Going to prison improved my career — I’m certain you don’t hear that every day. But for me, it’s 100% true. When I first arrived at Perryville Correctional Facility in Ariz., I didn’t have a career. I had a series of low-skill, low-wage jobs that never lead me to a meaningful career. I worked to pay the bills and, unfortunately, fuel my addiction. And it was my addiction that led me to become incarcerated.

LeanData, a revenue orchestration platform, released LeanData BookIt, a new solution that enables revenue teams to auto-qualify and auto-book meetings with inbound prospects visiting a company’s website. 

Lusha, a B2B data community and sales intelligence platform, released Salesforce Data Enrichment (SFDE), an automated enrichment solution designed to enable users to continuously supplement their Salesforce contact and company database's with fresh and relevant data.

PLANOLY, a social marketing platform, launched a new tool that aims to simplify video content creation — Video Planner. The solution helps take videos from “idea to post” by planning and publishing content in one place.

Over the past decade, new privacy regulations have given individuals much greater visibility and control over how their personal data is collected, used, sold and secured. The General Data Privacy Act (GDPR) and the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA), both enacted in 2018, created a seismic shift in privacy legislation — but they were just the beginning. Since then, we have seen the number of states introducing or passing data privacy acts go from two in 2018 to 29 in 2021.

Affinity, a relationship intelligence platform, released Affinity Meetings, a new solution designed to deliver relationship intelligence data from Affinity CRM directly within Zoom to provide customer and prospect insights during sales meetings.

Contentgine, a content-based marketing agency, launched new AI and machine learning (ML) capabilities for its Content Indication Platform (CIP), to help marketers gain more precise first-party intent signals and content performance insights. The online SaaS platform seeks to enable marketing and sales professionals to use 100% first-party content consumption metrics to prioritize and expand target account lists and make more meaningful connections with sales prospects.

Livestorm, a video engagement platform, announced the addition of six new features designed to enhance engagement during virtual events and meetings. With 25 to 35% of Americans still working from home, the purpose of these new integrations is to help improve engagement and continue to elevate the user experience. 

New Livestorm features include:

• Breakout Rooms, a dedicated space where a small group of people can get together to solve problems;
• A Timer App that helps to track and manage time for events;
• Slido, a plugin that helps users interact with their audiences using open-ended questions, polls and word clouds;
• A calendar view that allows users to view, create and edit event sessions on a schedule;
• Registration limits, so event organizers can set a limit on the number of registrants allowed to attend; and
• A new Virtual Background Library that offers 120 free virtual backgrounds across categories.

"We make a point of listening to our customers as we understand how important capturing undivided attention is to determine the impact of virtual events and meetings," said Gilles Bertaux, Co-Founder and CEO of Livestorm, in a statement. "We’re thrilled to offer our customers these new features that prioritize engagement for attendees and a seamless, integrated platform for meeting and event organizers.”

ARInsights, an analyst relationship management platform, released a solution called ARchitect Interactions for Google Workspace. ARInsights seeks to help companies increase awareness and enhance knowledge-sharing with industry analysts who influence their businesses. ARInsights aims to measurably improve the efficiency and productivity of analyst relations (AR) professionals on a daily basis.