Barry Levine

Barry Levine covers marketing tech news for ClickZ. Previously, he covered this space as a Senior Reporter for Marketing Land, MarTech Today and Search Engine Land, as a Senior Writer for VentureBeat, and, before that, as a reporter for CMSWire and NewsFactor. He founded and led the web site/unit at PBS station Thirteen/WNET in NYC; worked as an online Senior Producer/writer for Viacom; created a successful interactive game, PLAY IT BY EAR: The First CD Game; wrote the “Power Klingon” audio book for Simon & Schuster; founded and led an independent film showcase, CENTER SCREEN, based at Harvard and M.I.T.; and served over five years as a consultant to the M.I.T. Media Lab. You can find him at LinkedIn, and on Twitter at xBarryLevine.

Voice interaction use depends on how old you are, says new report
Disruptive MarTech

Voice interaction use depends on how old you are, says new report

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Voice interaction use depends on how old you are, ...

64% of voice search users ages 55+ use voice search to look for information, products, and services online, compared to 47% of voice search users ages...

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Bluecore report: Black Friday is an ‘opportunity’ to find repeat customers
Digital Marketing

Bluecore report: Black Friday is an ‘opportunity’ to find repeat customers

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Bluecore report: Black Friday is an ‘opportunity’ ...

The retail technology company reports that 32% of shoppers considered their purchases up to two weeks in advance and nearly a quarter of first-time bu...

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SmarterHQ: Retailers dialing back their ‘Black Friday’ email promotions
Digital Marketing

SmarterHQ: Retailers dialing back their ‘Black Friday’ email promotions

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SmarterHQ: Retailers dialing back their ‘Black Fri...

Only a few retailers are pushing “Black Friday” specific messaging and promotions. Of the 19 retailers tracked by SmarterHQ, only three have sent emai...

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Gartner: Training, system integration and talent could help improve the effectiveness of martech stacks
Attribution

Gartner: Training, system integration and talent could help improve the eff...

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Gartner: Training, system integration and talent c...

Despite continued investments in new technology, new research by Gartner reveals marketing leaders struggle to tap into martech stack effectiveness. R...

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Tealium report: Consumers trust brands with their data, but with conditions
Analyzing Customer Data

Tealium report: Consumers trust brands with their data, but with conditions

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Tealium report: Consumers trust brands with their ...

Tealium's latest report looks to to better understand the relationships between brands and data privacy. Read More...

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Gartner report: Brands are ‘living organisms’ that must ‘continuously adapt’
Attribution

Gartner report: Brands are ‘living organisms’ that must ‘continuously adapt...

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Gartner report: Brands are ‘living organisms’ that...

Gartner released the results of their Brand Strategy and Innovation Survey for 2019 and the results show three barriers to entry when it comes to inno...

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Adobe adds Journey Orchestration and marketer-friendly CDP to Experience Platform
AI & Automation

Adobe adds Journey Orchestration and marketer-friendly CDP to Experience Pl...

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Adobe adds Journey Orchestration and marketer-frie...

Adobe has announced several enhancements to its Experience Platform, including a real-time CDP service and customer journey orchestration. Read More...

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Brave releases 1.0 of new privacy-focused browser and private ad network
AI & Automation

Brave releases 1.0 of new privacy-focused browser and private ad network

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Brave releases 1.0 of new privacy-focused browser ...

Today, Brave released a new 1.0 version of its privacy-focused browser and a new ad network that could dramatically reshape online advertising. Read M...

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Sourcepoint adds CCPA compliance to its Consent Management Platform
Analytics

Sourcepoint adds CCPA compliance to its Consent Management Platform

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Sourcepoint adds CCPA compliance to its Consent Ma...

Sourcepoint has added additional capabilities to their existing Consent Management Platform to meet upcoming CCPA regulation. They've also released re...

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DoubleVerify adds publisher-side capability with acquisition of Ad-Juster
Digital Advertising

DoubleVerify adds publisher-side capability with acquisition of Ad-Juster

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DoubleVerify adds publisher-side capability with a...

Ad authenticator DoubleVerify announced an acquisition this week of Ad-Juster, an analytics and reporting platform for digital publishers. Read More...

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New Forrester report focuses on the redefinition of the CMO role
Digital Marketing

New Forrester report focuses on the redefinition of the CMO role

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New Forrester report focuses on the redefinition o...

Forrester is out with a new report, "Predictions 2020: CMO," that discusses the redefinition of the role and CMOs' responsibilities around customer ou...

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Sturfee launches 3D AR mapping of cities, built from satellite imagery
AR & VR

Sturfee launches 3D AR mapping of cities, built from satellite imagery

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Sturfee launches 3D AR mapping of cities, built fr...

Computer vision startup Sturfee today released its Visual Positioning Service (VPS) which provides real-time 3D AR city mapping and can, for instance,...

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At Panera, augmented reality is now on the menu with AR ad unit
AR & VR

At Panera, augmented reality is now on the menu with AR ad unit

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At Panera, augmented reality is now on the menu wi...

Playing with your food is now part of the experience at Panera. They released today an AR ad unit for mobile, what they say is a first for the industr...

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LinkedIn report: Many marketers are measuring ROI wrong
Digital Marketing

LinkedIn report: Many marketers are measuring ROI wrong

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LinkedIn report: Many marketers are measuring ROI ...

Only 4% of marketers are measuring ROI over a period of six months or longer, across an entire average B2B sales cycle, according to a report out toda...

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IAB follows up GDPR Framework with one for CCPA
Industry Developments

IAB follows up GDPR Framework with one for CCPA

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IAB follows up GDPR Framework with one for CCPA

The IAB has released a new CCPA Framework for Publishers and Technology Companies around selling user data, open for public comment until Nov 5. Read ...

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Tru Optik releases Privacy.TV, CCPA-compatible solution for Net-based TV
Analytics

Tru Optik releases Privacy.TV, CCPA-compatible solution for Net-based TV

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Tru Optik releases Privacy.TV, CCPA-compatible sol...

Tru Optik is out with a new solution called Privacy.TV that will let users opt-out of having their collected data used for audience-based ad targeting...

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Ad platform Kubient announces ‘first’ complete RTB channel for DOOH ads
Digital Advertising

Ad platform Kubient announces ‘first’ complete RTB channel for DOOH ads

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Ad platform Kubient announces ‘first’ complete RTB...

Kubient has released what it says is the first end-to-end RTB marketplace for DOOH locations, including closed-network video screens in bars and resta...

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CTV ad platform Wurl launches cross-platform ad marketplace, AdPool
Digital Advertising

CTV ad platform Wurl launches cross-platform ad marketplace, AdPool

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CTV ad platform Wurl launches cross-platform ad ma...

Wurl is out with AdPool, a marketplace for Connected TV ads. CEO Sean Doherty told ClickZ that, to his knowledge, this is one of the few marketplaces ...

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Shutterstock Custom now offers an intelligent creative brief-making tool
Disruptive MarTech

Shutterstock Custom now offers an intelligent creative brief-making tool

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Shutterstock Custom now offers an intelligent crea...

The Shutterstock Custom service released a new tool, Smart Brief, which can speed up creative brief creation to about 20 minutes, Senior Product Manag...

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Gartner: Marketing budgets fall for the first time since 2014
Analytics

Gartner: Marketing budgets fall for the first time since 2014

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Gartner: Marketing budgets fall for the first time...

Gartner's latest “CMO Spend Survey” states that marketing budgets dropped 11% for the first time in five years. 61% of CMOs still expect budgets to re...

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Clearbit launches X platform, marrying CRM to its firmographic data
Analytics

Clearbit launches X platform, marrying CRM to its firmographic data

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Clearbit launches X platform, marrying CRM to its ...

Clearbit today released Clearbit X, a platform that lets businesses layer their own CRM data on Clearbit’s to create enhanced / customized account pro...

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Salesforce launches Consumer Goods and Manufacturing Clouds
Industry Developments

Salesforce launches Consumer Goods and Manufacturing Clouds

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Salesforce launches Consumer Goods and Manufacturi...

Salesforce has announced two new industry-oriented clouds: Consumer Goods and Manufacturing, to complement other products and better satisfy market ne...

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Optimizely speeds up site testing with new Performance Edge
Analytics

Optimizely speeds up site testing with new Performance Edge

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Optimizely speeds up site testing with new Perform...

Optimizely today released Performance Edge, which will speed up test delivery by using what they call an Experiment Delivery Network rather than a CDN...

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Adobe unveils Customer Journey Analytics with new Adobe Analytics UI
Analytics

Adobe unveils Customer Journey Analytics with new Adobe Analytics UI

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Adobe unveils Customer Journey Analytics with new ...

Adobe is making real-time omnichannel customer data and profiles from the Experience Platform available through a Customer Journey Analytics feature i...

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AT&T relaunches AppNexus’ SSP as Monetize, now with OTT
Digital Advertising

AT&T relaunches AppNexus’ SSP as Monetize, now with OTT

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AT&T relaunches AppNexus’ SSP as Monetize, now wit...

AT&T has said it's relaunching the AppNexus supply-side platform (SSP) as Xandr Monetize, and adding capabilities for Over-the-Top (OTT) TV ad sales. ...

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IAB Tech Lab proposes vision of a post-cookie ‘user token’ for web-based identity
Digital Advertising

IAB Tech Lab proposes vision of a post-cookie ‘user token’ for web-based id...

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IAB Tech Lab proposes vision of a post-cookie ‘use...

“Today, identity is not owned by the consumer,” IAB Tech Lab SVP Jordan Mitchell told ClickZ. They're proposing a new, non-cookie method for consented...

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Finance platform Kabbage acquires SMB data provider Radius Intelligence
Analytics

Finance platform Kabbage acquires SMB data provider Radius Intelligence

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Finance platform Kabbage acquires SMB data provide...

By acquiring Radius, automated lending platform Kabbage hopes to "dramatically expand [its] product set and service platform," says CEO Rob Frohwein. ...

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