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A fresh study has shown the most essential ranking factors behind voice searches are the same as the familiar SEO factors already in existence.

​Have you seen the video with US speaker Nancy Pelosi appearing to be drunk and slurring her words? Or perhaps you’ve seen the one with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg joking about knowing the public’s secrets? Or the videos of Rasputin singing Beyonce, Andy Warhol eating a Burger King burger or Salvadore Dali being brought back to life? In 2018, Barack Obama warned in a video about enemies making it look like anyone is saying anything at any time.

All the latest martech and adtech news this week from Near, Adobe, Avanade, Emarsys, IRI, Rightpoint, Bowfin, IgnitionOne, Clarus, True Influence, OneTrust, HubSpot, Verint, Microsoft, Flybits, and more.

While consumer adoption of voice technology in Australia is booming, brands are lagging behind incorporating voice into their marketing strategies, seeing it as more of a novelty than as a viable branding tool. However, it is the brands that get on the front foot of voice which will have an advantage as the technology matures, experts say.

Lonely Planet, home to one of the largest collections of curated travel experiences online, has recently revamped its digital platform to enable highly personalised travel content and related travel deals and offers.

A new biometrics study has found ads are perceived 74 per cent more favourably in high-quality environments with more impact.

The new owner of IBM’s Marketing Cloud and commerce product portfolio has taken the wrappers off a fresh brand name, portfolio and leadership team, all designed to emphasise its focus on marketers.

During its Worldwide Developer Conference in June, Apple announced its latest measures aimed at protecting users’ privacy and curbing tracking across the digital realm. It’s not the first attempt to limit tracking, nor is it the only tool available to aid digital privacy, but it signals to consumers that something's up with privacy.

Digital transformation - it’s on the lips of every c-suite executive and a requirement of every organisation. Yet Ogilvy’s new executive creative director, Gavin McLeod, is worried about what it’s doing to the role of the CMO.

If Zara Cobb was ever going to take a CMO role, there was a good chance it would be at a data-driven organisation.

​Hybrid marketers boasting of both generalist and specialist skills, marketing automation managers and content specialists are among the hottest jobs in Australia’s marketing sphere right now, a new report claims.

All the latest martech and adtech news this week from InMobi, HubSpot, Leadspace, Criteo, Showpad, Cheetah Digital, Doddle and Signpost.

Evergage and Dynamic Yield have topped a new report from Gartner on the most innovative and comprehensive personalisation engine technologies in market today.

​Snapchat, which has been at the forefront of augmented reality (AR) innovation on its messaging and photo sharing platform, has been chosen by toy retailer BIG W to animate its toy catalogue using the interactive technology.

Salesforce’s launch of a CDP is in response to a continually evolving customer, AVP Salesforce data and audiences, Jo Gaines, told CMO.

Internet advertising growth is waning and expected to slow even further as take-up matures in the next three years. And Australia’s predictions are looking even worse than those globally.

It’s not often a digital experience leader tells you he wishes staff could be more like Io, the Jupiter moon transforming itself completely every 12 months. But it’s an apt analogy for the way all of us need to strive to be more adaptive and evolutionary in our approach to customer experience design.

If a picture paints a thousand words, then location visualisation paints a thousand insights.

​With the digital video advertising landscape growing in both market share and complexity, brands are trying to break new ground, develop new creative, and discover metrics to make it all measurable.

Each year, organisations spend billions of dollars on attracting would-be customers to their sites using search engines. But the experience many visitors have after they click a result and land on a site is an often-overlooked element of their buyers’ journey.

Gaining brand synonymity with anti-ageism is the big ambition for co-founder and CMO of Lumen, a new dating app for the over 50s market.