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Consumers Want Control, Not Personalization: Alliance Data Study

We’ve made this point before, but new surveys keep driving it home: marketers are more excited about personalization than consumers. Alliance Data puts it clearly: “Nearly 98 percent of marketers claimed personalization was an important or very important need while consumers rated all but two personalization-related needs as unimportant.” What does matter? The report says that control over email frequency is consumers’ top unmet need. An important read.

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Personalization Works Best When Brands Build Long-Term Relationships: Monetate Report

March 14, 2019

We wrote yesterday about marketers doing too much personalization, so it seems only fair to cover this Monetate report that personalization correlates with strong financial performance. But there’s less contradiction than it seems: companies with the best results are targeting lifetime value and loyalty while those focused immediate revenue or conversion lagged substantially. In other words, personalization works when it meets real customer needs.

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Large Organizations Use Average of 367 Applications: Forrester Report

March 27, 2023

I can’t bring myself to lead with yet another generative AI story, so we’ll start instead with this Forrester report for Airtable, which found that organizations have lots of software applications.  The average is 367 in use at large organizations, with teams using an average of 45 daily and individuals using an average of 52 weekly.  No surprise here but a good reminder of why data integration is so important.

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