Loyal customers are one of the primary drivers of any for-profit business. By building loyalty rewards programs, companies aim to heighten the customer experience. In many cases, however, the opposite has occurred. The implementation of blockchain can drive the customer experience to the next level, and here’s how:

Reducing costs
Enabling a frictionless system
Making the process near real-time
Providing a secure environment
Creating unique business opportunities

Given that blockchain’s adoption is in its near infancy in business categories beyond finance and manufacturing, it has the potential to evolve many aspects of marketing. Beyond the customer experience, the marketing industry could use it to create accountability in ad buys, improve a brand’s transparency, or understand customer engagement better.

As consumers realise the benefit of content that is personalised to their needs, many will join a company’s blockchain environment. And to further engagement, brands may incentivise consumers for their attention. Given that there might be a reduction in the need for media intermediaries, companies can afford to take some of their cost-per-thousand savings from media and transfer that to the actual audience. 

As programmatic advertising reaches adulthood and the advertising process becomes ever more automated, it’s not possible to simply sit back and blindly trust the measurement and attribution data. Instead, incorporating emerging tech solutions from AI to blockchain will be paramount in waging the war against bot fraud.

According to the latest information, the New Balance Realchain network will be launched in alignment with the unveiling of OMN1S shoes on Friday. The project will help the new clients to record their shoes’ ownership on the decentralized chain. The purchasers of the OMN1S shoes will be given a Realchain card, which will be studded with an identity and security chip. After receiving their pair of basketball shoes, the owner can scroll through the New Balance app for scanning a QR code imprinted on the Realchain card. Also, one needs to scan the chip embedded within the card to get their shoe pair authenticated on the IOHK Cardano blockchain network.

The customers need to enter a code given on the tongue of the shoes into the app for claiming their ownership. By doing this, the particular person will be entitled to secured ownership of the shoes recorded on the New Balance Realchain platform.

"Data centralization is core to digital marketing driven by data and analytics. The vulnerabilities of this data can be removed by the decentralized, and distributed ledger technology Blockchain. The security risks are taken care of by this technology, which also increases the transparency and traceability of the data.

Apart from the security of the data, there are concerns related to the overall cost of analysis, storage and retrieval of data. As you need to offer something in return for the data available to the intermediaries such as Google and Facebook, you end up spending a lot of money. The ROI is negligible against the spending in certain cases, specifically from these channels.

However, with Blockchain you can get your hands on the data without considering these middle channels. You own your personal data, and the scope for manipulation of this data reduces tremendously. 

As a marketer, you reduce the spend but, you also empower the consumer with a choice on sharing the data. The consumer gets the veto on the data that can be shared, and the ones that should be private. It works as a win-win situation for both, and eventually you get to score trust with the customers.

 A decentralized ledger like blockchain can impact digital signage in many ways. First of all, it can help confirm impressions for digital signage advertisements. This kind of technology is already at work with the company VODXS.

On the customer level, DOOH advertisers can also incentivize customers to engage with campaigns through tokenization. For example, a campaign could encourage customers to take a picture of an advertisement and share it on their social media profiles in exchange for cryptocurrency, which can be delivered to an app.

• Blockchain Adoption Exempts Middlemen Involvement: It will end the role-play of the middlemen, Google, along with an increase in the profit margin and decrease in variable costs.
• Blockchain Ensures Trust And Transparency: Blockchain technology fosters transparency like no other medium as it gives them a sneak-peek into the production as well as supply chain pedagogy followed by the producer. 
• Blockchain Renders Public Accountability: The use of smart contracts that are easily accessible to one and all makes it work as a platform that is accountable to the public for its actions.
• Owners Get Paid By The Advertisers
• Blockchain Supports Brand Imaging

"Welcome to the brave new world of tokenization, where digital tokens issued on blockchains are used to represent asset ownership and to efficiently facilitate asset exchange. By leveraging blockchain infrastructure, this digitalized form of currency uses digital tokens to control and exchange ownership in an asset or something else with perceived value. In doing so, tokens support transparent, immutable and frictionless transactions – and that is unlocking new models for engagement between businesses and consumers.

Tokens are enabling new ways to purchase products and services, enhance customer experiences, and strengthen customer trust and brand loyalty, in addition to numerous value-driving business initiatives. While still in its early days of adoption, tokenization
is already reshaping commerce by enabling new ways to drive consumer behaviors to build trust and brand loyalty. Companies that ignore the potential of tokenization to transform business models and competitive landscapes may soon be leap-frogged
by bolder players who are harnessing tokenization to create competitive advantages.

How? By pursuing new opportunities to drive real business value for organizations across industries."

Blockchain for lead generation delivers the ability to source leads and share information using a decentralized platform in a peer-to-peer network. This is the first time blockchain is entering into the sales world, and it has the potential to have a transformational impact on the business and how sales organizations typically source leads and contact information. 

Rather than sourcing from many unreliable third-party databases, users can instead take part in a network sharing system to source leads and contacts that fit their organization, while selling leads that do not conform to their ideal customer profile to other companies that may need that lead. Currently, sales leaders will not find many vendors offering blockchain for lead generation. However, in the meantime, they can learn more about its potential use cases and prepare for an increase in the vendor landscape.

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Seoul, South Korea hosted the much anticipated Korea Blockchain Week from Sep. 27, 2019, to Friday, Oct. 4, 2019. The main conference of the event, known as D.FINE, took place between September 30th and

"In the pilot that EXChain completed for Unilever/ADK in Japan, we tested the hypothesis of blockchain can be applied in providing advertising transparency, i.e. gaining full visibility of campaign spending elements and participating stakeholders. The pilot found out that a simple two-layer supply chain tested in the pilot took out a compound intermediary fee of 36%, and the total projected campaign spending efficiency is approximately 51% only, i.e. 49% of every dollar spent went to the tech and supply vendors. "

Global entertainment and media industry, currently worth at the US $2 trillion are being transformed substantially by the digital technologies in the areas of content production and distribution. Blockchain technology being one of these prominent technologies has the potential to overhaul the market framework and resolve many impending challenges by connecting various stakeholders e.g. authors, musicians, videographers directly with consumers in a way enhancing the efficiency tremendously.

The key driving forces like rising demand for eliminating intermediaries between content creators and end-users, increasing instances of data piracy in the media, entertainment, and advertising verticals, and the growing need for secure and faster transactions are fuelling the adoption and usage of Blockchain Technology Media, Advertising & Entertainment Market industry.

Many privacy professionals view the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation as a watershed moment in the evolution of data privacy law. And this law, along with the California Consumer Privacy Act will have a big impact on blockchain.

When obstacles associated with a regulatory framework are left in the past, CMOs face a new kind of challenge -- learning how to combine profitability and privacy. So far, it’s largely been a one-way street. Websites collect user data and sell it to advertisers, who then use it for the purposes of advertising personalization.

Entrepreneurs, startups, publishers and advertisers should direct their efforts toward rewarding user attention in exchange for their data usage, which is especially important in regard to the General Data Protection Regulation.

A year-long pilot that uses blockchain to improve online advertising efficiency has yielded promising initial results, according to IBM CMO Michelle Peluso.

The project has already reduced pennies on the dollar of waste in the area of ad reconciliation and brought greater transparency to the complex gauntlet of intermediaries brand advertisers have to deal with, Peluso told VentureBeat in an interview this week. And there’s more to come, she said.

Reconciliation refers to the process advertisers use to ensure contracted agreements are actually delivered. Peluso estimated the average savings at 2 to 3 percentage points, though the company is still collecting results from its multiple brand partners.

Blockchain can help solve one of the advertising industry's biggest challenges: opaque advertising practices.  Publishers, advertisers, and ad tech vendors are exploring blockchain as a tool to boost transparency around ad practices, with the end goal of reducing fraud. Ad fraud is expected to cost the industry $44 billion by 2022, up from $19 billion this year, according to Juniper Research estimates. Through its function as a public database, blockchain can store information about a digital advertisement, like who has created it, while sharing it with everyone else on the network in a verifiable and immutable way. For digital advertising, that means ad impressions can be tracked along the supply chain, and advertisers can record where an ad is delivered. 

Blockchain and AI are now widely used by enterprises to improve their internal processes and products. In a dedicated analysis for Cointelegraph, Julia Magas wrote that by being able to continuously analyze data under a strict protocol required for achieving desired results, AI leads the way by allowing data to be properly stratified and shared.

Blockchain lends its characteristics to make sure the data is handled in an environment that is safe from external interference, as well as tampering of data ownership and sequence.