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GDPR is Giving New Life to Programmatic Guaranteed Deals (Digiday)

Much as contextual targeting is experiencing a rebirth due to the arrival of the General Data Protection Regulation, ad-buyer demand for programmatic guaranteed deals is also incre... More

Use Big Data to Create Value for Customers, Not Just Target Them (HBR)

Big data holds out big promises for marketing. Notably, it pledges to answer two of the most vexing questions that have stymied marketers since they started selling: 1) who buys wh... More

Soundtrack Your Story: Instagram Adding Music Options (Refinery29)

Instagram has always been a platform for discovery, from launching new food trends to fashion brands, but music has been a more difficult area for the app from a discovery standpoi... More

Featured Jobs: Paramount; Technicolor; Amazon Web Services

Director, Worldwide Market Intelligence — Hollywood, CA — Paramount Senior Designer — LA — Technicolor Sr. Product Manager (Tech) — Seattle — Amazon Web Services Cli... More

Muhi S. Majzoub of OpenText: Change the Way You Look at Content Management (CMS Wire)

Majzoub: "Automation brings many high-value opportunities. The automation of business processes affects many of the metrics shareholders care about. Automation improves productivit... More

MoviePass to Roll Out Service Upgrade Options After AMC Stubs A-List Introduction (SCN)

Just a few days after AMC Entertainment added the new AMC Stubs A-List subscription tier to its rewards program, MoviePass informed subscribers over the weekend that it plans to ro... More

IBM, VW Team Up in ‘Garage Factory’ to Build More Personalized Services (CNET)

IBM and Volkswagen have both set up shop at an IBM office in Berlin to help develop VW's "We Experience" system, which uses IBM's cloud services to create a more personalized exper... More

Luxoft Partners with R3, Integrates Identity Management Applications on Corda (MESA)

Luxoft has partnered with R3, an enterprise blockchain software firm. Luxoft will lead the integration of identity management applications on Corda, R3’s open source blockchain p... More

How Brands are Championing the Subscription Revolution (IT Pro Portal)

Today’s consumers are less interested in owning products, and instead are more concerned with subscribing to services. They want control over a vast multitude of products and the... More

Making Workflows Work Better: Using DAM for Content Approval (Nuxeo Blog)

We’ve all had frustrating experiences with workflows and processes. Whether it’s getting two independently reviewed versions of an asset back—with two contradictory sets of s... More

Data Privacy in a Personalized Media World (Raconteur)

Television’s place at the heart of mass culture is no more. Streaming services provide higher revenues to entertainment companies than traditional broadcasting and media consumpt... More

Featured Jobs: Apple; Gracenote; Deluxe

Art Director, Interactive — Santa Clara Valley, CA — Apple Front End Engineer, Big Data — Emeryville, CA — Gracenote Senior Software Engineer — Burbank, CA — Deluxe ... More

World Cup 2018: Can Big Data Analytics Save Germany’s Tournament? (Forbes)

Ahead of the crunch match with Sweden in Sochi this Saturday, you can be sure that Germany will be using what it considers to be its "Virtual 12th man" in a bid to gain any sort of... More

LiveTiles to Launch Unified Intelligent Workplace Platform Next Month (Small Caps)

LiveTiles is preparing to add yet another string to its bow with the launch of a new product that will expand its growing suite of features enabling businesses to automate their op... More

5 Remarkable Uses for Text Analytics (SAS Blog)

Maybe you’ve heard of text analytics (or natural language processing) as a way to analyze consumer sentiment. Businesses often use these techniques to analyze customer complaints... More

Why GDPR is the Best Thing That Will Happen to Marketers in 2018 (The Drum)

Troves of data are still being generated by customers from every which way and from every channel, device, touchpoint, etc,. but your all-access pass to what you can do with it has... More

The Death of the TV Remote – and What’s Coming Next (WSJ)

In the last few years, Alexa and Siri have moved in. With this invasion of AI assistants comes incredible command over technology: Don’t set a timer or check the weather; ask. Do... More

Amazon Launches an Alexa System for Hotels (TechCrunch)

Alexa is coming to your hotel room. Amazon this morning is announcing a new program called Alexa for Hospitality, designed to bring its voice assistant technology to everything fro... More

Expert System Spotlighted for Work in AI-Based Text Analytics (SCN)

Expert System announced that Forrester Research has named Cogito, its text analytics and cognitive computing platform, as a Strong Performer in its latest report. With a continued ... More

Verizon’s Oath Debuts Programmatic VR Advertising (FierceCable)

Verizon subsidiary Oath is unveiling what it calls extended reality (XR) ad experiences, including new 3D ad formats and programmatic virtual reality ads. Oath’s programmatic VR ... More

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