Unlike most B2C CDP vendors, Zeta maintains its own consumer database and identity graph. They just expanded that side of their operation by purchasing Apptness, a digital survey platform that publishes install on their websites to both improve engagement and to capture intent signals. Zeta doesn’t call this “zero party data”, but others might.
BritePool, which does cookie-free ad targeting based on logged-in website visitors, has merged with BIGtoken, which pays consumers to complete surveys, polls, and other interactions on a mobile app. The combined firm will use BigToken’s detailed consumer profiles as the basis for lookalike models that select audiences from the much larger BritePool identity universe. It might not work but sure sounds clever.
As obsessions go, being fascinated by the rise of retailer-owned media channels is pretty harmless, I guess. So it’s probably okay for me to share that Brandcrush recently launched a marketplace to make it easier for retailers to sell ad space across in-store, in-package, and digital interactions. They say clients can set up their ad sales business in as little as 48 hours, which is great news if you think consumers should see more ads as quickly as possible.
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.