As third party data becomes less available to advertisers, ad personalization vendor Jivox has launched a first-party data collection tool to help brands fill the gap. There’s no magic here: the solution can only collect data on visitors to a brand’s own site and relies on collecting consent or finding another legal basis to use it.
Tealium is launching a private cloud offering. This will let companies use the Tealium platform while keeping their data isolated and making it easier to comply with local privacy regulations. Private clouds are especially popular in industries with highly sensitive data such as financial services and health care.
Merkle starts with the gloriously obvious news that most marketers have budgets, tools, and organization to do personalization. But then they veer into the unexpected with news that location data is used more widely than customer profiles, and continue with even less obvious details about which data sources fuel personalization, which channels use which sources, and how usage varies by industry. But you can skip that stuff if you like.
Martech keeps taking larger bites out of marketing budgets: 17.3% last year, 19.9% this year, 23.5% next year, and 30.9% five years from now, according to the latest CMO Survey. This despite barely more than half (56.4%) of current tools being used and nearly half (48.8%) of the survey respondents reporting worse-than-expected results. Oddly enough, marketers rate selecting marketing technologies as the thing they do best.