Unilever has partnered with Alibaba Cloud, the IaaS outfit behind the Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba Group, to power its digital marketing initiatives. The multinational consumer goods company will be able to optimise its omni-channel, online and offline demand generation activities using Alibaba Cloud’s artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud-based technologies.

A concerted effort to build real-time consumer sentiment tracking has seen Beiersdorf pivot its marketing, media and social approach to meet changing behavioural trends during the COVID-19 crisis.

​The combination of brand layer and content layer with data will help Binge build its presence and engagement in the Australian marketplace, says the new offering's chief marketing officer.

Identifying the connections between ballet students, performance attendees and donors is in the long-term sights of Queensland Ballet as it embarks on the journey to better unify and comprehend customer data.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has launched its Consumer Data Right Register today, after being pushed back a few months in February. The register will allow businesses to apply to be recognised as Accredited Data Recipients.

Universities have huge amounts of data representing untapped potential. But many of them are being held back by manual, slow and error-prone processes.

​Aussie Rules is aiming for authenticity in its latest marketing campaign by using fan generated content.

According to a new report, while businesses are aware of how vital data is to success, a gap has emerged between aspirations to be data-driven and the ability of employees to create business value with data.

“I think in the last five years, we've gone from being able to use some information about an individual to being able to effectively monetise and deliver the exact right message to the exact right person at the exact right time through the martech stack.”

Ikea's decision to give customers more control about how it handles their data signals the role privacy around customer data now plays in the brand marketer's toolkit, several industry experts say.

Data Privacy Day is today (January 28) and with legislation being implemented around the world and large platforms like Google phasing out cookies, marketers are scrambling to balance privacy requirements with customer expectations around not not data collection, but the personalised communications they now expect.

Australia's massive talent gap will continue to plague marketing in 2020, with a growing mismatch between jobseekers’ skills and those needed to employers, according to the Hays Job Report.

Cruisewatch is bringing its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered cruise search engine to Australia — something it says is the first of its kind in the region.

Mr. Beer has been around since the late 1990s, offering home brewing kits in the US and globally thanks to the reach of ecommerce. Yet with a growing customer database, the company was facing two problems: Lack of a strong automated email engagement program, and a solution to entice customers with relevant offers.

86 400 is using technology to scan 200 data points on electricity bills to offer customers a better deal.

Few organisations have been able to match explosive growth in data volumes with their capacity to turn that data into something useful.

Harnessing marketing and digital technology more successfully to improve customer experience is not surprisingly topping the list of 2020 priorities for a number of Australia’s marketing leaders.

In mid-2019, one of the most significant changes to how Australians interact with their financial services providers kicked off with barely a whimper.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has pushed back the launch date for Australia’s new consumer data right to July, citing a need for more testing.

Quantium has debuted a new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered platform that scales and automates its shopping and FMCG insights work.

If there’s one lesson Luxury Escape’s chief customer officer, Jason Shugg, has learnt through the process of overhauling marketing, sales and service technology, it’s the importance of communication.