Social media stars, so-called influencers, show us how easy it is to create content and distribute it through social media today. With hundreds of thousands or even millions of followers, these people have a larger community than most newspaper publishers. Therefore, it is understandable that the advertising industry sees in it a potential to reach a specific target group, especially since the usage behavior of teens plays a key role here.

AdAsia Holdings, an end-to-end advertising solutions provider and part of AnyMind Group, just rebranded the company’s current solution for online publishers to AdAsia360 and released the first wave of new features that look to turn the platform into an all-encompassing assistant to publishers.

Pegasystems Inc., a provider of strategic software solutions for sales, marketing, service and operations, points out the stumbling blocks the customer journey is facing commonplace in practice:

The leading AI-powered social media marketing platform Socialbakers released a comprehensive report at the end of 2018 a comprehensive report that offers detailed information about the state of social media engagement and advertising, as well as emerging themes for the year ahead. The trend report dives into demographics and brand trends, advertising effectiveness, engagement best practices, and emerging trends involving influencer marketing and privacy and security.

Although the death of Snapchat has been predicted many times by now, in fact right after its listing at the stock exchange where is was considered overvalued, the company proves us once again wrong and shows that there is life in the old dog yet.

The convergence of social and demographic trends, consumer behavior and new technologies like the blockchain, mobility and various facets of “the cloud” are continually re-shaping mission-critical business areas across industries, and the supply chain is no exception.

Cryptomining malware, also called cryptocurrency mining malware or simply cryptojacking, is a relatively new term that refers to software programs and malware components developed to take over a computer's resources and use them for cryptocurrency mining without a user's explicit permission. Unauthorized cryptomining is seeing exponential growth, since it actually doesn’t require significant technical skills and cyber criminals have increasingly turned to cryptomining malware as a way to harness the processing power of large numbers of computers, smartphones and other electronic devices to help them generate revenue from cryptocurrency mining. Ad blocking firm AdGuard, for instance, estimates that more than 500 million users are mining cryptocurrencies on their devices without realizing it. These users either get infected by a cryptomining malware program or visit websites that stealthily run cryptomining software in the background without the user's consent.

Vodafone just launches its 2019 Global Trends Report, highlighting customer centricity, ethics and purpose, and the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as key business priorities for the next 12 months.

In today’s connected world, businesses are prime targets for cyberattacks, and unintentional missteps can result in critical exposure of consumers’ sensitive personal information.

Google and Temasek just released the e-Conomy SEA 2018 report, highlighting Southeast Asia’s accelerating Internet economy.

Qualtrics, a leader in experience management, announced a series of innovations that will continue to dramatically accelerate the customer experience (CX) industry with a fundamentally different approach: with Qualtrics Customer Experience™, now known as Qualtrics CustomerXM™, brands can build programs that are more personal and engage customers on their own terms, proactively surface insights and help activate an entire organization around CX.

It is a predicament: consumers' expectations towards businesses are higher than ever, as they demand an experience when buying a product, not just the feeling of a mere necessity. Hence, personalization is the keyword here, so that offers, product recommendations and discounts are available on the right channel at the right time and in line with the customer's current expectations and needs. All this is possible and only needs as prerequisites data-based 360-degree customer views, but that's exactly where the problems start. For fear of abuse, consumers are more reluctant in giving their data to businesses.

The spread of language assistants, such as Google Assistant or Amazon Alexa, heralds a new evolutionary stage for user interfaces. In fact, now it is expected now, according to forecasts by market research firm ComScore, which also finds that at the latest by 2020 around 50% of search queries will be voice-based.

The availability of detailed real-time metrics is part of online marketing’s DNA. Email marketing is no exception. Suitable key performance indicators (KPIs) are as always essential tools for evaluating, controlling and optimizing the various online marketing channels.