It’s a light news day, Dear Reader, so I’ll stoop to some mild click-baiting with a minor item that puts Adobe in the headline. That being: Adobe has added AMP support to its Campaign email engine. AMP is an open standard that lets emails contain interactive elements such as forms and dynamically updated content. That’s legitimately interesting, although Adobe isn’t the only vendor to support it.
Acquia announced yesterday that it will purchase CDP vendor AgilOne. The deal is part of Acquia’s strategy to expand beyond its base in Web content management to become a full-scale marketing cloud. Acquia bought marketing automation platform Mautic earlier this year and was itself purchased by Vista Equity Partners. See this post for CDP Institute founder David Raab’s comments on the deal.
You may have read some recent articles claiming that personalization is a failure that marketers will or should abandon. Unlikely. If the topic comes up at your company, feel free to cite actual data from Monetate, which found that personalized pages in the U.S. had 5.6 times higher conversion rates than non-personalized pages during the recent Black Friday to Cyber Monday period.
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.)