proposals, reports, and other docs.
  • ANALYTICS: Contify introduced a new “Global Newsfeed” feature in its platform that allows users to access all of the content aggregated by Contify using its proprietary crawling infrastructure, from over 500,000 sources.
  • CONTENT CREATION: Marq, previously known as Lucidpress, launched its new brand along with notable updates to its platform that make delivering relevant content even easier.
  • MOps: BrandMaker announced that it has renamed the company to Uptempo, officially unifying the merger of BrandMaker, Allocadia, and Hive9 under a single brand, helping to radically transform how its customers plan, predict, invest, execute, and improve marketing.
  • PRODUCTIVITY: Wrike announced the release of Custom Item Types, a unique core platform capability that enables users to create their own work item types tailored to their team’s specific culture and style.

Acquisitions

  • eCOMMERCE: Basis Vectors announced that it has acquired CommerceV3, the full service cloud platform for high volume digital commerce.
  • SALES OPS: Concentrix announced it has closed its acquisition of ServiceSource, the global market leader in B2B digital sales, positioning Concentrix for greater expertise in B2B sales capabilities on a global scale.
  • CONSULTING: Accenture has acquired Solvera Solutions, a cloud consulting company focused on ServiceNow, Microsoft and SAP applications.
  • CONTACT CENTER: Infobip has completed its acquisition of VoIP provider Peerless Network and now offers their client’s access to its communications platform-as-a-service platform.
  • CONTENT MARKETING: FMG announced its acquisition of Vestorly, a company specializing in AI-driven content curation for wealth management firms, expanding FMG’s AI capabilities to improve marketing opportunities for modern financial professionals.
7/22/2022: New Tools in Audience Segmentation, Data Migration, Advertising, Analytics, Video Management, Internet Security, and Customer Journey

New Products

  • AUDIENCE: LiftEngine announced the release of LaunchPad A.S.A.P., an Audience Segmentation & Activation Platform platform that provides marketers with automated customer data management and unlimited access to hundreds of data elements for advanced customer segmentation and campaign activation.
  • DATA MIGRATION: AVASOFT announced the release of AVAMIGRATRON, the Next-Generation cloud-based Slack to Teams migration platform that comes with myriad features to support enterprises with a secure and seamless migration from Slack to Microsoft Teams.
  • ADVERTISING: Vibrant Media announced its sell-side solution that ​​allows publishers to automate the process of adding and maintaining relevant key-values in the programmatic framework.
  • ANALYTICS: Diwo announced the Diwo Decision Intelligence (DI) Platform, delivering an innovative analytics experience designed to accelerate the path from data to decisions by providing business users with AI-powered, actionable recommendations in minutes rather than days.
  • VIDEO MANAGEMENT: CommentSold announced the launch of Videeo, a live video commerce technology solution that gives enterprises the ability to deliver engaging, branded live video commerce experiences by easily integrating live selling into an online retailers’ existing e-commerce stack.
  • INTERNET SECURITY: Perception Point announced the release of Perception Point Advanced Browser Security, a new web security solution which adds enterprise-grade security to native Chrome and Edge browsers.
  • ADVERTISING: Givsly announced the launch of its Good Advertising solution that gives advertisers a competitive edge by breaking through in a cluttered landscape and driving real engagement.
  • CUSTOMER JOURNEY: LivePerson announced the launch of Contact Center Conversation Mining, a revolutionary solution for tracking, measuring, and optimizing customer experiences, powered by the Celonis Execution Management System.

Product Updates

  • SM MONITORING: ListenFirst announced the addition of Instagram Reels to the ListenFirst Analytics platform.
  • DAM: Helpmonks announced the relaunch of Razuna, its Digital Asset Management tool, with various new features and improvements.
  • EDM: Atlan announced that it has launched a new version of its product including a complete redesign and a slate of new features around active metadata.
  • SM MARKETING: Tailwind introduced new email marketing capabilities as a part of their social media marketing platform so that users can manage distribution on their most important channels from within one platform.
  • VIDEO: Wondershare released DemoCreator 6.0 to help users make their video presentations more impactful than ever with a great range of upgraded features.
  • CMS: dotCMS announced that enterprise cloud SPA hosting feature will be made available as part of its standard dotCMS Cloud offering.
  • MOps: HG Insights introduced various new features to their platform, helping to better deliver the actionable insights business leaders need to understand their markets in-depth, make decisions, and Go-To-Market with precision and confidence.
  • BUSINESS MANAGEMENT: Appspace announced the completion of its business integration of intranet software leader, Beezy, adding intranet capabilities to their workforce experience platform.
  • EDM: Syncari announced a new Syncari Insights feature that provides insight into every customer interaction, and a Syncari CSV Import capability that allows CSV file sync and management according to predefined pipeline logic.
  • CONTENT: Persado announced the release of Personal Narratives within their personalized messaging capability, that will provide users with the ability to deliver stories and images that work best for a specific segment of customers.
  • CONVERSATIONAL: Cyara unveiled innovative new chatbot testing features to its newest offering, Cyara Botium, developed after the recent acquisition of Botium, the one-stop solution for comprehensive, automated chatbot testing and assurance.

Acqusitions

  • SMS MARKETING: MessageMedia has acquired Smooth Messenger, a text messaging application that integrates with Zoho, a leading customer relationship management platform.
  • ANALYTICS: Alvaria announced the completion of the acquisition of the Intelligent Analytics Platform from Cicero, helping accelerate how customers understand consumer and employee behavior to build better workflows with a simpler approach to complex problems with attended robotic process automation and desktop analytics.
  • ANALYTICS: Stagwell announced the acquisition of Apollo Program, a real-time, AI-powered SaaS platform that uncovers consumer, creative and contextual insights for scaled modern marketing, and will be integrated with Stagwell’s data and insights unification tool.
  • INTELLIGENCE: Zefr announced the acquisition of Adverif.ai, an AI company focused on identifying and defunding misinformation at scale, enabling Zefr’s customers to further measure and target content based on their brand suitability standards.
  • BRAND MANAGEMENT: Stirista announced the acquisition of ZDI, a branding firm that delivers data-driven creative solutions, giving Stirista clients increased access to comprehensive marketing solutions to effectively reach and engage with target customers.
  • CONTACT CENTER: Ericsson has completed its acquisition of Vonage, allowing them to offer a full suite of communications solutions including: Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS), UCaaS and CCaaS.
7/15/2022: New Tools in Photography, Social Responsibility, Events, Customer Journey, ML, Web Development, CMS, Automation, EDM, and Email

New Products

  • PHOTOGRAPHY: Pixlr introduced Photomash Studio, its professional one-click photo studio that is fully equipped with several editing necessities all in one app.
  • SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: +Media launched the +Impact Hub, a proprietary SaaS platform enabling organizations to create, measure and optimize impact via audience engagement and analytics.
  • EVENTS: GTR announced their all-in-one Event Management Platform that supports online registration, check-in and badge printing, lead retrieval, and attendance tracking.
  • CUSTOMER JOURNEY: Braze announced Braze Canvas Flow, a next generation journey orchestration tool that is designed to allow brands to quickly build sophisticated customer experiences across their channel mix.
  • ML: TIBCO announced TIBCO ModelOps, a solution that helps customers simplify and scale cloud-based analytic model management, deployment, monitoring, and governance.
  • WEB DEVELOPMENT: Wishpond announced their Website Builder product that is equipped and integrated with all of the marketing tools needed to grow a business and increase online sales, including lead tracking and segmentation tools, personalization abilities, advanced forms and pop-ups, integration with Wishpond’s email marketing tool, referral marketing, calendar functionality, popups, and more.
  • CMS: Sitecore announced the Experience Manager (XM) Cloud, their cloud-native, modern CMS empowering brands to create, manage, and deliver relevant content at lightning-fast speeds.
  • AUTOMATION: 8×8 announced 8×8 Connect Automation Builder, a no-code multiple-channel communications management solution that offers a visual, effortless way to build communication workflows that enhance productivity, flexibility, and efficiency, regardless of coding expertise.
  • EDM: StarRocks announced a cloud-native version of its SQL engine called the StarRocks Cloud, that simplifies the delivery of real-time analytics projects and reduces the time to business value for enterprises.
  • CMS: Lumavate announced the launch of Lumavate Content, a Content Management System that makes it simple for organizations to manage and reuse various types of content across an unlimited number of digital experiences.
  • EMAIL: DirectIQ launched an email marketing automation platform that enables businesses to launch effective email campaigns by automating the process and integrating the platform with numerous popular websites.

Product Updates

  • CONTACT CENTER: NICE announced new capabilities to CXone that enrich digital experiences, simplify integration with customer environments and grow openness with mobile SDKs and integration options.
  • VIDEO CREATION: Wondershare UniConverter announced 8 new intuitive features that allow users to fulfill different needs in the blink of an eye: convert, compress, record, edit video and audio, and download video and burn DVD.
  • CMS: GraphCMS rebranded itself as Hygraph and launched their new Federated Content Platform that offers a suite of features to cut out tedious middleware development, and effortlessly join siloed data from diverse sources into a single API.
  • OFFICE MANAGEMENT: Owl Labs announced the third generation of its Meeting Owl Pro system that includes faster, more accurate face detection (even when masked), expanded audio and video range options, and more.
  • WEB OPTIMIZATION: UserTesting announced advanced Instant Insight features, powered by machine learning, to help companies expedite the analysis of human insights at the test-level and accelerate time to insights.
  • CONTENT MARKETING: Pixlee TurnTo announced new Instagram Reels functionality that enables brands to collect, curate and publish user-generated Instagram Reels within the Pixlee TurnTo Social UGC platform.

Acquisitions

  • BUSINESS MANAGEMENT: Riskonnect has acquired Castellan, a global provider of enterprise resilience management solutions, furthering Riskonnect’s IRM vision of bringing all aspects of Risk Under One Roof by seamlessly incorporating business continuity and operational resilience capabilities into its platform.
  • CONTENT MARKETING: Taboola announced it has completed its acquisition of personalization technology company Gravity R&D.
  • PERSONALIZATION: Optimove announced it has acquired Graphyte, a real-time, cloud-based personalization platform optimizing the web and mobile experience for consumers.
  • ADVERTISING: Prodege announced that it has acquired AdGate Media, a digital advertising company that connects users of popular websites and apps with premium brands.
  • PRIVACY: Privitar announced it has acquired Kormoon, a software platform that helps organizations manage the complexities of data privacy regulations by analyzing data usage, assessing risk, and automating compliance.
  • VIDEO MANAGEMENT: Synamedia announced it has acquired Quortex, the cloud video delivery platform optimized for just-in-time processing of live video streaming, helping Synamedia enhance its cloud Video Network capabilities.
  • DIRECT MAIL: AIIM announced the acquisition of sustainable marketing communication solutions provider Prime Data, strengthening the integrated automated direct mail platform offered by AIIM.
  • BRAND MANAGEMENT: PerformLine announced it has completed its acquisition of email compliance monitoring provider LashBack, and together will provide clients with the most comprehensive discovery and compliance monitoring solution.
7/7/2022: New Tools in Corporate Social Responsibility, Market Research, and Social Media Monitoring

New Products

  • SUSTAINABILITY: Countable announced the launch of its Enterprise ESG Portal, an all-in-one solution for managing, measuring and magnifying ESG strategy.
  • MARKET RESEARCH: Forsta announced the launch of its Digital Diaries mobile ethnography app, designed to obtain actionable, qualitative insights at scale.
  • SOCIAL MEDIA MONITORING: Synthesio announced Topic Modeling, an AI-powered discovery engine that automatically scans, categorizes, and visualizes hundreds of thousands of online conversations in only a few clicks using the power of machine learning.

Product Updates

  • CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT: Sailthru announced updates to its cross-channel relationship management product, Lifecycle Optimizer, including enhanced scheduling, and SMS and mobile app messaging capabilities.
  • SALES ENABLEMENT: Modus announced new key features and functions to better support marketing and sales teams in their customer-focused business initiatives including presentation builder and digital sales rooms.
  • DIRECT MAIL: Loop & Tie announced the introduction of their Teams offering, a new feature designed to enable gifting throughout the entire customer lifecycle.

Acquisitions

  • TEXT TOOLS: Propio Language Services announced the acquisition of workforce management software company LSP Ware, adding innovative software capabilities to its communications platform for all-in-one interpreting management and delivery.
  • MOBILE MARKETING: Verve Group announced that it has acquired Dataseat, an advertising technology company that provides app developers with the ability to manage in-house mobile app campaigns.
  • EDM: IBM announced it has acquired Databand, a provider of data observability software that helps organizations fix issues with their data before it impacts their bottom-line, which will help strengthen IBM’s software portfolio across data, AI and automation to address the full spectrum of observability.
7/1/2022: New Tools in CDP, CX, Productivity, Advertising, and HR

New Products

  • CDP: Klaviyo announced the launch of its new enterprise solution, Klaviyo One, built to help large brands unify all their customer data and drive personalized experiences at scale.
  • CX: ActionIQ has rebranded to AIQ and announced the launch of a new product, CX Hub, designed as a set of modules offering self-service access to customer data, allowing users to build audiences and orchestrate experiences at scale.
  • PRODUCTIVITY: HubEngage launched an all new modern connected intranet solution to help enhance the employee experience.
  • ADVERTISING: Connatix introduced its intuitive contextual targeting solution for smarter video advertising called Deep Contextual that leverages AI-powered deep learning, advanced computer vision, natural language processing and other proprietary technologies to analyze video and page content.
  • ADVERTISING: Adstanding launched as an OTT advertising company with a demand-side programmatic platform that provides the tools for greater campaign management in the digital out of home space.
  • ADVERTISING: The Neuron announced the release of its DOOH Design Studio, a specialist digital billboard creative design studio providing vertical-specific, ready-made design templates for use across the entire DOOH advertising network.
  • HR: Call Journey announced Worklife Hero, a virtual meeting companion tool to help measure and analyze the factors that drive retention, engagement and performance.

Product Updates

  • PRODUCTIVITY: Airtable released new updates that allow you to do more with your data by automatically exporting info into Google Docs, customizing fields in synced tables, and more.
  • CX: InMoment announced a powerful set of technology innovations on its XI Platform that help organizations acquire new customers, retain and increase loyalty of existing customers, and drive improved business performance.
  • MOBILE MARKETING: Reveal Mobile announced multiple new features for its geofencing platform that lets marketers link in-store sales to ad spend and target audiences based on frequency of visits.
  • MOBILE MARKETING: Jebbit announced the addition of several new e-commerce innovations that will help brands create more engaging online customer interactions and shoppable commerce experiences.
  • MARKET RESEARCH: Voxco announced that it has launched three new features, Word Import, Close the Loop, and Text Analytics to make it easy for users to swiftly gather feedback, measure sentiment, uncover insights & act on them.
  • EDM: Databricks unveiled new capabilities within the Databricks Lakehouse Platform including new data warehousing performance and functionality, expanded data governance, new data sharing innovations to include an analytics marketplace and data clean rooms for secure data collaboration, automatic cost optimization for ETL operations, and machine learning (ML) lifecycle improvements.
  • WEB OPTIMIZATION: UserTesting announced new test templates for their Human Insight Platform that enable companies to better understand their customers’ expectations, behaviors, and perceptions around inflation.
  • CMS: dotCMS announced new features to enhance the content authoring experience including a new drag-and-drop content palette and story-like block editor.

Acquisitions

  • WEB ANALYTICS: TryMyUI announced it has acquired Stitchology.ai, a session replay and comprehensive web analytics tool, that together will provide an end-to-end digital experience solution to help businesses drive online revenue.
  • EMAIL: SEDNA announced the acquisition of email automation solution, Shelly, and will now offer customers a huge array of email automation services directly from their platform.
6/24/2022: New Tools in Advertising, Business Management, Contact Center, Web Analytics, Web Design, Market Research, and Campaign Management

New Products

  • ADVERTISING: Quantcast announced the launch of a suite of new solutions for digital marketers to seamlessly plan, activate and measure video, native and display brand campaigns across the web and on CTV.
  • BUSINESS MANAGEMENT: Picsello announced the launch of its all-in-one photography management software designed to help photographers manage, market, and monetize their business.
  • BUSINESS MANAGEMENT: Namecheap introduced Relate by Namecheap, a new suite of online tools to make it easier for small businesses to succeed and grow in the digital space.
  • CONTACT CENTER: Level AI launched a new agent screen recording and monitoring product that will enable contact center teams to improve support quality, agent learning and coaching by monitoring and gaining further insights into their agents’ behavior.
  • CONTACT CENTER: Sprinklr introduced Sprinklr Modern Care Lite, an enterprise-grade customer support solution that can be deployed in just minutes.
  • WEB ANALYTICS: Phonexa announced HitMetrix, a user behavior recording and analytics product that helps lead generators and publishers optimize website conversion rates.
  • CONTACT CENTER: Qualtrics announced Qualtrics QM, a new AI-powered and human-assisted quality assurance solution that gives contact center leaders critical AI-powered insights on customer needs, agent effectiveness, and overall performance.
  • WEB DESIGN: Newsroom AI introduced Public, a new conversational content creation platform that encourages creators to embrace a more direct, and conversational communication style to help build deeper and more meaningful bonds with their audience.
  • MARKET RESEARCH: Speedeon announced the launch of AudienceMaker, a strategic growth platform that helps brands gain unparalleled access to valuable and actionable data on their customers and prospects.
  • CAMPAIGN MANAGEMENT: Acoustic announced the release of Multichannel Composer, a personalized, multichannel campaign builder that enables brands to close the digital experience gap by empowering marketing teams of any size to easily orchestrate hyper-personalized campaigns to engage consumers in the moment.

Product Updates

  • MOBILE MARKETING: Bluecore announced the launch of Bluecore Mobile, now allowing brands to activate their data to put the right messages and recommendations in front of every individual shopper through text.
  • CONVERSATIONAL: Ada announced several new product launches and updates including new no-code builder tools, social channels, proactive SMS, and a global application directory.
  • ANALYTICS: Dataiku announced a major update to their platform that provides new capabilities for expert teams to deliver more value at scale, enables tech-savvy workers to take on more expansive challenges, helps non-technical workers more easily engage with AI, and provides strengthened AI Governance to ensure projects are robust, transparent, and ready for success at scale.
  • AUDIENCE SEGMENTATION: Fuel Cycle announced the launch of its new website, featuring a new user interface, improved functionality and added features, including an expanded suite of consumer intelligence products.
  • PRODUCTIVITY: Zoom introduced a new translated and multi-language captions feature that allows users to view captions translated into the language of their choice.
  • EMAIL: Litmus announced new capabilities to help boost personalization and increase efficiencies in workflow and creation, including the ability for email marketers to activate integrations in one centralized location, resulting in more error-free emails that drive business outcomes.
  • CONTENT CREATION: Prezi announced new features for Prezi Video, including transparent view mode, branded name tags and a background content layer.

Acquisitions

  • PLM: Productsup announced its acquisition of World of Content, a product experience management provider, that will help strengthen Productup’s position as a scalable solution equipped to bring high-quality product information to consumers and power frictionless commerce experiences.
  • ACCOUNTING: Kofax announced it has acquired Tungsten Corporation, a global B2B e-invoicing network that facilitates and streamlines complex invoice-to-pay processes.
  • EDM: Starburst announced the acquisition of data lake analytics accelerator Varada, and together will empower organizations to more quickly and efficiently derive greater insights from their data.
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