Journey orchestration engine Thunderhead is resold by Salesforce but remains an independent company. They’ve just announced Intent Analyzer, which uses AI to analyze customer-level behaviors and find useful clusters. Thunderhead builds a unified customer database but positions itself as a digital transformation tool, not a CDP.
Positive stories about Facebook are rare these days, so it’s news that we have one: Facebook has expanded its Marketing Partner certification program to include Brand Safety products, which help advertisers avoid placements on sites they want to avoid. The first two partners are DoubleVerify, which verifies traffic quality, and OpenSlate, which rates site content.
Smartphones also raise privacy issues, especially regarding location data. This study from location tech vendor Blis takes a good look at consumer attitudes. Like other studies, it finds about one-third of consumers don’t want to share their data at all and the rest are mostly will trade it for discounts or similar benefits, often at a very low price. For example: 70% would let Amazon see their shopping history on competitive sites in return for a discounted shopping cart.
Customer engagement platform Twilio has integrated with OpenAI’s Realtime API to enable Twilio customers and developers to build AI-powered conversational apps. The integration will support the creation of speech-to-speech voice conversations featuring AI agents. This is an expansion of existing Twilio/OpenAI integrations.