Shoppable content is a big trend right now. NBCUniversal is adding its bit with NBCUniversal Checkout. It will let consumers make a purchase by scanning a code on the TV screen or Web page, which will take them to an online shopping cart.
Dynamic Yield continues to expand beyond its roots in Web site personalization, adding a feature to send campaign audiences to email, ad networks, call centers, and other channels. Last month’s enhancement let them include offline purchase data to their unified customer profiles. https://www.dynamicyield.com/blog/bridging-online-and-offline-purchase-data-for-personalizationAlthough Dynamic Yield casually refers to having “CDP product”, it’s not clear they meet RealCDP requirements for handling all data types and easily sharing the profiles with other systems.
Digital transformation occupies a meta-hype class of its own. Marketers will be pleased that this Mindtree study found Digital Officers are most successful at improving digital experience. They’ll be less happy to learn that the vast majority of CDOs come from IT (69%), while just 8% come from marketing or sales.
With CDP vendors increasing their workforces by 3.4% in six months, compared with an average of 0.2% each six months over the prior two years, the sector seems to be growing again, according to our own semi-annual industry update. There is much talk of composable CDPs but they still employ no more than 5% of the sector workforce. What is a clear trend is the acquisition of independent CDPs by vendors interested in adding a CDP to a larger system (usually an activation system).