Hosted daily ad auctions allow advertisers, political campaigns and many others to bid & send digital ads. These millisecond bidding auctions also provide data to winners plus all other participants, and the claimants say it violates Google’s privacy claims. A putative class action suit is designed to be on behalf of known and as yet unknown victims.
Mobile marketing platform Airship has added Live Chat, an option that watches online customers and offers to chat when it spots an opportunity or problem. Triggers can be based on a combination of behavior, location, lifecycle events, and journey status. Customers will be grateful or creeped out, or maybe a bit of both.
DataGrail’s privacy trends study of millions of California consumers after one year under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) shows that while individuals are concerned about how their information is used, barely one in ten thousand have so far exercised their rights. Within that group, Do Not Sell is the leading (63/million) type of request.
Incrmntal has released its Explorer platform, which uses “causal AI” to estimate the incremental impact of advertising investments. What’s magic is the incremental measurements happen without marketers needing to set up incremental impact tests. The system can also suggest the best place to spend your next ad dollar.