Email

Due to declining paid social traffic, Wildgrain, a subscription box company that built its brand on Facebook, has ramped up its email marketing efforts through a partnership with LiveIntent.

The dormant subscribers Daily Voice has reactivated so far this year are more engaged and attract higher CPMs for their impressions than its wider subscriber base.

Show me a digital publisher, and I’ll show you a team of people busily doing their best to collect first-party data before the clock runs out on third-party cookies. But, depending on the site, roughly 5% of the emails that publishers collect from their readers – fine, call it zero-party data, if you must – are generated by machines.

Matt McGowan, head of strategy for Google’s America’s ad agency business, has jumped to UK-based email automation platform Adestra, where he will serve as president, effective immediately. McGowan spent two and a half years at Google, where he supported sales to big brand and agency buyers. During his tenure, Google made major inroads into brand […]

Once again, a private equity firm has bought a majority stake in a marketing tech company. Email marketing solutions provider StrongView will get a strategic growth investment from private equity firm HGGC. The deal is expected to close in 30 days, and financial terms weren’t announced. Read the release. HGGC has a solid background in […]

Kahuna, a mobile marketing automation startup going against Adobe, Oracle and Salesforce.com, revealed Wednesday it had raised $45 million in Series B funding. The round, led by Tenaya Capital, Sequoia and SoftTech, will be used for product development and to expand Kahuna’s team of 80. Kahuna’s clients like Dollar Shave Club, Overstock.com, The Weather Channel […]

A recent article by New York Times media columnist David Carr revealed a radical publishing technology catching on in news media companies everywhere: email newsletters. Carr wrote that email is a marketing tool many people tend to forget about. But, he argued, email is the most consistent and useful medium for advertising. Email and search drive […]

La Quinta Inns & Suites knows while most travel within the United States is leisure-based, business travelers offer more lucrative messaging opportunities for marketers. These individuals travel more frequently than recreational visitors, rack up more repeat visits to the same hotels and are less subject to price sensitivity, which are attractive qualities for hotel chains, […]

From 2010 to 2013, enterprise giants like Adobe, IBM, Oracle and Salesforce.com collectively spent close to $30 billion acquiring digital marketing technologies. Yet, enterprise platform companies will continue to invest to fill gaps in their marketing stacks in 2014, experts predict. Email, one of the oldest of digital channels, still remains an attractive target for […]

Two announcements last week underscored the importance of email as a means for bridging the gap between online and offline customer data. The first was the acquisition of Rapleaf, a provider of email marketing personalization solutions, by email data services provider TowerData. And Facebook announced it was adding a feature within Custom Audiences that links offline […]