• How Grab is accelerating growth with real-time personalization using Customer Data Platform scenarios Introduction Delivering personalized user experiences in real-time is central to Grab’s strategy, but achieving this at scale poses significant engineering challenges. • Grab’s Customer Data Platform (CDP) and Growth team has successfully delivered several real-time campaigns, driving significant business impact through enhanced personalization. • These initiatives include high-impact use cases like immediate mall offers, timely traveler recommendations, precise ad retargeting, and proactive interventions during key user journey moments. • At the core of these successes is Grab’s CDP, which rapidly deploys advanced real-time personalization via a powerful new capability called “Scenarios.” About Grab’s CDP Grab’s CDP is a centralized, reliable repository for user attributes, designed for freshness, governance, and reusability. • Built on Grab’s Signal Marketplace framework, the CDP streamlines data management through automation and integration, supporting seamless interactions with internal services and toolings that power marketing, experimentation, ads, Machine Learning (ML) features, and external platforms, including Facebook, Google Ads, and TikTok. • The platform currently manages over 1,000 batch user attributes for Passengers, Drivers, and Merchants, powering diverse use cases from targeted marketing campaigns to operational decision-making across Grab’s entire ecosystem.
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- Grab has upgraded its Customer Data Platform (CDP) to deliver real‑time personalization through a new “Scenarios” feature. The CDP, built on Grab’s Signal Marketplace, centralises over 1,000 user attributes for passengers, drivers and merchants, but previously relied on daily batch updates that limited timely engagement. Scenarios combine user‑initiated events, geo‑fencing, historical data and on‑the‑fly predictions, enabling instant offers such as airport ride suggestions, targeted ads and proactive interventions without heavy engineering effort. The rollout aims to boost conversion rates, streamline marketing experiments, and scale personalization across Grab’s ecosystem.
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