Berlin-based zenloop also uses machine learning to understand customer feedback, although its more along the lines of using Net Promoter Score feedback to identify actions that will reduce customer churn. They just raised $6 million, their first public funding.
Lots of CDP-ish news for you today, Dear Reader. We’ll start with CDP-in-good-standing SessionM, which has just partnered with clienteling platform Tulip to give retail staff live access to SessionM’s detailed customer profiles and recommendations. It’s a perfect example of Customer Data Platform handing its information to an external delivery system.
Organizational note: we’ve assigned “Facebook is evil” news to our Department of the Obvious, which in hindsight is where it belongs. Department Intern Jamie has already found two suitably obvious items: Facebook’s fact checking operation is ineffective and letting users clear their behavior history could make Facebook ad targeting less effective. More to come, for sure.
In a follow-up to their January report, the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority raised the number of concerns they have with Privacy Sandbox to 79. Among other issues, they adopted the privacy concerns raised by another U.K. regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office. Google’s recent decision to shift third-party cookie deprecation to next year might mean they saw this coming.