LiveRamp has locked in a deal to acquire Silicon Valley-based tech startup DataFleets for $68 million. DataFleets has a cloud-based technology that allows businesses to securely merge and analyze data in a privacy-safe way. The acquisition is part of LiveRamp’s growing focus on data protection capabilities. As part of the deal, which includes some assumed equity […]
Marriott hit the reset button on its media strategy last year as the COVID-19 pandemic brought the travel industry to a halt and forced the world’s largest hotel company to find dynamic ways to reach a new type of traveler. Marriott International saw its occupancy demand – and revenue per available room – plummet 90% at […]
GroupM launched a tool in beta on Monday designed to help marketers determine the potential ethical risks associated with a data-driven campaign from a consumer perspective. Launched in partnership with Unilever, GroupM’s Data Ethics Compass claims it’s the industry’s first ever tool to incorporate ethical decision making into data-driven media tactics, and to help prioritize […]
Comscore released a solution for audience targeting and activation on Monday that relies on contextual signals rather than cookies. You’d be forgiven for asking the question, “Wait, Comscore has tools for targeting?” It does. Although far more well well-known for its media measurement capabilities, Comscore has had its own suite of audience and contextual targeting […]
Demandbase’s July acquisition of B2B marketing vendor Engagio is bearing fruit. On Tuesday, Demandbase released a new version of its platform called Demandbase One, which combines its existing marketing automation and account-based marketing offerings with inbound B2B marketing capabilities from Engagio. Demandbase One includes the core Demandbase ABM platform, which uses predictive analytics to help […]
This is the 13th installment in AdExchanger’s “Meet the CDPs” series. Read previous interviews with mParticle, Acquia-owned AgilOne, Amperity, Segment, ActionIQ, Lytics, Bluecore, Microsoft, Tealium, Optimove, Adobe and Treasure Data. The marketing clouds are taking up a lot of mindshare as they belatedly foray into the CDP category. But “you’d be surprised at the number […]
Scaling your marketing ops isn’t an easy task when you’ve got 60 million monthly active users and a massive store of historical data going back nearly two decades. Just ask Pandora. “It’s been a really big challenge for us,” said David Hassler, director of software engineering at the music streaming platform. For the past two […]
The Trade Desk is making its first bid for ubiquity for the Unified ID 2.0. Through a partnership with LiveRamp, announced on Tuesday, publishers will be able to access Unified ID 2.0, which is being built by The Trade Desk, through LiveRamp’s Authenticated Traffic Solution (ATS), and buyers will be able to transact using LiveRamp’s […]
When it rains, it pours … CDP news. On Wednesday, two days after Twilio said it would pay $3.2 billion to acquire CDP Segment, SAP said it will release its enterprise customer data platform globally next month. SAP first teased its plan to roll out a CDP in May of last year. Like its cohorts […]
CDP acquisitions are a bit like snowflakes, no two have been quite alike, at least not so far. Cloud communications platform Twilio’s $3.2 billion all-stock purchase of Segment, confirmed on Monday, is the latest example. Notable acquirers in the space have included a British multibillion-dollar semiconductor firm, an American multinational financial services brand and the […]
Did the CDP category just have its DoubleClick moment? Twilio will acquire customer data platform Segment for a $3.2 billion in stock, the companies said Monday. Forbes first reported the deal on Friday. Twilio powers automated mobile communications for clients such as Airbnb, Lyft, Blue Apron, Netflix, Hulu and Salesforce. Its Flex platform supports billions […]
This is the 12th in AdExchanger’s “Meet the CDPs” series. Read previous interviews with mParticle, Acquia-owned AgilOne, Amperity, Segment, ActionIQ, Lytics, Bluecore, Microsoft, Tealium, Optimove, Adobe and BlueConic. Treasure Data is betting that the internet of things (IoT) is the next frontier for customer data platforms. “CDP as a category exists because there is so much […]
TransUnion has its eye on the cookieless future with its acquisition of Tru Optik, announced on Thursday. This is the credit bureau’s third ad tech acquisition over the past year and a half. TransUnion acquired marketing tech platform TruSignal in May 2019 and cross-channel marketing company Signal in August. TransUnion declined to share the Tru […]
Oracle is sprucing up its customer data platform, CX Unity, with a little machine learning. The platform will now support real-time behavioral data collection and personalization capabilities through Infinity, Oracle’s digital streaming technology. Infinity captures web event, app and point-of-sale data to help brands build realistic representations of the customer journey. That previously required repeated […]
Salesforce will finally make its customer data platform, Customer 360 Audiences, generally available in October. You’d be forgiven for thinking it was already in market. Salesforce first said it would unveil a CDP in March of last year. The product entered beta in the autumn of 2019 around the time of Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference in […]
This is the 11th in AdExchanger’s “Meet the CDPs” series. Read previous interviews with mParticle, Acquia-owned AgilOne, Amperity, Segment, ActionIQ, Lytics, Bluecore, Microsoft, Tealium, Optimove, Treasure Data and BlueConic. Most brands suffer from the same cascade of data-related challenges. Data coming in from different sources leads to inconsistent customer experiences and a throbbing privacy and compliance […]
How do you target people without third-party cookies or device IDs? One way is to use the weather correlated with aggregated online and offline shopping behavior. IBM Watson Advertising released a tool on Monday that expands its weather targeting capabilities by using artificial intelligence to analyze the relationship between weather data from The Weather Company, […]
This is the 10th in AdExchanger’s “Meet the CDPs” series. Read previous interviews with mParticle, Acquia-owned AgilOne, Amperity, Segment, ActionIQ, Lytics, Bluecore, Microsoft, Tealium, Adobe, Treasure Data and BlueConic. Brands that sell commodities don’t differentiate on their products, they differentiate on data. “And they differentiate on relationships,” said Pini Yakuel, CEO and founder of Tel Aviv-based […]
With third-party cookies soon to leave the scene, the ad industry is casting about for an alternative identifier, one preferably based on first-party data, collected with consent. Email in particular is being heralded as a way to maintain identity in the face of third-party cookie loss. And numerous industry solutions are being built with email […]
This is the ninth in AdExchanger’s “Meet the CDPs” series. Read previous interviews with mParticle, Acquia-owned AgilOne, Amperity, Segment, ActionIQ, Lytics, Bluecore, Microsoft, Optimove, Adobe, Treasure Data and BlueConic. Evolving into a customer data platform was always part of the strategy for tag management vendor Tealium. But back in early 2012, when the company closed its $1.1 million […]
Apple’s move to make its IDFA only available on an opt-in basis will either set Facebook’s hair on fire or further solidify Facebook’s dominant market position. Depends on who you ask. Those opposing opinions underscore the confusion consuming the mobile ad tech ecosystem as it grapples with the de facto loss of user-level tracking in […]
This is the eighth in AdExchanger’s “Meet the CDPs” series. Read previous interviews with mParticle, Acquia-owned AgilOne, Amperity, Segment, ActionIQ, Lytics, Bluecore, Tealium, Optimove, Adobe, Treasure Data and BlueConic. Microsoft Dynamics, the company’s customer relationship product suite, has surged lately as it repositions itself as a customer data platform (CDP) competitor, which launched last year. Satish Thomas, a 14-year Microsoft veteran and […]
This is the seventh in AdExchanger’s “Meet the CDPs” series. Read previous interviews with mParticle, Acquia-owned AgilOne, Amperity, Segment, ActionIQ, Lytics, Microsoft, Tealium, Optimove, Adobe, Treasure Data and BlueConic. Bluecore doesn’t identify as a customer data platform – but a lot of people see it as one. And that’s the category’s conundrum in a nutshell: Buyers are still trying […]
Programmatic agency veteran Adam Heimlich has a new venture whose goal is to be a thorn in the side of the mega ad platforms. Chalice is a new marketing and data science consultancy that helps brands create custom algorithms to use with their demand-side platforms, rather than relying on the one-size-fits-all AI provided by Google […]
The marketing data company ALC, which started out 40 years ago creating consumer segments for direct mail advertisers, relaunched Tuesday as Adstra, with a new mission as a data onboarding and identity graph provider. Adstra is following a well-beaten path for companies that transformed offline consumer data sets based on home addresses and landline phone […]
This is the sixth in AdExchanger’s “Meet the CDPs” series. Read previous interviews with mParticle, Acquia-owned AgilOne, Amperity, Segment, ActionIQ, Bluecore, Microsoft, Tealium, Optimove, Adobe, Treasure Data and BlueConic. Everyone and their mother operates a customer data platform (CDP) nowadays. And that crowding obscures the actual purpose of a CDP, said James McDermott, co-founder and CEO of the CDP Lytics. […]
This is the fifth in AdExchanger’s “Meet the CDPs” series. Read previous interviews with mParticle, Acquia-owned AgilOne, Amperity, Segment, Lytics, Bluecore, Microsoft, Tealium, Optimove, Adobe, Treasure Data and BlueConic. COVID-19 threw a wrench into best-laid marketing plans. But marketers are learning to adapt, said Tasso Argyros, CEO and co-founder of customer data platform ActionIQ. “All of […]
Some marketers are disillusioned with data management platform technology, but Adobe is still actively investing in its DMP. On Wednesday, Adobe added a feature to Audience Manager that allows marketers to associate unknown users with segments based on their propensity to take a certain action. The feature, which was in beta for roughly a month, […]
AB InBev – parent to more than 500 brands, including Budweiser, Bud Light, Stella Artois and, of course, Corona – is the largest global beer company in the world, and it’s got sizable data silos to match. But until recently it had no way to connect them, said Lucas Borges, senior global mar tech manager […]
Customer data platform Audiens closed an $8 million strategic investment from South Korean technology company NHN on Tuesday. What was it like to complete the company’s first big funding round during a global pandemic? “Nerve wracking,” joked Jonathan Brech, who was elevated from chief commercial officer to CEO of Audiens as part of the funding […]
