Conversations marketing platform Drift is also bullish on video. They just launched Drift Video, which makes it super easy to create a video and lets agents “hop right in and say hello when someone is watching”. Nothing annoying about that.
We have a CDP triple for you today, Dear Reader. We’ll start with Salesforce, whose big reveal this morning is a plan to extend Customer 360 to create persistent customer profiles. That’s a big step up from the original Customer 360, which only read data on demand from source systems. But don’t get too excited: the expanded version won’t even reach pilot status until this fall.
On the other hand, when Harvey Nash and KPMG surveyed IT leaders, 95% said they manage 75% or more of their company’s tech spend. They wish. More believable: companies that are digital leaders were more three times as likely as non-leaders to have a collaborative relationship between IT and business units (54% vs 18%). Lots of interesting data here but, as with any survey, keep in mind the source.
Nearly one-third of major news publishers have blocked generative AI tools from reading their content. But that’s a drastic measure which could also exclude their results from conventional search engines. Microsoft has just given publishers the option to block access by Bing Chat without also removing their content from search results. We’ll see if competitors do the same.