Marketing & Sales

What is the future of data-driven advertising?
The digital advertising market has doubled in size over the past five years, with the total ad spend in Europe approaching €50 billion, according to the IAB. The success and continued growth of the market is reliant on the massive volumes of data produced each day – an estimated 2.5 quintillion

Why Outsourcing Social Media Data Access is a Good Thing
It’s no news that unstructured data has been a highly sought after source since its inception, first for determining public topical insights and now for training machine learning algorithms. The critical question to answer is whether you should outsource the collection to overcome business challenges or not? Mike Madarasz explains

Six Ways Big Data Can Refine Your Digital Marketing Efforts
What’s the one thing that all digital marketers must know? The fact that data is king on today’s marketing landscape. Having comprehensive and accurate data is essential for making effective marketing decisions. It can help executives identify industry trends and discover potential customers, making big data analysis important for optimizing

How to Keep the Human Element in Digital Customer Experience
It’s not a question. Digital customer engagement and service is on the rise. Customers are of the hope that businesses will in day’s to come, implement digital channels to solve service issues and complete transactions. According to Zendesk, 70 % of customers expect companies to have a self-service option in

Six Biggest Recent Data Breaches You’ve Probably Been Affected By
Millions of online accounts have personal data stolen on a daily basis, including from large corporations that users believe to be trusted. Here are just 6 of the recent largest data breaches that you’ve likely been affected by and should cause you to check your accounts more often. The

How GDPR is Affecting Marketing Data
It’s been one month since GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation, a policy set in place to address the digital age’s ever increasing flow of personal data, went into effect for European industries. GDPR is meant to give consumers more control over their personal data usage by companies, and this shift

How Blockchain Can Incentivize the Social Platform Revolution
Social platforms such as Quora, Reddit or Stack Overflow are gaining popularity as users can easily exchange information within the social community without any barriers. How and why can blockchain make these platforms more credible? Ralph Tkatchuk finds out. The internet and the rise of social media has significantly changed

Why Data Driven Sales Teams are the Most Advantageous
Today, marketing is more complicated and diverse than it’s ever been. Getting people to come to your website or check out your business is a challenge. When a customer has found their way through your content and into a position where they could convert, that’s where the most difficult task

DN2017: Making a solid pitch at the Unconference
As Data Natives 2017 approaches, so too does our unconference. Attending an unconference means having all the normal rules turned upside down. Lacking standardized topics, the event’s content comes from attendees writing whatever they want to hear about on a whiteboard. Next, EVERYBODY participates in the discussion in some way. Housed

Data-driven Marketing Insights at your Fingertips
Does a swipe mean more than click? Does a hover indicate indecision and a firm push mean certainty? As touchscreens begin to dominate internet interaction, can we learn more from a human gesture than we did from the click of a mouse? And if we can, what are the benefits?