Mobile marketing attribution and ad fraud prevention AppsFlyer has raised a $210 million Series D, bringing total funding to $294 million. The system integrates with several thousand other products, opening the door to more than just analytics. In fact, they already provide audience segmentation, treading gently onto CDP turf.
Add this to your pile of CDP trivia: a Forrester report for Bluecore finds the most expected CDP features are identity resolution (35%), predictive segmentation (34%) and personalized recommendations (34%). If that seems odd, bear in mind that data integration and unified customer profiles weren’t listed as choices. Identity resolution was also the highest answer for CRM, at 40%, and marketing clouds, at 30%, even though it’s something both types of systems are notoriously bad at. Go figure.
We never tire of reminding you that tech vendors threaten everyone’s privacy. Our latest offering is this VentureBeat story about efforts to regulate facial recognition. Dare we spy a glimmer of hope?
Martech keeps taking larger bites out of marketing budgets: 17.3% last year, 19.9% this year, 23.5% next year, and 30.9% five years from now, according to the latest CMO Survey. This despite barely more than half (56.4%) of current tools being used and nearly half (48.8%) of the survey respondents reporting worse-than-expected results. Oddly enough, marketers rate selecting marketing technologies as the thing they do best.