90% of Brits don’t know how companies use their data

As Black Friday approaches on November 24, millions of Brits are gearing up for the annual shopping sales event of the year, eager to snag the best deals.

However, amid the frenzy of discounts and promotions, Forbes Advisor, the price comparison and financial guidance platform, is reminding consumers to be vigilant about how companies handle their personal data.

A recent study from technology experts reveals that almost nine in ten (88%) Brits are concerned about how...

22 November 2023 | Big Data

85% of consumers not interested in using AI

There is a stark disconnect between what brands believe consumers want and what they really need from their online shopping experience this holiday season, according to research from Storyblok, a content management system (CMS) category specialist.

Despite global fanfare surrounding ChatGPT, a global survey of 1,000 consumers reveals that 85% aren’t interested in using AI to help them decide on purchases. Additionally, if offered an AI recommendation, 60% said it wouldn’t make...

21 November 2023 | Automation

Customer adoption of Amperity for paid media soars to over 50%

Amperity, an AI-powered enterprise customer data platform (CDP) for consumer brands, has announced more than 50% of its customer base has adopted Amperity for Paid Media.

The rapid adoption of this new application of Amperity demonstrates the important role first-party data will play in informing paid media strategies.

Since its launch in May 2023, Amperity for Paid Media has used industry-leading ad connectors and first-party data to deliver more than 11 billion...

1 November 2023 | Advertising

Why social listening platforms can’t listen – and how SocialVoice is looking to step in

The market opportunity for brands who get influencer marketing right is huge.

According to Goldman Sachs, the creator economy is worth around $250 billion (£205.4bn) today. By 2027, it could hit $480bn (£394.5bn), in line with predicted growth for global digital advertising spend. In line with this trend is an increasing preference for brands to use nano- and micro-influencers in their campaigns. The State of Influencer Marketing 2023 Report puts this at 39% and 30%...

31 October 2023 | Data-driven marketing

56% of UK consumers always accept cookies without thinking

A third (34%) of Brits admit that they have given up following cyber security best practice because it feels like an impossible task, according to research from Thales.

The research, which surveyed over 2,000 UK citizens, found an alarming level of consumer apathy when it came to keeping themselves safe online.

This apathy is closely tied to feelings of confusion, futility, and information overload. More than half (51%) expressed their struggle to grasp rapid...

11 October 2023 | Best Practice

Amperity recognised as a leader in Snowflake’s Modern Marketing Data Stack report

Amperity, an AI-powered customer data platform (CDP) for enterprise brands, has been recognised as a Customer Data Activation Leader in the Modern Marketing Data Stack 2023: How Data-Forward Marketers Are Redefining Strategies to Unify, Analyze, and Activate Data to Boost Revenue executed and launched by Snowflake, the Data Cloud company.

Snowflake’s data-backed report identifies the best of breed solutions used by Snowflake customers to show how marketers can leverage the...

9 October 2023 | Best Practice

61% of marketers believe consumer segmentation is an outdated marketing method 

Six in 10 UK marketers (61%) believe consumer segmentation - the categorisation of customers based on shared traits - is an outdated method of marketing, with 63% considering it totally unfit for purpose.

That’s according to new research from enterprise customer data platform, Treasure Data. This is despite almost all (96%) marketers in the UK still using segmentation within their organisations - even though its effectiveness is being called so clearly into...

4 October 2023 | CMO

Contextual-driven campaigns on YouTube drive 28% more attention than industry benchmarks

A newly-released study shows brand suitable and contextually-delivered advertising with Channel Factory delivers on average, 28% more attention than industry wide benchmarks according to leading attention measurement platform Playground xyz.

Channel Factory, which helps advertisers deliver brand suitable advertising in more contextually relevant places across YouTube, engaged with Playground xyz to deliver a comprehensive review of 76 campaigns across eight...

26 September 2023 | Advertising

Very Group partners with Kyndryl to enhance its customer experience through technology

Infrastructure provider Kyndryl has expanded its partnership with The Very Group, the online retail and digital payments business, to transform its IT platforms and the customer experience.      

With flexibility and speed at the core, The Very Group is modernising and migrating applications and infrastructure to a leading-edge multi-platform public cloud environment.

The Very Group has partnered with Kyndryl to migrate applications to the public cloud, moving to a...

20 September 2023 | Customer Experience

Marketers are unaware of how to prepare for Google’s cookie deprecation

The advertising industry edges closer to one of the most significant changes in a decade, as Google plans to migrate 1% of Chrome users to Privacy Sandbox early next year.

Yet, marketers still lack preparedness for the deprecation of the third-party cookie. In a new survey from YouGov, commissioned by Adform, almost half of respondents believe that finding a solution to replace third-party cookies is critical to future success. However, only 33% think they are well prepared for...

19 September 2023 | Advertising