A pleasant surprise arrived from the recommendation software sector this week, with ThinkAnalytics delivering the news that revenues have grown 30% over the past year on the back of two mega customer deals – HBO and DirecTV. ThinkAnalytics often likes to sneak out a rare performance indicator, despite not being publicly listed. Despite delivering the news during Q1 2020 results season, this revenue increase was for the year period ending December 2019, so any impact on business during the harsh first quarter is not reflected here, although ThinkAnalytics’ services were likely in exceptionally high demand during this period. Naturally, we were immediately in touch with ThinkAnalytics to scrape the barrel for details on word of its flagship personalization platform and…