Everything You Need to Know About Threads
Keeping up to date with the latest news is a good way to stay competitive in a fast-paced industry like marketing, but getting one step ahead allows you to not just stay competitive but get an early advantage over your competitors. Predicting the future is a nearly impossible task, but analyzing trends and current events gives us a window into some of what is likely to happen in the coming months and years. Changes to the way email marketing is done, an increased expectation of privacy and security, and more widespread applications of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning will change the landscape of digital advertising.
Last Saturday marked the first anniversary of the European Union's implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The primary purpose of the law was to ensure the safety of private information belonging to citizens of the European Union. Punishments have been given to some Businesses since the installation of the law, like the one for Google sizing up to a $57 million penalty. It seems like it has been pretty effective, and for the most, I believe it has. Aside from receiving a plethora of "we have updated our privacy policy" notification, measures have been taken to ensure the safety of privacy for the people of Europe. Companies that are in the EU and also those who deal with Citizens of those countries have been forced to obtain user consent before gathering data from cookies.
