Greenpeace was not impressed, but the ad industry spent much of last week’s Cannes festival talking about helping the planet. One highlight: a huge industry coalition promised to extend the UK-based Ad Net Zero program to other major markets. Another: media agency GroupM promised to publish a standard approach to measuring carbon impact.
ActionIQ has repackaged its product as CX Hub, creating separate modules to build profiles (the CDP), create audience segments, manage customer journeys, and support real-time interactions. The three activation modules can work with any data source, not just the ActionIQ CDP. The move puts ActionIQ on more equal footing with marketing cloud vendors who offer similar modules, although delivery systems like email, CRM, and web content management are not an option…yet.
Let’s face it: measuring carbon impact is nowhere near as close to marketers’ hearts as measuring ad results. In one intriguing development, adtech vendor Viant is working to optimize ad campaigns based on attention consumers pay to ads, using attention measurements from Adelaide. In another, TV ad server Innovid has launched InnovidXP, which simultaneously measures ad results and creative performance across both linear and connected TV.
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.)