Maybe you knew that Dun & Bradstreet has a software product named Account Based Marketing and maybe you didn’t. Either way, you can probably guess what it does. And you may be interested to learn that they’ve just added a slew of enhancements, including a display advertising engine, omni-channel campaign orchestration, Web personalization, and account engagement analytics.
The News Gods have their little whimsies, and this week’s was to deliver three surveys related to organizational change. First we have an excellent Accenture study on what makes for successful digital transformation. They list a half dozen factors but the one that caught my eye was picking projects that force collaboration across functional lines. As opposed to the conventional wisdom which says you avoid those because they’re too hard to execute.
CDP vendor Segment has analyzed the tools its 20,000 clients send data it collects from Web sites and mobile apps. They found the fastest growing categories during the pandemic lockdowns were ad tracking tools, including Facebook Pixel and Google Ads, and customer success tools including Salesforce, Zendesk, and New Relic. They explain the growth in ad tracking tools as reflecting a shift to digital advertising and the growth in customer success tools as reflecting more interest in retention.
GrowthLoop will use TransUnion identity data to improve U.S. consumer match rates on client files sent to advertising media such as Facebook and Google Ads. The data should also help clients to find matches among records within their files, building more accurate customer profiles. GrowthLoop calls itself a “composable CDP”, meaning it works with data assembled in external data warehouses.