It seems lately, Big Tech should have everything to fear, including fear itself. Regulators are coming for them. As are the press. Heck, they’re even coming for each other. They’ve got gazillions of dollars and endless resources, they’re going to be just fine. But hopefully, by now, one thing is clear: they will pivot at […]
Living In The Gray Data advancements are revealing campaign possibilities are so much greater in the gray As marketers, we like putting things in neat buckets. We segment, slice and split until we’ve gotten as granular as possible. Then we target like crazy. We market to businesses. We market to consumers. Sure, there’s plenty of […]
The number of consumer data privacy bills increased from 2019 to 2020, with bills considered in at least 30 states and Puerto Rico. This is exemplary of how marketers are being forced to consider continually increasing restrictions regarding privacy each year. The need to reach customers in more personalized ways has continued to grow as […]
Don’t let Google control your cookieless destiny Suddenly, marketers need options. Here’s why you should forge your own path this time. If you build it, they will come. And spend hundreds of billions of dollars. And be beholden to you forever. (Mwa-ha-ha-ha-ha….) That’s the Google business model. I guess “Don’t be evil” just had a […]
Will the real identity resolution providers please stand up? For years, companies calling themselves identity resolution providers have frolicked about like pigs in slop. They’ve built billion-dollar businesses on the back of a promise to match real humans to anonymous, cookie-based profiles. A noble feat to be sure. That is, if they were actually delivering […]
Apple iOS 15 & Privacy- There’s No Reason for Marketers to Sound the Alarm Apple recently announced that the upcoming iOS 15 update will include Mail Privacy Protection. This update is no cause for alarm. The industry has seen lower-than-expected user participation in similar ‘do not track’ initiatives including GDPR and Apple’s most recent iOS […]
Walking the PII Talk AdExchanger was out recently with a great primer on how to evaluate an identity solution. The tl;dr is to respect privacy, focus on value, enhance data for targeting, and create a single view of the customer. Yes! Yes, yes, yes! It’s obvious, right? So…why aren’t more companies doing all these things? […]
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TikTok has taken the social media world by storm and currently is one of the hottest social media platforms with over 100 million active users in the US.
With all the opportunities and benefits TikTok, it is hard to cover them all in just one blog post. I’ve broken down what you need to know into four parts and will share a new insight each week.
Let’s get started with the first benefit: increased brand exposure.
