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Vidoomy Includes Evaluations and Reviews as Part of its Algorithm

Vidoomy, the leading Spanish startup in video advertising in Spain and LatAm, creates a new turn to its algorithm: Vidoomy reviews filter.

Until now, the internet user reviews who uses the internet was barely contemplated among the variables that affect the advertising shown. Vidoomy uses the evaluations that each person has about a product or service, together with their interests and opinions as the trigger of the advertising that will appear on his screen.

Vidoomy, in this way, continues with its technological evolution and the objective of improving the quality of advertising that its users access daily. The visualization of each advertisement, is based on metrics and analysis obtained from the work of Big Data analysis and operations.

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In the case of this last improvement, reviews are the variables that guide the advertising line: a positive review about a product associates a related ad according to that assessment while a negative opinion generates just the opposite. In this way, the user, without hardly realizing it, is selecting with his interests and opinions the publicity he is going to access to.

This latest innovation is added to all previously made by Vidoomy in-house development team, who are constantly looking for progress solutions to favor all areas of the business. The added value of this improvement is the increase in effectiveness of branding campaigns with greater knowledge and value of the KPIs. Similarly, prestigious web media who work with Vidoomy, are beneficiated of their collaboration with the company.

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“This will really improve the experience of everyone who uses the internet every day. Because from today, there will be no advertising of products that do not fit the interests of the user, no matter how much they are in the right target,” says Eric Raventos, COO of the company.

With this business strategy, Vidoomy continues creating video advertising solutions that guarantee the success of the campaigns developed. “Our goal is not to be able to show the user all the possible advertising options: it is to allow the user to influence the service we offer to guarantee the result what do they seek. The formula of our success is to always take into account the priorities of our clients and the development of technological improvements such as this filter that allow us to carry it out,” says Marcos Cuesta, CEO of Vidoomy.

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Ground Breaking Year for noHold’s Artificial Intelligence Platform, SICURA

As 2019 is coming to an end, we are happy to reflect on the milestones noHold was able to achieve this year. Here are a few of the major accomplishments:

  • noHold launched several new AI offerings this year:
    • Single Point of Search which provides companies that have multiple repositories of information, an easier way to find and efficiently deliver content to their customers.
    • The HR Advisor, designed to help the HR staff of companies with a large or growing workforce. Employees can ask the Virtual Assistant a question and get an answer in real time. This leaves the HR department with more time/resources to handle the things that require human intervention.
    • The Sales Companion – empowering sales teams to increase revenue and reduce sales cycles. This Virtual Assistant can be leveraged by the sales person, the sales manager, and the sales operations manager.

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  • noHold held its first AI symposium in Italy this summer. During this exclusive three-day event, attendees from all over the world joined together to receive personalized training and best practices by noHold experts.
  • noHold has penetrated multiple new verticals this year including:
    • Partnering with a financial institution that now utilizes Virtual Assistants for over 300 banks across the US.
    • Also, deploying a Virtual Assistant for the Education space to more than 7500 Higher Education institutions.

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“This year we have celebrated our 20th Anniversary, making noHold the most experienced company in the AI-based Virtual Assistant space. We couldn’t have done it without the support of our customers and the dedication of our employees,” said Diego Ventura, CEO and Founder of noHold Inc.

noHold is a privately held company established in 1999 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA, USA (Silicon Valley). noHold is the acknowledged leader in Web based Self-service solutions with a mission to deliver real answers to real questions – real fast. Simple to use, easy to implement and as close to human as you can get, noHold turns automated customer support into cognitive customer interactions. noHold customers include Cisco, Dell, McAfee and a host of industry leaders.

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ChatBook Raises $1 Million in Funding for Chatbots

Tokyo based startup ChatBook has raised a $1 million funding round led by from Monex Ventures Co., Ltd., Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance, VOYAGE VENTURES Co., Ltd., and East Ventures Co., Ltd.,  The startup has managed to attract key partnerships with Facebook, Salesforce and Marketo and has fully integrated ChatBook’s chatbots into the fast growing B2B enterprise landscape and with processed more than 1 million data points of customer information, since their start in 2018.

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The new investment round will enable ChatBook to further capitalize on its position as the market leader in social media automation to strengthen their solution offering through product innovation and sales growth as it will be the key area of focus for ChatBook, which will enable customers and businesses transform their social media campaigns. ChatBook CEO Maiko Kojima, “We are in an era where marketing and sales pipeline development strategies are quickly becoming outdated at a faster pace.”   ChatBook actively works with smart marketers and advertising agencies that are striving to maintain control of the customer journey and deepen their customer relationships.

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“ChatBook is changing how an enterprise sales organization can automate the tedious process of using social media as a channel to develop a sales pipeline,” says Kojima.  Many fast growing organizations adopting chatbots notice that utilizing chatbots in social media environments quickly help identify opportunities and freeing employee resources to focus on more strategic tasks.  Kojima adds, “Our chatbots will augment and automate the task of lead generation and provide rich data from customer interactions, as we anticipate seeing more companies looking to build a better customer experience through the use of ChatBook.”

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People.ai Names New Chief Product Officer and Chief Operating Officer to Accelerate Company Growth

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People.ai, creators of the first Revenue Intelligence System, powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI), announced the addition of Thomas Wyatt as Chief Product Officer and Art Harding as Chief Operating Officer reporting to the CEO, Oleg Rogynskyy. Wyatt is charged with defining the People.ai product roadmap and next-generation offerings. Harding will be bringing strategic insight and operational excellence to the team.

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“We’re excited to be adding critical roles to our executive team as we expand our enterprise presence,” said Oleg Rogynskyy, Founder and CEO, People.ai. “Thomas and Art have the skills and experience that we need to build strong product and operations programs for this next period of growth. As two former customers, they understand how we are helping customers transform revenue operations, using intelligence to identify and create opportunities along each step of the revenue journey.”

Thomas Wyatt previously served as the Chief Marketing & Strategy Officer of AppDynamics leading marketing, corporate development, and technology strategy. At Cisco, Wyatt led business and product growth, taking internal start-ups from concept to #1 market share, scaling high growth ventures to $1B+ in revenue, and leading a cloud transformation for a multi-billion dollar business. Wyatt was the VP/GM for a range of businesses at Cisco, spanning analytics, cloud infrastructure, collaboration, and video. At People.ai, Wyatt will lead the product organization.

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“As a CSO and CMO at AppDynamics, I had to solve a multitude of challenges in optimizing sales and marketing efficiency, such as aligning campaigns, routing leads effectively, and maximizing sales rep productivity. Using People.ai was a game-changer for me, and now I am inspired to bring the power of this product to others like me.” ~ Thomas Wyatt, Chief Product Officer, People.ai

Art Harding brings over 20 years of hands-on operations experience at B2B companies and most recently served as SVP, GTM Strategy & Operations at New Relic, Inc. Before that, he held a variety of roles across services, sales, and operations driving business growth to $1B in annual revenue at enterprise companies such as VERITAS / Symantec, VMware, and Riverbed. Harding will lead all business operations at People.ai.

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“As an operations leader, I’m excited about how People.ai clearly represents how innovative and effective Go-to-Market Operations Teams of the future will instrument and drive their businesses for growth.” ~ Art Harding, Chief Operating Officer, People.ai

Both Wyatt and Harding are based in People.ai’s San Francisco, CA headquarters.

“People.ai has shown tremendous momentum in attracting high caliber talent to execute on their vision,” said Peter Levine, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz. “We continue to be impressed with Oleg and the team’s focus on execution.”

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VERB To Appoint Former APPLE Executive Nancy Heinen to its Board of Directors

 VERB Technology Company, Inc. , a leader in business-focused interactive video CRM, marketing, and sales enablement applications, expects to appoint Nancy Heinen to its board of directors at the organizational meeting of the board that will be held immediately after the Company’s Annual Meeting of Stockholders on December 20, 2019.  This is the second appointment to VERB’s board announced this week, bringing the total number of VERB directors to six directors, including five independent directors and one inside director.

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Nancy Heinen spent more than 25 years in senior executive roles in Silicon Valley, including as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Apple, Inc. Ms. Heinen now acts as a board member, investor, strategy consultant, and startup advisor. Ms. Heinen’s career began in private law practice, after which she was Associate General Counsel at Tandem Computers, Inc. and General Counsel of NeXT Software, Inc.  In 1997 Steve Jobs recruited Ms. Heinen as a key member of the small executive team at Apple that turned around Apple’s struggling computer business and lead its successful emergence as a consumer product powerhouse, while also creating a safe and legal digital marketplace and building out Apple retail stores. Her worldwide responsibilities at Apple included all legal matters, including intellectual property, litigation, acquisitions, corporate governance, and securities compliance, as well as global government affairs and corporate security. Since leaving Apple, Ms. Heinen uses her in-depth experience across corporate, government and philanthropic sectors to help entrepreneurs and nonprofits build and scale innovations that tackle pressing social and environmental challenges at home and around the world. Ms. Heinen serves as Board Chair of both Teen Success, Inc. and First Place for Youth, and is a Board member and past Board Chair of SV2 – Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund. Ms. Heinen serves on advisory boards including Illuminate Ventures; University of California, Berkeley Center for Law and Business; and the Northern California Innocence Project. Ms. Heinen earned her B.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley.

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“We are very excited to welcome Nancy to our board,” stated VERB Chairman and CEO Rory J. Cutaia. “Nancy was part of Steve Job’s inner circle that took Apple from a troubled enterprise, to one of the most successful and valuable companies in the world, and the iconic brand we all respect today. Her experience, perspective, insights and resources will be enormously beneficial to our board of directors and management team, and I look forward to working closely with her to unlock the value we all believe VERB represents for ourselves and our stockholders. With the addition of Nancy, as well as Judith Hammerschmidt whom we announced earlier this week, I couldn’t possibly more excited for VERB and our stockholders in 2020 and beyond.”

Ms. Heinen stated: “It’s a privilege to be joining VERB’s board of directors. This company represents the unique combination of an extremely capable, talented, and dedicated management team and a highly unique disruptive technology. I look forward to working alongside Rory and the executive management team, as well as the board to help take this company to the next level and increase VERB’s value to customers and shareholders.”

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User Reviews Place ZoomInfo at the Top in G2’s Winter Sales & Marketing Intelligence Reports

Go-To-Market (GTM) Intelligence Leader Earns Top Positions for Customer Satisfaction and Market Presence for the Eighth Consecutive Time

 ZoomInfo, the global leader in go-to-market (GTM) intelligence solutions, announced that it has earned top placements in G2’s (formally G2 Crowd) Winter 2020 Grid Reports for multiple categories, including Sales Intelligence, Marketing Intelligence, Marketing Account Intelligence, and Buyer Intent Data Tools. The platform was honored with a total of eleven 1st and 2nd category placements and was featured in eleven Grid Reports across four categories, surpassing LinkedIn Sales Navigator in the Enterprise Sales Intelligence category. This marks ZoomInfo’s eighth consecutive season for which the B2B solution was ranked best in class by G2’s Sales & Marketing Intelligence Reports.

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“In today’s world, data accuracy is non-negotiable. Given the pace of change, it’s no longer feasible for sales and marketing professionals to work with static information that doesn’t catalyze truly personalized, intelligent conversations,” said Hila Nir, Chief Marketing Officer at ZoomInfo. “To the point, we’re thrilled to be recognized once again by G2 for guiding our customers on the road to success with access to fresh, reliable data.”

This quarter, ZoomInfo has earned either #1 or #2 rankings for the following: Sales Intelligence; Sales Intelligence: Enterprise; Sales Intelligence: Mid-Market; Sales Intelligence: Small Business; Marketing Account Intelligence; Marketing Account Intelligence: Enterprise; Marketing Account Intelligence: Mid-Market; Marketing Account Intelligence: SMB; Market Intelligence; Market Intelligence: Small Business; and Buyer Intent Data Tools (a new category for the platform).

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“Rankings on G2 reports are based on data provided to us by real users,” said Michael Fauscette, chief research officer, G2. “We are excited to share the achievements of the products ranked on our site because they represent the voice of the user and offer terrific insights to potential buyers around the world.”

The Winter 2020 Grid® Reports are based on G2’s unique algorithm, which calculates customer satisfaction and market presence scores in real-time. Based on user reviews and data aggregated from online sources and social networks, ZoomInfo’s high placement in these categories underscore the ways in which best-in-class data feeds every step of a sales and marketing professional’s workflow, and reveal the need for an automated pathway to go-to-market intelligence.

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Sage Announces Winning Partners of prestigious 2019 Platinum Elite Award Program

Top International Partners Recognized for Outstanding Achievement

 Sage , the market leader in cloud business management solutions, announced the winners of its Sage Platinum Elite award program. The top partners have been recognized for their outstanding contribution to accelerating the Sage SaaS vision by making customers successful and will be rewarded with a prestigious trip of a lifetime, to Nevis, in the West Indies.

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The winning business partners demonstrated outstanding overall achievement across two criteria:

  • Top Annualised Recurring Revenue (ARR) growth year-over-year
  • Top revenue growth year-over-year for products within Sage Business Cloud.

In addition to being the recipient of this much sought-after accolade, the winners will also celebrate their achievements at an award winner’s reception in Nevis, hosted by Sage President, Blair Crump

Dewey Forrester, EVP of Partners, Accountants and Alliances at Sage said, “The winners of the Sage Platinum Elite 2019 program, have demonstrated a customer-centric approach in all that they do, and have achieved exceptional performance throughout the year. Key to becoming a great SaaS company, means partnering with the very best, and with a partner whose dedication and loyalty has contributed to our joint customers’ success.  I very much look forward to celebrating their achievements and planning for 2020 in Nevis.”

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“Our partners play a critical role in delivering an exceptional experience to our customers. The Platinum Elite Partner awards offer a chance for us to celebrate their hard work and dedication to delivering success to Sage and our customers,” said Nancy Teixeira, Vice President of Partner Strategy and Sales for North America. “We’re thrilled to shine a spotlight on the amazing work they do day-in and day-out.”

Sage Platinum Elite is a global program, and the local winners in Canada are:

  • BAASS Business Solutions
  • The Answer Company

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Comscore Shows Top Music Apps Account for Almost All Time Spent with Music on Mobile

Three Percent of US Music Apps Capture Nearly 90 Percent of Total Time Spent in Mobile Music Category

In continued research beyond its recent 2019 “Global State of Mobile” report, Comscore, a trusted partner for planning, transacting and evaluating media across platforms, uncovered additional critical insights around mobile music streaming.

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Comscore mobile audience insights show that:

  • Mobile apps monopolize the time spent on music platforms
  • Top music apps capture almost the entirety of total minutes for all music apps
  • Paid users spend more time per month engaging with music streaming apps than free users do

This recent Comscore mobile research looked at how US audiences engage with mobile music apps, including iHeartRadio, Pandora, Soundcloud, Apple Music, Spotify and Google Play Music, discussed how their audiences vary across mobile web and app, and examined time spent by consumers – including a look at the difference between free and paid users and their tolerance for advertising.

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“The mobile music streaming market appears to be a classic ‘winner-take-all’ scenario,” said Kelly Lewis, Comscore Product Manager. “Most users are likely locked-in to one or two services, leaving little room for growth by smaller platforms beyond niche market offerings.”

The 2019 “Global State of Mobile Report” report uses multi-platform data from 10 international markets (U.S., CanadaArgentinaBrazilMexicoIndiaIndonesiaItalySpain, and U.K.) to demonstrate a global and local perspective on changing mobile usage.

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ExtraHop Hires Security Industry Leaders to Further Accelerate Growth and Expand Partner Ecosystem

ExtraHop, the leader in cloud-native network detection and response, announced the addition of two security and SaaS industry veterans. Sri Sundaralingam, former head of product marketing and go-to-market (GTM) strategy for enterprise security at Symantec, joins ExtraHop as Vice President of Product and Solutions Marketing. Phil Shigo, a former alliances executive at New Relic, will lead partnership endeavors as Vice President of Business Development and Strategic Alliances.

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“As ExtraHop continues to extend our market leadership in security and expand our SaaS business, we’re seeking out talent to help us get to the next level,” said Arif Kareem, CEO, ExtraHop. “Phil and Sri embody these qualities, bringing years of industry experience in their respective fields that will help us accelerate our growth in 2020 and beyond.”

Sundaralingam joins ExtraHop with an impressive depth of experience leading product marketing teams at companies of varying sizes spanning cybersecurity, networking, and enterprise software. As the former head of product marketing and GTM strategy at Symantec, Sundaralingam managed over 20 product lines with responsibility for more than $1 billion in revenue.

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Prior to joining ExtraHop, Shigo was Vice President of Alliances for the software analytics cloud company New Relic, Inc. As a former co-founding member of Expedia Group and executive at Microsoft, Shigo brings nearly 20 years of experience leading customer-centric product, GTM and business development teams for software-driven businesses.

ExtraHop is the leading provider of cloud-native network detection and response for the hybrid enterprise. With complete visibility, real-time threat detections, and automated investigation powered by cloud-scale machine learning, ExtraHop enables security teams at leading enterprises including Credit Suisse, The Home Depot, Caesars Entertainment, and Liberty Global to rise above the noise of alerts, organizational silos, and runaway technology in order to accelerate investigations, unify policies across hybrid environments, and build their security the way they’re building their business: cloud-first.

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