FD Media: A flexible Customer Data Platform for data-driven transformation

The Challenge

FD Media Group aimed to become a predictable company for every stakeholder by harnessing the power of a Customer Data Platform (CDP). A robust data strategy was devised, leveraging internal expertise, customer research, and data insights, to drive transparency, fuel growth, and create value.

The objective was to utilize first-party data effectively, enhance user targeting, reduce reliance on third-party systems, and ensure compliance with data privacy regulations.

The Solution

We implemented a robust Customer Data Platform (CDP) solution at FD Media Group, offering complete data control and ensuring the use of up-to-date, high-quality data. This centralized CDP acts as a single source of truth, combining essential data from various sources including sales, marketing interactions, customer consent, web and app interactions, and customer demographics.

With persistent server-side event logging, we maintain privacy and security while capturing valuable user behavior insights such as article views, logins, and product consumption. Our strong focus on data governance guarantees consistency, trustworthiness, and GDPR compliance. Additionally, we prioritize maintainability, enabling seamless monitoring and support by our dedicated Crystalloids DevOps team.

With the Customer Data Platform in place, FD Media Group can leverage data for email automation, website targeting, paid media audience targeting, subscription marketing, advertisers, and data visualization, empowering data-driven strategies.

When the single source of truth is in place by creating the Customer Data Platform, FD could start sharing data for email automation, targeting the website, targeting audiences in paid media platforms, subscription marketing, advertisers, and data visualization.

The Goal

• Enhance visibility of customer interaction, accelerated by privacy legislation and browser limitations
• Customer centricity of the readers to offer subscribers the content that they are looking for
• Acquisition of subscribers to target the right audiences at the right moment with the right offer
• Offer advertisers the right audiences, the right contextual positions, and also based on actual interests and demographics
• Democratizing data to bring relevant insights to the fingertips of the marketing, sales, editorial teams, and senior management to become as informed and as predictive as possible.