How Alternative Data Improves UX and Helps Marketing Teams

| Michele Tucci

Fragments derived from alternative data are essential to discover more granular consumer behaviors and lifestyles. This helps build better segmentation models and more appropriate customer journeys that offer delight experiences. Insights on consumer behavior and lifestyle can be gleaned through analysis of installed apps.

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Amazon Data Misuse Could Be Its Undoing, Lawsuit Alleges

| Mike O'Brien

An Amazon shareholder is suing founder and executive chairman Jeff Bezos, along with current CEO Andy Jassy, CFO Brian Olsavsky, other executives and the entire board of directors, claiming misuse of customer data could lead to widespread mistrust and wreck the company.

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State Lawmakers Can’t Let Amazon Buy Virginia

| Jason Boyce

Amazon recently and curiously reversed its longstanding opposition to federal consumer protection legislation that aims to reduce counterfeit items on ecommerce platforms. Despite this, Amazon has made it clear it opposes similar state measures and has stepped up lobbying efforts across the country to kill these bills.

First-Party Data: The Need is Real for Brands

| Pam Erlichman

Brands now have little choice but to build marketing and advertising initiatives around first-party data that consumers freely opt to share. But there are rules – and I’m not referring to GDPR, CCPA, CPRA or any other privacy law. The rules center on establishing trust.

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Cookie Sunset: Disrupting Booming Retail

| Michele Szabocsik

Money and reputation aren’t the only things at stake when consumer data isn’t collected and managed with a privacy-first approach. Marketing, customer experience and other teams risk losing control of the data and technology they need to improve engagement and drive growth as third-party cookies go away.

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Facebook aka Meta Looks to Open Physical Stores

| Mike O'Brien

A week after a name change to Meta, reflecting its aspirations for the so-called metaverse virtual world, the company formerly known as Facebook is looking to open physical stores to sell gadgets associated with its new vision, according to a report in the New York Times.

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Loyalty Program Provider Clarus Commerce Acquires PrizeLogic

| Mike O'Brien

Premium loyalty program provider Clarus Commerce has acquired PrizeLogic to add rebate and promotion engine and rich first-party customer data as third-party tracking cookies are on the way out and Apple’s new iOS operating system severely limits marketers’ access to user activities. Terms were not disclosed.

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5 Ways to Improve the Mobile Payment Experience

| William Dawsey

Mobile payment has never been more important, with an estimated 70% of all ecommerce sales to come from it by 2022. However, just implementing that option isn’t enough. It’s crucial to make the mobile payment experience as seamless as possible. Here are 5 of the most effective ways to improve the mobile payment experience.

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Will Global Privacy Control Protocol Succeed Where Do Not Track Failed?

| Mike O'Brien

Global Privacy Control focuses on letting consumers opt out of the sale of their personal data to third parties. The early-stage coalition includes the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Mozilla. Rob Shavell, CEO of Abine, who was involved in Do Not Track and now GPC, discusses what’s ahead and why merchants should get on board.

Consumer Data Privacy, Preferences and Permission: A Time of Reckoning

| Denise DeSisto

As consumers gain power over their information, the rules are changing. But that doesn’t mean businesses can go back to marketing blindly, ignoring one-to-one relationship building. Data still drives relationships, but permission will be required, unlike the invisible site cookies of the past. Here are some tools for navigating the new reality.