More consumers are adopting privacy-protection measures like incognito browsing, even though they also report higher trust in brands that use their data for personalized marketing and services, according to this Cheetah Digital research. The 91-page report shows details by country, industry and age group for questions about loyalty, privacy, and personalization. Hours of fun.
Digital promotions company Quotient, whose best-known business is Coupons.com, has launched a multi-touch attribution product. The system matches consumer purchases against impressions from on-site and off-site display ads, digital out of home ads, and sponsored search ads delivered by Quotient.
After a fraught time recovering and rebuilding from the loss of a crucial global data verification alliance with Facebook, Nielsen is launching a new online advertising measurement service here that is no longer reliant on one provider – and will ultimately match and measure ad exposure to sales impact. Nielsen Identity System, which starts early April and will underpin Nielsen’s plans to create a rival audience measurement service to the IAB-sanctioned Ipsos contract, takes local data from Unpacked by Flybuys, The Trade Desk, Equifax and others.
There’s no shortage of lawsuits by publishers against genAI platforms for copyright infringement; now major studios are getting with the program. Walt Disney and Comcast’s Universal are accusing Midjourney of using some of their best known characters (think Darth Vader and the Minions) in its AI image generator — a “bottomless pit of plagiarism,” they say. No response yet from Midjourney.