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CUSTOMER DATA MISSING?
Why most customer profiles are seriously incomplete,
and what you can do to quickly and cost-effectively fix
the problem for your brand
Is Half of Your
By Jim Nichols
VP of Marketing, Apsalar
Introduction
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The essence of good marketing is being customer-
focused. Our field is all about understanding
consumer needs and aligning products and
communications to reflect and address
them.
Today, many companies are working
hard to collect and unite their customer
behavioral data across channels into rich
individual profiles – profiles that reveal
insights into what people want. The
“Data Management Platform” category
has been created to bring together all of
that information and make it actionable in
future marketing programs.
Uniting data from across different marketing
touchpoints and platforms isn’t easy. Not only
are the data collected in different ways, much of it is
also collected using technology like third party cookies,
which record information anonymously and must later be
probabilistically tied to other forms of customer data.
Then there is the challenge of uniting data from different
devices into the anonymized profile of the individual that
uses them. Why? In order for us to understand a customer,
we need to interpret signals they send from all of their
devices as they migrate from screen to screen throughout
the day. Linking PC and mobile data requires the use of
what is called a device graph. A device graph uses signals
like WIFI connections to identify devices with a high
degree of likelihood to be used by the same
program. These inferred connections are the
“graph.” The challenge with device graphs
is that most lack scale in mobile device
visibility. Only a few companies, including
Apsalar, have access and visibility into
large numbers of devices in the US and
globally.
But perhaps the toughest issue to
address is that most DMPs have no
way to collect and measure customer
behaviors that take place inside apps.
In-app activity cannot be measured with
technologies like third party cookies. Rather,
app measurement tools have been specifically
created to collect both in-app activity data and
information on the effectiveness of marketing tools that
drive in-app activity. Many of these are designed primarily
for use by mobile gaming companies, who have their own
specific set of needs. Apsalar was developed specifically to
meet the needs of mcommerce companies.
Unless you and your company collect and incorporate
in-app behavior activity into your DMP and customer
modeling, you don’t have visibility into this important set of
customer touch points. You could be missing half of your
customer data!
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HOW IMPORTANT APPS ARE TO CUSTOMER UNDERSTANDING
Years ago, US marketers might reasonably postpone addressing this challenge because in-app
time represented only a small proportion of total connected consumer time. But time spent
in apps has grown rapidly and now represents more than 50% of connected Americans’ time,
according to comScore.
Pause for just a moment to consider that statistic. It means that without visibility into what your
customers do in apps, you are blind to a majority – A MAJORITY – of their digital behavior.
In the US, mobile mcommerce is expected to represent about 10% of total ecommerce sales.
While that might not sound like a huge number, mcommerce is growing almost twice as fast as
ecommerce as a whole, and 23 times as fast as all retail sales.
47%
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
40%
53%
Mar-13
Share of US Digital Media Time by Platform
Mobile Mobile App Desktop
Jun-14
60%
52%
40%
Source: comScore
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In the US, mobile mcommerce is expected to represent about 10% of
total ecommerce sales in 2015. While that might not sound like a huge
number, mcommerce is growing almost twice as fast as ecommerce as a
whole, and 23 times as fast as all retail sales.
+25%
+15%
+5%
+1%
Total Discretionary Retail E-Commerce M-Commerce
+12%
+23%
+20%
+10%
+0%
Q1 2014 Y/Y Retail Spending Growth by Channel
Source: comScore, 2014
Smartphones dominate as
mcommerce drivers.
Tablet Phone
Share of m-Commerce Spending
by Device
38%
62%
Source: comScore, Q1 2014
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In addition, mobile INFLUENCES far more purchases than those that are made via
a phone. According to a 2013 study from Google and IPSOS, two thirds of us begin
purchase considerations on one device and complete purchases on another.
65% 61%
19%
10%
4%
5%
25%
11%
START ON A
SMARTPHONE
CONTINUE ON A
SMARTPHONE
START ON A
PC/LAPTOP
CONTINUE ON A
PC/LAPTOP
CONTINUE ON A
PC/LAPTOP
START ON A
A TABLET
CONTINUE ON A
A TABLET
CONTINUE ON A
A TABLET
65% START SHOPPING ON ONE DEVICE
AND CONTINUE ON ANOTHER
Source: Google/IPSOS 2013
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In total, Deloitte estimates that more than $593B in purchases were
influenced by mobile searches and utilities in 2013. Making reasonable
growth assumptions, that figure now likely exceeds $1Trillion.
Mobile’s and digital’s influence on in-store sale
$159B $334B $I.IT$593B
Mobile
Digital
2012 20122013 2013
5%
19%
14%
36%
If a customer makes several searches for flights and hotels in LA
with trip dates for next week is very likely to be in market for tickets
and reservations. But if that searching took place in your app, you
wouldn’t KNOW they were in market beyond that session. You
couldn’t market to them through all of your available channels.
A person who spends an hour looking at SUV videos in a car app
is likely in market for one, but that interest would be unknown. You
couldn’t use advertising to drive your brand into their consideration
set or short list.
A person who shops in-app for jeans and places them in a shopping
cart cannot be retargeted to complete their purchases unless you
have access to their shopping data in your DMP.
1
2
3
Whether or not your brand is in any of these categories, I am sure it will be easy to see how having the
in-app behavioral data – or not having it -- could have a significant effect on your bottom line.
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THE SOLUTION: APSALAR MOBILE DMP SERVICES
Apsalar Mobile DMP is a flexible set of data management offerings enabling direct marketer brands to enrich their customer
profiles and audience targeting with insights from user behavior that takes place in mobile apps and across other marketing
channels. Richer profiles and insights in turn contribute to increased ROI.
The Apsalar Mobile DMP has been productized into three interlocking solution sets, making it easier for clients to begin the
process of understanding all of their customer behaviors while shaping the integration to fill their most pressing needs.
APSALAR
ATTRIBUTION
APSALAR
AUDIENCES
APSALAR
DATASYNC
MOBILE DMP
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Purpose built for the tracking and
measurement needs of mcommerce,
Apsalar Attribution measures customer
behavior and mobile marketing
performance in apps and on the
mobile web.
Apsalar Audiences unites your
mobile and cross-channel data and
makes it actionable by managing
customer profiles, enriching them
with third party data and creating
high performing audiences for future
marketing programs.
Apsalar DataSync streamlines the
process of safely sharing customer
insights and audiences with a brand’s
marketing partners and platforms.
Clients define business rules for
data sharing right from the Apsalar
platform. The company has a large
and growing number of pre-existing
integrations with marketing analytics,
app monitoring, marketing automation,
tag management and PC web DMPs.
Apsalar
Attribution:
Apsalar
Audiences:
Apsalar
DataSync:
Apsalar Mobile DMP was designed
to be accretive to the highly variant
data infrastructures present at
different companies. Clients can
deploy all three elements at once,
or engage sequentially based
upon their needs and legacy data
infrastructure. In addition, clients
can choose to use the Apsalar
platform to analyze their data and
create audiences, or receive a feed
of customer data or profiles that
can be analyzed and interpreted in
the platform of their choice. Apsalar
can also improve a client’s ability to
connect mobile devices and PCs to
an anonymized individual.
The Apsalar DMP
is now available globally.
9Copyright © 2015 All rights reserved worldwide. | www.apsalar.com
If you’ve already made a commitment to data-driven
customer marketing, you know how important it is to
understand what people are doing in digital channels.
Website browsing, PC third party cookie data, and CRM
interactions, for example, reveal important insights into
what a consumer is likely to want and do next.
But without access to in-app customer data, you’re really
missing out on so many of the signals that should be
powering your marketing. I hope this paper has helped
demonstrate the need for such visibility and has interested
you in taking action.
Thanks for reading. I welcome comments to this
paper. Please write me at Jim@apsalar.com with your
suggestions and ideas.
CONCLUSIONS
Jim has 20+ years experience in over 80 different
categories, including developing successful
positioning and go-to-market plans for more than
40 adtech and martech companies. He joins Apsalar
after several years as VP of Marketing for Conversant,
where he led various efforts in the successful rebrand
of the company from ValueClick, Inc. The rebrand
and associated industry attention for the company
contributed to the $2.3B sale of Conversant to
Alliance Data in December, 2014. He is a prolific
writer for digital trades on brand marketing, mobile,
video, data, and customer profiling. Publications
include iMedia Connection, Inside Radio, VentureBeat,
ad:tech, ShellyPalmer.com, Jack Myers, and many
consumer publications. He holds a B.A. in U.S. History
from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA in
Marketing from the University of Chicago.
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  • 1. CUSTOMER DATA MISSING? Why most customer profiles are seriously incomplete, and what you can do to quickly and cost-effectively fix the problem for your brand Is Half of Your By Jim Nichols VP of Marketing, Apsalar
  • 2. Introduction 2Copyright © 2015 All rights reserved worldwide. | www.apsalar.com The essence of good marketing is being customer- focused. Our field is all about understanding consumer needs and aligning products and communications to reflect and address them. Today, many companies are working hard to collect and unite their customer behavioral data across channels into rich individual profiles – profiles that reveal insights into what people want. The “Data Management Platform” category has been created to bring together all of that information and make it actionable in future marketing programs. Uniting data from across different marketing touchpoints and platforms isn’t easy. Not only are the data collected in different ways, much of it is also collected using technology like third party cookies, which record information anonymously and must later be probabilistically tied to other forms of customer data. Then there is the challenge of uniting data from different devices into the anonymized profile of the individual that uses them. Why? In order for us to understand a customer, we need to interpret signals they send from all of their devices as they migrate from screen to screen throughout the day. Linking PC and mobile data requires the use of what is called a device graph. A device graph uses signals like WIFI connections to identify devices with a high degree of likelihood to be used by the same program. These inferred connections are the “graph.” The challenge with device graphs is that most lack scale in mobile device visibility. Only a few companies, including Apsalar, have access and visibility into large numbers of devices in the US and globally. But perhaps the toughest issue to address is that most DMPs have no way to collect and measure customer behaviors that take place inside apps. In-app activity cannot be measured with technologies like third party cookies. Rather, app measurement tools have been specifically created to collect both in-app activity data and information on the effectiveness of marketing tools that drive in-app activity. Many of these are designed primarily for use by mobile gaming companies, who have their own specific set of needs. Apsalar was developed specifically to meet the needs of mcommerce companies. Unless you and your company collect and incorporate in-app behavior activity into your DMP and customer modeling, you don’t have visibility into this important set of customer touch points. You could be missing half of your customer data!
  • 3. 3Copyright © 2015 All rights reserved worldwide. | www.apsalar.com HOW IMPORTANT APPS ARE TO CUSTOMER UNDERSTANDING Years ago, US marketers might reasonably postpone addressing this challenge because in-app time represented only a small proportion of total connected consumer time. But time spent in apps has grown rapidly and now represents more than 50% of connected Americans’ time, according to comScore. Pause for just a moment to consider that statistic. It means that without visibility into what your customers do in apps, you are blind to a majority – A MAJORITY – of their digital behavior. In the US, mobile mcommerce is expected to represent about 10% of total ecommerce sales. While that might not sound like a huge number, mcommerce is growing almost twice as fast as ecommerce as a whole, and 23 times as fast as all retail sales. 47% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% 40% 53% Mar-13 Share of US Digital Media Time by Platform Mobile Mobile App Desktop Jun-14 60% 52% 40% Source: comScore
  • 4. 4Copyright © 2015 All rights reserved worldwide. | www.apsalar.com In the US, mobile mcommerce is expected to represent about 10% of total ecommerce sales in 2015. While that might not sound like a huge number, mcommerce is growing almost twice as fast as ecommerce as a whole, and 23 times as fast as all retail sales. +25% +15% +5% +1% Total Discretionary Retail E-Commerce M-Commerce +12% +23% +20% +10% +0% Q1 2014 Y/Y Retail Spending Growth by Channel Source: comScore, 2014 Smartphones dominate as mcommerce drivers. Tablet Phone Share of m-Commerce Spending by Device 38% 62% Source: comScore, Q1 2014
  • 5. 5Copyright © 2015 All rights reserved worldwide. | www.apsalar.com In addition, mobile INFLUENCES far more purchases than those that are made via a phone. According to a 2013 study from Google and IPSOS, two thirds of us begin purchase considerations on one device and complete purchases on another. 65% 61% 19% 10% 4% 5% 25% 11% START ON A SMARTPHONE CONTINUE ON A SMARTPHONE START ON A PC/LAPTOP CONTINUE ON A PC/LAPTOP CONTINUE ON A PC/LAPTOP START ON A A TABLET CONTINUE ON A A TABLET CONTINUE ON A A TABLET 65% START SHOPPING ON ONE DEVICE AND CONTINUE ON ANOTHER Source: Google/IPSOS 2013
  • 6. 6Copyright © 2015 All rights reserved worldwide. | www.apsalar.com In total, Deloitte estimates that more than $593B in purchases were influenced by mobile searches and utilities in 2013. Making reasonable growth assumptions, that figure now likely exceeds $1Trillion. Mobile’s and digital’s influence on in-store sale $159B $334B $I.IT$593B Mobile Digital 2012 20122013 2013 5% 19% 14% 36% If a customer makes several searches for flights and hotels in LA with trip dates for next week is very likely to be in market for tickets and reservations. But if that searching took place in your app, you wouldn’t KNOW they were in market beyond that session. You couldn’t market to them through all of your available channels. A person who spends an hour looking at SUV videos in a car app is likely in market for one, but that interest would be unknown. You couldn’t use advertising to drive your brand into their consideration set or short list. A person who shops in-app for jeans and places them in a shopping cart cannot be retargeted to complete their purchases unless you have access to their shopping data in your DMP. 1 2 3 Whether or not your brand is in any of these categories, I am sure it will be easy to see how having the in-app behavioral data – or not having it -- could have a significant effect on your bottom line.
  • 7. 7Copyright © 2015 All rights reserved worldwide. | www.apsalar.com THE SOLUTION: APSALAR MOBILE DMP SERVICES Apsalar Mobile DMP is a flexible set of data management offerings enabling direct marketer brands to enrich their customer profiles and audience targeting with insights from user behavior that takes place in mobile apps and across other marketing channels. Richer profiles and insights in turn contribute to increased ROI. The Apsalar Mobile DMP has been productized into three interlocking solution sets, making it easier for clients to begin the process of understanding all of their customer behaviors while shaping the integration to fill their most pressing needs. APSALAR ATTRIBUTION APSALAR AUDIENCES APSALAR DATASYNC MOBILE DMP
  • 8. 8Copyright © 2015 All rights reserved worldwide. | www.apsalar.com Purpose built for the tracking and measurement needs of mcommerce, Apsalar Attribution measures customer behavior and mobile marketing performance in apps and on the mobile web. Apsalar Audiences unites your mobile and cross-channel data and makes it actionable by managing customer profiles, enriching them with third party data and creating high performing audiences for future marketing programs. Apsalar DataSync streamlines the process of safely sharing customer insights and audiences with a brand’s marketing partners and platforms. Clients define business rules for data sharing right from the Apsalar platform. The company has a large and growing number of pre-existing integrations with marketing analytics, app monitoring, marketing automation, tag management and PC web DMPs. Apsalar Attribution: Apsalar Audiences: Apsalar DataSync: Apsalar Mobile DMP was designed to be accretive to the highly variant data infrastructures present at different companies. Clients can deploy all three elements at once, or engage sequentially based upon their needs and legacy data infrastructure. In addition, clients can choose to use the Apsalar platform to analyze their data and create audiences, or receive a feed of customer data or profiles that can be analyzed and interpreted in the platform of their choice. Apsalar can also improve a client’s ability to connect mobile devices and PCs to an anonymized individual. The Apsalar DMP is now available globally.
  • 9. 9Copyright © 2015 All rights reserved worldwide. | www.apsalar.com If you’ve already made a commitment to data-driven customer marketing, you know how important it is to understand what people are doing in digital channels. Website browsing, PC third party cookie data, and CRM interactions, for example, reveal important insights into what a consumer is likely to want and do next. But without access to in-app customer data, you’re really missing out on so many of the signals that should be powering your marketing. I hope this paper has helped demonstrate the need for such visibility and has interested you in taking action. Thanks for reading. I welcome comments to this paper. Please write me at Jim@apsalar.com with your suggestions and ideas. CONCLUSIONS
  • 10. Jim has 20+ years experience in over 80 different categories, including developing successful positioning and go-to-market plans for more than 40 adtech and martech companies. He joins Apsalar after several years as VP of Marketing for Conversant, where he led various efforts in the successful rebrand of the company from ValueClick, Inc. The rebrand and associated industry attention for the company contributed to the $2.3B sale of Conversant to Alliance Data in December, 2014. He is a prolific writer for digital trades on brand marketing, mobile, video, data, and customer profiling. Publications include iMedia Connection, Inside Radio, VentureBeat, ad:tech, ShellyPalmer.com, Jack Myers, and many consumer publications. He holds a B.A. in U.S. History from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA in Marketing from the University of Chicago. ABOUT THE AUTHOR