Half of the systems deployed as Customer Data Platforms do not meet minimum CDP requirements, a Tealium survey found. Fifty percent of users said their CDP can’t ingest data from any channel, 50% can’t stitch together multiple identifiers to create a single customer view, and 59% cannot activate data in real time. That these users think they have a CDP shows how confused buyers have been. But 58% of users plan to switch to a new CDP, offering hope that experienced buyers will make better choices on their second try.

Okay, enough daydreaming about what you’d do with $100 million. Back in reality, a university study found that 11.8% of UK Web sites are collecting consent in ways that meet GDPR requirements. The study also looked at the impact on consent rates of different configurations – providing guidance on what to do or what to avoid, depending on how you look at things.

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).