It’s not your imagination: people are really getting more cranky. The particular people we’re referring to here are B2B buyers, whom Merkle reports are less satisfied with every step in the purchase process than they were a year ago. They’re also taking to buy and more likely to replace incumbent vendors with someone else. Have a great day!
Most attempts to reduce the carbon footprint of online advertising seem like smoke and mirrors. SeenThis is more concrete: they stream video ads directly to end users, reducing the amount of data movement that is otherwise required. Media buying agency GroupM just set up a global partnership to make SeenThis tech available to GroupM clients.
A dark web hacking forum offered 2.6 million Duolingo user records for $1,500. The data, which includes user names and email addresses was accessed via an exposed API, which the company has known about since earlier this year.
Amperity has launched Lakehouse CDP, which delivers CDP functions within “lakehouse” data stores including Snowflake and Databricks. Amperity tools for data modeling, data quality, identity resolution, generative AI, segmentation, and performance measurement will send all results to a company’s own lakehouse rather than a separate Amperity-managed database. Modules can be used independently but the real benefit here is that Amperity is one of the few “composable” CDP vendors who offer a complete set of pre-integrated CDP functions.