Direct Marketing – Consumer

Industry veterans Pieter De Temmerman and Grant Ries to lead LiveRamp’s expansion into $160B B2B market. Combination will help reach professional identities at scale LiveRamp®, an Acxiom® company (NASDAQ: ACXM) and leading provider of omnichannel identity resolution, today announced the acquisition of Pacific Data Partners to accelerate LiveRamp’s ability to power people-based business-to-business (B2B) marketing. Pieter De Temmerman and Grant Ries, ... Read More »

Remark Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: MARK), a global digital media and technology company, announced that it is partnering in China with Acxiom® (Nasdaq:  ACXM), the data foundation for the world’s best marketers.  Acxiom will work closely with Kankan, Remark’s data and AI offering, and together they will provide research and targeting solutions for a list of clients. “Kankan’s data sources are unique and are derived from ... Read More »

Every day we get bombarded with irrelevant, repeated messages from companies wanting to sell us more stuff. We tell them what we’re interested in and how we want to be contacted, yet they don’t seem to be listening. That’s because a lot of company’s marketing departments still manually select what offers should be sent out to their customers and may ... Read More »

Lots more features for no additional costs coming from Salesforce Salesforce is adding new features to its Service Cloud that it says will enable companies to build a customer service centre in a single day. The Salesforce Service Cloud, which is built on the Salesforce Lightning component framework, now has case management pre-built into it along with a more streamlined ... Read More »

Acxiom Corp. announced its partnership with Pinterest that the company said will enable advertisers to measure the impact of Pinterest campaigns on in-store and online sales. Acxiom said pairing its privacy safe haven solution for matching retailer transaction data with Pinterest campaign insights will allow marketers to quantify, through a closed-loop measurement, the impact of what they spend on campaigns. ... Read More »

Aiming to help marketers improve audience targeting, data company Acxiom on announced it will integrate its data with LinkedIn data.  Acxiom said the integration will offer opportunities to run secure, anonymized marketing campaigns on on LinkedIn, enabling marketers to build, size, segment and reach custom audiences. Through Acxiom’s LiveRamp Connect, marketers will have control of the data onboarding and distribution ... Read More »

Privacy is probably one of the least appealing topics in marketing. But this one’s a doozy¹. On May 25, 2018, any company that is not compliance with the European Union’s new opt-in regulations is at risk of a fine of up to 20 million euros, or 4% of their global topline revenue. Yipes! Most B2B marketers have customers worldwide. The ... Read More »

Acxiom® (Nasdaq: ACXM) announced financial results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year ended March 31, 2017. Q4 Revenue was $225 million or flat compared to the fourth quarter of last year. Strong growth in Connectivity and Audience Solutions was offset by revenue declines associated with the second quarter divestiture of Acxiom Impact. Full Year Revenue was $880 million, up 4% compared to fiscal 2016 driven ... Read More »

Experian signs agreement to sell controlling interest in Email/Cross-Channel Marketing in a further step to sharpen strategic focus Experian announces that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its Email/Cross-Channel Marketing business (CCM) to Vector Capital. The enterprise value of CCM at completion is c. US$400m on a cash and debt free basis. Experian has agreed to divest a ... Read More »

Bisnode has aquired Global Group, one of the leading full-service marketing providers for multi-channel communication for German speaking countries. Bisnode acquires Global Group as part of achieving its strategy of expanding its consumer data footprint across its European markets, as well as moving into next generation data-driven marketing services. Global Group, based in Idstein, Germany, has revenue of approximately EUR ... Read More »

Self-service tool makes Acxiom data searchable and supports audience sizing, segmentation and distribution across the Acxiom digital partner ecosystem Acxiom® (NASDAQ: ACXM), the data foundation for the world’s best marketers, today announced the Acxiom Audience Cloud™, a self-service tool for accessing Acxiom data that allows marketers to find the right audience for their campaigns, adjust the size, test new segments and distribute ... Read More »

Harte Hanks (NYSE: HHS), a leader in customer relationships, experiences and interaction-led marketing, today announced the closing of the sale of Trillium Software to Syncsort for $112 million in cash. The Company used the net proceeds of the sale to retire its outstanding credit facility. Commenting on the transition, Chief Executive Officer Karen Puckett said, “We are pleased to have ... Read More »

Media companies want U.S. to force AT&T-Time Warner to share customer data Media companies plan to ask U.S. regulators to force AT&T Inc (T.N) and Time Warner Inc (TWX.N) to share their trove of customer data if the telecom and content companies merge, fearing the combined behemoth would have an unfair advantage selling targeted mobile advertising, a handful of media ... Read More »

The Direct Marketing Association (DMA) announced that it will rebrand to the Data & Marketing Association.  The rebrand is part of the organization’s centennial celebration for 2017. It will include a revised mission to lead innovation and business values that includes regulating and monitoring data use. The organization recently released a bevy of standards ranging from email to data, with ... Read More »

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Harte Hanks, a global marketing firm headquartered in Texas, is closing its print-focused Baltimore County location and laying off more than 100 workers. The firm notified the state of the impending job cuts last week as required by law for mass layoffs. The layoffs, which will affect 112 people, are expected to start November 18 and continue through the end ... Read More »

Direct and Digital Marketing Guide for Developing and Least Developed Countries The Direct and Digital Marketing Guide for Developing and Least Developed Countries is designed to help designated operators of UPU member countries develop their direct and digital marketing services. These services can be powerful tools for boosting mail volumes and e-commerce. The latest version of the guide provides designated ... Read More »