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One-Quarter of Ads Serve the Wrong Creative: Claravine Report

October 24, 2023
I was a bit disappointed when this Claravine report on “marketing data standards” turned out to focus narrowly on ad content and campaign data.  Still, it’s intriguing that advertisers estimate that 25% of ads serve consumers the wrong creative, and agencies peg that number at 30%.  CDPs rank fourth on the list of systems used for data standards, behind DSP, CRM, and DAM but ahead of CMS, data clouds, and marketing automation.
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“Very Creepy,” according to the first annual Mozilla Creep-o-Meter!

October 24, 2023
If you’re still looking for a Halloween costume, maybe a creepy privacy theme is the way to go. Lots of choices, whether you want to go as a spying car, a furtive robot, or a globally connected refrigerator, you can scare friends and neighbors who may not realize just how thoroughly and rapidly their privacy is being taken away. Mozilla, which has been tracking corporate privacy for fifteen years, is now setting benchmarks and will identify trends.
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The ghost of a Facebook class action just showed itself to Meta

October 24, 2023
Way back in 2015, the discovery of Cambridge Analytica’s data breach that exposed the data of ~87 million Facebook users was shocking and was a story we didn’t know would be the harbinger of many to come. But while Meta may have hoped to have exorcised this Facebook ghost, a shareholder’s class action accusing the company of misuse of user data while it knew that Cambridge Analytica violated its privacy policies has just been revived by a U.S. appeals court.
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83% of CMOs Expect to Increase Martech Budgets: LXA Report

October 23, 2023
Good news is hard to find these days, so let’s squint at LXA’s latest State of Martech report and note significant progress since last year in the “people and team” dimension of martech maturity.  It’s still the lowest-ranked dimension but we’ll take it.  Other causes for cheer: 83% of CMOs expect to increase their martech budget in the next twelve months; 71% see martech as the heart of their marketing strategy; and 66% feel they can accurately measure the ROI of their martech investments.  You’re welcome.
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DoubleVerify Partners with Attain to Connect Ad Views with Real-Time Purchases

October 23, 2023
Measurement is a topic of endless fascination because the old methods are fading and it’s not clear what will replace them.  DoubleVerify is an aggressive contender, building on its core business of checking whether web ads are actually seen (now trendily known as attention measurement).  Their latest project connects ad views with real-time purchase data from six-million-member panel tracked by Attain.
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