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.

HubSpot partners with Supermetrics to enable automated multi-portal views
Analytics

HubSpot partners with Supermetrics to enable automated multi-portal views

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HubSpot partners with Supermetrics to enable autom...

HubSpot has announced a partnership with data engine Supermetrics to allow users to capture, analyze and report on HubSpot data without manual integra...

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Gartner Hype Report 2019 highlights CDPs, AI, Blockchain for Ads and Real-Time Marketing
Emerging Technology

Gartner Hype Report 2019 highlights CDPs, AI, Blockchain for Ads and Real-T...

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Gartner Hype Report 2019 highlights CDPs, AI, Bloc...

Gartner's latest Hype Cycle report gives four trends that it says will tranform martech. CDP hopes are high, but half of respondents say their “CDP” i...

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Workato opens Automation Marketplace, an ‘AppExchange for automations’
Digital Transformation

Workato opens Automation Marketplace, an ‘AppExchange for automations’

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Workato opens Automation Marketplace, an ‘AppExcha...

To answer the growing need of businesses to automate processes, Workato has announced an Automation Marketplace, offering about 400,000 workflow “reci...

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LiveRamp and Bombora partner for patent-pending approach to SMB targeting
Digital Advertising

LiveRamp and Bombora partner for patent-pending approach to SMB targeting

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LiveRamp and Bombora partner for patent-pending ap...

LiveRamp and Bombora are partnering for probabilistic targeting of SMBs with stated 86% accuracy, as determined by blind tests with 40,000 businesses....

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Deloitte unveils ‘Blockchain in a Box’ to demonstrate uses
Blockchain

Deloitte unveils ‘Blockchain in a Box’ to demonstrate uses

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Deloitte unveils ‘Blockchain in a Box’ to demonstr...

“Blockchain is one of those technologies that the community can’t get its head around,” Deloitte's Linda Pawczuk told ClickZ, so the intention with "b...

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Google launches major new initiative to protect both consumer privacy and free online content
Digital Advertising

Google launches major new initiative to protect both consumer privacy and f...

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Google launches major new initiative to protect bo...

Google said on Thursday they plan to work with the web community to “develop new standards that advance privacy, while continuing to support free acce...

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AdQuick offers cost-per-engagement pricing for OOH ads
Digital Advertising

AdQuick offers cost-per-engagement pricing for OOH ads

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AdQuick offers cost-per-engagement pricing for OOH...

LA-based OOH ad platform AdQuick is offering the "first" regular performance-based OOH advertising with a CPE pricing that only charges when a viewer ...

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TechSee releases ‘first’ computer vision platform for contact centers
Disruptive MarTech

TechSee releases ‘first’ computer vision platform for contact centers

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TechSee releases ‘first’ computer vision platform ...

TechSee has released what they're calling the first AI-powered visual recognition for contact centers, to help detect and resolve customer issues via ...

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Where does the new IBM spinoff Acoustic fit in?
AI & Automation

Where does the new IBM spinoff Acoustic fit in?

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Where does the new IBM spinoff Acoustic fit in?

IBM has announced Acoustic, the new spinoff of its Marketing Division sold to Centerbridge in April. What do we know about the company's direction? Re...

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IBM completes its acquisition of Red Hat in ‘Chapter 2 of the cloud’
Industry Developments

IBM completes its acquisition of Red Hat in ‘Chapter 2 of the cloud’

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IBM completes its acquisition of Red Hat in ‘Chapt...

IBM's deal to acquire open-source software platform Red Hat, originally announced in October 2018, has been successfully negotiated and closed. They a...

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Nielsen launches its Podcast Listener research service
Digital Advertising

Nielsen launches its Podcast Listener research service

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Nielsen launches its Podcast Listener research ser...

Announced this week, Nielsen's Podcast Listener research service surveys 30,000 podcast subscribers to create profiles that provide buying habits, int...

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New report: SEO and Content Marketing jobs see salary boosts in 2019
Content

New report: SEO and Content Marketing jobs see salary boosts in 2019

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New report: SEO and Content Marketing jobs see sal...

Seven of 10 types of content marketing and SEO roles saw salary increases from 2018 to 2019, according to a new report by Conductor. SEO Manager, for ...

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AdLedger report: OTT has a problem with ad fraud
Digital Advertising

AdLedger report: OTT has a problem with ad fraud

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AdLedger report: OTT has a problem with ad fraud

“A large portion of the industry was under the impression that fraud had not made its way to OTT yet,” AdLedger Executive Director Christiana Cacciapu...

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IAB Tech Lab releases ‘nutrition label’ for digital ad transparency
Digital Advertising

IAB Tech Lab releases ‘nutrition label’ for digital ad transparency

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IAB Tech Lab releases ‘nutrition label’ for digita...

These new standards, signed by companies including Oracle, Pandora, and LiveRamp, aim to set “minimum disclosure and transparency standards for any co...

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Google for Small Business: New launch to enable small business owners with more digital tools
Digital Advertising

Google for Small Business: New launch to enable small business owners with ...

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Google for Small Business: New launch to enable sm...

"80% of small businesses still aren’t making the most of digital tools that can help them reach more customers and work more efficiently," Google's Gl...

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Contentsquare buys Clicktale to create a global experience analytics provider
Analytics

Contentsquare buys Clicktale to create a global experience analytics provid...

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Contentsquare buys Clicktale to create a global ex...

The combined entity will be able to glean insights and benchmarks from about nine trillion interactions daily, says Contentsquare's CEO/founder. The c...

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Privacy tech: New category of "individual rights management tools" among most popular purchases for next 12 months
Analytics

Privacy tech: New category of "individual rights management tools" among mo...

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Privacy tech: New category of "individual rights m...

Privacy compliance is maturing and tools growing in popularity, finds new report. "The sequence now is: locate personal data, then map the flow of tha...

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SheerID goes global with its automated student verification
Analytics

SheerID goes global with its automated student verification

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SheerID goes global with its automated student ver...

Automated verification service SheerID has announced that its instant student verification is available in 191 countries, beating their competitors to...

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Salesforce adds a CDP, Oracle ponders them and Adobe finds it has one
Analytics

Salesforce adds a CDP, Oracle ponders them and Adobe finds it has one

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Salesforce adds a CDP, Oracle ponders them and Ado...

Three of the biggest marketing clouds have made announcements about CDPs in the last week, which means major advancements for the previously more nich...

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Tru Optik launches a Political Data Cloud for OTT and Connected TV
Digital Advertising

Tru Optik launches a Political Data Cloud for OTT and Connected TV

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Tru Optik launches a Political Data Cloud for OTT ...

“Nobody else has the ability to do this level of granular targeting” for political campaigns on OTT and CTV, the company's Chief Strategist told Click...

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Pinterest boosts shopping with new category for outside partners
Ecommerce

Pinterest boosts shopping with new category for outside partners

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Pinterest boosts shopping with new category for ou...

By expanding their shopping partners, Pinterest aims to "enable businesses of all sizes to bring their products to Pinterest and make them shoppable f...

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Deloitte ad agency Heat launches AI practice to predict near-term online trends
AI & Automation

Deloitte ad agency Heat launches AI practice to predict near-term online tr...

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Deloitte ad agency Heat launches AI practice to pr...

Deloitte's new Heat AI aims to surface short-term online trends by analyzing as many as 100 million posts daily and generating up to one million predi...

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Amazon’s famed recommendation service Personalize now available to every application
Emerging Technology

Amazon’s famed recommendation service Personalize now available to every ap...

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Amazon’s famed recommendation service Personalize ...

Amazon has one of the industry's best-known recommendation services, Personalize. On Monday, the company said it would be generally available to all a...

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BI platforms take center stage as Google buys Looker and Salesforce buys Tableau
Analytics

BI platforms take center stage as Google buys Looker and Salesforce buys Ta...

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BI platforms take center stage as Google buys Look...

Google and Salesforce have each acquired major platforms for unifying business intelligence (BI), demonstrating once again the value of data analytics...

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IAB releases a playbook for AR in marketing
AR & VR

IAB releases a playbook for AR in marketing

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IAB releases a playbook for AR in marketing

Supported in Apple and Android, AR is expected to have a billion users by next year and hit $2.2 billion in ad spend by 2022. More from the playbook s...

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IAB/PwC Report: Podcast ads continue to boom by growing 53% over last year
Ad Industry Metrics

IAB/PwC Report: Podcast ads continue to boom by growing 53% over last year

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IAB/PwC Report: Podcast ads continue to boom by gr...

Brand awareness and branded content ads increase as a percentage of total ads. Direct response ads are shrinking, but still make up 51.6% of the total...

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LiveRamp unveils new way to target ads using first-party cookies
Digital Advertising

LiveRamp unveils new way to target ads using first-party cookies

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LiveRamp unveils new way to target ads using first...

LiveRamp is an identity resolution provider. The beta of their new Authenticated Traffic Solution (ATS) launches next month and will be available by A...

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