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Google has announced that the Gmail app for Android and iOS will be rolling out support for AMP for Email, the dynamic content feature that allows users to interact directly within emails. The update is available to all G Suite editions and will be set to “on” by default. Users ...

TripAdvisor has launched a new self-service ad product: Media Manager. The tool is designed for small and medium businesses and agencies and is available globally to marketers on TripAdvisor’s platform. Simple ad creation and targeting. While the formats are graphical and include retargeting, the customer intent profile is more aligned ...

Snap Inc., the parent company of Snapchat, has announced the launch of a new video ad format: Extended Play Commercials. The new, mid-roll ad type maintains the 6-second non-skippable format – but offers advertisers the ability to extend the runtime beyond the 6-second mark for up to three minutes. Similar ...

The National Retail Foundation (NRF) reports this year’s online holiday sales are expected to increase between 11% and 14% over last year, bringing in between $162.6 billion and $166.9 billion — up more than $16 billion over 2018’s holiday e-commerce revenue in the U.S. The NRF’s holiday predictions are a ...

Finally, it’s time to discuss the people you’re trying to reach with your email messages – your Audience. Here we shift to the Optimization section of the Periodic Table of Email Optimization and Deliverability, which we’ve been exploring in recent weeks.  The most important element of all is the Email ...

TikTok, the short-form video app owned by ByteDance, is testing shoppable video posts, making it possible for influencers on the platform to place social commerce URLs within their posts. The test was shared by Fabien Bern, owner of a Chinese influencer agency, who posted an example of a shoppable video ...

Facebook is bringing more machine learning-driven capabilities to its ads platform to improve personalization, the company announced this week. Dynamic formats and ad creative for Dynamic Ads. Advertisers will now be able to automatically serve different ad formats to audiences based on the machine learning model’s prediction of a user’s ...

Adobe has announced the general availability of real-time customer data platform (CDP) features, new governance capabilities and new cross-channel personalization methods. These updates to Adobe Experience Platform will allow users to pull together customer data from across the enterprise in real-time. Why we should care Delivering a consistent customer experience ...

LinkedIn launched Data Validation, a feature designed to help users manage their contacts and ensure they have the most up-to-date contact data. Data Validation will automatically flag contacts who are no longer with the company listed in users’ CRM. Contacts who update their employer on LinkedIn will be automatically marked ...

Quotient announced last week that it’s buying Ubimo, an Israeli location intelligence company. Ubimo translates location data and history into audience segmentation, activation and campaign attribution, connecting digital campaigns to in-store results. DSP was the attraction. Quotient and Ubimo had worked together for several years, utilizing the latter’s data for ...