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Facebook Debuts Video Metrics for Publishers (VideoInk)

Facebook announced today that it’s introducing a set of new features for publishers that will give them detailed audience metrics. Publishers will be able to view minutes viewed ... More

Oracle, DigitasLBi Partner to Provide Better Digital Experiences (CMSWire)

Oracle is partnering with a global marketing and technology agency on a digital practice designed to help brands create digital experiences. Oracle and Boston-based DigitasLBi toda... More

Targeting, Control, Measurement: What Agencies Want from Facebook’s New TV-like Ads (Digiday)

U.K. agencies are excited about the prospect of commercials during Facebook live streams, though questions around targeting and brand safety still linger. Facebook announced that t... More

LiveXLive to Bring Shoppable Ads to Live Music Streaming (StreamDaily)

With live streaming now seen as one of the preeminent trends of digital content, live music streaming network LiveXLive now has plans to monetize its live stream the upcoming Outsi... More

Can Spotify Make Programmatic Audio Mainstream? (AdExchanger)

When Spotify partnered with AppNexus, The Trade Desk and Rubicon Project to execute private marketplace (PMP) deals on mobile audio inventory last week, it became the first digital... More

Watson Yields Big Programmatic Returns for IBM (AdAge)

Big Blue says Watson is saving it a lot of green. For almost a year now the company has been trying out Watson, its cognitive computer that learns and makes snap decisions on the f... More

Digimarc Names Matthew Okin as New Packaging Design Director (SCN)

Digimarc today announced the hire of Matthew Okin as Packaging Design Director, bridging the cultural and technical gaps between product design, development, and implementation. An... More

Personalisation: The Most Important Lesson for Today’s Mobile Marketers (PerformanceIN)

In addition to creating a better user experience, personalisation can help advertisers understand their audiences better by measuring the outcome of their campaigns. Delivering per... More

Shark Week Unleashes Sharks in Your Living Room with Discovery VR (The Drum)

Henner Herwig Jürgens, VAST MEDIA: Discovery Channel's long-running summer event "Shark Week" returned yesterday with a variety of new content and exclusive virtual and augmented ... More

Instagram Looking to Boost Video Consumption with New ‘Picked for You’ Channels (Social Media Today)

A significant, yet lesser highlighted element of that update was the addition of auto-advance – when you select a relevant video channel in Explore, the content now flows onto th... More

Twitter Promotes Visual Hashtags With #Stickers Photo-Editing Tool (BrandChannel)

Meet #Stickers — Twitter’s new system of visual hashtags to connect photos with others around the world. In a bid to compete with other social platforms’ visual tools — Sna... More

Why ROI Data Is The Future Of TV Advertising (Forbes)

The questions “how much?” and “how soon?” have always been attached to the monetization aspect of TV advertising. When it comes to data insights on TV ad campaigns, those q... More

Future Of Retail: Artificial Intelligence And Virtual Reality Have Big Roles To Play (Forbes)

The North Face is one brand that has been experimenting in this space already – working with a tool called the Fluid Expert Personal Shopper powered by IBM’s Watson cognitive c... More

Spotify’s Playlists Can Now Predict Which Songs You’ll Want to Add (FastCompany)

Spotify is experimenting with a feature called Playlist Extender that uses an algorithm to automatically suggest songs when you're creating playlists. And here's the crazy part: I... More

Customer Journey Mapping is Dead, Real-Time Context is King (PerformanceIN)

According to Salesforce’s 2016 State of Marketing Research Report, 73% of organisations say that developing a customer journey map is good for their business. But with the rise o... More

Spotify Now Allows Brands To Sponsor Targeted Playlists (Forbes)

Streaming music giant Spotify announced recently that companies will now be able to shell out big bucks to sponsor playlists on its platform, which over the past few years have bec... More

Emotive Experiences Key to Unlocking Consumer Engagement Across Screens (PerformanceIN)

Taking into account users’ emotions and situation is crucial when trying to get their cross-screen attention, Yahoo’s new study has found. Surveying 2000 people across Europe, ... More

YuMe Boosts Viewability in Ad Platform (Rapid TV News)

YuMe has announced new capabilities to improve brand safety and viewability standards for its programmatic video advertising platform, YuMe for Advertisers (YFA). This includes int... More

Upcoming Instagram Analytics to Provide more Depth for Marketers (The Drum)

According to Later, Instagram is in the midst of testing new analytics tools that provide deeper analytics — a move that continues the Facebook-owned photo-sharing platform evolu... More

Advertising Firms + Big Data = Missed Opportunities (MediaPost)

Back in the golden age of advertising, immortalized in “Mad Men”, creative shops had more data and customer research at their fingertips than did their clients. Those days are ... More

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