What to do when your vendor has a data breach

One of your vendors will suffer a data breach. It is a when, not an if. They may have already, but not yet know it. Because marketing handles so much customer data, it’s essential to know what to do when a breach happens. There will be a breach in 2023, 61% of companies reported a…

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Data Cloud represents the ‘biggest upgrade’ in Salesforce history

“Data Cloud is the heartbeat of the Salesforce platform,” said Rahul Auradkar, using Salesforce’s new mantra. “Data Cloud is the core of how AgentForce works,” he added. Auradkar, EVP and GM, Unified Data Services (Data Cloud) and Einstein at Salesforce was speaking remotely to the press on the eve of Dreamforce — and he had…

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2024 elections playbook works for brands too

The 2024 U.S. presidential campaign crossed another milestone this week with the first televised debate between the two major-party candidates. The week before, Vice President Kamala Harris visited rural communities in Georgia to spend time in constituencies largely unfavorable to Democratic candidates. Why spend so much time in counties Harris won’t likely win? Extending reach….

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How to use ChatGPT to simulate martech tools and marketing strategy

What if you could test-drive an entire marketing technology platform and simulate marketing and sales efforts without risking a single dollar?  Thanks to ChatGPT, I did just that. It’s another compelling use case for maximizing the value of generative AI. CDPs have gained marketers’ attention by unifying customer data and driving smarter marketing. But instead…

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Hightouch launches AI Decisioning

Composable CDP Hightouch has announced a new enterprise AI product, AI Decisioning, as a native Snowflake app. AI Decisioning leverages Snowflake Cortex AI, a suite of tools that runs large language models against unstructured data. AI Decisioning continuously experiments with customer data available in Snowflake to identify the best ways to engage with individual customers…

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Why first-party data alone won’t solve marketers’ challenges

First-party data has become the go-to solution for many marketers grappling with increasing privacy regulations, continued loss of data signals and the impending deprecation of third-party cookies.  The shift toward data directly collected from consumers makes sense. However, while first-party data holds immense value, it isn’t a silver bullet. You must understand its limitations and…

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