This Mitel study also reports that improved customer experience is a major goal for digital transformation project. But they find that consumers are still not getting the experience they want. The main takeaway is consumer preferences vary widely so there’s no single solution. Lots of detail on differences by country and industry.
Autonomous marketing campaign builder Albert Technologies has raised an $18 million funding round. Albert uses artificial intelligence to select optimal campaign channels, segments, and contents from feeds provided by its clients. The firm had already raised $42 million in 2015 when it was called Adgorithms.
Privacy aside, email is still the marketer’s best friend. But email vendor Return Path and Demand Metric found that marketers aren’t taking full advantage: only 68% do personalization, 39% do a/b testing, and 36% optimize for deliverability. Companies that do those things report vastly better results. Lots of good detail in this 51 page report.
The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that could potentially ban TikTok in the U.S. if its Chinese owner, ByteDance, does not sell its holdings within a year. The bill now goes to the President Biden, who has said he will sign it. Court challenges are likely to follow.