Cookie Crumbles: Lessons from Cookie Marketing Fails and How to Avoid Them
In today's digital marketing landscape, cookies have sparked both innovation and controversy. While cookies offer immense benefits for marketers, they also raise significant privacy concerns among users. This article will explore some notable cookie marketing fails, the lessons learned, and how to avoid these pitfalls.
The World of Digital Marketing and Cookies
Imagine you're browsing through a supermarket. Every time you return, the employees recognize you and offer special deals based on your previous purchases. This analogy perfectly encompasses the role of cookies in digital marketing. Cookies enable marketers to gain valuable insights into user behavior, offering personalized experiences and driving customer engagement.
However, the world of cookie marketing has its challenges. Let's take a closer look at some common pitfalls and key lessons learned.
1. Not Having a Cookie Strategy
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Not having a mechanism such as filling out an Account Engagement form or driving an Account Engagement email click as early in the customer journey as possible, the two most common ways for a user to get cookied
Lesson
By establishing a strategy to drive an Account Engagement form submission or driving email clicks as early in the customer journey as possible, marketers can gain improved insights into end-user behaviors, enhancing the user experience through targeted nurturing strategies.
2. Lack of Transparency
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Many users remain unaware of tracking cookies until a generic consent pop-up appears, leading to distrust and opt-outs due to the lack of information on the benefits to the end-user.
Lesson
By developing a cookie strategy that prioritizes transparency early in the journey and clearly letting the users know what the benefits are for them, we demonstrate our commitment to safeguarding our users' information and their privacy.
3. Neglecting User Value
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Focusing solely on the benefits for marketers without considering the user experience can lead to dissatisfaction and increased opt-outs.
Lesson
Ensure that tracking cookies directly benefits the user by providing relevant content, personalized recommendations, and a more efficient browsing experience.
4. Not Having First Party Tracking
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By default Account Engagement uses third party cookies, third party cookies are automatically blocked on most modern browsers and will continue to be sunsetted.
Lesson
Implementing first-party cookie tracking significantly boosts Account Engagement cookie coverage with a few clicks within the Account Engagement platform.
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