
Does your company really need a CDP?
The latest Gartner Hype Cycle for Digital Marketing and Advertising report, released this week, shows that Customer Data Platforms have...

Making the leap to multi-touch attribution: How to get buy-in from sales, tech, leadership
“As a marketer if you’re not using a MTA model, it’s challenging to prove your impact on the business and improve the customer experience...

Why marketers should embrace data privacy, not view it as an obstacle
“What would happen if marketers embraced privacy as a value of the company?” This was the question posed to me by Duane Schulz, principal...

Improve customer experience with scenario analysis
Imagine this situation. Your company has asked you to investigate and recommend a new marketing technology. For the sake of conversation,...

Apple’s WebKit outlines cross-site tracking crackdown, will block advertisers who try to bypas
Apple’s WebKit team published its tracking prevention policy last week, outlining its stance against technologies designed to track user...

Google wants new industrywide standards to balance privacy and ads personalization
Most internet users understand the free content they consume is supported by data-driven advertising. Most people would prefer not to pay...

Consumers believe brands benefit more from personal data sharing than they do
There are an increasing number of surveys about data privacy — now coming almost weekly. These studies help gauge consumer sentiment but...

Location data 101: A primer for marketers
In our hyper-connected digital world, an omnichannel marketing approach helps brands bridge the gap between online and offline consumer...

Personalization offer doesn’t lead to more personal data sharing [Survey]
It’s widely accepted by marketers that consumers want increasingly personalized digital experiences. And while there’s considerable...

Don’t miss this live Q&A with Scott Brinker! Get your martech questions answered.
Customer expectations are rising… and marketing technology — martech — is the key to meeting and exceeding those demands. Indeed,...

Google introduces App + Web for unified reporting in Google Analytics
The customer journey has become increasingly complex over time, with users often switching back and forth between desktop and mobile and...

Following its $5 billion Facebook fine, the FTC penalizes YouTube and Equifax
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has been busy lately. The agency followed up its recent $5 billion Facebook fine with two new...

mParticle’s new API could help marketers with “anonymous user” data
Customer data platform mParticle has released details around new APIs, platform features and identity aliasing that aims to deliver...

Recent funding news indicates increased need for data compliance management
The past year has brought on an enormous shift for digital marketers and organizations. In the wake of GDPR — and with CCPA going into...

NinthDecimal Introduces Multi-Touch Attribution for Offline Store Visits
Location intelligence company NinthDecimal is rolling out what it calls “the industry’s first multi-touch attribution (MTA) solution for...

Cheetah Digital’s acquisition of Wayin Inc. aims to bring first-and ‘zero-party’ d
Direct marketing provider Cheetah Digital announced that it has acquired data solutions firm, Wayin Inc. Wayin specializes in data...

Marketers can operationalize customer feedback (whether you ‘own’ it or not)
Feedback has never been so business-critical as it is today. We live and work in an era of unprecedented global transparency, digital...

Major marketing cloud vendors enter crowded CDP field
Most marketers are familiar with the complexities of managing siloed data across different platforms, and many have their own internal...

Forrester: Over-reliance on big data, siloed teams impede customer insights
As marketers, we strive to design customer experiences that leave lasting impressions, drive conversions and keep our customers coming...
























