Meta’s leadership richly deserves any criticism we can offer, but they’re not only reason that promising anti-trust and privacy bills have stalled in the current U.S. Congress. So enjoy this deepfake of Mark Zuckerberg but remember that other big tech firms have been equally busy ensuring the bills don’t come to vote.
Amazon Web Services is adding a data clean room service that will simplify privacy-safe data sharing among AWS customers. The company also announced plans to add identity resolution services in the near future. It’s all part of a grand AWS for Advertising and Marketing program that features 150+ partners including many of your favorite CDPs.
It takes Google parent Alphabet less than thirty minutes to earn $13.2 million, so it’s hard to be impressed when they contribute that amount to a worthwhile cause. Still, let’s give them some credit for supporting Poynter Institute’s International Fact-Checking Network. How’s this: we won’t think anything bad about them for half an hour?
Just over half of consumers (54%) like to receive personalized messages because they show the consumers are known to the brand, plus they can be time savers. The rest (46%) find it at best unimportant, at worst creepy. Relevance far outstrips personalization when it comes to driving email opens (54% vs. 19%). Takeaway: treat each customer the way they prefer.