The News Gods have shown just enough pity to let me avoid writing about more surveys, Dear Reader. We have an honest-to-goodness acquisition: press release service Cision has purchased social media platform Falcon.io, which will help PR people and marketers integrate their publicity and social campaigns. Everyone loves convergence.
The News Gods remain on holiday but we can always talk about blockchain. Comcast announced plans for an early 2019 test of its Blockgraph project, which lets addressable TV media companies and advertisers use blockchain-secured encrypted data to target ads without sharing personal data. It doesn’t give any more control to consumers but does limit how widely their information is spread.
Here’s yet another study on the topic, from research agency Corinium Digital. Respondents were lower down in their organizations and perhaps had a more hands-on view. Fifty percent said they’re looking to build or buy a unified platform to assemble analytical data. A frightening 69% said data quality problems make them less than fully confident in their current analytical results. Weird graphics in this one.
Customer engagement platform Twilio has integrated with OpenAI’s Realtime API to enable Twilio customers and developers to build AI-powered conversational apps. The integration will support the creation of speech-to-speech voice conversations featuring AI agents. This is an expansion of existing Twilio/OpenAI integrations.