Dust off that Walkman and pop in a Bee Gees cassette: Firstlogic, whose tech was cutting edge when disco was king, is replacing its venerable Match/Consolidate software with Match IQ, which they promise “goes well beyond the typical ‘merge/purge’ operation.” That’s a term I haven’t heard since my last trip to Danceteria.
Airship has just released the “world’s first no-code native app experience editor”. Exactly how this differs from other no-code experience editors is not clear but, judging by the press release, the folks at Airship are super-excited about it. Apparently, marketers and product owners now have so much power that sparks fly from their fingertips.
If your musical reference point is closer to the Andrews Sisters, you may be nostalgic for the days when A.C. Nielsen’s radio and TV ratings were the Next Big Thing. Nielsen is still around, of course, and their 2023 Annual Marketing Report contains interesting data on channel spend and effectiveness. The headline that caught my eye was “Investment in martech is declining”, which is a bit misleading: planned spend is down at 24% of companies but up at 56%.
The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that could potentially ban TikTok in the U.S. if its Chinese owner, ByteDance, does not sell its holdings within a year. The bill now goes to the President Biden, who has said he will sign it. Court challenges are likely to follow.