As third-party cookies vanish, connected TV (CTV) becomes as a more measurable alternative to Web display ads. App Science has just emerged from stealth to take advantage of this with Insights Report, a dashboard that analyzes campaign performance by correlating data from 300 million mobile devices and 110 million CTV households. It’s a spinoff of Sabio, which offers CTV ad targeting services.
Here’s another CDP penetration statistic to add to your collection: omnichannel campaign engine Tinyclues asked 100 mostly Europe-based marketers about the state of CRM, and threw in a question about technologies used. Twenty-eight percent said they had a CDP compared with 46% having a DMP. CDPs were just slightly more common among best-in-class organizations than others.
PostHog – whose stylized hedgehog logo is so darn cute – has raised a $12 million Series A for its open source product analytics system. The no-code system captures events and behaviors in mobile and Web apps, loads them into a data store, and gives users tools to analyze them. Product and content analytics are trends to watch if you’ve already binged all the good Netflix series.
Remember the good old days, when lying was considered unacceptable? The folks at Iron Tribe Fitness, a South Carolina gym, are holding Meta to that forgotten standard in a class action suit alleging that Facebook overcharged advertisers as much as $4 billion by using one type of auction bidding process while claiming to use another. Meta blames the error on a “software glitch” that began in 2013 and continued for at least four years.