On August 10, Bynder, the branding automation company, announced that it has secured $22m in Series A funding from Insight Venture Partners, a New York-based venture capital and private equity firm. 

On August 10, Act-On announced the release of its Advanced Social Media Module that includes publishing, listening, and reporting capabilities to help marketers better understand the value social media brings to their business.

On August 9, WoodWing unveiled a new HTML5-based version of its editorial management application for its Content Station 10. 

Datameer announced it is launching a redesigned Global Partner Program "to recruit and enable a dynamic ecosystem of technology, services, and reseller partners.”

On August 9 Facebook has announced it is expanding the tools it gives people to control their advertising experience and is providing an update to its approach to ad blocking on its platform. 

On August 8 Decibel Insight — which integrates with powerful web analytics tools like Google Analytics and Adobe Analytics, providing behavioral insights that explain the reasons behind the metrics — has announced several updates to their app. 

Accenture and LinkedIn have announced they will be partnering to host Hackfest 2016, which they describe as “a first-of-its-kind student challenge to inspire innovative solutions to real-world business and human challenges in India."

Qlik has announced that Ferring Pharmaceuticals has successfully deployed Qlik to not only significantly reduce the time required to create analytical reports by 80 percent, but to also bee able to aggregate data from multiple sources into a single analytical interface.”

Tokyo-headquartered Dentsu has announced today that its global business headquarters Dentsu Aegis Network has acquired a majority stake in U.S. independent data marketing agency Merkle Group. 

Savage caught up with Janneke van den Heuvel of TryLikes about brand experience and customer data. Like most millennials, Janneke founded her first company straight out of school and has been busy building products and brands ever since. Since customer experience (CX) is measured by default in the online world, Janneke and Steven (co-founder TryLikes) decided to complement the data with offline interaction.