Verizon Media’s new Next-Gen Solutions use AI to help replace cookies, by applying machine learning to predict behavior of anonymous users based on real-time data such as location, device type and weather. Verizon Media has a separate product, ConnectID, to target ads when a company does know user identity.
Marketers rate personalized experiences below better customer experience, better onboarding, more offering awareness, and even more flexible payment terms in their plans to increase loyalty, according to this Persado survey. Very interesting, although the real focus of the survey was the use of artificial intelligence in marketing. In a nutshell: it’s growing, profitable, and increasingly used to create content. Download for details.
Why settle for replacing third party data with second- or first-party data when you can take it all the way to zero, asked no one ever. But that hasn’t stopped Wyng from touting its zero-party data solutions, which get customers to intentionally share their data through quizzes, surveys, product finders, and such. The company has just added two new components: a portal to let customers directly update their information and a zero-party-data-based recommendation engine.
The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that could potentially ban TikTok in the U.S. if its Chinese owner, ByteDance, does not sell its holdings within a year. The bill now goes to the President Biden, who has said he will sign it. Court challenges are likely to follow.