Adobe has announced several enhancements to its Real-time CDP, including: Segment Match, a second-party data sharing feature; Look-Alike Segments, which identifies customers similar to a sample group; and B2B enhancements including a combination of individual and account profiles. Nothing revolutionary here but their product is continuing to mature.
Omni-channel messaging platform MessageBird announced a $600 million acquisition of email optimization platform SparkPost, $1 billion Series C extension (from the previous $200 million), and entry to the U.S. market. We also just learned that MessageBird bought the Hull.io CDP at the end of March, along with video platform 24sessions. The deals strengthen MessageBird’s competitive position against Twilio, which you will recall bought the Segment CDP last year.
If you’re looking for something a bit more radical, how about interactive voice advertising? Instreamatic has raised $6.1 million so you can yell at an ad and it will not just answer back, but remember what you said in the future. Somehow this counts as progress.
CDP and marketing cloud vendor Zeta Global announced an agreement to purchase LiveIntent, which helps companies do email-based advertising. The deal will let Zeta expand its identity graph, enter the publisher monetization business, and accelerate its mobile and retail media products. Zeta will pay $77.5 million in cash and $172.5 million in common stock, with potential for additional payments based on performance.