From Reporting to Reduction: How Businesses Are Taking Action on Climate Change
Adland isn’t exempt from the legislation that’s coming down the pike.
It’s Not Easy Being Green: Preparing for the FTC’s Updated Green Guides
A brand is responsible for all reasonable takeaways of a vague claim, making them particularly risky.
Competition: Another Big DC Week for Tech (Where Do We Go From Here?)
When the leaders of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google come to Washington, you know there’s going to be a lot of posturing – and it’s usually not (just) from the [...]
A Map or a Matrix? Identity Management Is More Complex By the Day
A newly published white paper on how advertisers and brands can recognize unique customers across marketing platforms underscores just how tough this important job is for data-driven marketers. As technologists [...]
The U.S. Postal Service Needs Financial Protection
Even in crisis, exacerbated by COVID-19, there’s not likely to be new postal reform bill any time soon. So here we are now: the U.S. Postal Service needs financial protection.
COVID-19’s Effect on the USPS and Direct Mail Marketing
We've heard a lot on the news about essential businesses during COVID-19, but one we all count on that is not mentioned much is the USPS. The Postal Service, like [...]
Data Love Story in the USA With a Few Spats, Too
You might call this time of year, Jan. 15 to March 15, marketing data’s “high season,” based on all of the goings-on. There’s a lot of data love out there [...]
More Rules and Regulations for Content Marketers
So, content marketers, let’s talk about the regulatory environment more broadly, because one thing is for certain: the web, as wild and woolly as online discourse may be, is no [...]
What Did You Do on Data Privacy Day 2020? Do Tell Us.
Each year, Jan. 28 is known as “Data Privacy Day” in the United States and globally — also Data Protection Day in other jurisdictions. As business organizations — and marketers [...]
How New Data Protection Laws Affect Your Non-Transactional Website
Good news! Regulatory agencies are taking privacy policies and data protection more seriously than ever. Bad news! Regulatory agencies are taking privacy policies and data protection more seriously than ever.
Marketers Caroling to CCPA: ‘Winter Wonderland’
Marketers caroling may not be what immediately comes to mind to get you in the holiday spirit, but here's a little ditty about how useful data is to marketers. Sing [...]
Earn Consumer Trust Through ‘Surprise and Delight’ in a Post-Privacy Age
Recent consumer research from Pew Research Center shows we have some work to do persuading consumers to let us use data about them for marketing. Right now, the risks seem [...]
What’s the Price on ‘My Data’? Let the Marketplace Set the Rate
A bipartisan bill in Congress would assign the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission with the task of determining what consumer data is worth; at least when it comes to Big Digital [...]
2019 to 2022: The Evolution of Consumer Consent and How to Adapt
By opening a dialogue with audiences about data collection and processing, as well as empowering them to decide how their data is used, marketers and publishers can enhance their relationships [...]
7 Privacy UX Tips From a Privacy and Marketing Expert
There are all kinds of marketing awards, but how about one for privacy UX? How do you make your customers comfortable with your privacy user experience? It’s not just agencies [...]