Is there a prize for first acquisition of the year? If so, Account Based Marketing vendor Terminus just won it by announcing they’re buying BrightFunnel, which specializes in B2B marketing analytics and attribution. It’s pretty far from Terminus’ core business in targeted display ads, which just shows the extent of their ambition to become a full service B2B marketing platform.
The number of Customer Data Platform (CDP) vendors more than doubled in 2017, according to the CDP Industry Update released today by the CDP Institute.
Trying to put these changes in context? Here’s help: the CDP Institute just released its semi-annual industry update, now covering more than 50 vendors. We look at changes in vendor counts, funding and employment by region and product type. Fascinating, if you’re into that sort of thing. And you are.
The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that could potentially ban TikTok in the U.S. if its Chinese owner, ByteDance, does not sell its holdings within a year. The bill now goes to the President Biden, who has said he will sign it. Court challenges are likely to follow.