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All add-ons and web apps now available only in the G Suite Marketplace

Since this week, Google is making possible G Suite users to access all extensions in one place by bringing add-ons and web apps from the Chrome Web Store into the G Suite Marketplace. G Suite Marketplace is the app store for G Suite. Google says that going forward, new G

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The Search Monitor now monitors the share of voice on Amazon

The Search Monitor has added a new feature to its monitoring of Amazon.com’s search results: the ability to create share of voice trend charts. This addition lets advertisers benchmark visibility against competitors in Amazon search results. The Search Monitor says that competitive data on Google and other search

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Cloudflare opens a new data center in Lagos

Cloudflare this week opened a new data center in Lagos, Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa. This is the one hundred fifty-fifth data center of Cloudflare. Cloudflare is seeing 4% to 7% increase in traffic month on month in Africa. Cloudflare says that has a secure facility in Lagos,

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The Search Monitor builds integration with Tableau

The Search Monitor has integrated its ad monitoring and brand protection data into Tableau via the Tableau API, the company announced last month. Customers of both The Search Monitor and Tableau can now use Tableau’s business intelligence platform to get insights from data gathered using The Search Monitor’s

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Google rolls out globally a new hotel search experience

Google this week announced that is starting to roll out globally a new hotel experience. The new hotel search experience makes it easier for users to explore options and make decisions based on price, reviews, pictures, rating, and location. The launch of the new hotel search experience happens after Hotels

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Podcasts: Apple is the leader and Google has the growth potential

Anchor this month published the September stats of players used to listen podcasts. Apple player is driving more listening than all other players combined. Apple right now has a market share of 52%. The second player is Spotify with 19%. The third player (Stitcher) doesn't have more than

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Sizmek upgrades over 30% of its clients to Sizmek Advertising Suite

Sizmek last week announced it has upgraded over 30% of its customers to the newly Sizmek Advertising Suite (SAS).

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Ok Google: speak in Hindi

Since this week, Assistant on Google Home and Google Home Mini is now able to speak Hindi. For now, English and Hindi can't be used together. How to setup Hindi on Google Home? To set up the Assistant on Google Home in Hindi, users need to open the

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Google introduces Kabaddi results in Search

Google this week introduced results for Kabaddi in Google Search in English, on mobile web, desktop, and on the Google Search app on Android and iOS.

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Instagram Account and Advanced Facebook Page Analytics now available via Beta

Facebook this week announced a new beta for Instagram and Advanced Page Analytics.

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Cision appoints CMO of The Trade Desk, Susan Vobejda, to the Board of Directors

Cision this week announced the appointment of Susan Vobejda to the Company's Board of Directors. Susan Vobejda currently serves as the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) at The Trade Desk and was named this year one of Forbes Most Influential CMOs in the World. Cision says Susan Vobejda is

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Facebook launches an archive for political ads in Brazil, in the US and in the UK

Facebook last month launched a public archive for the ads from Brazil, the US and the UK, related to politics and issues of national importance.  The Facebook Ad Archive is available to anyone, even for non-Facebook users. Facebook says this report will help more easily find information such as the

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Netflix announces 5 new projects in German starting next year

Netflix announced the development and production of five new German projects launching on Netflix from 2019.

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Marc Bignell joins GroupM as Global Head of Trading

GroupM last month announced Marc Bignell as Global Head of Trading. Marc Bignell is based in London and is reporting to Chief Investment Officer Nick Theakstone. “By a wide margin, GroupM remains the largest media investment group worldwide, so the opportunity to take a leadership role in its future success

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Amazon launches Alexa and Echo in Italy and Spain with a discount of 40%

Alexa and Echo are now available for Italy and Spain, Amazon announced. Developers around the world have already created skills and devices with Alexa built-in for Italian and Spanish customers. “Tens of millions of customers around the world are already using Alexa, and today we’re excited to introduce her

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Amazon Web Services is opening the first data center in Africa

The new AWS Africa (Cape Town) region will consist of three availability zones. Currently, AWS has 19 infrastructure regions worldwide.

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IAB Singapore is now IAB SEA+India

IAB Singapore is now IAB SEA+India, representing the local markets of Southeast Asia and India. IAB says this evolution follows a sevenfold growth in the last four years and strong demand from members. IAB SEA+India brings together publishers, agencies and platforms from Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam,

Data

Walled Gardens: Facebook vs. Youtube in third-party measurement

Facebook, known to be a walled garden, is now more open to third-party measurement than YouTube. While Facebook allows 35 companies to do an independent measurement of the ads and audiences, YouTube is only allowing third-party measurement from 6 companies (Google included) since May 21, 2018. Third-party measurement is used

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New reCAPTCHA built by Google is less annoying

Google this week introduced a new version of reCAPTCHA, a new API that helps website owners detect abusive traffic on websites without user interaction.

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BrightTALK is now a HubSpot Connect Partner

BrightTALK today announced that it has joined HubSpot as a Connect Partner with a certified integration. The new BrightTALK integration allows HubSpot's marketing automation capabilities to be used by marketers to capture information about how their webinars and online talks are being viewed and engaged with. Marketers on

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Global buys leanStream in Canada

Global, the Media & Entertainment group, has acquired the digital audio sales division of Canadian based audio streaming solutions provider, leanStream. Global says this move brings DAX to Canada and gives Global an ad sales and ad tech footprint in the country. With the launch of DAX Canada, the platform&

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Diana Littman joins Publicis as US CEO

Publicis Groupe today announced the appointment of Diana Littman as CEO, MSL US, reporting directly to Arthur Sadoun, Chairman, and CEO of Publicis Groupe. "Joining MSL, Publicis Groupe and Arthur on the journey to lead the industry at a time of mass marketing disruption and unprecedented change is uniquely

Social

SnapChat launches a Snap Camera for desktop

SnapChat is following the users on all devices. Last week, SnapChat launched Snap Camera, a new application running with the webcams installed on Windows and Mac.

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Criteo acquires Manage, a US company with an app install advertising solution

Criteo says is adding Manage and its mobile app install solution to complement its existing app business and further strengthen its end-to-end advertising solution.

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3Q Digital wins Google Premier Partner "Video Innovation" award

3Q Digital, a digital marketing agency, has won the Google Premier Partner "Video Innovation" award. In winning the Video Innovation award in the Americas category, 3Q beat out 27 other agencies that applied. The award was based on the submission that best demonstrated expertise and innovation with Google