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Privacy-Protecting Systems Are The New Green

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I spy with my little eye…privacy systems! Specifically, there's a crop of systems that are privacy-safe alternatives to dominant social, search, email and other common consumer technologies. In other words, privacy-protecting systems are a big and growing business. The implications of this are intriguing.

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MarTech Plot Lines for 2021

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walled gardens (Facebook, Google, Amazon) face increasing competition from walled flower pots – that is, businesses with less data but a similar approach. Retailers like Walmart, Kroger, Target, and CVS have all started their own ad networks , drawing on their own customer data. shoppable video is growing rapidly.

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Martech Vendors Can't Avoid Ad Audience Battles

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One of the most interesting stories playing out right now is online advertising, where the walled gardens of Google , Facebook , and other audience aggregators are under assault by insurgent advertisers who, like most rebels, aspire as much to replace their overlords as destroy their power.

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2017 Retrospective: Things I Didn't Predict

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In no particular order, things I didn’t quite expect this year include: - pushback against the walled garden vendors (Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple, etc.) Voice interfaces don't have so many grand social implications but it’s still worth noting that voice-activated devices (Amazon Alexa and friends) and interfaces (Siri, Cortana, etc.)

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Amazon Buys Whole Foods: It's Not About Groceries

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It’s just that I see the over-arching story of the current economy as creation of closed universes by Amazon, Facebook, Google, Apple, and maybe a couple of others. At present, Facebook, Apple, Google, and Amazon still occupy largely separate spheres, so most people live in more than one universe.

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The Light Bulbs Have Ears: Why Listening Is Voice-Activated Devices' Most Important Skill

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Gaining the consent required by privacy regulations such as GDPR* will be good practice for this but it will soon seem like child’s play compared with what marketers need to do on voice devices. This isn’t entirely new: even today, impressions for Web display, paid search, and paid social are auctioned to a considerable degree.

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Facebook, Privacy, and the Future of Personalization

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Readers of this blog and the CDP Institute newsletter know that I’ve been fussing for years about privacy-related issues with Facebook , Google , and others. really seemed to care about privacy and it seemed unlikely that they would overcome the resistance of commercial interests who largely determine what happens in the government.

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