Seeking nominations for the executives who are leading the next wave of marketing tech

* Business Insider is seeking nominations for its second annual list of top leaders who are shaping the future of marketing technology. * Please submit your nominations here by August 14. * Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories and lists. Business Insider is looking for the most important marketing-tech executives to know. We're seeking nominations for our second annual list of the people solving issues and leading the marketing-tech industry, from startups battling the marketing clouds to big companies inking enterprise deals with brands. These executives are helping to deal with new privacy laws like California's Consumer Privacy Act. They're shaking up industries like retail, television, and technology. They're creating new business models and raising money from investors. Click here to see last year's list: Meet 22 of the most important executives shaping the future of marketing technology We are planning to publish the list in late August and nominations are due August 14. Please submit your nominations here by August 14. What we're looking for We'e looking to identify a diverse group of people with different ranks and roles. We'll consider company revenue, headcount and funding as well as interesting business models and the size of the problem that a firm is trying to solve. Nominations for leaders should include the executive's title, role, responsibilities, and examples of the company's performance in the marketing industry, with as many quantitative results as possible. This list is specific to marketing-tech companies and separate from an annual list Business Insider will publish later in the year of the hottest adtech companies of 2020. Join the conversation about this story » NOW WATCH: How waste is dealt with on the world's largest cruise ship
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'What is the X-Ray feature on Amazon Prime Video?': How to find and view bonus material about TV shows and movies

* X-Ray is an exclusive feature on Amazon Prime Video that displays bonus material about a show or movie, similar to the bonus features on a DVD. * X-Ray can show you information about the actors in a scene, the musical soundtrack, trivia, and more. * To activate X-Ray, you generally only need to click or tap within a video that's currently playing. * Visit Business Insider's Tech Reference library for more stories. Amazon Prime Video's X-Ray feature is, at least for now, not available on any other video streaming service. X-Ray works like the bonus features you find on a DVD or Blu-ray. With just a few clicks or taps, you can get additional information about many of the TV shows and movies on Prime Video. When you activate X-Ray, Prime displays an overlay on top of your show, offering additional information. Check out the products mentioned in this article: Amazon Prime Video ($8.99 a month at Amazon) Roku (from $49.99 at Roku) There are several kinds of info...

Why an early exec quit unicorn food delivery startup Deliveroo to launch a food business in the middle of a pandemic

* A former Deliveroo exec has launched a market food hall startup in the middle of COVID-19. * Dan Warne was managing director of the unicorn startup until 2019, but has now launched Sessions Market as a community food hall concept to rejuvenate UK towns after the pandemic. * Warne says he hopes to bring his experience from Deliveroo, particularly about customer behavior, to the analogue world of food halls. * The first venue, Shelter Hall on Brighton seafront, launches July 4. * Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. On Saturday, the UK's bars, restaurants, and cinemas will fling their doors open to customers for the first time since a strict lockdown commenced in late March. Given continued public health concerns around the coronavirus pandemic, it might be unwise to open a new food business right now. But Dan Warne, a former high-level executive at British unicorn startup Deliveroo, has launched Sessions Market, a series of community-orientated food hal...

The 11 most important details we already know about the PlayStation 5, Sony's next-generation video game console set to arrive this year

* The PlayStation 5, Sony's next-generation game console that's deep in production, is scheduled to launch during the 2020 holiday season. * As you might expect, the PlayStation 5 is promised to be more powerful than the existing PlayStation 4 — and we've slowly been learning more about the next-gen console's new features since it was first revealed. * So far, Sony has offered a first glimpse at the new console via its new DualSense gamepad, and a tech demo highlighted the technical prowess of the new machine. * Here's everything we know so far about Sony's next-generation PlayStation console. * Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. The PlayStation 5 is almost here. Sony's next-generation PlayStation game console is scheduled to arrive this holiday season, but we already know plenty of details about it right now: how powerful it is, its main features, and we've even gotten a good look at its new gamepad. Here everything we kno...

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