Returning to the present: small business social media vendor MeetEdgar can now automatically write and publish posts by reading content from a user-specified Web page. It will automatically vary the wording in each item. No more pesky thinking, thank goodness.
Predictive advertising company AdTheorent has announced a product that sends ads to friends and family of targeted individuals. Clients send the company a target list; AdTheorent matches it against its 740 million device database, finds other devices in the same physical household, and serves ads on those devices. So those red shoes you didn’t buy can now chase your significant other across the Internet. It’s really just household targeting but it sure sounds annoying.
This definitely doesn’t qualify as news but we’re told that David Raab’s half-day Customer Data Platform workshop at the MarTech Conference in Boston in October is likely to sell out. So register soon if you’re interested. Use coupon code CDPorg for a 10% discount. Rates go up September 1.
Customer engagement platform MessageGears will partner with content localization and translation platform Smartling to streamline email translation and localization for 450+ languages. The workflow is automated but actual translations are still done by (machine-assisted) humans.