Fear of TikTok keeping you up at night? Run this list of identity verification stats through a text-to-speech converter and play the output while you’re in bed. The good news: you’ll be snoring in minutes. The bad news: you’ll probably have nightmares.
The freedom-at-any-price Republican Party has once again clarified that its concern extends only to freedoms it likes. Since watching TikTok isn’t on the list, the GOP-led Montana legislature just passed a law forbidding residents from using TikTok. The governor is expected to sign shortly.
U.S. Internet ad revenue grew 10.8% last year, less than the pandemic-driven 35.4% of 2021 but far outpacing TV (up 2.0%) and print (down 6%.0), says this PwC/IAB report. Search fell from 42.2% of Internet ad revenue in 2020 to 40.2% in 2022 and social fell from 31.5% to 30.3%. Video more than took up the slack, growing from 18.7% to 22.5%. The report predicts retail media will grow quickly due to its privacy-safe first-party data and closed loop response measurement.
CDP mParticle is being acquired by ecommerce platform Rokt for a price of $300 million. It’s the third acquisition of a leading independent CDP in a little over one month, following Uniphore’s purchase of ActionIQ and Contentstack’s purchase of Lytics. All three buyers offer some type of customer-facing technology; apparently they’ve decided that adding real-time profiles from CDP will give them a competitive edge. (See this blog post for more analysis.)