Mobile attribution vendor AppsFlyer has announced Zero, a free service to measure results from a company’s owned media, such as its email, social media posts, and Web sites. The service uses “deep linking” to track visitor origins. AppsFlyer will still charge to track results from paid and earned media and for people-based attribution.
Data aggregator Neustar will provide identity resolution and data enrichment to CDP Quaero. The deal illustrates how third party data enables companies to find matches and make updates they could not discover with their own data alone.
Industry news is pretty sparse these days but we can always whale on Facebook. Here’s a NYU Stern study that find their content moderation efforts are “grossly inadequate”. That would usually come from our Department of the Obvious but Senior Intern Jamie is out protesting with our blessing.
Martech keeps taking larger bites out of marketing budgets: 17.3% last year, 19.9% this year, 23.5% next year, and 30.9% five years from now, according to the latest CMO Survey. This despite barely more than half (56.4%) of current tools being used and nearly half (48.8%) of the survey respondents reporting worse-than-expected results. Oddly enough, marketers rate selecting marketing technologies as the thing they do best.