American Express (Amex) tracks about a trillion dollars in annual spending. This week, it is announcing a new effort with data service Acxiom — called Predictive Intent Segments — to use that spending data to predict which individuals are likely to buy certain products. Let’s say you’re a bike manufacturer that wants “to find households […]
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Attribution, hold onto your metaphorical hat. For years, the art of determining which marketing effort led to a sale has been performed inside a black box that may have contained as much magic as science. Marketers have had the unenviable task of finding out, for instance, what impacted all those people to buy those blue
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As customer journeys, customer experience and customer data become the key drivers of modern marketing, analytics tools have become the compasses. To help marketers learn about their options, Gartner is out with a new “Magic Quadrant for Digital Marketing Analytics” for what it describes as the “booming business” of analytics. It notes, for instance, that
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Nanigans, the cross-channel SaaS (software as a service) platform for large-scale performance advertisers, has launched incrementality optimization and reporting in the platform, which supports Faceboook, Instagram, Twitter and programmatic retargeting campaigns. The machine learning-driven solution aims to target consumers deemed likely to be influenced by advertising and limit spending on users who are already likely
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Attribution and ad-tracking platform Barometric has released a free tool so that web publishers can identify fraudulent traffic. This is the first entry into traffic fraud monitoring for Barometric, a separately managed division of mobile ad network AdTheorent. The new tool, called Clean Score, was launched as a separate tool after invalid traffic filters were
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Facebook is raising its bid for brand advertisers’ TV budgets. Facebook will offer advertisers the option of having the company measure how the ads it sells influence people’s awareness of a brand and how that compares with advertisers’ TV campaigns, the company announced on Friday. With the new measurement program called Facebook Cross-Platform Brand Lift,
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When it starts in May, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requires consent for use of personal data from visitors to websites and apps. For this function, Janrain, Evidon and others are coming out with user-facing solutions. But brands also need to be concerned about what happens behind the scenes, in their site/app code —
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This week, audience data platform Taykey is launching a free version of its Intelligence tool. Previously, the tool had been available as a monthly subscription. The free version offers real-time data about consumer activities on websites and social networks, although users must choose from Taykey’s predefined commonly used audiences — such as “tech enthusiasts” or
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Since many people use more than one device to communicate with brands, one of the most important data sets for marketers has been the cross-device ID graph. It determines that this phone, this computer and this tablet are used by the same person, so marketing to that person can be coordinated between the devices. Adbrain
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A visualization of a nervous system. Segment, the San Francisco-based customer data platform, is out with a new collaboration that positions it as a kind of virtual marketing automation platform. Originally, Segment’s purpose in life was to act as a kind of data switchboard. Businesses can pipe data in and out of their various marketing
