marketing & privacy

Marketers are building out experiences to ask customers about volunteer zero-party data that they can’t infer, buy, or collect elsewhere.

The communications industry is facing a perfect storm of converging forces, from COVID-19 to the rise of influencer marketing and even AI. At Forrester, we research around 10,000 global technology vendors that utilize indirect sales and often get asked about the value of PR in the channel. A trend that is affecting many channel leaders […]

There may be more to the move than meets the eye. The acquisition will give Facebook access to data it will find useful.

Forrester retail industry analysts provide insights on how privacy and data ethics regulations will affect retail marketers.

Forrester has completed several Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) studies focused on communication and collaboration technology. Higher productivity is a key, consistent, and measurable benefit. We found that there are several ways in which employee efficiency and effectiveness can be improved.

Business cases can provide clarity and confidence in purchase decision making. Marketing and sales teams should use this fact to build a competitive advantage for their companies.

Learn three major impacts of Google’s US entity becoming the data controller for UK personal data.

I’ve recently returned from Beet.TV’s latest Beet Retreat, and I’m feeling . . . optimistic? Pessimistic? Ambivalent? Ambivalent — I’ll go with ambivalent. There is so much opportunity for a TV/video advertising industry that finds itself in flux — an explosion of new content, new data sources, new consumer viewing patterns. All of this means […]

When CX and marketing work together, they accomplish amazing things. Discover why the time is bring these groups together in this Q&A.

(Get it? Sticky!) It’s PayPal’s largest acquisition to date. PayPal’s core value proposition is in alleviating shoppers’ concerns about providing personal financial information during the online checkout process — and that remains as valuable as ever. But here’s what the Honey acquisition means for PayPal moving forward: The Honey acquisition extends PayPal’s role in the […]

Marketers’ efforts to get to know customers via data collection and personalization may be driving them away instead. On this week’s What It Means, Vice President and Group Director Melissa Parrish discusses what’s gone wrong and how marketers can end the disconnect.

There have been several posts in this space about the disconnect between marketers and customers. Part of the problem stems from consumers’ perception that marketers have no respect for privacy, and let’s be honest: In the quest to amass data-rich profiles, consumers’ desire for anonymity has often been ignored. There is a tendency, though, to treat privacy as a binary thing: We care about it, […]

When marketers fail to understand the complexity and nuance of how customers’ core characteristics evolve, people lose trust in them. As they look elsewhere, customers have found a more nimble set of businesses to meet their needs: direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands.