Do you sometimes hope it’s just a bad dream and we’ll wake up to find that consumers will gladly share their data?  Sorry, but AppsFlyer and MMA Global report that 73% of smartphone users are somewhat or very unlikely to allow tracking and 60% would never or just sometimes consent even if they had to pay for services instead.

Salesforce is claiming a bit more Account Based Marketing turf with a pair of new features.  One uses Einstein AI to find and prioritize key accounts.  The other, more intriguingly, lets marketers create “personalized ABM campaigns for every buyer within top-tier accounts…even if they do not have any contacts for that account”.   That’s either really hard or really easy.  I think what they mean is the campaigns are ready to go when a contact does show up.

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.)