And completing our little tour of mobile data news, cross-device identity company Drawbridge announced a 60 day free trial of a dashboard that lets marketers test the impact of different matching algorithms. This is a clever move that gives skeptical marketers a low-risk way to explore Drawbridge’s capabilities. Drawbridge connects more than one billion consumers and five billion devices.
Eight in ten marketers lack the knowledge or resources to create a true Single Customer View, according to a survey by customer data platform vendor BlueVenn. The survey also found that four in ten have more than 20 data sources, three in ten feel their brand has managed to accomplish genuine omni-channel marketing, and one in ten consider the concept of a Single Customer View to bad a “mythical beast” that isn’t practical in the real world.
Japanese tech giant Fujitsu has announced a technology-plus-consulting offering to support real time marketing through data integration. The “eXperience Data Platform” (XDP) is built around the Tealium customer data platform, which ingests data from Web, CRM, call center, inventory, and other systems; consolidates and loads it into a customer database; and makes the information available for analysis and marketing programs across all channels. For the moment, it’s available only in Japan.
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.