Neustar, one of the leaders in building cross-channel customer identities, has launched a Data Directory make it easier for marketers to build custom audiences with Neustar and third party data. Scope is digital advertising across display, mobile, social, and interactive TV channels.
Sprinklr is a social media management platform, but a year ago it purchased Booshaka, which had technology to connect customer data across multiple sources. The resulting love child is just-released Sprinklr Audience, which collects data from mobile, social, email, commerce, CRM and Web systems, integrates it, and creates audience segments that can be pushed to social advertising (and presumably other) channels. It’s as if there’s a little Customer Data Platform inside, crying to get out.
MarketsandMarkets has a new report predicting that emotion detection and recognition technologies will grow nearly 40% per year, to reach $36 billion by 2021. Scope includes facial expressions, speech, voice, and bio-sensing (ECG, eye tracking, wearable, etc.). This is a major new data source for marketers and their CDP systems, not to mention AI systems in general.
Media mix models (MMM), originally developed in the 1960’s, have undergone a resurgence as new technologies make them easier to execute and click-based attribution becomes less credible. But evaluating MMM brings its own challenges. Australia-based Mutinex offers a vendor-neutral Open Source MMM Validation Framework which is now available for free to North American marketers and agencies.