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Predictive Analytics: Should Automated Content Selection Work by Segment or Individual?

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The point was the difference between basing content selection on individuals and on segments. I have never considered the distinction to be especially important, since segment membership is determined by individual behaviors and individual-level decisions are guided by behavior patterns of groups.

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Acxiom Uses Social Media Data to Segment Email Lists

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Summary: Acxiom's new social media marketing tool gathers public data about social media links and uses it to segment email lists. But, on talking to the company, it turns out there is a pretty interesting product here. Disclosure: I am a consultant to Acxiom, although I had nothing to do with this product).

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Raab Report: Act-On, Eloqua, Pardot, and Marketo Vie to Lead in Mid-Size B2B Marketing Automation Segment

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In case you haven’t caught on to my color coding, blue type indicates that Eloqua and Neolane are leaders in the large company segment, while red type shows the others have their strongest position in this sector. The variety of users within this segment is reflected by the differences among the leaders.

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How Lego Bocks Explain Why Bloomreach Bought Exponea

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These deals all involve CDPs with marketing automation functions (that is, segmentation, message selection, campaigns, personalization, and cross-channel orchestration). Of course, the biggest CDP acquisition of all, Twilio’s purchase of Segment, doesn’t fit this mold. Still a suite, but a different kind.

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Understanding Adobe Real Time CDP

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Although they had briefed me on it before then, it was only this week that I finally caught up with them to discuss the final product. Part of the confusion has to do with Adobe’s habit of reusing product names. Since this is a topic of great interest – and confusion – it’s worth sharing what I learned.

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Twilio Buys CDP Segment for $3.2 Billion

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Friday afternoon brought an unconfirmed Forbes report that communications platform Twilio is buying CDP Segment for $3.2 We don’t have public information on pricing of other CDP vendor acquisitions, and in any case Segment is much larger than any other CPD acquired to date.* This is a slightly lower ratio than $3.2

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AgilOne Adds New Flexibility to An Already-Powerful Customer Data Platform

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It still includes predictive models and provides a powerful query builder to create audience segments. Personalization has been enhanced and the system exposes message-related data elements including product recommendations and the last products browsed, purchased, and abandoned.