Lemon Seed Marketing Picks Winner of $150K Brand Overhaul, Eyes Vegas Reveal

Lemon Seed Marketing has officially named the winner of its Great American Brand Story contest—though the lucky home service company remains under wraps until a grand reveal in Las Vegas this October.

The Texas-based branding and marketing agency, known for helping HVAC, plumbing, and electrical companies stand out in crowded markets, launched the contest to give one mid-sized home service business a $150,000 rebranding package—complete with a full suite of services from 11 industry-leading partners.

“This isn’t just a new logo and call it a day,” said Crystal Williams, founder and lead strategist at Lemon Seed. “This is a ground-up transformation that sets the winner up for real growth, long after the confetti stops falling.”

What the Winner Gets

While the selected company—chosen from a pool of HVAC, plumbing, and electrical firms with $1–$5M in revenue—won’t be publicly named until Service World Expo 2025 (October 28 in Las Vegas), their brand makeover is already underway.

The package includes:

• Branding & strategy from Lemon Seed Marketing

• New website by Online Access

• Digital data analysis from SearchLight

• Direct mail campaign via Mail Shark

• Wall wraps and signage from Real Graphics

• Service Nation membership and coaching

• Call center support by Pink Callers

• Client appreciation gifts from To Your Success

• Promotional materials from Criscione Bros.

• AI-powered communications platform from Chiirp

• 5-week PR campaign managed by Ripley PR

“We’re combining strategy, tech, and design to deliver something truly game-changing,” said Emily Fleniken, creative director and partner at Lemon Seed. “The impact goes far beyond the visual—this is about message, experience, and market reach.”

More Than Just Marketing

What sets this contest apart is the end-to-end approach. It’s not just about aesthetics or a slick website—it’s about giving a home service business the infrastructure to scale, with tools that tackle everything from lead nurturing to customer retention.

And for Lemon Seed, it’s a statement of purpose. The company has built its reputation by elevating the often-overlooked branding needs of trades businesses. The Great American Brand Story is a loud, proud extension of that mission.

“Home service companies face tough competition and complex growth barriers,” Williams added. “This contest proves what’s possible when the right resources come together.”

With the winner already in the midst of transformation, all eyes now turn to Service World Expo 2025, where Lemon Seed will unveil the brand’s new identity live on stage.

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Cloud Campaign’s White-Label Engine Is Powering Social Media for 70,000 Small Businesses

While the social media landscape grabs headlines with influencer drama and algorithm shifts, Cloud Campaign is doing something less flashy but far more consequential: powering the social media management back-end for over 70,000 small businesses through its white-label OEM platform.

The company’s embeddable solution has emerged as the go-to infrastructure for SaaS companies and digital platforms looking to add full-scale social capabilities—without reinventing the wheel.

In 2024, this quietly powerful product line surged by 400% year-over-year, becoming Cloud Campaign’s fastest-growing business segment. The momentum reflects a larger shift in SaaS: social media management is no longer a value-add—it’s becoming table stakes.

Why SaaS Platforms Are Embedding, Not Building

Instead of building social tools from scratch or chasing API access with every new platform update, Cloud Campaign’s OEM partners can plug in advanced features like:

• Content scheduling & approvals

• AI-powered workflows

• Analytics dashboards

• Multi-account management

All delivered under their own branding—via either a fully embeddable interface or a standalone white-label app.

“Cloud Campaign made it easy to embed powerful social media tools into our platform quickly and seamlessly,” said the Chief Product Officer of a leading home services software platform. “It’s helped drive customer adoption and internal efficiency.”

Platform Power Without Platform Pain

Cloud Campaign’s real edge? It helps SaaS providers accelerate go-to-market timelines without draining engineering resources or relying on fragile API workarounds. That’s a serious win in an era where speed, extensibility, and customer stickiness are critical.

“It’s incredibly rewarding to know that tens of thousands of small businesses are succeeding on social media thanks to the tools we've built,” said Ryan Born, CEO and Co-Founder of Cloud Campaign. “Our partners are delivering real value under their own brands, and we’re proud to be the infrastructure powering that success.”

Riding a Bigger Wave

The company’s OEM trajectory mirrors a bigger trend: marketing automation and content management tools are being absorbed directly into industry-specific SaaS platforms—from property management to healthcare to legal tech.

In this “platformization” of services, Cloud Campaign is essentially becoming the middleware of modern marketing, enabling vertical SaaS firms to leapfrog the dev-heavy process of building from zero.

With social media now considered essential for customer acquisition and engagement—even for SMBs—Cloud Campaign’s quietly embedded tools are making big noise in all the right places.

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ArcSpan Lands $5.2M to Supercharge First-Party Data Monetization for Publishers

As the ad tech world braces for a cookieless future, ArcSpan is doubling down on helping publishers turn their audience data into dollars. The publisher-first audience monetization platform just secured a $5.2 million Seed Extension, aimed at accelerating its AI roadmap and bringing new data tools to market faster.

The raise—backed by a mix of new and existing investors—signals strong confidence in ArcSpan’s mission: enabling publishers to transform first-party audience signals into high-performing, advertiser-ready solutions.

“Publishers are sitting on powerful audience signals but lack the tools to activate and monetize them efficiently,” said Art Muldoon, Co-Founder and CEO of ArcSpan. “This capital helps us build what publishers need—solutions that prioritize control, quality, and yield.”

What’s New: AI Upgrades & Turnkey Monetization

With the fresh funding, ArcSpan will speed up development on several new platform components:

• Audience Builder 3.0 – An AI-driven segmentation engine for building real-time, intent-based audiences.

• PMP Activation Hub – A marketplace layer for curated publisher deals, pre-integrated with SSPs and DSPs.

• ArcSpan QualityCloud™ & AQI – Contextual quality and ad placement scoring for smarter inventory planning.

These additions aim to streamline what has long been a fragmented post-cookie landscape: publishers with rich data but no scalable way to package it for advertisers, and marketers looking for signal-rich inventory without the baggage of third-party tracking.

The Bigger Play: From Data to Demand

Launched in 2023, ArcSpan’s AMS (Audience Management System) introduced the company’s Triple-A Framework—Aggregation, Amplification, and Activation—designed to simplify how publishers extract value from their own user data. Since then, ArcSpan has inked deals with major media companies and supply-side platforms (SSPs), serving as a connective layer between audience data and ad demand.

“ArcSpan is solving one of digital media’s toughest challenges,” said Al Muzaurieta, Co-Founder at investor firm Good Apple. “They’re enabling high-fidelity audience targeting that’s scalable and privacy-forward.”

With third-party cookies on their last legs, publishers are being pushed to act like data companies—whether they’re ready or not. ArcSpan’s model gives them enterprise-grade monetization infrastructure without requiring a PhD in data science or a battalion of engineers.

The company’s emphasis on publisher control and plug-and-play integrations is timely, especially as SSPs, DSPs, and advertisers all scramble for new signal sources.

With this latest round, ArcSpan plans to grow its product, data science, and publisher success teams—and deepen its reach across the programmatic ecosystem.

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Lytx Rolls Out AI-Powered Fatigue Detection Tech to Make Fleet Roads Safer

Fatigue has long haunted the commercial fleet industry—lurking behind late-night highway drifts, slow reaction times, and thousands of preventable collisions. Now, Lytx® Inc., a pioneer in video telematics and fleet safety, is confronting the issue head-on with its new Fatigue Detection solution, fusing machine vision, AI, and human intelligence for early, precise detection of drowsy driving.

Unlike traditional systems that rely on isolated signals or single events, Lytx’s tech monitors a continuous pattern of behaviors—like prolonged eye closures, nodding, lane drifting, and slouching—to proactively alert both drivers and fleet managers before fatigue becomes dangerous.

“Fatigue is progressive—it doesn’t show up in just one blink or swerve,” said Brendon Hill, SVP of Product at Lytx. “We’ve designed our technology to track nuanced indicators over time, delivering more accurate alerts and reducing false positives.”

What Sets Lytx Apart?

While other systems in the market offer reactive tools or basic detection, Lytx’s offering is proactive, contextual, and layered with expert human review, delivering:

• Early Detection: Real-time insight into fatigue onset, not just after-the-fact behavior.

• Advanced Accuracy: The fusion of MV+AI and human oversight ensures smarter, more reliable alerts.

• Workflow Integration: Fleet managers receive timely notifications they can act on immediately.

A safety director from a major healthcare distribution company who tested competing systems noted, “We trialed Lytx and Netradyne and found that Lytx Fatigue Detection was more accurate.”

A Growing Industry Problem

Driver fatigue remains a leading cause of fleet-related accidents, and with longer routes, tighter schedules, and a persistent driver shortage, the pressure isn’t easing. Fleet safety has become a top priority for multinational corporations (MNCs), prompting increased investment in intelligent safety systems that provide measurable ROI—not just in dollars, but in lives saved.

Lytx's Fatigue Detection is already proving to be a timely answer to the industry's demand for real-time, behavior-based interventions that blend technology with human discernment.

Availability

Lytx’s Fatigue Detection is available now and comes integrated with the company’s award-winning MV+AI technology platform, which powers safety and efficiency solutions across some of the world’s largest commercial fleets.

As safety tech evolves, fatigue detection is fast becoming a must-have feature—and with Lytx, it’s getting smarter, faster, and more scalable.

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Lovart, the AI-native branding platform redefining creative work, has officially launched out of beta—aiming to democratize high-end design campaigns with nothing more than a single text prompt. With over 800,000 users across 70 countries, Lovart’s mission is clear: turn what traditionally costs six figures in ad spend into a sub-$90/month offering.

Touted as a creative disruptor, Lovart gives in-house teams and boutique agencies access to branding and advertising quality once only achievable by elite agencies. In an era where AI agents are becoming essential in design pipelines, Lovart positions itself not just as a tool, but as a creative partner capable of driving full campaign execution.

Inside Lovart’s AI-Powered Creative Engine

At the core of Lovart is its proprietary MCoT (Mind Chain of Thought) engine—a reasoning system that mirrors the thinking of top-tier creative directors. It processes business context, brand needs, and audience signals to generate professional-grade visual assets from a single prompt or image reference. Users can expect up to 40 high-quality outputs in minutes, including:

• Brand identity kits

• Social media visuals

• UI/UX flows

• Packaging concepts

• Storyboards

But unlike other generative platforms, Lovart's outputs come with a distinct creative flair—often witty, emotionally tuned, and human-like in nuance.

Key Features

• ChatCanvas: An infinite smart canvas that integrates text, visuals, and design collaboration, enabling human-AI co-creation in real time.

• Multi-Agent Collaboration: Each design task is handled by a specialized AI agent (logo, UX, packaging, etc.) that synchronizes via a central “Design Context Core” for campaign consistency.

• Autonomous Creative Direction: Lovart plans workflows, sources references, and delivers brand-aligned outputs—essentially functioning like an AI creative director.

• Long-Term Recall: Lovart learns and adapts to user design choices, moods, and imported brand assets over time, personalizing its approach.

• Workflow Prediction: It recognizes platform-specific behaviors (e.g., Instagram vs. YouTube content) and flags design issues or creative opportunities in real time.

• Advanced Editing: Users can fine-tune layouts, text, and layers on the fly.

• Cross-Modal Generation: Supports image, video, and audio output, and integrates leading AI models including GPT Image-1, Recraft v3, Kling AI, OpenAI-o3, VEO3, Runway Gen-4, and more.

Designer-Led AI

“We don’t have product managers. We have designers who teach AI how to think like Creative Directors,” said Melvin Chen, CEO of Lovart. “The agent becomes your teammate. The prompt becomes the brief. Together, they recreate how creative work happens—instinctively and emotionally.”

Lovart’s designer-first approach enables even non-designers to express brand narratives effectively. It also ensures professional designers can work faster, more cohesively, and with richer creative inputs than ever before.

As AI continues to embed itself into the core of creative industries, Lovart offers a future where design excellence is no longer bottlenecked by resources—but instead unlocked by collaboration between humans and agents.

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Iterable and Movable Ink Deepen Integration to Advance Real-Time Personalization

In a move set to reshape how brands deliver tailored experiences, Iterable has announced a major expansion of its strategic partnership with Movable Ink, the AI-driven personalized content platform. This enhanced collaboration gives marketers access to a suite of new integrations designed to streamline campaign execution and supercharge personalized customer engagement.

With data activation challenges increasingly slowing down marketing performance, the joint solution empowers teams to deploy hyper-personalized content across channels—email, SMS, push, in-app, and web—faster and with greater precision.

“Together with Iterable, we’re helping brands turn data into powerful experiences at scale,” said Adam Stambleck, President of Movable Ink.

Integrations That Elevate Campaign Performance

The expanded partnership introduces several new capabilities that bring together Iterable’s powerful customer data infrastructure with Movable Ink’s dynamic content creation tools:

• Real-Time Data Export:
  Marketers can now stream engagement data—like opens, clicks, and conversions—directly from Movable Ink into Iterable, enabling triggered journeys and smarter audience segmentation.

• Customer Data API:
  Allows real-time access to event data from Iterable within Movable Ink Studio, letting marketers craft content that adapts to context and customer behavior.

• Catalog API Integration:
  Pulls data on products, services, or content from Iterable’s Catalog into Movable Ink Studio to power dynamic recommendations tailored to each recipient.

• Embedded Messaging:
  Facilitates delivery of visually rich, personalized messages within websites and mobile apps without disrupting the user experience.

• Content API Integration:
  Enables marketers to drag-and-drop Movable Ink content blocks into Iterable’s template builder, reducing friction and boosting speed to market.

“What excites us most is the tangible value this brings to our customers,” said Jeff Samuels, COO at Iterable. “We’re enabling a more human approach to engagement.”

A Unified Path to Scalable Personalization

At the heart of this expanded alliance is a shared vision: eliminate content production bottlenecks and make personalization at scale more achievable. By bridging the gap between data-rich automation and creative execution, marketers are now positioned to:

• Automate journeys with real-time data streams

• Deploy 1:1 content without creative lag

• Centralize workflow and reduce technical complexity

The announcement reflects a growing demand among enterprise brands for scalable personalization solutions that deliver relevance, efficiency, and measurable ROI. As Iterable and Movable Ink deepen their collaboration, marketers stand to benefit from the best of both worlds—AI-powered automation and visually compelling content creation.

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Glassbox Taps Customer Success Veteran to Lead Enterprise Experience Strategy

Digital experience analytics provider Glassbox has appointed Ido Ophir as its first-ever Chief Customer Officer, signaling a deeper push into enterprise markets and a renewed focus on scalable customer success programs.

With over two decades of leadership in enterprise software—including pivotal roles at Personetics and NICE Actimize—Ophir brings a proven track record in scaling global customer-facing teams. At Personetics, he helped build a global customer success and professional services organization from the ground up, while his work at NICE Actimize helped cement its leadership in financial crime and compliance software.

Now, at Glassbox, he’ll take on a newly created executive role aimed at building stronger partnerships with enterprise clients—especially in highly regulated industries like financial services—and ensuring that every customer interaction yields measurable business outcomes.

“Glassbox is built on the idea that better data leads to better experiences,” said Chairman Alex Assim. “Our clients don’t just want dashboards—they want strategic alignment. Ido is the right leader to deliver that.”

The hire comes at a high point for the company. Glassbox was recently named a 2025 TrustRadius Top Rated Award Winner in the marketing software category, driven by glowing customer reviews.

In Ophir’s own words, “Glassbox is uniquely positioned to help financial institutions and other enterprises turn customer behavior into meaningful business outcomes.” His focus will be on elevating customer support and executive engagement, especially for mission-critical deployments.

His arrival aligns with broader trends in the digital experience space, where data-rich insights are no longer enough—clients increasingly demand strategic value and operational outcomes. The addition of a CCO reflects Glassbox’s ambition to move beyond product and into long-term partnership mode.

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EX.CO, a leader in machine learning video technology, has launched a cutting-edge AI-driven taxonomy solution designed to transform how publishers classify, discover, and monetize their video content. The new feature is already live across Ziff Davis properties, including PCMag and Mashable.

This new agentic AI taxonomy leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) to automatically analyze video content frame-by-frame, generating rich metadata across more than 30 attributes—such as sentiment, tone, contextual relevance, and IAB categories. This enables publishers to convert sprawling, unstructured video archives into organized, searchable, and monetizable assets—without the manual overhead.

“EX.CO’s AI taxonomy solution has allowed us to deeply tag our extensive video library with a fraction of the necessary time,” said Dan Kamas, Senior Product Manager at Ziff Davis. “This gives the product team confidence in the recommendations being powered by this new technology.”

Unlike legacy video management systems that depend on labor-intensive tagging workflows, EX.CO’s platform brings precision automation with editorial flexibility. The system supports both industry-standard and custom classification models, enabling publishers to retain their existing editorial frameworks while enhancing them with intelligent AI tagging.

Key capabilities include:

• Real-time metadata enrichment across 30+ dimensions, including safety, tone, and context.

• Support for existing taxonomies, allowing seamless integration into legacy content systems.

• Improved ad targeting and yield optimization, by aligning content with demand more effectively.

• SEO enrichment, with taxonomy data embedded directly into video metadata.

• Smarter discovery and curation, boosting both internal CMS workflows and audience-facing searchability.

"What makes this solution different isn’t just automation—it’s precision and adaptability,” said Tom Pachys, EX.CO co-founder and CEO. “We’re recreating a publisher’s unique content hierarchy with LLMs, evolving alongside editorial strategy, and translating that into monetization.”

The taxonomy engine also provides configurable confidence thresholds for category assignment, ensuring high levels of accuracy tailored to publisher needs. It is available to all EX.CO publisher partners with AI-powered analysis enabled, delivering end-to-end tagging at a fraction of the cost of manual workflows.

“Our new agentic AI taxonomy feature doesn’t just drive revenue,” added Pachys. “It deepens our value with editorial and video teams who depend on speed and accuracy to deliver great experiences.”

With this rollout, EX.CO positions itself at the forefront of AI infrastructure for digital publishers—bridging editorial precision with next-gen monetization tools at scale.