Marketing Dedup & Personalization

Three Catalogs, One Mailbox

Duplicate contacts cost money twice: once for every extra catalog, coupon and email, and again when the customer notices. Personalization suffers too, because each duplicate only knows part of what the customer has bought.

Spring Catalog MailingWithout an identity layer
catalog.listMargaret Hale88 Oak Ave, Austin TXMailed
ecom.customersMaggie Hale88 Oak Avenue · bought 6 days agoMailed
store.loyaltyM. Hale88 Oak Ave Apt 2 · lapsedWin-back coupon

Three catalogs to one person, and a “we miss you” coupon to someone who bought last week.

The Problem

Duplicates Cost Every Campaign

Marketing lists are built from many sources: e-commerce, stores, events, lead forms and purchased lists. Each adds the same people again, with a nickname, a new email or an apartment number the others do not have.

The waste is easy to see in print: several catalogs to one home. It is harder to see in personalization. Each duplicate holds part of the customer’s history, so recommendations, suppression lists and win-back campaigns act on half the picture.

Simple deduplication on email or postal address catches exact repeats and misses nicknames, moved customers and household variations.

Wasted Spend

Print, postage and paid media are spent several times on one person.

Wrong Offers

Customers get win-back offers, welcome discounts or repeat promotions they should not.

Partial Personalization

Recommendations use one duplicate’s history instead of the customer’s.

The Solution

Resolve Contacts Before Every Send

Resolve the people on every list against your customer base before a campaign goes out. Match on names, nicknames, addresses and contact details together, and build each audience from resolved people, not rows.

Use the same resolved profile for personalization, so offers and suppressions are based on everything a customer has done.

One Contact, One Mailing
Contact records3 records
catalog.listMargaret Hale88 Oak Ave
ecom.customersMaggie Hale88 Oak Avenue
store.loyaltyM. Hale88 Oak Ave Apt 2
Zingg
Resolved contact1 entity
ZINGG_ID · m-5c38Resolved
Margaret Hale
catalog.listecom.customersstore.loyalty

One catalog, and offers based on everything she has bought.

One Contact Per Person

Every list member is resolved to one person before the send.

Accurate Suppression

Recent buyers and opted-out people are suppressed across every duplicate.

Complete Profiles

Personalization reads the customer’s full history.

Where Zingg Sits

The Identity Layer Under Customer Analytics

Zingg runs as a workload inside your data platform and gives every entity one persistent ZINGG_ID. Everything above it reads the same resolved entities.

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Deduplication That Understands Names

Nicknames Built In

Maggie and Margaret, Bill and William: Zingg Enterprise matches names through nickname dictionaries. How Zingg matches

Learned And Exact Together

Fuzzy matching trained on your labels, combined with exact rules on email or loyalty ID.

Persistent ZINGG_ID

The same person keeps one ID across lists and campaigns. ZINGG_ID

Scales To Millions

Large lists are matched without comparing every pair. Scale

FAQ

Marketing Deduplication Questions

Why do marketing lists have so many duplicates?

They combine many sources, each with its own spelling, email and address for the same person.

Can Zingg match nicknames?

Yes. Zingg Enterprise includes nickname matching, so Maggie and Margaret can be recognized as the same person.

Does Zingg send campaigns?

No. Zingg resolves contacts in your data platform. Your marketing tools send to the resolved audience.

Will it merge people who share an address?

Not on address alone. Zingg learns from your labels which combinations of fields mean the same person, and you can review the evidence for each match.

Reach Each Customer Once

Resolve contacts inside your own data platform before every campaign.