Marketers frustrated with social media can increasingly turn to video for targeted audiences. Here’s news that Adobe is integrating LiveRamp’s IdentityLink for Television within its Advertising Cloud and Audience Manager, enabling marketers to target the same audiences across addressable TV and Web display ads. One step closer to omnichannel Nirvana.
Restaurant and retail CRM specialist Bridg has launched a Customer Data Platform that ingests data from external and internal sources, matches transactions to customer profiles, sends segment to delivery systems, and lets other systems access the data through APIs. Yup, that’s a real CDP. Whether it’s “the first CDP for brick-and-mortar retailers” is debatable but does it really matter?
Simon Data, which builds a unified customer database and pushes segments to channel systems, has raised a $20 million Series B, bringing total funding to $32 million. Simon refers to its database as a CDP but it’s not clear it exposes its contents to other systems, as in the CDP Institute definition. It does support test splits and predictive models.
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.