Category: Customer Data

August 24, 2022

Only half of consumers (50%) feel confident that their data is safe on the web with 67% admitting to being more vigilant than ever before about online privacy. That’s the finding of a survey of over 1,000 consumers and around […]

August 23, 2022

Every business, regardless of its niche, should know and understand its customer base. After all, how else will you know who to market to? One of the best ways to understand your range of customers is by creating buyer personas. […]

August 3, 2022

Pinterest this week presented some lacklustre performance results when it comes to monthly active users. Monthly active users stagnated at 433 million – the same figure as it posted in Q1 2022. During the pandemic, user numbers rose to 454 […]

July 28, 2022

While many direct-to-consumer startups were out raising millions of dollars to recruit customers and build their brands, Rob Ward and Chris Peters were finding that solving a real customer problem gave them all the momentum they needed to build a […]

July 26, 2022

Load up your saddest playlist, because we’re talking about clients leaving you. Clients will move on. It’s an inevitable part of doing business. But, if you can analyze why they leave and catch the signs early, you can reduce your agency’s […]

July 11, 2022

In 2009, anthropological researchers made $8,000 on trinkets for which they paid just $1.25 each. What made these items feel valuable to buyers? Each trinket was accompanied by a compelling story written in the item’s eBay description. The fact is, […]

July 1, 2022

Organizational silos tends to be the biggest issue of big and small businesses preventing it from innovating. That is quite understandable: It is hard to innovate your business or marketing operations when information exchange among different departments is hardly ever […]

June 28, 2022

Change is coming. The way we measure and attribute performance in PPC is going to evolve in 2023. Third-party cookies will be retired. You need to be ready. There is no better time than now to start rebuilding your PPC […]

June 14, 2022

Marketers are under extreme pressure to be data-driven. Yet, you won’t find marketers talking about poor data quality or questioning the lack of data management and data ownership within their organizations. Instead, they strive to be data-driven with bad data. […]

May 31, 2022

With Google’s recent announcement that it’ll phase out third-party cookies in 2023 to launch Google Topics, the world of cookies is in the midst of an evolution. Or a meltdown, depending on whom you talk to. Advertisers fidget en masse […]

May 20, 2022

More than four in 10 customers have switched brands over the past year as they sought out better customer service, a new report has found. According to the fifth edition of the Salesforce State of the Connected Customer Report, produced […]

May 19, 2022

It’s been about a year since Apple rolled out new mobile settings that prohibit apps from tracking iPhone users without their explicit consent. Specifically, Apple prohibited developers from accessing devices’ Identifier for Advertisers — an alphanumeric string that can be […]

May 17, 2022

There’s a healthy debate online between the needs of companies to improve their targeting with data and the rights of consumers to protect their personal data. My humble opinion is that companies have abused data for so many years that […]

May 13, 2022

Should you try to personalize your content? Is it even possible? Much of the content advice you’ll read says yes (while acknowledging how hard it is to do). But a recent article in Marketing Week proclaimed personalization unachievable. The authors […]

May 6, 2022

Mobile apps may not be as secure as we think they are, turning into a blindspot when it comes to cybersecurity efforts. With over 60 billion messages and 3.2 billion images shared on social networks every day, phones have transformed […]

April 26, 2022

More than two years ago, Google fired the starting gun in the ad industry’s race towards a cookieless future. While some progress has been made in advance of the impending sea change in digital targeting, measurement and attribution, a clear […]

April 19, 2022

Razorfish and Vice Media Group’s new study, titled “The Metaverse: A View from Inside,” emphasizes that Gen Z not only spends more time in metaverse-adjacent spaces than older demographics, but also is developing more meaningful connections to their online identities. […]

April 14, 2022

Google published a strategy article about data and measurement that reviews the near future of cookies, privacy and tracking conversions. The article outlines what 2023 is going to look like for marketers and what they should be doing now to […]

April 12, 2022

When it comes to privacy legislation, denial often comes before compliance. When GDPR went into effect back in 2018, some companies in the US simply ignored it, opting to shut down or limit operations in the EU instead of adjusting […]

April 8, 2022

Advertiser Perceptions’ latest analysis suggests the industry shift away from third-party cookies picked up serious traction in the second half of last year, while a majority of the firms surveyed were still employing the ad-targeting tactic as of December. Some […]