Signal Rides Rapid Growth onto Deloitte’s Fast 500 List for 2017

What a year it’s been for Signal. This week, Signal earned a spot on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 list for the third consecutive year, joining the ranks of disruptors including Yelp, Facebook and Fitbit. The honor follows Inc. magazine naming Signal to its annual Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies, also for the third …

3 Lessons Learned from Signal’s Summer Internship Program

Ask any college student: securing a summer internship is no simple task. Months of refining résumés, stressful interviews at different companies, and finally (or, hopefully) accepting an offer. And that’s all before the real work begins. Fortunately, the welcoming atmosphere that set apart my initial Signal interview extended throughout my internship here. As my time …

Signal Ranked Among Inc.’s Fastest-Growing Companies

Three in a row. Signal has once again made the Inc. 5000, Inc. magazine’s famed tally of the fastest-growing private companies in the nation — and this year, we not only join a new crop of household brands like S’well, Wedding Wire and Orange Theory, but are on the short list of overachievers that have …

Fantastic 4: Signal Returns to Top Rungs of Crain’s Fast 50

Signal is deeply proud of its roots in the Chicago business community — and the Chicago business community is once again sharing the love. A year after topping Crain’s Chicago Business’ annual Fast 50 List of the Windy City’s fastest-growing companies, Signal this week roared back into the upper echelon of Crain’s 2017 rankings, landing …

Kafka Consumer Assignments

I recently had the opportunity to work on a project upgrading one of Signal’s Redis-based message broker pipelines to Apache Kafka. At Signal, we use Kafka extensively to scale our real-time data platform. Kafka buffers writes to our Cassandra database, enqueues batched data, and provides real-time event streams. We continue to find new ways to …

Digital Conversations: Ed Child of Walmart

At Signal, we love to stay tapped into how data and people-based marketing are empowering retailers to take on some of the toughest business challenges. We recently sat down with Ed Child to discuss how he approaches this in his role as Director – Global Customer Insight & Analytics at Walmart. In this position, Ed …

People-based Advertising: The Next Chapter for Digital Media

Let’s face it. Digital advertising is at a crossroads. Marketers who hope to reach today’s fast-moving, always on consumers must be equipped with the right tools and strategies to reach them across multiple devices and channels and serve relevant ads efficiently. The fact of the matter is that despite rapidly growing digital advertising budgets, consumers …

Digital Conversations: Career Education’s Rafael Zorrilla

Career Education Corporation is an educational services company that provides higher learning degree programs across various career-oriented disciplines through its universities. American InterContinental University and Colorado Technical University offer online, on-ground, and hybrid learning programs for a diverse student population. Rafael Zorrilla is Director of Marketing for Colorado Technical University, where he oversees the brand …