Category: Digital Media
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Beyond Human Logic: How Deep Learning Neural Networks Discover Customer Insights & Actions We Can Never Find
For most of the modern marketing era, our “data insight” process has looked something like this: We gather data from various sources. We apply data into existing frameworks and models. We generate insights/conclusions based on patterns we can interpret. We make recommendations based on our perspective. It is a rigorous and time consuming process and…
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The First Party for Martech<>AdTech Convergence is in the Cloud
AdTech and Martech converged in Cannes last week. It’s a foreshadowing of what’s to come. As Larry Allen VP and GM of Enablement and Addressable Audiences at Comcast said on the Croisette, “The biggest trends in advertising right now are the move to advanced audiences and the use of deterministic first-party data.” Advertising is of…
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Become Strategic with Customer Segmentation and Lift KPIs
The idea that different groups of people want different things within a product, category and vertical is as old as commerce itself. According to the Association of Consumer Research, customer segmentation started in ancient Babylonia. By the 19th century Germany book publishers would only publish new children’s books in late Autumn to be purchased as…
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Why E-Commerce Conversion Rate is Stuck at 3%
18 years ago (gulp) I helped bring one of the first Martech SaaS products to market. Without fail it increased conversion rate. Often doubling or tripling it. Today, if you use Adobe Target you still use the same “m-box” (“m” for “Marketing”) which was core to the A/B Testing, Targeting and Personalization that Offermatica pioneered.…
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5 Predictions: 2024 Customer Data
Sorry if this is coal in your stocking!. Actually, there are so many great things happening with customer data, 2024 will bring good tidings to all. AI is an inflection point. 2024 should be a watershed year. An evolutionary moment. Prediction 1: MarTech tools will argue about what they are called. The move of legacy…
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Singularity: AdTech and MarTech are Converging
Owners of first-party data are pioneering new and different sets of technical solutions to old advertising and marketing use cases. It is merging two markets previously separate, together as one. The results are expected to be something the industry has been waiting almost two decades for. A step-change in performance of digital marketing and advertising.…
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The TikTokization of Media – Understanding Who We Are
The Real Me The algorithm wars started in Search. One of the key takeaways from that time was made by the great technologist Vint Cerf who famously said Google didn’t have better algorithms, they just had more content. Algorithms becoming ingrained and habit forming in our content discovery process may have started with Search but…
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The Decade of Display That Wasn’t 2007 – 2017
Act I: Crank That The year was 2007. Ten years ago. Microsoft bought aQuantive for $6.3B. Google bought DoubleClick for $3.1B. Yahoo bought Right Media for $680M. Display was poised to take massive amounts of advertising dollars from television over the next decade and become the dominant form of advertising. Microsoft, Google and Yahoo were…
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Autumn for Digital Publishers…and Everything After
The digital media world was a rocked yesterday by news that Buzzfeed is going to miss revenue targets by 20% and Mashable was sold for $50M when its valuation last year was $250M. What is going on? The short answer is a lot. Buzzfeed is actually right in their statement where they put blame on…
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