- Volvo Expands Partnership With Google, YouTube
Marketing Daily, Tanya Gazdik - Wednesday, January 5, 2022
"This integration allows us to improve the customer experience immensely," Volvo's Henr ...
- Study Finds That Shoppers Are Flummoxed By IVR
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, December 30, 2021
Most found that interactive voice response (IVR) was unintelligent, and many fe ...
- Microsoft Gains Approval For Nuance Communications Acquisition From European Commission
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, December 21, 2021
The European Commission granted Microsoft approval on Tuesday to close on i ...
- Netflix Adds Voice Assistant Technology SoundHound
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, December 20, 2021
The deal means that smart TV set-top manufacturers can now integrate Netflix ...
- Disney Gets Its Own Amazon Voice Assistant, Hey, Disney!
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, September 29, 2021
The assistant will feature Disney characters' voices and call up more th ...
- What Happened To Voice Search?
Search & Performance Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, September 23, 2021
Only 18% of voice-search users surveyed search for products or services ...
- Apple Must Face Privacy Claims Over Siri
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, September 2, 2021
Apple users can proceed with a lawsuit alleging that the Siri voi ...
- Why The Next Generation Of Consumer Profiling May Leave You Speechless
Mobile Insider, Joe Mandese - Thursday, July 22, 2021
A consumer voice-profiling industry likely was inevitable given the number of "listenin ...
- EU Regulators Concerned About Dominance Of Amazon, Apple, Google Assistants
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, June 9, 2021
The European Commission comments come after a year-long inquiry into voice assistan ...
- Google LaMDA Makes Conversation With You
Search & Performance Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, May 18, 2021
Google loves language. LaMDA, announced today, is the next breakthrough for t ...
- Microsoft Acquires Speech-Recognition Firm Nuance In A Deal Valued At Nearly $20B
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, April 12, 2021
Nuance is a pioneer in conversational AI and cloud-based ambient clinical intelligen ...
- How Big Tech Is Helping Spread Vaccine Messaging In The War Against COVID-19
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, March 17, 2021
Twilio expects to fuel over 100 billion COVID-19 communications within the ne ...
- Amazon Echo Lets Customers Be The Mothers Of Invention
Marketing Daily, P.J. Bednarski - Friday, February 19, 2021
Day One Editions program floats descriptions of Echo items Amazon could mak ...
- Amazon's Super Bowl Ad Steams Up The Internet
Search & Performance Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, February 5, 2021
Amazon's Super Bowl LV commercial, Alexa's Body, shows a woman daydreaming abo ...
- For Safer Holidays, Amazon Recruits 'Granfluencers'
Marketing Daily, Sarah Mahoney - Wednesday, December 23, 2020
The idea is to showcase the Amazon Echo and ways families c ...
- The Next Big Mobile Media Battle Will Be Inside The Home
Mobile Insider, Joe Mandese - Thursday, October 15, 2020
Almost no medium is more associated with reaching people outside their hom ...
- Amazon Offers Alexa-Powered Grocery Store
Around the Net In Brand Marketing, Tanya Gazdik - Tuesday, September 1, 2020
Amazon is debuting a 35,000-square-foot supermarket in Los Angeles that offers wh ...
- SEMRush Study Finds Only 1% Overlap In Answers To Same Voice Queries
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, September 1, 2020
Interesting findings from SEMRush's latest voice research found Google Assistant, Siri, a ...
- Peacock Debuts Voice-Activated Ads From Big Brands
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, August 28, 2020
Unilever, Target and Coors are among the first to use NBCU's " ...
- Amazon Alexa Skills Found To Leak Banking History, User Names, Phone Numbers
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, August 14, 2020
The report should make marketers and developers who create skills for voi ...
- Google Hit With New Privacy Claims Over Audio Data
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, August 10, 2020
Google has never informed users that Google Home can be activated, reco ...
- Microsoft Spins Off Chinese Chatbot Xiaoice
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, July 14, 2020
Microsoft is spinning off its AI-based chatbot technology, Xiaoice, into a stand-alo ...
- Hello Marketers -- Voice Still Frustrates Users
Search & Performance Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, June 30, 2020
Voice search has a long way to go before it will repla ...
- AI Concierge Platform Integrates Into Google Search, Maps, Allows Businesses To Receive Calls, Texts
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, June 29, 2020
Concierge platform Numa, built on AI technology, can coordinate curbside pickup, answ ...
- Do Black Lives Matter? Absolutely, Says Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant
Marketing Daily, P.J. Bednarski - Tuesday, June 9, 2020
The answers from all the virtual assistants are new or updated, wi ...
- Alexa, How Did Red Roof Inn Happen Upon The Idea Of Marketing By Voice?
Show Daily, Nina Lentini - Tuesday, June 9, 2020
A dinner argument led one person to pull out a phone ...
- Performance Marketing, Advertising Blazes New Trails In Search, Digital
Search & Performance Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, May 15, 2020
Welcome to the first edition of "Search & Performance Marketing Daily." Whi ...
- Brands Should 'Embrace The Opportunity For A Mindset Shift'
Search & Performance Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, May 14, 2020
Leo Burnett Chief Strategy Officer Aki Spicer told Google that "brands wi ...
- Google Picks Ex-Microsoft Exec Javier Soltero To Lead Communication Products
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, May 8, 2020
Google told Thurrott that former Microsoft executive Javier Soltero will lead i ...
- Google Can't Shake Privacy Lawsuit Over Voice-Activated Assistant
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, May 7, 2020
U.S. District Court Judge Beth Labson Freeman ruled that Google must fa ...