CDP Institute

Software companies often have consulting arms, but it’s relatively rare for consultancies to launch a packaged software product. Today’s exception to the rule is Predictable, a suite of plug-and-play predictive models from customer data consultancy Actable. It connects with existing CDPs or cloud data warehouses.

The freedom-at-any-price Republican Party has once again clarified that its concern extends only to freedoms it likes. Since watching TikTok isn’t on the list, the GOP-led Montana legislature just passed a law forbidding residents from using TikTok. The governor is expected to sign shortly.

Fear of TikTok keeping you up at night? Run this list of identity verification stats through a text-to-speech converter and play the output while you’re in bed. The good news: you’ll be snoring in minutes. The bad news: you’ll probably have nightmares.

U.S. Internet ad revenue grew 10.8% last year, less than the pandemic-driven 35.4% of 2021 but far outpacing TV (up 2.0%) and print (down 6%.0), says this PwC/IAB report. Search fell from 42.2% of Internet ad revenue in 2020 to 40.2% in 2022 and social fell from 31.5% to 30.3%. Video more than took up the slack, growing from 18.7% to 22.5%. The report predicts retail media will grow quickly due to its privacy-safe first-party data and closed loop response measurement.

This Digiday survey for Best Buy.Ads offers a more cautious view of retail media prospects. Just 17% of respondents expected the importance of retail media networks to grow significantly in 2023, and the fraction of brands expecting to spend more than 60% of their budget fell from 14% to zero. Half (51%) said retail media were no more effective than other channels.

You’ll recall that earlier this week Google Analytics took away first-click attribution models, which not-coincidentally give less credit than other methods to search ads like Google’s.  Now we have this joint Microsoft-Roku effort that finds that coordinated TV streaming and web ads drive 11% more searches and 10% more clicks.  The methodology is complicated but the results are more realistic.

Cross-channel marketing platform Insider doesn’t call itself a CDP, although it does create unified customer profiles in a distinctly CDP-ish fashion. They’ve just crept even closer with a new Integration Hub which seems mostly focused on sending data from Insider to other systems. They’ve also tightened their two-way integrations with external CDPs including Segment, Tealium, and mParticle.

You can think of ID.me as a mirror image of companies that do identity resolution for marketing: instead of unmasking people who haven’t identified themselves, ID.me verifies that people are who they claim and gives them more control over how their data is shared. They just raised a $132 million Series D , bringing total funding to over $240 million.