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WARC Best Practice, September 2020
Summarises the insights from a series of key papers addressing data protection and privacy and the regulations concerning the use of consumer data, particularly the impending EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and ePrivacy Regulation.
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WARC Best Practice, May 2020
Aggregates the current thinking and writing on Big Data in a marketing context, including the insights that can be drawn from data sets that are so large, or complex, that traditional data processing applications are inadequate.
Article
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Rachael Smith, WARC Best Practice, December 2018
Outlines the six ways to effectively blend brand purpose and data ethics.
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David L. Smith, WARC Best Practice, May 2018
ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) allows marketers to combine multiple data sources and contributes to increased data hygiene, which is essential for effective marketing.
Article
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Verity Gill, WARC Best Practice, October 2017
Six key steps to help marketers navigate the volume and complexity provided by big data and glean meaningful insights.
Article
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Jo Blazey, WARC Best Practice, October 2017
This article looks at how marketers can prepare for the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a European piece of legislation that will come into effect in 2018.
Article
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Michael Plimsoll, WARC Best Practice, July 2017
This article provides a best practice guide to setting up and getting the best from aData Management Platform (DMP), which allows businesses to collect, integrate, manage, segment and activate large volumes of customer data across marketing channels.
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Marie Stafford, WARC Best Practice, April 2017
This article explores the ever more important topic of data governance; a simple reading of the demands on data managers would reveal many pitfalls, but the author disagrees: a responsible approach to data can be a source of much-needed consumer trust.
Opinion
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Mark Inskip, September 2020
Video streaming services must do more to convert potential audiences into loyal customers, writes Kantar’s Mark Inskip.
Article
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Alex Brownsell, Event Reports, FIPP World Media Congress, September 2020
How Bloomberg Media is adjusting its content strategy to the post-pandemic market.
News
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21/09/2020
The use of blockchain technology in qualifying impressions in digital advertising can increase return on ad spend by as much as 14%, according to research from the Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG).
Article
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Jules Kendrick, WARC Exclusive, September 2020
A cross-industry pilot of blockchain technology revealed promising results.
Article
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Stephen Whiteside, Event Reports, World Retail Congress, September 2020
The coming “fifth generation” of retail will require members of this category, and the brands that rely on them, to make significant changes to their strategies.
Article
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Gemma Spence, WARC Webinars, September 2020
Explores how brands can grow online in the competitive e-commerce landscape.
Article
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Richard Webber, International Journal of Market Research, Vol. 63, No. 5, 2020, pp. 528-537
This article uses the COVID-19 pandemic to demonstrate how our understanding of ethnic inequalities could be improved by greater use of algorithms that infer ethnic heritage from people's names.
News
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01/09/2020
Building direct relationships with customers gives brands valuable first-party data that can be used to make retailers more confident in carrying the brand’s products, a new WARC Best Practice guide to both brands and retailers benefitting from ...
Article
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Low Lai Chow, Event Reports, Adobe Experience Makers Live, July 2020
Legal services supplier LegalVision adopted a subscription business model.
News
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25/08/2020
VOZ, Australia’s database that brings together viewing data for both linear TV and BVOD to provide all-screen, cross-platform planning and reporting for the television industry, is set to be a game changer and Nine is keen to lead the way.
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20/08/2020
A majority of respondents to the WFA’s Programmatic, Data & Technology Global Survey 2020 said first-party data was now business critical for audience targeting, reflecting the importance of privacy to marketers.
News
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19/08/2020
The data that powers the smart technologies credited with improving people’s lives is also central to cybersecurity threats, privacy scandals and the sometimes questionable practices of tech giants; it’s having an impact across everything from ...
Article
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Steven Moy, WARC Exclusive, August 2020
With pressure to generate fast consumer insights in a time of constant change, brands need to use data and artificial intelligence to their advantage.
Article
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Mukta Lad, WARC Exclusive, August 2020
A Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) webinar focused on how modern marketing needs to be agile, customer-centric and tech-enabled.
Article
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Lance Porigow, WARC Best Practice, August 2020
Explores how selling direct-to-consumer (DTC) benefits not only brands who do so, but also the retailers they do business with.
Article
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WARC Best Practice, August 2020
A summary of new thinking and best practice on e-commerce and the future of effectiveness, from the WARC Guide.
News
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31/07/2020
Under pressure, the young and controversial social media app TikTok has laid down a challenge to its competitors: match us on our radical transparency and show the world your code – but does it actually signal a significant change for the app? On ...
