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Processes: The Digital Media Buying Playbook
As more and more interactive marketers buy digital media programmatically, the technologies and processes they use are rapidly maturing. Whether you're a digital media buying skeptic working to build...

Landscape: The Personal Identity Management Playbook
Although widespread adoption of personal identity management (PIDM) remains a few years away, the ecosystem of data lockers and authorization managers is already rapidly evolving. Firms ranging from...

Stay Ahead Of Privacy Legislation By Creating A Value-For-Data Exchange
Recent advances in audience targeting point to a digital marketing future that leverages consumer data to create personalized messaging and drive higher conversions. However, this potential is...
European eBusiness Executives Strive To Give Their Customers Choice And Flexibility Across The Purchase Journey
European shoppers are becoming increasingly web-savvy and are turning to a wider range of touchpoints as they research and buy products online and offline. In response, eBusiness executives across...
Privacy Laws Force Rich Dialogue With Customers
In May 2011, the EU ePrivacy Directive came into effect across Europe. This directive has met with a mixed response at a national level, with some countries jumping to hit the deadline, some stalling...
Personal Identity Management
Customer intelligence (CI) professionals face increasing pressure to give consumers greater control over the data that organizations collect about them. Forrester has published a report predicting...
With the increase in high-profile data breaches and the recent Federal Trade Commission (FTC) settlements that hold Facebook, Google, and Twitter accountable to strict privacy audit guidelines,...

Move From On/Off Compliance Approaches To Custom Privacy Management
Governments are placing pressure on interactive marketers, in most cases by mandating clear rules around how customer data is obtained, used, and stored for marketing. While interactive marketers...
Building A Foundation To Enable Next-Generation Mobile Services
CIOs that Forrester interviewed understand the potential of context and are building the foundational infrastructure needed to support the use of context across consumer touchpoints — not just...

Marketing Gets Customized For Social, Local, Mobile, Multiscreen Consumers
Social is not a channel, and mobile goes beyond the smartphone. In 2012, marketers will get this concept and realize that their customer is truly "always on." The customer of 2012 expects customized,...
Marketers Must Exchange Value For Customers' Social Data
Through social interactions on channels such as Facebook, Twitter, and blogs, consumers are creating a massive amount of data. Customer Intelligence (CI) professionals want this data and are now...
Best Practices To Make The Most Of Explicit Data Collection
Data provided directly by customers and prospects is an essential driver of interactive marketing success. But in today's rapid-fire digital landscape, inconsistent standards, technical complexity,...
Preparing For A World Of Consumer-Managed Data
Consumers are leaving an exponentially growing digital footprint across channels and media, and they are awakening to the fact that marketers use this data for financial gain. This, combined with...
How To Protect Your Email Data
In facing security woes such as the Epsilon breach, email marketing professionals have received a wake-up call: Security failures can cost a lot — not just a lot of money but also goodwill with...
Implement Self-Regulation For Behavioral Targeting To Protect Your Brand
An industrywide effort is underway to implement self-regulation of targeted display ads to ease consumer and governmental privacy concerns. Clear compliance requirements have been outlined by the...
Data security isn't necessarily a sexy topic, but the impact of a recent data breach raised awareness within the email marketing industry, among consumers and Congress. To maintain consumer trust and...
No Longer A Service, Location Will Be Embedded In Mobile Products
eBay's recent acquisition of Where and Groupon's acquisition of Whrrl show how two Internet pure players looking to develop mobile transactions plan to integrate new location-based features into...
Forrester Technographics Digital Consumer Community Report, August 2011
Sixty-five percent of US online consumers report being very concerned about the recording and collection of their personal details by websites, and more than 60% are worried about personal...
Mobile Transforms How Interactive Marketers Engage With Customers
Consumers will adopt and use convenient services and products. On mobile phones, this means services that offer immediacy and simplicity through a highly contextual experience. Context — the...
Mobile Transforms How Companies Interact With Customers
Consumers will adopt and use convenient services and products. On mobile phones, this means services that offer immediacy and simplicity through a highly contextual experience. Context — the...

Today, consumers in Europe pay less attention to promotional emails, delete emails without reading them, find emails less relevant, and wonder how marketers got their email data. Smart marketers...
Saturation, Stagnation, And Privacy Concerns Challenge Social Media Marketers
Social media marketing was never easy, and it will get no easier in 2011. Consumers' increasing concerns over noise and privacy will decrease the relatively open access marketers have enjoyed in...
Build Trust And Advocacy With Targeted Content And Engagement Strategies
It was easy to grow a brand's social media marketing program over the past few years; a flood of new consumers entering social networks and other social venues provided a burgeoning audience. But as...
Behavioral Marketers Should Prepare To Self-Regulate Data Practices
Concern over consumer privacy has marketers, associations, government officials, and even technology vendors hustling to find ways to manage online data so that it is comfortable to consumers and...
Forrester updated its Email Marketing Review (EMR) methodology to reflect interactive media changes that affect email marketing efficiency and relevance. As with our past email review methodologies,...