Targeting! Location-based marketing vendor GroundTruth has added Connected TV and desktop ad targeting, allowing marketers to reach people who visit particular locations when they’re somewhere else. This supplements GroundTruth’s core ability to reach those people on their mobile devices. Fun!
Ah, some straight up news for a change: Account Based Marketing vendor Demandbase has bought Account Based Marketing vendor Engagio. There’s some overlap but enough difference for the deal to make sense.
Other industries haven’t been as severely disrupted as retail, so it makes sense that under two-thirds of senior business and IT executives from a broad range of industries told Telstra that COVID-19 had changed their organizations forever. Interesting regional disparities: 63% of European companies said they expect to close branches or reduce headquarters offices compared with just 40% of U.S. and North Asian respondents. And U.S. companies were more likely to than others to prioritize cost over revenue as their main digital transformation goal.
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.