Have you ever bought an app or game from a digital storefront, only for it to suddenly disappear and become inaccessible without warning? It's both confusing and frustrating, which is why some governments are stepping in and hoping to make things clearer for consumers. Gavin Newsom, governor of California, recently signed a new law (AB 2426) that involves the purchasing of digital goods and services. Under the new law, online storefronts that sell digital copies of video games, music, movies, TV shows, and ebooks must be explicit as to whether customers actually own what they're purchasing. Some digital services are already adapting to the new regulations, which aren't set to be enforced until next year.

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In this day and age, a business that leverages data to understand the drivers of its customers' behaviour has a true competitive advantage. Organisations can dramatically improve their performance in the market by analysing customer level data in an effective way and focus their efforts towards those that are more likely to engage. One trialled and tested approach to tease out this type of insight is Propensity Modelling, which combines information such as a customers' demographics (age, race, religion, gender, family size, ethnicity, income, education level), psycho-graphic (social class, lifestyle and personality characteristics), engagement (emails opened, emails clicked, searches on mobile app, webpage dwell time, etc.), user experience (customer service phone and email wait times, number of refunds, average shipping times), and user behaviour (purchase value on different time-scales, number of days since most recent purchase, time between offer and conversion, etc.) to estimate the likelihood of a certain customer profile to performing a certain type of behaviour (e.g. the purchase of a product). Once you understand the probability of a certain customer to interact with your brand, buy a product or a sign up for a service, you can use this information to create scenarios, be it minimising marketing expenditure, maximising acquisition targets, and optimise email send frequency or depth of discount. In this project I'm analysing the results of a bank direct marketing campaign to sell term deposits in order to identify what type of customer is more likely to respond. The marketing campaigns were based on phone calls and more than one contact to the same client was required at times.

Voice is uncharted territory for most marketers, as it's still a nascent space. Right now, there's significant opportunity for brands to get on board with voice shopping and forge the way as more consumers purchase smart speakers and get accustomed to interacting with digital assistants. Amazon is leading the pack in the space with the greatest market share, and it appears set to build on its first-mover advantage in selling smart speakers with its line of Echo devices that range in price from $50 to $230. The company is able to sell the products at a loss if it means getting people hooked on its e-commerce platform or registering them for a membership to its Prime service. Amazon's acquisition this week of smart doorbell maker Ring could further boost Alexa's shopping strategy by giving consumers a way to authorize access to their homes for deliveries.