Customer Data Platforms: Use People Data to Transform the Future of Marketing Engagement

Martin Kihn · Christopher B. O’Hara

May 2021 · Gildan Media · Narrated by Sean Pratt

About this audiobook

Marketers are faced with a stark and challenging dilemma: customers demand deep personalization, but they are increasingly leery of offering the type of personal data required to make it happen. As a solution to this problem, Customer Data Platforms have come to the fore, offering companies a way to capture, unify, activate, and analyze customer data. CDPs are the hottest marketing technology around today, but are they worthy of the hype? Customer Data Platforms takes a deep dive into everything CDP so you can learn how to steer your firm toward the future of personalization. Over the years, many of us have built byzantine "stacks" of various marketing and advertising technology in an attempt to deliver the fabled "right person, right message, right time" experience. This can lead to siloed systems, disconnected processes, and legacy technical debt. CDPs offer a way to simplify the stack and deliver a balanced and engaging customer experience. Customer Data Platforms breaks down the fundamentals, including how to: understand the problems of managing customer data; understand what CDPs are and what they do (and don't do); organize and harmonize customer data for use in marketing; build a safe, compliant first-party data asset that your brand can use as fuel; and more.

About the author

Martin Kihn is senior vice president, strategy, for Salesforce Marketing Cloud. Previously, he spent five years as a leading Gartner analyst covering marketing, advertising, and data.

Sean Pratt, a working actor for over twenty-five years, has performed at numerous regional theaters around the country. He is the author of To Be or Wanna Be, and he has recorded over seven hundred books in just about every genre, earning eight AudioFile Earphones Awards and four Audie Award nominations.