Privacy requirements keep expanding. BigID, whose core business is helping companies find where they’re storing personal data, is taking the next logical step with a portal to help manage that data. Capabilities include self-service management of consumer data requests and preferences, data rights management, user experience templates, and authentication of data requestor identities.
This report from programmatic media buyer MiQ isn’t really about Customer Data Platforms, but this is the CDP newsletter so I’ll highlight that 46% of U.S. media buyers reported having a CDP, compared with just 36% who said they had DMPs. The bigger message of the study was that programmatic now includes out of home, connected TV, and audio ads as well as mobile ads. They found 51% of U.S. companies have separate buying teams for each channel and just 14$ use a single automated platform across all channels.
Mozilla is working on a Firefox extension that will generate unique aliases so users can hide their true email address when they fill out Web forms. The feature is similar to one that Apple announced last year. More evidence that privacy protecting technology is becoming more widely available.
With CDP vendors increasing their workforces by 3.4% in six months, compared with an average of 0.2% each six months over the prior two years, the sector seems to be growing again, according to our own semi-annual industry update. There is much talk of composable CDPs but they still employ no more than 5% of the sector workforce. What is a clear trend is the acquisition of independent CDPs by vendors interested in adding a CDP to a larger system (usually an activation system).