🎛️ Getting the message to customers

Customer engagement platform Epsilon has announced that it is extending its messaging capabilities by offering Epsilon People Cloud Messaging Essentials. Linked to Epsilon’s Core ID identity graph, Messaging Essentials will allow midmarket companies to deliver individualized messaging to customers via email, mobile push, SMS and other channels.

Epsilon already offers Epsilon People Cloud Messaging for the enterprise. Messaging Essentials will similarly allow identities to be resolved and messages delivered across channels and in real-time. This reflects Epsilon’s explicit strategy of making technology developed for the enterprise available to smaller brands and follows the release of CDP Essentials and Loyalty Essentials.

Messaging Essentials is packaged as quick-to-market, easy to use, scalable, and requires no long-term commitment.

Why we care. Digital discovery and consumption is an opportunity for small and midmarket businesses to compete with the big names — as long as they can adopt affordable technology which doesn’t need to be implemented and managed by teams of consultants and engineers.

On its face, Messaging Essentials is built on two established enterprise solutions, Messaging and Core ID, so this release holds out the promise of powerful tech without heavy initial investment.

Consumer intelligence analytics keeps Fortune 500 companies at the top of their game, and other category leaders are quickly following suit. Why does consumer intelligence drive every decision? It helps marketers uncover, understand and predict consumer behavior – and it’s much more sophisticated than most businesses realize.

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Building a positive relationship with your audience is an important component of email marketing; these relationships are critical for reaching your subscribers’ Inbox (I). A valid email address (E) is one of the most valuable pieces of information you can receive from your customers. Email addresses are typically uploaded by marketers as Lists (L) in the email service provider or database.

From here, you should be employing Segmentation (Sg) based on each subscriber’s level of Engagement (Eg). This includes Opens (O) and Clicks (Ck) on specific links within your email. Understanding what this data means about your audience will help drive strategic decisions in your email marketing program.

For example, knowing what inbox providers your audience members are using will give you insight into how they view and interact with your messages and what tactics work best to help you meet your email marketing goals.

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Identity resolution – the science of connecting the growing volume of consumer identifiers to one individual as he or she interacts across channels and devices – has become critical to marketing success, as well as essential for compliance with consumer privacy laws. This guide from MarTech explains the benefits of identity resolution software, and examines the market, latest trends, opportunities and challenges. It also includes profiles of 10 leading identity resoluton platform vendors, pricing information, capabilities comparisons and recommended steps for evaluating and purchasing.

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Google gave us a glimpse of its Multitask Unified Model (MUM) technology at its I/O event just six weeks ago, and on Tuesday, the company revealed its first application: identifying over 800 variations of vaccine names in over 50 languages. And, “MUM was able to do a job that should take weeks in just seconds,” the company wrote in a blog post.

Why we care. This announcement provides us with a better idea of real-world use cases for MUM. However, one of MUM’s most touted capabilities was understanding multiple modalities (understanding text, images and video), which we’ve yet to hear more about — if Google can deliver on this the way it was advertised at I/O, it may enable users to search in ways that they previously thought were too complex for search engines to understand. Even if it doesn’t have as splashy an impact, the efficiency displayed here (i.e., doing “weeks” worth of work in seconds) will still provide Google with another advantage over competitors.

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Data streaming platform Narrative announces a new partnership with mobile data provider Complementics that enables marketers and other users to gain access to data or monetize their own. Narrative’s technology, which includes tools to support regulatory compliance, allows users to stream data directly from its origin rather than purchase it from data brokers. With consumers spending more and more time on digital channels, data streaming has picked up especially in the streaming adtech supply chain.

While Narrative has other mobile data sources that it partners with, including Bridge, Cross Pixel and blog comment solution Disqus, the new partnership is significant and has already gained interest from partners, especially on the buy side, said Nick Jordan, CEO of Narrative.

More data needed. With increased privacy regulations in recent years, as well as Apple iOS updates and Google’s cookie deprecation plans, all kinds of organizations are scrambling for data. “When GDPR came out, predictably there was a drop in supply and interest in buying more data. With the Apple changes we see a similar drop in supply.”

Buy or sell? With data seemingly more precious than ever, big brands are teaming up with Narrative as a tech solution to buy as well as to sell their data. Complementics, for instance, provides mobile audience data solutions for U.S. and international audiences, such as geofencing and location analytics.

Data drives experience. “A common thing that comes up is that a buyer will say, my CRM has a bunch of fields not filled out for their customers,” said Jordan. “They want to fill in the gaps of the CRM and then do an email marketing campaign with a better brand experience. You’re knowing your customer better, and improving your customer acquisition strategy after that.”

Why we care. During the pandemic, we all saw marketing budgets tighten. In order to deliver successful campaigns, the data has to be accurate. Monetizing data will also be a revenue stream organizations of all kinds will be tapping into. In order to do so, they will need to seek out a responsible third-party solution.

“I’m convinced every marketing team should have someone 100% focused on repurposing their content.” Jason Bradwell, senior director, product marketing and communications, Deltatre