Pretty much every presentation on marketing technology now starts with rising customer expectations for personalization. Fair enough, but what else is on their minds? Maru/Matchbox, whose business is customer marketing insights, finds that trust is eroding in pretty much everything (yeah, we knew that) and one result is stalled growth in the sharing economy (that one is news to me). Back in unsurprising territory: Millennials participate much more in the sharing economy than their elders.

Campaign management is worthless without good customer data, right? A Customer Data Platform is generally the best approach, but if all you want is a simple deduplication tool, you’ll be happy to know that Melissa has made its venerable MatchUp matching system available as a cloud service. Melissa announced a more comprehensive offering last month, incorporating Pentaho data integration tools. But it’s still pretty much a do-it-yourself project.

Treasure Data will provide its system to free for companies that are stuck in contracts with other CDPs. The trade-up program is available to companies with roughly firms with $1 billion or more revenue, that already have a competitive CDP in place. There will still be some costs for services to make the conversion but Treasure Data says these are fairly small since it has considerable experience with such projects.