Oracle is improving integration between components of its marketing cloud. Announcements at its Modern Customer Experience conference include new integrations of Eloqua marketing automation with Infinity Web analytics, Data Cloud audience management and Data Fox compiled data; integration of Responsys email with Web personalization, and real-time triggers in Infinity.
Business intelligence vendor Domo has continued its extension beyond reporting with Campaigns, which can generate real-time event-triggered email marketing messages. Domo says that Campaigns can replace marketing automation for most types of email campaigns. Other marketing applications will follow.
One exciting possibility for out of home ads is to combine them with augmented reality experiences. Geon Network, which has more than 1.5 million AR objects in place worldwide, rewards consumers for spending time at real-world locations. They just announced a partnership with XYO, which captures consumer locations and provides a cryptocurrency for payments.
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.