Tapad is another company that specializes in identifying which devices belong to the same person. They’ve partnered with AcuityAds to help build cross-channel ad audiences that include connected TVs. You can run from those shoes you considered buying, but you can’t hide.
Raise your hand if you knew today is Data Privacy Day. (Firstname_Placeholder, did you just raise your hand? Do you think I can’t see you?) You can watch a two hour event to celebrate or you can chuckle over Facebook’s promise to provide users with privacy protections “far beyond those required by United States law” if a federal judge grants it immunity from anything illegal it might have done in the past. They didn’t mention throwing in a bridge to Brooklyn, but I guess that’s implied.
Pivoting to consumer email, here’s a report from Pure360 and the Data & Marketing Association. It holds few surprises: people want fewer emails, they sign up mostly for discounts and offers, and most think the majority of their emails lack value. That said, they still prefer email over other channels for most purposes.
With CDP vendors increasing their workforces by 3.4% in six months, compared with an average of 0.2% each six months over the prior two years, the sector seems to be growing again, according to our own semi-annual industry update. There is much talk of composable CDPs but they still employ no more than 5% of the sector workforce. What is a clear trend is the acquisition of independent CDPs by vendors interested in adding a CDP to a larger system (usually an activation system).