One of the most strategic components of your digital marketing technology stack is your “data layer.” Simply put, the data layer is the data structure that outlines all the digital data that you want to manage through your digital marketing initiatives. Coupled with a tag management system, you can leverage the data layer to pass data to your various digital marketing vendors or make marketing decisions based on data.
One of the inherent limitations of the data layer, however, is that the data is created at the event level. For example, a well-structured data layer will include page and product attributes on a product detail page, and transactional data on the confirmation page. While useful, this event-level data can be limiting if your marketing strategy is to target different messages to different segments. To achieve a more personalized marketing experience, you’ll need a data layer that contains information both at the event AND user level.
So what exactly do we mean by user-level data? Consider these scenarios.
Data layer enrichment, or creation of user-level data, is one of the cornerstone features of Tealium AudienceStream, a real-time data action engine that is complementary to our Tealium iQ™ tag management system. Through a point-and-click interface, marketers can create and manage user-level attributes that are added to the data layer and available for consumption by Tealium iQ, as well as by marketing execution systems. Examples of such attributes include recency, frequency, lifetime value, customer segment, customer affinity, and more.
If you want to take your marketing to the next level, consider enriching your data layer with user-level attributes. This addition lets you better target your various segments across channels. To learn more, visit the AudienceStream page or schedule a demo.