Analytics

 

Why Bad Data is Wasting Your Marketing Efforts (SMT)

Businesses are starting to realise that data quality is worthy of more serious investment. 81 per cent believe good data is key to marketing success. And Experian found that 34 per... More

User-Centric Analytics Sheds Light On Search: Uses Real People, Not Inferences (MediaPost)

At a time when major search engines are reducing the amount of data available to advertisers and agencies implementing paid and/or organic search marketing strategies, a unique sou... More

How the Connectivity Revolution is Transforming Marketing (Digital Marketing Blog)

Marketing to the masses, once the backbone of marketing methodology, has now become a distant memory, at least for forward-thinking organizations. Consumers have shown a clear pref... More

Spotify’s ‘Found Them First’ Puts a New Spin on Discovery Bragging Rights (Billboard)

Do you listen to bands before they're famous? Are you a tastemaker? Spotify now has an online tool for the earliest of adopters. Found Them First is a microsite that lets Spotify u... More

Capturing TV-inspired Web Searches (ExchangeWire)

In response to data that suggests over a third of TV viewers search online for advertised products shown during a commercial break, Suzuki sought to provide a seamless journey from... More

How Data Analytics Is Shaping What You Watch (Knowledge@Wharton)

When Netflix decided to go into the entertainment-producing business by commissioning the streaming series “House of Cards,” there was a lot of data to be crunched before the f... More

Why Purchase of Millennial Media Brings Verizon Closer to Its Data Dreams (AdAge)

AOL won't talk about it, but the steady stream of mobile activity and profile data the firm now has at its disposal from its new parent Verizon makes its Millennial Media acquisiti... More

Spotify is Getting Unbelievably Good at Picking Music (Tech Insider)

Spotify's progress in sorting its library of 35 million songs can be traced back to The Echo Nest, a music intelligence company that was created within the MIT Media Lab a decade a... More

Why Analytics Professionals Are Destined for Leadership (SmartDataCollective)

Nowadays, one doesn’t need to look very far to find companies using data analytics to adopt a more data-driven approach, whether to inform their marketing strategy or otherwise. ... More

IBM Knows What Makes Serena Williams So Good (Wired)

Since 1990, IBM has been working with the United States Tennis Association to support the technological infrastructure of the U.S. Open. Back in the day, that meant generating scor... More

The Power of Analytics : Solving Problems Beyond Finding Insights (Dataconomy)

Emerging technological breakthroughs enter our consciousness promising a bright future, but more often than not they follow Gartner’s well plotted hype cycle – from the peak of... More

Adobe Brings App Analytics Together With Target (AdExchanger)

Adobe Analytics and personalization engine Adobe Target can now be consumed as a combo meal. The company said Wednesday that it has integrated the two solutions, also available as ... More

6 Observations From A New Survey On The State Of Big Data Analytics (Forbes)

A new survey of 316 executives from large global companies, conducted by Forbes Insights and sponsored by Teradata in partnership with McKinsey, provides a fresh look at the state ... More

Data And Analytics Power Technology At The US Open (Forbes)

This year, by analyzing the streams of data, we can point out “moments of achievement,” in real-time, such as the player’s fastest serve during the tournament. Most fans migh... More

Data Quality Determines Decision Outcomes (Dataconomy)

Big data does not change the relationship between data quality and decision outcomes. It underscores it. The elegance of analytics systems and processes lies not in the gathering,... More

Netflix’s Falcor is a Data Fetching Gift to Developers (ProgrammableWeb)

Last Monday, Netflix released a developer preview of Falcor, a data-fetching library. Netflix uses Falcor to power its UIs across all platforms whether it's mobile, desktop, or TV ... More

Rentrak Teaming with MovieTickets.com for Data Products (Variety)

Entertainment industry researcher Rentrak has formed an alliance with online ticket seller MovieTickets.com to co-develop data products for the movie and TV industries. Under the p... More

In a Data-Driven N.F.L., the Pings May Soon Outstrip the X’s and O’s (New York Times)

When 80,000 fans pack MetLife Stadium each time the Giants and the Jets play this season, they are unlikely to notice the 22 new radio receivers placed discreetly around the buildi... More

As Brands Dig Deeper Into Social Data, Twitter Opens Up To Third-Party Developers (AdExchanger)

Brands know the importance of images or videos uploaded by fans and customers on social media. But for many, it’s like dying of thirst surrounded by the ocean. Relevant content m... More

IBM Watson Brings Cognitive Computing to Fantasy Football (CIO)

Edge Up Sports is teaming up with IBM to create a new app powered by Watson that provides a one-stop shop for fantasy football managers to glean insight from NFL players' social me... More

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