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  • Salesforce will finally make its customer data platform, Customer 360 Audiences, generally available in October.

    Salesforce’s CDP Will Be Ready For Prime Time In October

    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 […]

  • Indie CDPs Need To Do A Way Better Job Explaining Their Value

    When it comes to use, familiarity, market share and mindshare in the customer data platform (CDP) ecosystem, the big marketing clouds lead their smaller indie counterparts by a mile. But a peek under the hood reveals a more nuanced story. The marketing clouds are sucking all the air out of the room, but it’s the […]

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    The Big Story: Dream A Little (Bid) Stream

    Programmatic auction dynamics can be arcane, even for the most technical among us. Google has Open Bidding (nee Exchange Bidding), Amazon’s got Transparent Ad Marketplace (TAM) and Prebid predates them both, not to mention a host of other wrappers on the scene. But what do buyers, exchanges and publishers have to say – and, more […]

  • Salesforce Gets Serious About CDPs With Revamped Customer 360 Product

    Salesforce officially threw its hat into the ring with the launch of a customer data platform (CDP) on Tuesday at its Connections conference in Chicago. Salesforce has been circling a CDP launch for the past year, since its $800 million acquisition of Datorama, a data integration service, and the launch of an internal identity graph […]

  • Salesforce Says It Will Launch A CDP (Yep, You Heard That Right)

    If a customer data platform (CDP) is a “fad,” then it’s a lasting one – because Salesforce is launching one. The details are a little sketchy right now. Salesforce isn’t officially announcing its CDP until June at its Connections conference in Chicago, there isn’t a tangible product yet and Salesforce demurred to say exactly when […]

  • Salesforce Gets Into The ID Graph Game With Launch Of Customer 360

    Salesforce on Tuesday introduced Salesforce Customer 360, a unified customer ID that connects profile data across its Sales, Services, Commerce and Marketing cloud product suites. “There are so many ways for a person to engage with a brand nowadays and a certain level of control has been lost behind these layers of technology and media,” […]