Top Ecommerce AI Company News | September 5 - September 12, 2024
Synthesia now provides access to royalty-free media resources from Getty Images and Pexels...
Using RivalSense, we have discovered last week's most important developments and news on companies like Octane AI, Synthesia, Lavender, Lumen5, Jasper AI, ViSenze, ClickUp, Bazaarvoices, Prisync, Syte, and other trending e-commerce AI companies.
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🚀 New Product Offerings
- Synthesia now provides access to royalty-free media resources from Getty Images and Pexels.
- Lumen5 now offers advanced media editing features including color composition changes, effects, and speed adjustments.
- ClickUp is launching 'All Things Social,' a new hub for social media growth, featuring live webinars, algorithm courses, live feedback calls, and high-impact networking.
- Synthesia developed AI avatars that can express human emotions, which were reportedly used for propaganda in various countries.
- Surfer's Auto-Optimize now automatically covers topical gaps by checking competitors' content and adding missed sections to articles.
- ClickUp now offers a QR Code generator that can be set up in 3 minutes without any coding.
- Lavender added phone numbers to their personalization assistant.
- Lavender is releasing a major update to their scoring model on Monday, encouraging users to adopt a more casual tone in emails.
- Landbot launched an AI Scheduling Assistant to automate sales funnels and book quality meetings effortlessly.
- Prisync has launched Prisync 2.0 with significant investments in new features and system rebuilds.
- ClickUp introduced Formula Fields for Dashboard Bar Charts, Jira Connected Search, and a refreshed Home layout for mobile.
- LivePerson launched new updates including Conversation Assist & Knowledge AI and Conversational Cloud Infrastructure in the week of September 11th.
🤝🏻 New Partnerships and Vendors
- boost.ai is collaborating with MSU Federal Credit Union to enhance their member and employee experience using conversational AI.
- boost.ai's virtual agent Nova is expected to handle over seven million customer chats for Nordea this year.
- Bazaarvoice partnered with MikMak to provide strategies and insights for brands to engage with holiday shoppers.
- Syte collaborates with Fox Group to enhance consumer experience and discoverability, leading to higher conversion rates.
💡 Other Notable News
- Runway is in talks with General Atlantic for a $450M funding round at a $4B valuation.
- Granify is now part of the Bazaarvoice platform.
- Lauren Woodcock has left DataHawk as a Founding SDR to join Glyphic as a Founding SDR in the United Kingdom.
- Lavender is offering free access to job seekers, as announced by Operations Manager Eduardo Rosenfeld.
- Ben Parr, Co-Founder & President of Octane AI, announced his investment in Orita, which has acquired 100 paying customers and raised $3.5 million.
- ClickUp will stop operating in Russia from September 12, 2024, due to new sanctions by the U.S. Treasury's OFAC.
- Bazaarvoice plans to expand its Northern Ireland operations, moving 30 extra roles from the US to Belfast, according to CTO Colin Bodell.
- Prisync sponsored an eComOne event.
- Kling AI has been released globally and is being compared to Runway in terms of performance.
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