More on Classifying CDP Systems
Having a hard time telling apart Amperity, TouchCR, and dozens of other CDP vendors? So is everyone else. The CDP Institute is working on it – here’s the latest step in our project to make sense of it all.
Having a hard time telling apart Amperity, TouchCR, and dozens of other CDP vendors? So is everyone else. The CDP Institute is working on it – here’s the latest step in our project to make sense of it all.
Today’s lesson: Personalization is cool but omni-channel personalization is even cooler. Exhibit A is Iterable, which has expanded the reach of its “growth marketing platform” with connectors for direct mail, web push, rich content mobile push and Facebook and Instagram Custom Audiences. Iterable’s core functionality is to send segments and personalized messages to external systems for delivery. It works with any type of data but doesn’t manage a unified database on its own.
Can ad exchange bids provide a useful source of location data? A study from Placed, which captures location data from apps, found that only about 1% of ad exchange bid requests provide out-of-home locations accurate enough to measure in-store traffic. It’s self-serving but nevertheless worth reading for an excellent explanation of the data quality issues.
BetterUp and Stanford Social Media Lab define workslop as “AI-generated content that looks good, but lacks substance.” Their survey of 1,150 full-time desk workers in the U.S. finds that 40% received workslop in the last month, costing $186 per month per employee. For a 10,000-person company, that’s $9 million annually.