Technology is always evolving, and marketers must evolve with it in order to ensure brand success. While there are many factors that affect marketers on a day-to-day basis such as social media, budgeting and reaching audiences on an emotional level, here are six of the top technologies are impacting marketing the most. Gartner analysts predict that by 2020, 30 percent of web browsing sessions will be conducted without a screen. With the rise of voice-activated technology like Google Home and Amazon Echo, consumers will not be limited to traditional screen-based browsing, Gartner predicts, especially since web browsing will be extended to other areas of daily activities such as driving and exercising. Artificial intelligence (AI) means more than another way to shop--it can help marketers make smart decisions.

Estimated at $113 million in 2015, the chatbot market is expected to reach $994.5 million by 2024. Since Facebook launched the bots on Messenger, the market has not ceased to develop by creating a real craze around the Virtual Robots. With the Democratization of AI Technologies, Chatbots are becoming a true pillar of Customer Relationship Management, driving adoption among enterprises. In France, 35 Chatbots Startups has been detected by myFrenchStartup, the data-driven platform of the French Startup Ecosystem: 22 Startups are targeting the professional services market while 13 startups are leading the consumers services market. With 33% of these Startups created in 2016 and 75% based in Paris, the French Chatbot market is only in its embryonic stage.

UK-based payments start-up Revolut has unveiled its "human-like" chatbot, Rita, to answer customer queries. Rita – which stands for "Revolut's Intelligent Troubleshooting Assistant" – is accessible via the mobile app's messenger support service. Customers can open the app, send Rita a message and get an instant reply. During the pilot scheme, Rita resolved 20% of 7,500 customer queries per day and received a customer satisfaction score of 4.3/5. Did Rita get asked out on any dates?

Amazon's strategy to make Alexa available absolutely everywhere on every device ever created will give it the advantage it needs in the upcoming AI wars. The news that Amazon is making its AI technology available in the UK to third party developers (it's been available to US devs since 2015) is another nail in the coffin for rivals. Amazon has already deeply embedded its AI into the UK's national psyche with round-the-clock adverts over the Christmas period. And it worked, sales look good and even my non-techy older family members are riveted by the assistant. Now, it's delving further into our lives by latching on to other devices we use regularly like a virtual barnacle.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is finally coming of age after many a false start. The days of runaway robots are still futuristic, but the time has come when the confluence of AI, Big Data and human domain knowledge is happening, with exceptional results. AI is being applied in multiple domains. IT operations is one such domain that is ripe for taking an AI-first approach. Today's hybrid cloud environments continue to undergo a massive transformation.

Da Vinci utilizes Maropost's proprietary machine intelligence technology and breakthroughs in machine learning and cloud computing to offer unparalleled insight and optimal action. As with everything that Maropost offers, Da Vinci was designed and built completely in-house to ensure maximum consistency and integration. "Maropost Marketing Cloud leads the industry in tracking and analytics, automation, and machine learning," says Ross Andrew Paquette, CEO and Chairman of Maropost. "Our machine intelligence technology is the culmination of all our past research and the logical next step for the future. Da Vinci is the most powerful and functional artificial intelligence available to enterprise at the present."

Facebook has extended its controversial'Safety Check' to let people offer help. The Safety Check tool has been available since 2014 and is activated whenever a crisis is present, allowing people to tell their friends and family that they are safe. But the new tool will allow the actually help out. The Community Help feature allows unaffected people to offer help – like blankets or accomodation – to people who are in the area of such a crisis. The giant human-like robot bears a striking resemblance to the military robots starring in the movie'Avatar' and is claimed as a world first by its creators from a South Korean robotic company Waseda University's saxophonist robot WAS-5, developed by professor Atsuo Takanishi and Kaptain Rock playing one string light saber guitar perform jam session A man looks at an exhibit entitled'Mimus' a giant industrial robot which has been reprogrammed to interact with humans during a photocall at the new Design Museum in South Kensington, London Electrification Guru Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart talks about the electric Jaguar I-PACE concept SUV before it was unveiled before the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, U.S The Jaguar I-PACE Concept car is the start of a new era for Jaguar.

Last August, NASA opened the first round of the Space Robotics Challenge. A follow-on to the DARPA Robotics Challenge, the SRC is focused on what it's going to take to get humans back to the moon or on to Mars, embracing the idea that sending humanoid robots there first would make everything a heck of a lot easier. Just like the DRC, the SRC starts in simulation, with an initial round to select 20 finalists from 93 competing teams. NASA has just announced the results. In order to make it into one of the 20 finalist slots, teams had to perform some simple tasks in simulation (using Gazebo) as quickly as possible.

Apple is going to start making the iPhone 8 far sooner than expected, according to reports. The move could indicate that the Apple plans to release the new phone earlier than normal, that it is expecting to sell a lot more of them or that it is intending to add so many changes that the phones will take far longer to produce. There is "some indication" that Apple is ramping up production of the new phone, according to analysts from BlueFin Research Partners. The new handsets are expected to start being put together by Apple's suppliers in early June, much earlier than usual, according to the same report. The giant human-like robot bears a striking resemblance to the military robots starring in the movie'Avatar' and is claimed as a world first by its creators from a South Korean robotic company Waseda University's saxophonist robot WAS-5, developed by professor Atsuo Takanishi and Kaptain Rock playing one string light saber guitar perform jam session A man looks at an exhibit entitled'Mimus' a giant industrial robot which has been reprogrammed to interact with humans during a photocall at the new Design Museum in South Kensington, London Electrification Guru Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart talks about the electric Jaguar I-PACE concept SUV before it was unveiled before the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, U.S The Jaguar I-PACE Concept car is the start of a new era for Jaguar.

New details about Bixby, the Samsung Galaxy S8's AI assistant, have emerged ahead of the phone's unveiling next month. The virtual helper will support up to eight languages at launch, including English, Korean and Chinese, according to SamMobile. That pushes it out in front of Google Assistant, which supports English and German on the Pixel phone, as well as Hindi, Japanese and Portuguese through the controversial Allo messaging app. However, both trail some way behind Apple's Siri, which supports over 20 different languages. The giant human-like robot bears a striking resemblance to the military robots starring in the movie'Avatar' and is claimed as a world first by its creators from a South Korean robotic company Waseda University's saxophonist robot WAS-5, developed by professor Atsuo Takanishi and Kaptain Rock playing one string light saber guitar perform jam session A man looks at an exhibit entitled'Mimus' a giant industrial robot which has been reprogrammed to interact with humans during a photocall at the new Design Museum in South Kensington, London Electrification Guru Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart talks about the electric Jaguar I-PACE concept SUV before it was unveiled before the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, U.S The Jaguar I-PACE Concept car is the start of a new era for Jaguar.