Ecommerce personalization vendor Bluecore just took a $35 million Series C funding, bringing its total to $63 million. Bluecore assembles unified customer profiles and generates targeted messages in real time. It’s not a Customer Data Platform because (so far as we know) they don’t also expose that data for use by other systems. The company had more than 400 clients.
We all know that retailers face massive change, but sometimes don’t recognize how aggressively many are responding. This study from BRP Consulting found that 51% now offer same day delivery, up from just 16% a year ago. About one-quarter have other advanced capabilities such as promotions based on real time events and identifying customers within the store. Lots of other interesting information.
And there’s more. Mobile marketing solution provider yellowHEAD reports a 27% increase in return on ad spending from its new machine learning-based product, which identifies campaign opportunities and predicts performance. YellowHEAD looks at the lifetime value generated by its campaigns, not just initial response rates and costs. As it should.
RudderStack, which styles itself “the AI Data Cloud Native CDP”, has unveiled a suite of Data Apps running on its Customer 360 solution, which in turn runs within Snowflake AI Data Cloud. The apps support the fast delivery of data projects — for example, attribution data and propensity scores — from data teams to business stakeholders. They are now available to Enterprise Tier RudderStack customers on Snowflake.