Digital Technology

SmartBrief connected with AJ Rowe, is a creative producer based in Brooklyn, N.Y., and head of content and culture at Hogarth Worldwide, to gain insight into millennials, not only how they interact with brands, but to discuss how Facebook’s parent Meta ca

Marketplaces like Amazon offer an easy way to sell to lots of customers. Merchant service providers like Shopify make it easy to launch online stores. What is the best choice for DTC e-commerce?

DoubleVerify CEO Mark Zagorski explains how verification must evolve “beyond basic quality standards to enable advertisers to better understand and achieve performance given new obstacles.”

Lotame CEO Andy Monfried explores the potential downsides and what the ad industry can do now that Google is postponing its phase out of third-party Chrome cookies.

Hindsight CEO Hersh Patel explains how contextual targeting is getting smarter, more creative and adaptive, resulting in “a landscape where the interests of publishers, advertisers and users exist in harmony.”

VDX.tv CEO Dilip DaSilva describes how connected TV helps brands provide addressability, relevancy, interaction and household influence in their marketing.

Omlet’s Ricardo Diaz writes about how digital creativity will be reborn as cookies are sunset, offering creative examples of how marketers created experiences in which consumers opted to share their information.

Sarah Evans talks about the lack of trust marketers have -- and how a marketing tech stack and rebuild that trust and what it should include.

Amid all the privacy and identity issues, the digital ad ecosystem is in crisis. To counter this, connected TV has the potential to be a more effective channel for marketers, giving them the opportunity to get ahead of measurement and address identity.

AudioEye’s Dominic Varacalli explores findings of a website accessibility survey his firm conducted -- and how you can avoid a lawsuit to make your site more accessible to everyone.

Amobee’s Kara Puccinelli says the consumer privacy issues of today are little different than what the industry faced more than 20 years ago. She offers four areas that marketers should focus on without relying on an adtech “silver bullet.”

EGC Group’s Nicole Penn details why businesses of all sizes, especially those that rely on online businesses listings from Google and other sources, to counter “zero-click search.”

Antronix's Joe Palermo discusses broadband as a necessity and how the company's Inverse Fiber Amplifier helps cable operators clear last-mile connectivity hurdles.

While marketers face a complex world in 2021, Amobee’s Caity Noonan offers advice on how they can navigate that complexity by first putting their house in order in terms of privacy, identity, customer and prospect data and unified measurement solutions.

Walmart recently dipped its toes into livestream e-commerce, already a popular trend in China. Azoya’s Franklin Chu explores this trend and how brands use influencers to grow sales and connect with their consumers.

Open rates are a key metric for gauging the success of email marketing campaigns. To increase open rates marketers should pay particular attention to personalization, content, subject line and design.

Shane Barker, a digital marketing consultant, writes about how artificial intelligence can play a major role in helping you monitor your Facebook ads campaigns.

Microsoft’s Rashan Dixon offers tips on increasing the success of your digital marketing efforts in 2021.

VDX.tv’s Jim Johnson looks at the value of marketing through connected TV and OTT streaming services and how the ability to finely target audiences may make CTV and OTT a sure bet.

DISQO’s David Grabert takes a look at the data “war” between Apple and Facebook and concludes “the industry has little choice but to communicate better and to broker a new deal with consumers around their data.”

Want to make remote work more efficient? It’s time to leverage marketing automation. Attrock’s Gaurav Sharma explains how marketing automation can help your business grow.  

Zen Media CEO and founder Shama Hyder talks in this Q&A about how brands can benefit from adding livestreaming videos to their marketing mix.

Terakeet’s Corey Mallonee says investing in search and SEO is especially critical now during the pandemic and ahead of the holidays. Learn how SEO can align your team’s marketing efforts.

Vibenomics' Paul Brenner makes the case for audio out-of-home media, noting that it's "a natural extension of other forms of audio."

Q&A: How StoreForce’s workforce management solution helped specialty retailers navigate COVID-19.

Looking to upskill your way into better cybersecurity competency? Here are the top cybersecurity certifications you should know about.

Targeting will be much harder for brands as cookies start to diminish. However, as the industry moves forward, a few targeting options stand out as promising alternatives, writes Eyeota’s Anand Das.

Each day, SmartBrief editors aggregate cybersecurity news from dozens of leading sources. Here are the top sources that you should know about.

Blue Fountain Media’s Brian Byer looks at the growing list of contactless applications from the use of voice technology as states reopen and stay-at-home orders are lifted during the coronavirus pandemic.

Are you prepared for a ransomware attack? Here’s everything you need to know about the current state of ransomware and how to protect your business.

Digilant’s Raquel Rosenthal offers six steps marketers can start taking to prepare for a cookie-less digital marketing world.

As coronavirus tracking apps become widely available, consumers across the world are growing wary of how that tracking data might be used in the future.