Estimates of CDP adoption range to above 50%. That’s surely too high, but the 1.9% figure in this Merkle study seems low. The broader conclusion that CRM, email, marketing automation and marketing clouds manage more than 60% of audience data does seem about right. Lots more here on maturity levels, privacy compliance, and journey management.
Very Good Security stores sensitive data, such as credit card numbers, outside of a company’s own systems. Clients get a unique identifier that is linked to the data, so the data itself is never exposed to potential privacy breaches. It’s a good example of what can be done to protect privacy when businesses really try. The company just raised a $35 million Series B.
Video ads are obviously a hot category. In fact, the IAB reports they were the fastest growing of all digital media in the first half of 2019, up 36% over the first half of 2018, to $9.5 billion in the U.S. Total digital ad revenue rose just 17% to $57.9 billion. Growth was flat compared to the second half of 2018, the first time ever that there was no consecutive half increase.
Stick with me here: what if you didn’t have to write good generative AI prompts, but could instead write a prompt that would prompt you to write a better prompt? If your head hasn’t exploded yet, that seems to be the idea behind new auto-complete and rewrite features in Copilot AI for Microsoft 365. Of course, there’s a YouTube video showing how.