mParticle has announced the beta release of a feature to forward data erase requests to integrated systems including Amplitude, Blueshift, Braze, and Kochava. Such requests must be honored under many privacy regulations including the European Union’s GDPR, California’s CCPA/CPRA, and Brazil’s LGPD. It’s one more example of how CDPs are overlapping with privacy management systems.
By offering affordable, self-service tools, Pixalate’s new Ad Trust and Safety API suite provides tools that had been out of reach cost-wise for many small companies and independent developers.
“Composability” is the latest buzzword for breaking up integrated systems into separate functions. This puts CDP vendors into competition of generic data management tools such as data integration systems. So it’s relevant to know that Hevo, a no-code data pipeline, just raised a $30 million Series B, bringing its total to $43 million. Also, that CData, a real-time connectivity platform, announced its own Series B, a $140 million round that raises its funding to $160 million.
Martech keeps taking larger bites out of marketing budgets: 17.3% last year, 19.9% this year, 23.5% next year, and 30.9% five years from now, according to the latest CMO Survey. This despite barely more than half (56.4%) of current tools being used and nearly half (48.8%) of the survey respondents reporting worse-than-expected results. Oddly enough, marketers rate selecting marketing technologies as the thing they do best.