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From Martech Applications to Identity Infrastructure

From Martech Applications to Identity Infrastructure

Mastering Personalization: Navigating Privacy and Data Challenges

Trends for 2025 in personalization emphasize that marketers must break through informational overload while navigating rising privacy rules and more complex tech stacks. The article cites SAP Emarsys’s view that first-party and zero-party data will become increasingly vital for effective personalized ads as third-party data faces tighter restrictions, driving brands to rely on their own customer data across channels. It notes SAP Emarsys’s integration of LinkedIn Ads for company targeting and its push to expand partnerships with players like Criteo to reach consumers on additional platforms. Marketers are also turning to new channels, such as web push, which saw a 60% lift during Black Friday–Cyber Monday weekends. Industry leaders, including Stephan Koch of Exactag and Dirk Rohweder of Teavaro, highlight the need to fuse fragmented tools, enable real-time data sharing with ad servers and CDPs, and build standalone first-party ID graphs with privacy-preserving IDs. Compliance, consent management, and privacy-enhancing techniques are framed as essential enablers of sustainable personalization, alongside engagement-driven alternatives.

Vodafone Unveils ID Strategy for Targeted Digital Advertising

Vodafone's ID strategy positions identity solutions as a central pillar for future targeting and measurement in digital advertising. The Marketing Tech Monitor case study describes Vodafone's Martech infrastructure, including an ID-Graph built with Teavaro that generates a Vodafone Marketing-ID to unify first-party data across websites, apps, and CRM for personalized, cross-channel offers while protecting personal data. Vodafone's four strategic pillars aim to grow the Gigabit Society (fiber, 5G), push Smart Home and connected factories, deliver mobile, broadband, and TV from a single provider, and use a digital architecture to deliver seamless customer experiences. In open web environments, Vodafone relies on Utiq—a joint venture with Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica and Orange—to provide a consent service and to map device IPs to IDs via a MarTech Pass for publishers (three months). Vodafone reports nearly 100% match rates within 90 days for retargeting, enabled by consistent identifiers and user consent.