Similarly, the International Institute for Analysis found that companies with better analytics have better financial performance, reputation, brand value, and innovation. This obvious conclusion is backed by a super-sophisticated methodology combining “quantitative surveys, organizational modeling, and a software-driven maturity scoring model”. The study was sponsored by collaborative data science platform Dataiku.
Sorry about yesterday’s newsletter. We don’t know who gave Jamie the password. Back to real news. Here’s a $16.5 million Series A funding from Nift, which helps local businesses help each other by providing customers of one business with gift cards for another near-by business. If you squint hard enough, you can see this as part of the trend towards rewarding customers directly for use of their data.
Worried you won’t be able to target individuals based on their data? Relax; that future isn’t here yet and, in fact, the options are growing. TiVo, whose cute little boxes quietly track TV viewing in more than 2 million households, just announced it will share the information with Tru Optik’s OTT Marketing Cloud, allowing advertisers to build custom segments based on TV viewing habits and even to retarget TV ads at specific households.
It’s deal-making time for generative AI model builders and publishers who can provide them with quality data. Germany publishing giant Axel Springer is trading access to its data for Microsoft adtech, AI, and Azure hosting solutions. Meanwhile, The Financial Times has struck a deal with OpenAI to license its content with attribution of summaries and quotes.