Daily Crunch: Goldman Sachs calls for diverse boards

The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Goldman Sachs says it won’t take startups public without at least one ‘diverse’ director; it should go further CEO David Solomon told…

Brands pay men a lot more money per sponsored Instagram post as influencers, but women dominate the industry

BI Prime Emma Chamberlain at Paris Fashion Week in October 2019. Jacopo Raule/Getty Images This story requires our BI Prime membership. To read the full article, simply click here to claim your deal and get access to all exclusive Business Insider PRIME content. In a recent report, Izea, a company that connects marketers with influencers,…

Social Media ROI: How to Measure Your Social Marketing

Want to improve the return on investment (ROI) of your social media marketing? Are you measuring the right things? To explore everything you need to know about measuring ROI, I interview Christopher Penn on the Social Media Marketing Podcast. Christopher is the chief data scientist at Trust Insights. He also hosts the In-Ear Insights podcast.…

Overhaul Your SMS Marketing With These 4 Genius Tips

Text campaigns can pay huge dividends in the new decade. Grow Your Business, Not Your Inbox Stay informed and join our daily newsletter now! Will be used in accordance with our Privacy Policy Image credit: Westend61 | Getty Images Mark Daoust Guest Writer Founder, Quiet Light Brokerage January 23, 2020 6 min read Opinions expressed…

TikTok inks licensing deal with Merlin to use music from independent labels in videos and new Resso streaming service

TikTok, the fast-growing user-generated video app from China’s Bytedance, has been building a new music streaming service to compete against the likes of Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon Music. And today it’s announcing a deal that helps pave the way for a global launch of it. It has inked a licensing deal with Merlin, the…

Yo Facebook & Instagram, stop showing Stories reruns

If I watch a Story cross-posted from Instagram to Facebook on either of the apps, it should appear as “watched” at the back of the Stories row on the other app. Why waste my time showing me Stories I already saw? It’s been over two years since Instagram Stories launched cross-posting to Stories. Countless hours…

Planters kills off Mr. Peanut for a Super Bowl ad, and people are thrilled

The deceased with three fans in 2018. Image: Patrick McDermott / Getty Images By Chloe Bryan2020-01-22 18:15:24 UTC “Mr. Peanut” has “died,” according to the Planters mascot’s official Twitter account.  The sentient legume’s demise is part of a Super Bowl ad campaign, according to AdAge, which began with a video of Mr. Peanut sacrificing himself…

Is Your Sales Team Aligned with Your Brand?

HBR Staff/Unsplash/Getty Images It’s no longer enough to provide customers an adequate product or service. Competition is high, and people now consider their entire journey with a company — from the point of consideration to the point of purchase — when deciding who they want to do business with. Recent research shows that interactions with…

Netflix is still saying ‘no’ to ads

Despite ongoing speculation and investor pressure, Netflix is still declining to adopt an advertising-based business model as a means to boost its revenue, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings confirmed on Tuesday. The company on its Q4 earnings call again shot down the idea of an ad-supported option, with Hastings explaining there’s no “easy money” in an…

Amazon Takes a Swipe at Paypal’s $4 Billion Acquisition

Days before Christmas, at the height of the last-minute holiday shopping rush, an ominous message appeared on Amazon.com. It warned shoppers who used a popular browser extension called Honey that the service, which promises to track prices and discount codes, was “a security risk.”“Honey tracks your private shopping behavior, collects data like your order history…

LumApps raises $70M Series C led by Goldman Sachs

LumApps, the cloud-based social intranet for the enterprise, has closed $70 million in Series C funding. Leading the round is Goldman Sachs Growth, with participation from Bpifrance via its Growth Fund Large Venture. Others participating include Idinvest Partners, Iris Capital, and Famille C (the family office of Courtin-Clarins). The round brings the total raised by…

Why You Need to Pick Up the Phone to Close That Deal

It may seen counterintuitive, but in 2020, email won’t get it done. Grow Your Business, Not Your Inbox Stay informed and join our daily newsletter now! Will be used in accordance with our Privacy Policy Image credit: Drazen Zigic | Getty Images Gregg Schwartz Guest Writer Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Strategic Sales…

The Biggest Growth Marketing Trend of 2020: Radically Inclusive Advertising

It’s ironic, but brands — even the smallest advertisers — often make the mistake of believing they need a rigid personality, a monolithic look, and a singular voice. Rigidy reinforces the idea that there’s one mythical, perfect customer for these brands. That hinders their advertising and growth potential. In reality, if they all became more…

As retail robotics heats up, Berkshire Grey raises $263M

In recent years, the retail category has become one of the biggest and best-funded robotics categories — particularly when coupled with connected verticals like warehouse fulfillment and logistics. Berkshire Grey has flown mostly under the under the radar, but is kicking 2020 off with some pretty sizable funding news. The Massachusetts-based company just announced a…

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