Coffee Talk: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of the 2017 Retail TrendPack

 

Coffee talk with our CEO Michael Caccavale is especially insightful as the year-in-review publications start dropping and marketers are planning for the next year. We recently sat down to discuss eMarketer’s Retail 2017 TrendPack and what marketers are doing – and still not doing – to prepare for the challenging times ahead for retail.
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Facebook Digs Deeper into Privacy Concerns

According to a post in the September 23rd issue of the Financial Times, Facebook is partnering with a “controversial” data company called Datalogix that can “track whether people who see ads on the social networking site end up buying those products in stores.” Of course, this announcement has raised concerns with privacy advocates who have continually been concerned about marrying online profiles and presence with offline data since the purchase of Abacus (a Datalogix competitor) by Doubleclick (an online ad-serving company later bought by Google) in the late 90s.

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Mending Gaps in the Dynamic Customer Journey
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It’s not easy being a consumer-facing brand these days. After years building a company based on one consumer pathway, the mobile, app, email, social, geo-located, connected TV, real-time bargain hungry consumer is now touching brands in more ways and with more diverse behavior patterns than any company can keep up with. That’s 100 years of organizational design shot to hell.


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Big Data? Let’s Take A Step Back.

Big data is the rage. Big data companies are getting funded. Big data scientists are getting hired. A slew of blog posts are screaming for marketers to understand and use big data. So what is Big data? In a nutshell, it is doing what Google has been doing for over a decade. Taking in, indexing and categorizing massive amount of data generated from the web. It involves new hardware and software paradigms and new skill sets to further challenge us.

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