How bad is the trust problem? Well, strategy agency Clear found that 52% of consumers never take anything brands say at face value. Nearly one third (32%) say the gap between promises and experience is getting bigger. Almost one-fifth (18%) say they stopped using a brand in the past year because of broken promises.
Oracle has launched a combined anti-fraud, viewability, brand safety ad solution based on its Dyn (2016), Moat (2017), and Grapeshot (2018) acquisitions. Called Pre-Bid by Moat, is integrated with major DSPs. Ad quality has been a hot topic recently, what with a massive Android app ad fraud uncovered by BuzzFeed and a CHEQ study that found consumers hold brands responsible for inappropriate ad placements.
Finally, we have a $10 million Series A funding for privacy management platform WireWheel, bringing total funding to $13 million. WireWheel automates privacy challenges including finding personal information in company systems, mapping processes that use that data, and alerting users to questionable events. Other tools provide documentation, frameworks, and collaboration. Given the complexities of privacy management, it’s important to know that companies like WireWheel can help.
Salesforce’s Dreamforce mega-conference is next week and the company’s publicity elves are already working overtime. In the first of what are sure to be daily announcements this week, the company announced 100+ industry-specific prompts, data models, and AI capabilities across its fifteen industry clouds. It also launched an AI Use Case Library to house its industry-specific AI offerings.