Coincidence or conspiracy?  Samba.TV just reported that duplicated impressions are growing on linear TV, resulting in both wasted ad spend and annoyed consumers.  In fact, 97% of linear impressions reach the same 55% of households.  Samba’s main message is that advertisers should spend more on non-linear TV to reach a broader audience and, presumably, reduce duplication.

Rudderstack is usually careful to call itself a data pipeline tool that will “turn your warehouse into a customer data platform”, although their latest press release says they’re “the warehouse-first, customer data platform built for developers”.   We say they’re definitely a pipeline because CDPs are by definition packaged software, not developer tools, and because they don’t control the cloud data warehouse itself.  Whatever you call them, they a $56 million Series B, bringing total funding to $82 million.

T-Mobile will allow advertisers to target more than 20,000 screens in 11,000 store locations. That’s a lot of screens, but how much foot traffic does the average T-Mobile store get? It’s also linking up with streaming media company Plex as a CTV partner.