Two of Salesforce’s new AI-powered tools are nearly ready for prime time: one for segment creation and another to help retailers coordinate the pricing of promotions to different audiences across channels.
When the pandemic hit, the global marketing team at Japan Airlines saw its budget disappear overnight. But rather than sitting, idle, JAL used the downtime to get its global marketing house in order and prepare for the day when Japan reopened its borders.
“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Martin Kihn, senior vice president of marketing strategy, Salesforce Marketing Cloud. In late April, Google announced in-market tests for some of the proposals in its Privacy Sandbox, where the cookie-free web is […]
When Adam Blitzer, EVP and GM of three Salesforce clouds (Marketing, Commerce and Community) co-founded marketing automation platform Pardot in 2007, the Great Recession was just around the corner and real estate was damned cheap. Pardot the startup snagged the top floor of a 34-story office building in Atlanta for $4 a square foot and […]
The Salesforce Marketing Cloud is crowning a new leader. Longtime Salesforce vet Adam Blitzer will take the CEO reins from Bob Stutz this month. But the business strategy will remain the same: customer data platform (CDP) all the way. Salesforce introduced its CDP service, called “Customer 360,” in June, and Blitzer colored in more detail […]
Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. CCPA Crunch Time Lobbyists, cool your jets. The California Consumer Protection Act is nearing its mostly final form. The legislative session closes on Friday the 13th (that’s not ominous), which is also the deadline for lawmakers to pass any outstanding bills. Hail Mary lobbying […]
Salesforce officially threw its hat into the ring with the launch of a customer data platform (CDP) on Tuesday at its Connections conference in Chicago. Salesforce has been circling a CDP launch for the past year, since its $800 million acquisition of Datorama, a data integration service, and the launch of an internal identity graph […]
The marketing cloud landscape has taken big steps into advertising technology and media buying, as with Oracle’s recent acquisitions of Moat and Grapeshot or Adobe’s deal for the video DSP TubeMogul. But Salesforce defies that trend. The company has deferred to partners to provide online advertising. And while rival clouds contend for new data sources, […]
Salesforce is partnering with Google for an integration that will enable sales, marketing and advertising data to flow between the Analytics 360 Suite and Salesforce’s Marketing and Sales clouds. Read the Google blog post. The integration of 360 and Salesforce’s Marketing and Sales clouds will be available in the first half of 2018 at no […]
If you’re an organization in dire need of digital transformation, who ya gonna call? While an enterprise software company might not initially come to mind, that’s exactly who brands like Coca-Cola and Philips turned to. For Hollywood studio 20th Century Fox Film, it’s moved from primarily a B2B company focused on partners like broadcasters, retailers, […]
