You probably know by now that information you reveal in one channel is available pretty much everywhere. So you won’t be concerned that survey compiler datadecisions Group has added a product to target direct mail, email, and Facebook ads at people who say they plan to buy a specific product. Not one bit creepy.
Attribution specialist Visual IQ announced a new Marketing Intelligence Platform that works with individual-level data. The system integrates cross-device identifiers, ad impressions, online and offline interactions to build complete customer profiles, enhances these with audience attributes from third party sources, adds marketing cost information, applies multiple attribution techniques, and can forecast future performance. It also includes marketing mix models, TV attribution, native ad bid management. and integration with external real time bidding platforms. Much of the new technology comes from Visual IQ’s acquition of Refined Labs in October 2016.
There’s one more funding announcement today but I know you don’t care. So here’s a little pre-Labor Day treat instead: a Target Marketing survey about the martech buying process. Worst news: just 47% of respondents said they create formal requirements before evaluating products. Better news: buyers take time for online research, demonstrations, and trial installations before making a final choice. (If you do care about funding: it was $21.4 million for VideoAmp.)
Treasure Data will provide its system to free for companies that are stuck in contracts with other CDPs. The trade-up program is available to companies with roughly firms with $1 billion or more revenue, that already have a competitive CDP in place. There will still be some costs for services to make the conversion but Treasure Data says these are fairly small since it has considerable experience with such projects.