Retailers are making progress in their personalization programs: they’re finally more likely to personalize product recommendations (52%) than show customer names (49%), finds Retail TouchPoints.  Other interesting trends are growing use of traditional media for acquisition, up from 29% in 2021 to 51% in 2022, and more purchase discounts for customer retention, from 55% last year to 73%.  Nearly two-thirds (63%) used a CDP to support their personalization program – more than any other technology.

It’s not your imagination: good men (and women) are hard to find. The World Federation of Advertisers found that 77% of marketers said there’s a talent shortage in their organization.  In bad news for English majors everywhere, data and analytics skills top the list while creative and social media roles are at the bottom.

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.