If you want a broader view of where TV ads are headed, this study from Viant shows that linear (traditional) TV is losing ground but new options including programmatic linear TV and connected (Internet-delivered) TV are growing. They see household-level TV targeting as the way of the future.
Dynamic Yield continues to expand beyond its roots in Web site personalization, adding a feature to send campaign audiences to email, ad networks, call centers, and other channels. Last month’s enhancement let them include offline purchase data to their unified customer profiles. https://www.dynamicyield.com/blog/bridging-online-and-offline-purchase-data-for-personalizationAlthough Dynamic Yield casually refers to having “CDP product”, it’s not clear they meet RealCDP requirements for handling all data types and easily sharing the profiles with other systems.
Digital transformation occupies a meta-hype class of its own. Marketers will be pleased that this Mindtree study found Digital Officers are most successful at improving digital experience. They’ll be less happy to learn that the vast majority of CDOs come from IT (69%), while just 8% come from marketing or sales.
Amazon would prefer that you buy everything through them, but if you insist on using another merchant, they’re still willing to handle the shipping and fulfillment. They’ve just made their Multi-Channel Fulfillment (MCF) service available to Walmart merchants and will soon add Shopify and Shein options. MCF clients place their inventory in Amazon-run warehouses, where Amazon will pick, pack, and shop customer orders.