The CDP Institute is having a birthday (read the blog post) and, true to form, the present we most want is data: specifically, answers to a survey asking what you, Dear Members, would like to see us do next. There are just six questions; please take a minute or two to fill it out. Thanks!
If you can fake authenticity, you’ve got it made, goes the old joke. But faking authenticity may be harder than it seems: adults correctly distinguished professional from consumer-created content 70% of the time, according to a study from user-generated content platform Stackla. And consumers will punish brands that try to fool them. Then again, maybe it just proves that professionals who are really good at faking authenticity do have it made. Especially if they’re Russian.
I have no idea what either of these companies does but the headline was irresistible.
GrowthLoop will use TransUnion identity data to improve U.S. consumer match rates on client files sent to advertising media such as Facebook and Google Ads. The data should also help clients to find matches among records within their files, building more accurate customer profiles. GrowthLoop calls itself a “composable CDP”, meaning it works with data assembled in external data warehouses.