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For better flexibility and brand safety, business leaders are looking towards new ways to balance platform automation with advertiser controls. “Platform automation tools are making it easier than ever for brands to use machine learning in paid search and social advertising campaigns, but limited control to guide these algorithms significantly stifles growth potential,” said Ashwani […]

The pandemic has shifted the travel process, and it’s brought the airport experience to the forefront. With travel restrictions easing globally, border control authorities are likely to spend more time scrutinising travellers’ records, given the added need to review health credentials and vaccination statuses. While biometric identity management systems have helped improve this situation to […]

Fjord Trends 2022 dives into five human behaviours and trends bound to affect society, culture and business: Nearly two years of disruption to the fabric of society has resulted in a collective shift in people’s relationships with work, consumerism, technology and the planet, pushing companies to design new ways of doing business, according to the […]

The Trade Desk’s latest move to pull out of Google’s Open Bidding and pitch a new product that aims to level the playing field could build stronger relationships between advertisers and publishers. The global ad market is predominantly managed by three companies, namely: Alphabet (Google), Meta (Facebook and Instagram) and Amazon. According to WARC’s analysis […]

Merkle released its Q1 2022 Customer Engagement Report and it reflects the current mindset of consumers about data collection and privacy. Do they know that we know they know? While it reminds us of the popular 90’s sitcom F.R.I.E.N.D.S, it also mirrors the consumer sentiment about privacy and data collection. Turns out, consumers, 86 per […]

Industry experts offer their insights on what trends they expect to unfold in 2022 for customers and marketers Considering the changing consumer behaviour, will 2022 be a year of enhanced customer experience? Sitecore has revealed its top strategic predictions for 2022, aligning with the latest developments in technology, changes in consumer behaviour, and new challenges […]

Imagine a game where you can see your NFT, inspect it, purchase it, and use it your way. Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, have been growing in popularity among cryptocurrency investors. According to the popular NFT statistics site NFTGO.io, its total market cap jumped from $55 million to more than $7 billion in 2021. However, the […]

With blockchain smart contracts, brands can define, automate, and expedite the entire loyalty rewards process. It has the potential to decrease administrative and personnel costs considerably. An average customer is a member of at least ten loyalty programmes, and repeat customers provide 40 per cent of the store value. Turns out, these numbers are keeping […]

The convergence of blockchain and AI brings new value to finance and healthcare companies. More importantly, blockchain will increase human trust in AI Artificial Intelligence (AI) is here, everywhere. It is becoming a mainstream technology at organisations, according to a PwC report. However, a new study by Cogito found that 26 per cent of consumers […]

When food supply chains meet blockchain, grocers can not only promise goods that are fresher and delivered faster but also use the data to tell customers the story from farm to fork How do you like your toast? With a generous serving of cynicism and a hot coffee, if we are to go by current […]