Despite more hand-wringing than bell-playing octopus quartet, Ad Theorent reports that just 13% of marketers say their company is “very well prepared” for the impact of privacy regulations on their programmatic ad buying.  The most popular solutions are capturing more first-party data (53%) and contextual targeting (49%) – even though only 5% say contextual targeting leads to success.  If you’re keeping score: 11% are running programmatic on a CDP, compared with 18% on a DMP and 69% on a DSP.

RedPoint Global has launched an in-place data quality service, In Situ, which will let clients clean, match, and govern their data without sending it to an outside service.  The trick is to run the system within the client’s virtual private cloud.  A control panel lets business users do most of the work for themselves.

Customer intelligence platform Acxiom will collaborate with ActionIQ to deliver enhanced customer insights. ActionIQ’s CDP will integrate with Acxiom’s demographic, household, behavioral and preference data and with Acxiom’s RealID identity resolution solution. Acxiom experts will work with clients to customize and streamline ActionIQ.