Punchh offers a slew of CRM, marketing automation, and analytics solutions for restaurants and retailers. They just released an AI-based tool that extracts sentiment from online reviews (pretty common) and reacts immediately with recommended responses for phone and chat agents (pretty special).
What’s changed since the General Data Protection Regulation took effect one year ago tomorrow? TrustArc and Ipsos found that 36% of UK consumers have greater trust in how their data is handled, which the press as spun variously as a success (“more than one third”) or failure (“only 36%”). I’d say any improvement in trust is a success these days. A global survey from Snow Software had similar results: 39% of data professionals feel more protected although 20% feel worse.
Xandr is the advanced advertising arm of AT&T, another familiar name. They’re also making it easier to target individuals across traditional and connected TV, mobile, and online devices. The tool is Community, an video advertising marketplace with inventory from more than 15 premium content publishers.
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.