Shifting to the bigger picture: Target just spent a half-billion dollars to buy same-day delivery service Shipt, strengthening Target’s position in the on-going battle with Amazon for online customers. Why isn’t there a TV soap opera about this?
A happy reader of this newsletter told me recently that what he likes is knowing when nothing important has happened. Ouch! But fair enough, and today is one of those days. So let’s talk about a clever Trustwave study that calculated the different values placed on personal data by security professionals, insurers, regulators, and cyber criminals. Turns out, the market value of your data to criminals is insultingly low. No information on the values assigned by marketers or the consumers themselves.
Location data from mobile devices may be the most important tool connector between digital and physical experiences. Arrivalist captures information from more than 120 million devices, including ads they’ve displayed and where they’ve physically been. It combines these to estimate the impact of advertising on store traffic. They just released a 3.0 version which includes cross-device tracking of individuals and multi-touch attribution.
Email and mobile personalization platform Movable Ink has announced a new integration between its Da Vinci content personalization solution and Adobe Journey Optimizer. Joint customers will be able to develop content assets aimed at each individual email recipient and bring them into Adobe Journey Optimizer for deployment. This builds on an existing integration between Movable Ink Da Vinci and Adobe Campaign.