Few marketers doubt that personalization works but it’s still nice to see some proof. This study by personalization vendor Aki offers proper test vs control comparisons, although they only created a handful of segments and showed the same “personalized” ad to everyone in each segment. It does show the segment-specific messages beat generic messages and offers some details which groups are most responsive.
Many companies don’t have enough data of their own to build an effective identity graph or complete profiles. Stirista fills the gaps with third party data, both by enhancing existing customer records and adding new contacts. Stirista just launched Access B2B, a new division focused on B2B clients. In addition to data, Stirista provides email and advertising campaigns.
This IAS study relied on consumer surveys rather than behaviors, so it’s not as reliable as a real test. But you’ll still probably like the answers: 77% of Twitter users said they’re comfortable sharing data with Twitter for a better ad experience; 59% said they’re remember an in-feed ad if it was relevant to surrounding content; and 54% said they’re comfortable engaging with ads that appear next to “personal content”, whatever that means.
Microsoft has confirmed that Reddit has blocked its Bing search engine from crawling content; Reddit seems to have blocked DuckDuckGo too. Reddit content will still appear in Google search results, but then Google has paid Reddit $60 million to allow it to train its AI models on that content. Reddit says the block has nothing to do with the Google deal: okay.