This isn’t exactly news but it’s still interesting to learn that Amazon’s patent on “1-click” ordering expires today. Does it seem they’ve been doing that forever or that they started just yesterday? Bonus question: what will change now that everyone can offer 1-click shopping?
One of marketing’s grand new frontiers is taking advantage of the location data from Internet-connected devices. A study from Grand View Research finds that the total “location of things” market will grow from $5.6 billion in 2016 to $71.6 billion by 2025, a breakneck pace of 34% per year. Media and marketing are expected to account for about one-quarter of the market.
Of course, voice interaction is one tiny corner of the artificial intelligence landscape. The nice people at industry research company Tractica has summarized the big picture, including three macro categories, six technologies, ten key themes, and seven steps to take next. Good stuff.
GrowthLoop will use TransUnion identity data to improve U.S. consumer match rates on client files sent to advertising media such as Facebook and Google Ads. The data should also help clients to find matches among records within their files, building more accurate customer profiles. GrowthLoop calls itself a “composable CDP”, meaning it works with data assembled in external data warehouses.