Lotame’s prep for GDPR highlights big changes in data management

As data management platform (DMP) Lotame gears up for compliance with the upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), some of the far-reaching changes are coming into focus.

First, there’s the matter of tracking consent by users across what General Counsel and VP of Global Privacy Tiffany Morris calls “the chain of custody.” This reaches from the time the user’s data is generated or collected at, say, a publisher’s website, through the various ways in which the data is use
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MarTech Today: Lotame’s GDPR prep, data breaches of 2017 & planning a CRM stack upgrade

Here’s our daily recap of what happened in marketing technology, as reported on MarTech Today, Marketing Land and other places across the web.
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Lotame’s prep for GDPR highlights big changes in data management
Dec 19, 2017 by Barry Levine
There’s tracking consent, providing data access and minimizing liability. Plus there’s the pending ePrivacy Regulation.
Equifax and beyond: How data breaches shaped 2017
Dec 19, 2017 by Robin Kurzer
Could this be a turn
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‘Always On’ is at the heart of every ABM strategy — here’s why

As a B2B marketer, you are often caught trying to serve two masters: the need to drive engagement for specific campaigns or periods relative to the business vs. the overall goal to drive persistent ROI throughout the year. In any scenario, it’s becoming more clear that the “campaign” mentality no longer serves.

Even marketing’s cousin, advertising, has evolved. In the age of programmatic and audience-based, data-driven marketing, advertisers have already moved away from the campaign a
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Article: Five Stats to Understand Christmas in Japan

Christmas is not an official holiday in Japan, nor a widely observed religious holiday, but it is celebrated nonetheless in its own unique way. Here’s some data that highlights Christmas in Japan.
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Game over: The death of the sales funnel and leveling up attribution

It’s game over for the traditional customer journey.

Today’s consumer has fragmented the ancestral sales funnel by wandering freely across channels and devices in search of the best product or deal. The average consumer owns more than seven devices, using more than three each day, of which marketers typically only see one, according to the Data & Marketing Association’s 2017 Statistical Fact Book.

To put it a different way: The path to purchase has evolved from a two-dimensiona
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Will GDPR and blockchain live up to their hype in 2018?

Sure, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and blockchain have been a hot topic for the past several months. But is either of them more than just a buzzword? I spoke to some marketers to see what they had to say about what 2018 holds for these two trends.

Blockchain could solve all our problems — or not
Seems like everyone is talking about blockchain, the distributed shared ledger that promises to keep transactions secure and anonymous. Most know it as the technology behind bitcoin. Ye
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Right behind the GDPR, there’s the ePrivacy Regulation

If your company is complying with the upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), what about the ePrivacy Regulation?

While GDPR is finalized and scheduled for implementation on May 25, the accompanying ePrivacy Regulation is still in the approval process, and its language could change.

An “optimistic” forecast, Future of Privacy Forum Policy Counsel Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna told me, is that the ePrivacy Regulation will be finally approved by the end of 2018, although the im
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TV Can Make Attribution More Actionable

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“On TV And Video” is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video. Today’s column is written by John Whitmore, head of data strategy at TiVo. Measuring campaigns by tying ad exposure to customer conversions, whether they be in-store purchases, car test drives or online site visits, isn’t anything new. However, turning measurementContinue reading »



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Data And Diversification: How Publishers Survived 2017

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In 2017, many online publications realized that data and revenue diversification could drive success. And not being diversified enough could hurt their business. While many publishers tout their branded content businesses, programmatic provides a reliable, easily scalable revenue stream. Publishers that were programmatic holdouts, avoiding the main way advertisers do data-driven buying, course-corrected this yearContinue reading »



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Global Economy Week Ahead: BOJ Opinions, China Manufacturing PMI

The week ahead features a summary of opinions from the Bank of Japan’s latest monetary policy meeting and data on China’s factory activity.
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