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Acxiom partners with the world’s leading brands to create customer intelligence, enabling data-driven marketing experiences that generate value for people and for brands. The experts in identity, the ethical use of data, cloud-first customer data management, and analytics solutions, Acxiom makes the complex marketing ecosystem work, applying customer intelligence wherever brands and customers meet. For more than 50 years, Acxiom has improved clients’ customer acquisition, growth, and retention. With locations in the US, Europe, and Asia, Acxiom is a registered trademark of Acxiom LLC and is part of The Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. (IPG). For more information, visit Acxiom.com. 

Bread Financial^TM (NYSE: BFH) is a tech-forward financial services company providing simple, personalized payment, lending and saving solutions. The company creates opportunities for its customers and partners through digitally enabled choices that offer ease, empowerment, financial flexibility and exceptional customer experiences. Driven by a digital-first approach, data insights and white-label technology, Bread Financial delivers growth for its partners through a comprehensive product suite, including private label and co-brand credit cards, installment lending, and buy now, pay later (BNPL). Bread Financial also offers direct-to-consumer solutions that give customers more access, choice and freedom through its branded Bread Cashback^TM American Express^® Credit Card and Bread Savings^TM products.

Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, Bread Financial is powered by its 7,500+ global associates and is committed to sustainable business practices. To learn more about Bread Financial, visit BreadFinancial.com or follow us on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram.

Comarch is a global software house that delivers cutting-edge loyalty management & digital marketing platforms that companies can use to increase customer lifetime value, drive brand awareness, and boost profits. Recognized as a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave report, Comarch supports some of the world’s most popular brands (including Auchan, BP, Ford, and Heathrow Airport) by providing them with tools for building and running immersive B2B, B2C, and B2E loyalty programs and marketing campaigns. comarch.com

Marigold’s approach to relationship marketing stands alone in a world of one-size-fits-all marketing technology companies. Our solutions are designed for your specific size, industry, and maturity, giving you the technology and expertise you need to grow the relationships that grow your business, from customer acquisition to engagement to loyalty. And, with a team of strategists that provide insights into what’s working, what’s not, and what’s changing in your industry, you can maximize ROI at every step. 

Great marketing isn’t just about conversion but genuine connection. Learn why 40,000 businesses worldwide trust Marigold as the foundation they need to help relationships take root. meetmarigold.com

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Zeta Global is the AI-Powered Marketing Cloud that leverages advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and trillions of consumer signals to make it easier for marketers to acquire, grow, and retain customers more efficiently. Through the Zeta Marketing Platform (ZMP), our vision is to make sophisticated marketing simple by unifying identity, intelligence, and omnichannel activation into a single platform – powered by one of the industry’s largest proprietary databases and AI. Our enterprise customers across multiple verticals are empowered to personalize experiences with consumers at an individual level across every channel, delivering better results for marketing programs. zetaglobal.com

Attentive® is the leader in conversational commerce, reinventing business to consumer communication. Our SMS-first software platform helps everyone from entrepreneurs to enterprises strengthen relationships with their consumers in a new way. Through two-way, real-time, personalized communications, we drive billions in e-commerce revenue and over 8,000 leading brands like CB2, Pura Vida, GUESS and Urban Outfitters rely on Attentive to deliver powerful commerce experiences.

Braze is a leading customer engagement platform that powers lasting connections between consumers and brands they love. Braze allows any marketer to collect and take action on any amount of data from any source, so they can creatively engage with customers in real time, across channels from one platform. From cross-channel messaging and journey orchestration to Al-powered experimentation and optimization, Braze enables companies to build and maintain absolutely engaging relationships with their customers that foster growth and loyalty. The company has been recognized as a 2024 U.S. News Best Technology Companies to Work For, is a 2023 UK Best Workplace for Women by Great Place to Work, and was named a Leader by Gartner® in the 2023 Magic Quadrant™ for Multichannel Marketing Hubs and in The Forrester Wave™: Cross-Channel Marketing Hubs, Q1 2023. Braze is headquartered in New York with 10+ offices across North America, Europe, and APAC. Learn more at braze.com.

Innovating loyalty since 2001, ebbo’s loyalty ecosystem combines proprietary technology and data-driven strategy with a full-service approach for a unique, cash-positive program that connects and engages your customers at scale.

Epsilon is a global advertising and marketing technology company positioned at the center of Publicis Groupe. Epsilon accelerates clients’ ability to harness the power of their first-party data to activate campaigns across channels and devices, with an unparalleled ability to prove outcomes. The company’s industry-leading technology connects advertisers with consumers to drive performance while respecting and protecting consumer privacy. Epsilon’s people-based identity graph allows brands, agencies and publishers to reach real people, not cookies or devices, across the open web. For more information, visit epsilon.com.

The Fuel Rewards® program is the premier national loyalty program that connects national and regional brands with millions of consumers who enjoy earning cents-per-gallon savings at the pump. PDI Technologies powers and runs the Fuel Rewards® program that serves more than 30 million members and has helped them save over $2 billion on their fuel purchases to date. As a national coalition loyalty program, Fuel Rewards® members earn rewards on everyday purchases from a variety of retailers and can redeem cents-per-gallon rewards at 12,000+ participating Shell locations across the United States. To learn more about the Fuel Rewards® program and to become a partner, visit pditechnologies.com/expand-brand/fuel-rewards/

As a trusted partner for more than 30 years, Kobie delivers market-leading, end-to-end loyalty solutions designed to enable customer experiences for the world’s most successful brands. With a strategy-led, technology-enabled approach, Kobie is consistently named an industry leader by Forrester with a mission of growing enterprise value through loyalty for clients.

Reaching more than 330 million consumers through loyalty, Kobie’s solutions are robust, but our philosophy is simple. The thoughtful design of proven solutions coupled with extensible, scalable, and configurable technology leads to a seamless customer experience. We bring strategic tools and frameworks to design programs that deliver results, and leverage our proprietary technology, Kobie Alchemy® Loyalty Cloud, to deliver and measure loyalty experiences. To learn more about partnering with Kobie, visit www.kobie.com.

Based in Palo Alto, CA, Loyalty Juggernaut (LJI) provides the industry’s first patented cloud-native platform for loyalty programs and customer engagement. Our clientele includes retail leaders and innovators such as Majid Al Futaim, Shoppers Stop, FEMSA, Cenomi Group, and CMR. LJI’s award-winning platform, GRAVTY®, stands as the world's only loyalty technology platform holding US patents for three essential capabilities crucial for the next generation of loyalty programs. These include multi-dimensional, 1st-party customer data tracking to drive greater insight and intimacy in this age of "cookie-less" consumers; the use of AI in loyalty and personalization to achieve "mass individualization" at scale; and a "no code" visual rules and drag-and-drop interface for a swift transition from program concept to execution in minutes, significantly reducing the need for extensive IT involvement or consultant expertise.

As a cloud-native technology, GRAVTY® offers pre-built integrations to allow you to get up and running faster and adapt to continual changes in your IT and Martech stacks. It is also ISO27001, SOC 1, and SOC 2 compliant, ensuring the protection of your customer data.

Come see why the world's best and most innovative loyalty programs have chosen LJI’s GRAVTY® as their next-generation loyalty platform. lji.io

Baesman Group creates personalized marketing strategies to transform direct-to-consumer campaigns from One to Many to One to One through customer insights, marketing strategy, custom technology solutions, and personalized multichannel execution. We accelerate customer engagement and loyalty by helping you leverage your customer data to deliver personalized messages in the right channel at the right time in the customer journey.

We’re experts in personalized marketing. We help brands build relationships with customers to increase customer acquisition, build loyal customers, and increase CLV, all while leveraging our custom technology solutions to find efficiencies and reduce overall marketing costs. Our custom-built reporting is delivered when and how you want it, so you’ll always have the data you need at your fingertips. While we can integrate and work with any platform, existing or new, we also offer our CDP and Loyalty platform, Intuition, which is completely customizable to your strategy and business goals.

Our multichannel execution services include personalized, variable direct mail printing, mailing, and tracking, SMS and email strategy and execution, as well as in-store signage, fulfillment, and custom-branded web-to-print portal, Brandwise, which is ideal for brands with multiple locations so you can better control your inventory as well as your brand standards.

BlueConic is the customer data unification and orchestration platform for the world’s most innovative companies. Our intelligent and intuitive platform empowers businesses to unlock better returns on customer data by providing business-facing teams with the best view of their customers, and cutting-edge tools to act on it. More than 350 companies worldwide, including VF Corp, Forbes, Mattel, Michelin, and Molson Coors, rely on BlueConic to unify, analyze, and predictively orchestrate their customer data to increase productivity, improve decision-making, and accelerate growth. Blueconic.com

Bridgetree delivers outcomes quickly by applying unique intelligence to execute proven marketing programs, built on over 28 years of success for our clients. Our solutions drive customer acquisition and retention through life event, competitive conquesting, and CRM strategies that generate sales and profit at scale.

We make marketing simple, by making the hard parts painless.

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IDI is the leading provider of AI-powered consumer identity resolution and intelligence. Based on our proprietary cloud-native technology and expansive consumer identity graph, our marketing solutions harness the power of data fusion to enable our clients to better know and interact with their audiences. IDI provides vital marketing services to retail companies including contact data verification, data enrichment, consumer segmentation, identity resolution, and data monitoring.

Visit https://www.ididata.com/solutions/idimarketing/ to learn more.

Iterable isthe top-rated AI-powered customer communication platform that helpsorganizations like Redfin, Priceline, Calm, and Box to activate customers withjoyful interactions at scale. Iterable’s data engine, ease of use, and flexibleand open architecture makes it the best platform to close the data activation gap by bringingtogether customer data with the ability to design experiences, deliver them, and optimize them—all in one platform. iterable.com

Jebbit transforms the way brands interact with consumers through engaging interactive experiences like product recommendation quizzes, trivia, live polls, (better) surveys, shoppable lookbooks, on-site widgets, and more. These experiences collect first- and zero-party data directly from consumers by exchanging genuine value with consumers in return for their data, enabling brands to acquire more high-value customers, drive more online sales, enrich customer profiles and segments, and unlock valuable insights (at scale) at every touchpoint.

Thousands of globally recognized brands use Jebbit to accelerate their first- and zero- party data initiatives by by leveraging Jebbit’s most trusted and most intuitive software platform, which comes equipped with the comprehensive strategy and award-winning support required to for businesses to achieve impactful growth and long-term success.

Combine real-time data quality and governance protections with AI-powered insights and predictions. Only with the mParticle Customer Data Platform. mParticle is an AI-powered, real-time Customer Data Platform that powers the entire data stack by combining data quality and compliance protections with rich insights and predictions. Companies like NCBUniversal, JetBlue, and Venmo use mParticle to simplify their customer data infrastructure, maximize the value of their data, and accelerate growth at scale. mParticle has raised nearly $300m in funding. Founded in 2013, mParticle is headquartered in New York City with employees around the Globe. Mparticle.com

Mastercard Data & Services encompasses Mastercard's offerings beyond the transaction. We deliver the  technology and data capabilities to help retailers innovate, grow, and stay ahead of the competition in  today’s digital world. 

By harnessing the power of our real-time, anonymized, and aggregated transaction data, powerful  software platforms such as SessionM (loyalty), Test & Learn (analytics), Dynamic Yield  (personalization), and wealth of expertise, we empower retailers to discover new retail insights and  opportunities, recommend targeted actions and predict results, improve performance over time, and  execute programs and campaigns at scale. Our services drive efficiency and value and help customers  make smarter decisions with better outcomes.

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MessageGears is a warehouse-native customer engagement platform that delivers advanced customer segmentation, message personalization, and delivery that simply outperforms other enterprise marketing clouds and data platforms. Through direct data access and innovative platform capabilities, marketers can deliver compelling customer experiences at massive scale, faster and more flexibly than ever before. messagegears.com

Movable Ink personalizes every customer engagement through automation and artificial intelligence. The world’s most innovative brands rely on Movable Ink to maximize revenue, simplify workflows, and achieve the optimal customer experience. Headquartered in New York City with over 500 employees, Movable Ink serves its global client base with operations throughout North America, Central America, Europe, Australia, and Japan.

Learn more at movableink.com.

Resonate is the leader in AI-powered consumer data and intelligence, delivering  proprietary, privacy-safe consumer data for insights, analysis and activation. The Resonate  data set includes over 14,000 relevant, real-time data points that describe more than 230  million U.S. individuals. Resonate data is available how and where you need it for research,  acquisition, media activation, predictive modeling, and first-party data enrichment.  Hundreds of companies use Resonate to understand their audiences and drive highly  effective marketing strategies that transforms growth. 

www.resonate.com

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SheerID can enhance your loyalty program or digital wallet by helping you attract high-value customers and verified, first-party data to create personalized customer journeys. Leverage our platform to create exclusive offers for consumers based on their occupation, life stage, or community membership, verify their status, and keep their provided data to build relationships with them. sheerid.com/business/

Simon Data is the leading customer data platform (CDP) for enterprise customer marketing teams. Top brands such as JetBlue, Tripadvisor, ASOS, and 1-800-Flowers use Simon Data to centralize their customer data, build precise, sophisticated segments, and drive 1:1 personalization across customer touchpoints. Simon Data is recognized as a G2 Leader in the CDP space. Learn more about Simon Data at simondata.com.

Vericast provides marketers a simple, data-rich approach to influence consumers and drive meaningful commerce. We power smarter activations for 15,000+ clients, leveraging our proprietary technologies and solutions portfolio to deliver messages to audiences with precision and scale. See Vericast.com.

Amplitude is a leading digital analytics platform that helps companies unlock the power of their products. Over 2,700 customers, including Atlassian, NBCUniversal, Under Armour, Shopify, and Jersey Mike’s, rely on Amplitude to gain self-service visibility into the entire customer journey. Amplitude guides companies every step of the way as they capture data they can trust, uncover clear insights about customer behavior, and take faster action. When teams understand how people are using their products, they can deliver better product experiences that drive growth. Amplitude is the best-in-class analytics solution for product, data, and marketing teams, ranked #1 in multiple categories in G2’s Winter 2024 Report. Learn how to optimize your digital products and business at amplitude.com.

For more than 10 years, Annex Cloud has been the worldwide leader in technology and service solutions that transform customer loyalty experiences for organizations, extending valued customer engagements, ultimately making beloved brands. 

Powered by the comprehensive and scalable Loyalty Experience Platform™ solution suite, Annex Cloud customers capture and use zero- and first-party data to seamlessly deliver hyper-personalized experiences across the entire customer journey—from awareness, purchase, and retention to loyalty and advocacy. Supporting its global enterprise clients, Annex Cloud has offices in the US, Germany and India. The company is recognized by industry respected organizations and integrates with more than 125 market-leading technologies. Discover more at www.annexcloud.com.

Bloomreach personalizes the e-commerce experience. Its data engine unifies real-time customer and product data so businesses understand what customers really want. By connecting that understanding to every channel, the e-commerce experience becomes limitless — reflecting a changing customer as they shop. Amplified by the speed and scale of Loomi, Bloomreach's AI for e-commerce, this creates endless new paths to purchase, greater profitability, and fast business growth. Bloomreach products include: Engagement, a marketing automation platform; Discovery, an e-commerce search solution; Content, a headless CMS; and Clarity, AI-powered conversational shopping. The company has multiple AI patents and serves 1,400+ global brands including: Williams-Sonoma, Bosch, Puma, and Marks & Spencer. bloomreach.com

Blue Boat Data is an enterprise intelligence platform designed for the business context of your data.

Built by a seasoned team who’ve spearheaded in-house data and analytics functions for global brands, alongside technologists at the forefront of data and AI innovation.

Our Smart Data Layer (SDL) is designed to solve the persistent complexities faced by companies as they strive to maximize value from their data. The SDL is built on deep domain knowledge of the direct-to-consumer space and modular by design. Solutions range from transforming raw data into business ready metrics to machine learning-driven customer segmentation. The platform can reduce the time analysts spend wrangling data by 70 - 80%.

We're passionate about discussing your data and analytics needs and partnering to deliver solutions. Blue Boat Data

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Bluecore’s retail shopper identification and customer movement technology quickly generates incremental revenue for enterprise brands by turning more anonymous shoppers into known customers, and repeatedly and efficiently moving them through the purchase funnel. 

With transparent IDs and real-time product data built directly into campaign workflows, alongside point-and-click predictive models, retail marketers can bypass manual processes to trigger 100s of communications based on any signal and automate the content, offer, recommendation, timing of every email, mobile, site, and paid media message for each individual shopper.

More than 400 brands trust Bluecore to rapidly increase customer retention and drive profitable growth, including Express, NOBULL, Lenovo, Teleflora, Alo Yoga, and Lulu and Georgia. For more information, visit Bluecore.com.

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Bond generates growth for clients by creating enduring relationships between people and brands based on intelligent connections and engaging experiences. Guided by insights from advanced research and practical commercial application through the Bond Behavioral Institute, and enabled by technology through its proprietary cloud Synapze platform, Bond serves clients globally with customer experience and loyalty solutions—enabling brands, customers, employees, partners, and the communities they serve to experience the benefits of growth. Headquartered in Toronto, Bond has more than 800 people and eight offices across North America and Europe.

Breinify is pushing the possibilities of personalization and redefining what it means to deliver a relevant and personalized digital experience for consumers. Trusted by leading D2C marketers across eCommerce, retail, grocery, CPG and more, our data-driven AI solution makes strategic personalization easy across any channel, content, and customer. By seamlessly collecting first-party data, creating dynamic consumer segments, and optimizing the customer journey, we ensure to deliver an unique experience for each individual consumer in real time. Our solution excels in predicting and making intelligent decisions efficiently, yielding measurable results within weeks. breinify.ai

Capillary Technologies is the global leader in customer loyalty and offers an end-to-end customer loyalty platform that provides a comprehensive view of consumers, and unified, cross- channel strategies that deliver a real-time omnichannel, personalized, and consistent experience for customers. Powering 100+ loyalty programs, across 30+ countries, Capillary works with 250+ brands including the likes of Tata, PUMA, Shell, Al-Futtaim, Petron, Domino’s, Kanmo Group, and Marks & Spencer. With a massive reach of 1Bn+ consumers and processing 5Bn+ annual transactions, the company has the backing of Warburg Pincus, Sequoia Capital, Avataar Ventures, and Filter Capital. For more information, visit www.capillarytech.com.

Concentrix Catalyst is the experience design and engineering team of Concentrix, a leading global solutions company that reimagines everything CX through strategy, talent, and technology. We combine human-centered design, powerful data, and strong tech to accelerate CX transformation at scale.

Cordial is the only true marketing platform that empowers brands to fully automate their marketing strategies. Future-thinking brands such as Revolve, Eddie Bauer, and Adore Me choose Cordial to deliver high-conversion messages—across email, SMS, mobile app, social media, direct mail, and more—that drive record-breaking customer engagement and revenue growth. Cordial was named a Fastest-Growing Company in the 2022 Deloitte Technology Fast 500™, and won Business Intelligence Group’s Best Places to Work award in 2023. Connect with us at cordial.com

Engage People is the only loyalty network that enables program members to pay with points directly at checkout. The global technology provider connects loyalty programs with global payment systems and online retailers and covers 100% of the top purchase categories in North America. Leading banks and retailers around the world rely on Engage People for its first-of-its-kind loyalty network and pay-with points capabilities, which has enabled the redemption of more than 43 billion points and growing. The Company is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and has offices in the U.S., Canada, and Italy. 

For more information visit: www.engagepeople.com.

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Exchange Solutions is a cloud-based marketing technology company that delivers personalized loyalty solutions to retailers enabling them to build deeper and more profitable engagement with their consumers. With more than 25 years of experience in the industry, Exchange Solutions transforms loyalty programs and promotions from being costly applications to productive and profitable capabilities for clients across various verticals in the US and Canada. Current clients include retailers such as Esso™ and Mobil™, Sobeys Inc., McKesson, Petro Canada, INDOCHINO, Today’s Shopping Choice, Pet Valu, and White Cap.

‍URL:https://www.exchangesolutions.com/

Snipp Interactive is a leading PaaS company in the global loyalty and promotions sector with a focus on fostering meaningful brand engagement for clients through disruptive marketing tech solutions.  

Snipp's modular SnippCARE (Customer Acquisition, Retention & Engagement) Platform,  powered by our market-leading transaction processing engine, allows clients and partners to run turnkey, omnichannel programs that help acquire untapped consumers and engage them across the entire path to purchase. We generate unique customer data and shopper insights allowing brands to further deepen relationships with their customers.  

For over a decade, we have worked with the world’s leading organizations in both B2C and  B2B spaces across industry verticals, including CPG, pharma, utility, home and outdoor,  alcohol, tobacco, lifestyle and more.

Visit us at www.snipp.com for more details and program examples.

Ansira, a leading independent, global marketing technology and services company with proprietary channel, website, and advertising technology platforms, guides companies operating in distributed ecosystems to connect with their customers, fostering unwavering brand loyalty by seamlessly integrating digital and physical experiences from the enterprise to hyper-local level. Expertise spans CRM & loyalty, media, digital marketing, and channel partner marketing with program support inclusive of incentives, MDF/Co-op, rewards, points, training and onboarding, and enablement. Ansira’s innovative blend of human expertise and cutting-edge technology solutions solves the challenges faced by global marketers today and drives demand for their businesses. For more information on Ansira visit Ansira.com or LinkedIn.

Path2Response is an award-winning, data-driven marketing company that helps businesses and nonprofit organizations optimize direct mail marketing to reach responsive audiences and improve their ROI. We combine an experienced team with untapped data sources, the latest open-source technology, and cutting-edge data science to deliver transformative results. Our transformational cooperative data platform powers customer acquisition, retention, and reactivation in both offline and online channels. Through our partner program, we can consistently achieve incremental and measurable revenue increases. We are based in Broomfield, CO, and we serve businesses and organizations of all sizes across the United States. path2response.com

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SAS is the leader in advanced analytics. Only SAS bridges merchandising, marketing and supply chain processes across the entire retail and consumer goods enterprise. That’s why 921 retailers worldwide – and 90% of Fortune 100 companies.– rely on SAS. sas.com

Unlock the potential of your customer data by partnering with TransUnion. Gain a deeper view of your customer through our extensive identity graph, which combines identity, household, lifestyle and device data into a unified profile. Deliver more personalized experiences and drive deeper engagement with customers. Create audiences for your RMN campaigns onsite and offsite. Find new customers that look like your best customers. Assess which marketing channels are performing best and driving lift. In the era of identity, data quality and data strategy has never been more critical. Whether licensing our data for in-house use, building audiences with our modeling engine, onboarding to your media partners, or measuring your media and campaign effectiveness, TransUnion is the partner to get it done. transunion.com

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