Multi-channel marketing is a double-edged sword. As the number of touchpoints increases, so too does the volume and variety of consumer data available to brands. Which can be either a huge opportunity or a massive problem for marketers.
An opportunity – to get to know what consumers really want, and create experiences that deliver. Or a problem – because unless you can tie all those customer identifiers back to real people, you don’t truly understand who you’re marketing to.
That’s where identity resolution comes in. In this session you will learn how beginning with an accurate and complete picture of your consumers can impact your omni-channel marketing success.
7. 7
Challenge:
The Amount of Data
Available Continues
to Grow
ViaIDC
44
ZETTABYTES
2020
30B Devices
88bn
years
of music files
686bn
64GB
tablets
1.4bn
years
of HD video
180ZETTABYTES
2025
80B Devices
8+
ZETTABYTES
2016
11B Devices
250bn
32GB
Smartphones
8. Challenge
Identity Resolution
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E. Simon
55 Post
San Francisco
(650) 307-2131
Eli Simon
10 Main St
Arkansas
Elias J Simon
143A 55th
New York, NY
Eli Smith
(650) 307-2131
Device ID
4500d
App
Download
Age: 21
Male
Cookie ID 5699zk7fb42
Site: aboutthedata.com
Cookie ID 9O582Lk3
ID G59x55
Term: skinny jeans
eli@liveramp.com
Likes
elisimon@gmail.com
coolguy5@yahoo.com
ID: elijazzyjazz
Cookie ID: 89f73kpn
Site visit
Category: record players
Impression view
Campaign: Fall 2016
coolguy@gmail.com
Sentiment
Eli Simon
Joe Glass
Eli Simon
$75, Shoes
Sentiment
Sentiment
impression
Cookie ID
Cookie ID
Cookie ID
Cookie ID
Cookie ID
Cookie ID
impression
impressio
impression
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12. Analyze
that feedback to
improve their
understanding of
the consumer…
Repeat
Attribute
feedback on the
effectiveness of our
marketing
Augment
our understanding
with what other
people know
12
Our Client’s Perspective
The Foundation for Customer Obsession
Unify
everything we know
about consumers
Activate
that understanding
across digital
channels
“Onboarding”
13. 13
Identity Resolution:
Onboarding
Typical Use Cases
Audience Suppression
CRM Retargeting
Cross-device marketing
Look alike modeling
Site Optimization
Dynamic creative optimization
TARGETING
PLATFORMS
PERSONALIZATION
PLATFORMS
TV
Search
CRM ACTIVATE
15. 15
Our Client’s Perspective: Beyond Onboarding
Our success relies on
knowing consumers,
every time they interact
with our brand, anywhere
BUT
Onboarding
is really
valuable
16. Identity Resolution:
Beyond Onboarding
UNIFY AUGMENT ACTIVATE ATRRIBUTE ANALYZEUNIFY AUGMENT ATRRIBUTE ANALYZECRM
TV
Search
TV
Web
TARGETING
PLATFORMS
PERSONALIZATION
PLATFORMS
MEASREMENT &
ATTRIBUTION
PLARTORMS
ANALYTICS
ENVIRONMENTS
18. 18
Just came
back from
London
Current book
purchased in
genre Sci-fi
Subscribes to
fashion
magazines
Has a
birthday
coming up
Enjoys art
Watches
NetFlix videos
on Sharks
Bought a coat
at John Lewis
in London
Has 2 small
children who
like sharks
Saw this
movie at the
theater
Buys skin
care products
at Sephora
This is
Customer
Obsession
Recently
purchased
backpack
19. Benefits of Identity Resolution
Measure the offline impact
of digital marketing campaigns that drive
purchases in a store of over the phone
Increase ROAS
by targeting people and not
cookies/devices
Reactivate customers
by messaging them specifically through
their preferred channel
Optimize spend
based on a complete view of the
consumer journey
Eliminate waste
by suppressing offline customers across
digital channels
Increase site conversions
by personalizing for known and
anonymous visitors
Acquire new customers
by leveraging both offline and online
lookalike modeling
Retain valuable customers
by ensuring they don’t receive
irrelevant messages
Increase LTV
with a single view of the consumer for
omnichannel execution
21. LiveRamp IdentityLink
People-based reach against US
Consumers
210M+
Active US
users
200M+
Active US
users
170M+
Unique Matched IDs
Active in US
85M+
Active US
users
23. IdentityLink: An Industry Platform
23
Brands AgenciesData Owners Tech Partners Publishers
…By helping their partners in the digital ecosystem
Helping Marketers Build an Omnichannel Understanding of the Consumer…
Benefits
to Marketers
Improved Identity Resolution
• Across Platforms and Devices
• Across silos of consumer data
New Data Sources: 2nd / 3rd Party data
Improved Integrations: Faster, Automated
New Destinations: Custom Audiences,
Everywhere
25. LiveRamp:
The Foundation for Customer Obsession
245
Million
135
Million
100+
Million
60
Million
170+
Million
LiveRamp: People Based Marketing, EverywherePeople-Based Marketing. Everywhere.
Notas del editor
Does anyone in the audience know who coined the term “People Based Marketing?”
It was Facebook, back at AdWeek in 2014. They wanted to point out that most digital marketing is not “people based,” but marketing to approximations of people, like cookies or mobile id’s.
Not surprisingly, they also wanted to point out that one of the few places you could do people based marketing was on Facebook. In other words, you could come to Facebook with an offline data set like a CRM file, and they could help you find those exact people on their properties.
They were able to this because they arguably have the world’s largest digital identity graph, allowing them to recognize the actual person on the other end of a mobile phone or behind a browser.
And as a result, markters flocked to their offering, Facebook Custom Audiences.
People-based marketing is working:
92% of Media Buyers are increasing their people-based advertising spend
83% of advertisers report that people-based ads outperform traditional digital media. People-based ads are working which is why advertisers are planning to move more budget to these ads
And Facebook (Custom Audiences) and Google (Customer Match) are the go-to destinations for people based budgets. But what are these platforms? Yes, walled gardens. Look my message here isn’t don’t use G & F. You absolutely should start there, the results speak for themselves.
But given how well it works, marketers want to scale beyond these two channels, unifying the people based marketing they are doing on Google and Facebook with people based marketing across the rest of the digital ecosystem.
And that’s where LiveRamp comes in.
If you don’t remember anything else from this presentation today, remember this – LiveRamp allows you to unify the people based marketing you do on Facebook and Google, and to extend it to the rest of the digital ecosystem.
Our identity graph, which powers the third-party technology platforms our customers use for targeting, personalization, and measurement, provides reach against the majority of the US population, allowing you to map the hundreds of millions of digital identifiers floating around out in the wild back to an actual person.
And in so doing, capture the same benefits you see on Google and Facebook across the rest of your marketing mix.
But that’s only part of the story. The need for identity resolution isn’t limited to improving marketing execution.
Marketers want to understand each and every interaction with their brand, no matter where it occurs, in digital or traditional channels, because they ultimately are chasing the holy grail – an perfect understanding of the consumer.
This not only impacts marketing, but can influence all aspects of their business - think product design or in store experience.
This particular statement, borrowed from Forrester Research, does a pretty good job of capturing what our customers our constantly telling us – customer obsession is not only key to their success but also for their survival.
So what’s so hard about all this, whether its executing people based marketing campaigns or building an omnichannel view of the consumer?
Well, to start, there are over a billion identifiers for consumers across the digital devices they use to access and consume media, and the number continues to grow
And then there are the 3500+ media and marketing platforms that consumers interact with on those devices – think of these as “micro-channels” - each using its own identifier for the consumer, and the number continues to grow
And then there’s the data itself – the data that helps you better understand consumers and their interactions with brands
The amount of data available today is already massive and by 2025 it will grow exponentially
Today there are over 11 billion connected devices, producing 8 Zettabytes of data per year
By 2025 80 billion devices are expected to produce 180 zettabytes of data. The astounding growth comes from both the number of devices generating data as well as the number of sensors in each device.
The exploding volume and frequency of data produces a massive opportunity for marketers to understand their current and potential consumers in a hyper-focused way. But it also represents a significant risk in that you might be crushed under a 180 zettabyte ballon if you don’t get in front of this now.
Today’s consumers expect the brands they engage with to recognize them over time, and across channels and devices.
But consumer data is constantly changing and can quickly become outdated:
People move, change phone numbers, use different versions of their name
Supporting stats for the US: 38M residential moves, 4M births, 2.1M marriages, 0.8M divorces
With the average individual using 5 or more devices, consumers are constantly generating identity signals across channels and devices - anything from ad impressions, engagement data, app downloads, etc.
That’s a lot of identities floating around.
You need a way to resolve all these identities to individuals so you can recognize Eli across channels, devices, and platforms.
Because if you’re still showing Eli ads for restaurants in Arkansas after he’s moved to New York, you aren’t created the best customer experience
Resolving these identities is not easy, but we have the industry leading deterministic matching capability that we combine with the offline matching capabilities of Acxiom AbilTec in order to accurately link all of these identifiers back to anonymous individuals
Acxiom has been doing this in the offline world since 1999 with their Abilitec product, merging, purging, removing duplicates, all to match the different versions of the same person into one universal ID. [see appendix for more on Abilitec]
So what does that mean?
It means we combine everything you know about your customers like profile data from your CRM database, POS transaction data, call center data
Then you can add 2nd and 3rd Party data to augment what you know
And then you can bring in event data like site activity, exposure data, and impression logs so you have a full understanding of your customer
And the LiveRamp IdentityLink that represents Eli will remain the same over time, so as he, changes his email address, buys new devices and starts using new browsers you can still tie all of this data back to Eli in a privacy-safe way
LiveRamp makes it easy to resolve identity for any 1st or 3rd party data whether it’s PII based, cookie based or mobile id based, you can send your data to LiveRamp and use our Identity Graph to resolve the identity of your data back to anonymous individuals or households and then find the the identifiers associated with those individuals across the marketing ecosystem.
The marketplace is beginning to realize that identity resolution is the key to activating consumer understanding in any direction (offline to digital, digital to digital, and digital back to offline). Forrester research recently released a new concept they dubbed “the enterprise marketing core,” which in their opinion provides the foundation for any marketing cloud. Identity Resolution is identified as one of the 5 key elements of that core. Gartner is also considering creating a new category around identity resolution in the digital marketing space, for similar reasons – interest from their clients. The market is realizing this is a foundational capability.
So, hopefully I’ve convinced you identity resolution is something you should be investing in. So now lets talk about how to get started.
Let’s start with the end in mind – a complete understanding of the consumer. How do best of breed organizations approach this?
Unify everything they know about consumers: 1st party data. Challenging even within the four walls of their org; disparate systems
Augment their understanding with what other people know (2nd and 3rd party data)
Activate that understanding and engage with consumers across digital channels: Consumers, not devices.
Capture feedback on the effectiveness of that engagement: Reach, resonance, and reaction
Incorporate that feedback to improve their understanding of the consumer. And repeat.
So let’s talk about onboarding. We’ve created a tremendous amount of value for our clients, only solving a piece of the bigger picture for brands and the partners they work with – agencies, data owners, technology platforms and publishers.
Specifically, allowing them to use context stored in their offline CRM systems to apply context to their engagement with consumers in digital channels.
Which of course means you have to recognize that person when you encounter them in a digital channel, which is where our identity graph, working inside of 500+ best of breed technology platforms, comes into play.
To make this real, think of this straightforward example – if you knew a cookie belonged to someone who was already a customer, would you treat them differently?
The answer is obviously yes, as several basic use cases our customers focus on illustrate
And this is what brands can accomplish with onboarding, or identity resolution across platforms and devices. Audience suppression alone – a single use case – has generated millions of dollars of savings for our clients.
But now let’s talk about what some of our more forward thinking, and customer obsessed, clients are doing.
As we just discussed, onboarding has allowed our customers to move offline data – typically CRM data - into the digital world to better target and personalize their marketing.
That’s a great first step, but our customers want us to go farther than that
They’ve told us you want to build an omnichannel understanding of consumers before they ever onboard their data that can be activated anytime, anywhere
So let’s look at what brands can do leveraging identity resolution not just to onboard, but also to build an omnichannel view of the consumer. CRM data isn’t the only data that can be used to improve targeting and personalization
<Click> There are other valuable sources of 1st party “offline” data sitting in disparate systems
<Click> And 1st party “digital” data sitting in ad servers
In allowing the brand to segment against all of this information, they can create more powerful segments. But as we mentioned earlier, any individual brand doesn’t have the full picture.
<Click> Identity Resolution also allows the brand to leverage 2nd and <click> third party data from outside of their organization to further enhance their understanding of the consumer.
When we do onboard this more robust understanding of the consumer <click>, the value of targeting and personalization is greatly amplified. But reaching the consumer is only half the battle.
<click> Brands then want to understand the impact of the interaction, and to do that they need to resolve more digital data back to the consumer.
<click> This ultimately allows the brand to complete a virtuous cycle; enrich, reach, repeat.
What does this look like in practice?
Here we have an example of tow offline first party data sets (a CRM file and promotion history file), a first party digital data set (an exposure file), and a 3rd party data set from a data owner.
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This is what customer obsession looks like.
And the benefits go far beyond simple ad targeting
So what’s behind our ability to do this? LiveRamp IdentityLink, an identity resolution service that works inside your preferred technology platforms for targeting, personalization, measurement, and analytics.
Powered by an identity graph that approaches the scale of Google and Facebook, but can be leveraged outside of Google and Facebook.
And an identity graph that spans beyond just what digital players can provider. Our identity graph is omni-channel, allowing our customers to resolve identity in both the offline and digital worlds, and connect the two.
And finally, an identity graph that allows everyone in the marketing ecosystem to tap into the value created by people based marketing. In addition to the solution we provide for brands,
<Click> We provide IdentityLink for data owners, that allows them to connect their data to the digital ecosystem and better monetize it. And this adds value for brands as it allows them augment their undertstanding of consumers, and increase both the reach against and understanding of customers and prospect
<Click> We provide IdentityLink for agencies and technology partners, allowing them to offer people based marketing solutions to the brands. And this adds value for the brands by increasing the speed and reach at which they can activate their marketing program
<Click> We provide IdentityLink for Publishers, allowing them to offer people based marketing on their properties and better compete with Google, Facebook, and programmatic platforms. And this adds value for brands by providing direct access to their customers and prospects in the publisher’s premium inventory
By 2017, 89% of marketers expect customer experience to be their primary differentiator. - Gartner
Most brands are still in the Average and Good ranges in terms of the customer experience they deliver.
These brands are limited by a lack of knowledge about their customers, disconnected technologies and disparate data
We already help many brands - including some of your competitors - move towards delivering the best customer experience...
You can’t deliver the best customer experience if you don’t see the full picture of your customer...
So I mentioned earlier that if there’s only one thing you remember about what we do, its that we help our customers extend people based marketing beyond Google and Facebook – and that’s a great place to get started.
<Click> But don’t stop there. LiveRamp can provide the foundation you need to build a customer obsessed organization, and better compete in the new age of consumerism.