All the latest martech, adtech and customer technology news from Salesforce, Slack, Zoho, SugarCRM, Zoom, Xandr, Braze, mParticle and UserTesting.

All the latest martech and adtech news from Salesforce, AWS, Progress, DoubleVerify, Rocketlane, Contentsquare, Vungle, Introhive and Uberall.

Gartner has released its 2021 annual Magic Quadrant for enterprise marketing cloud offerings, highlighting Salesforce, Adobe, Oracle, SAS, Acoustic and SAP as leaders in this marketing technology field.

All the latest martech, customer and adtech news from Salesforce, Taboola, Oracle, Klaviyo, Salesforce, SugarCRM, Twilio, GRIN, ADA and Styra

All the latest martech, customer and adtech news from Tribyl, Salesforce, Lotame, InMobi, Aleo, BigID, Skyflow and ActiveCampaign

Adopting a jobs to be done framework, investing in fresh technology and encouraging a test-and-learn mindset are key to Foxtel overhauling service capabilities in a way that meets modern customer expectations, its marketing and customer service leaders say.

Brilliant basics and connected customer services remain key to Mecca’s digital progress as it looks to keep engaging customers in an omni-channel way in 2021.

Targeted communications and messaging has been vital to retaining customer trust during the past year and it provides the foundations for growing patronage and engagement back up as hospitality venues return to full capacity.

All the latest martech, customer and adtech news from Impact, Integral Ad Science, Verint, Confirmit and FocusVision, HypeAuditor, Bristlecone and Sitecore, Silverbullet and Talend

International Women’s Day 2021 highlights how the COVID-19 pandemic unequally affected women, from losing jobs to having a greater care burden. CMO examines some of the measures organisations are taking to help redress that imbalance.

All the latest martech, customer and adtech news from Sitecore, Salesforce, SalesLoft, Mailchimp, Pencil, InMoment, Kenshoo Analytics and Integral Ad Science.

Ecommerce has gone from strength to strength across Australia off the back of the COVID-19 global pandemic and rapidly accelerated digitisation in 2020, several new reports highlight.

Salesforce will acquire messaging platform Slack for US$27.7 million. The sales and marketing cloud software platform has confirmed the acquisition, with the news it has entered into a definitive agreement to buy the messaging platform. Slack will become the new interface for Salesforce Customer 360.

Australian marketers have almost universally shifted their priorities to focus on marketing-led growth, marketing efficiency and improving ROI, according to a new report.

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It’s content and experience strategy, rather than the technical components, that have been the biggest investment in Fisher & Paykel’s global digital experience overhaul, its marketing and experience chief says.

All the latest martech and adtech news this week from BigCommerce, Sprinklr, Hopin, Brightcove, Banzai, Salesforce, Tealium and Bonzai

Salesforce has dominated for leadership and vision in Gartner’s latest rankings of the top customer service and support software vendors globally. But a number of other players have been highlighted as leaders in what is fast becoming a busy list.

All the latest martech and adtech news this week from Cheetah Digital, Lotame, Pega, CyberArk, Wrike, Precisely, Adobe and Salesforce

The long-term impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on the Australian events industry won’t be known for some time, but one immediate outcome is the rapid rise in interest in virtual conferences.