You may have noticed we’re covering more CDP vendor news, Dear Reader. If you didn’t notice, I’ve just helpfully pointed it out. Today’s item is a new cohort analysis feature from AgilOne. They also released an enhanced segment builder.
Looking for some ammunition in your fight for a data quality program? Bad data costs marketers 21 cents of every media dollar, according to this Forrester study for Marketing Evolution. Quality leaders performed better on every imaginable business metric.
More acquisition news: conversational marketing platform Drift is buying Giant Otter, which uses AI to build chatbots even smarter than Drift’s existing products. Wasting no time, Drift announced Drift Automation, a chatbot tool that uses the Giant Otter technology.
GrowthLoop will use TransUnion identity data to improve U.S. consumer match rates on client files sent to advertising media such as Facebook and Google Ads. The data should also help clients to find matches among records within their files, building more accurate customer profiles. GrowthLoop calls itself a “composable CDP”, meaning it works with data assembled in external data warehouses.