It’s a bit of a potpourri today, Dear Reader. Here’s a report from 360iResearch that estimates the global CDP market at $1.7 billion in 2021, growing to $5.3 billion by 2026. They offer breakouts by CDP type, enterprise size, vertical, region, and more, although it’s hard to imagine how they’d find that out. Price is $4,207.
Cybersecurity, data breach and compliance are driving privacy software spending, according to TrustArc’s 2021 Global Privacy Benchmark Report. Of the more than 1,600 senior executives and privacy officers surveyed, 82% had a dedicated privacy office, 28% planned to spend $1M or more annually on privacy, and 73% believed their company needed to do more. Nearly half favored using privacy management or GRC software over other alternatives.
Amplitude calls itself a “digital optimization system”, which could mean almost anything. In fact, they collect customer-level behaviors and product data, and use it to identify opportunities, build personalized messages, and track near- and long-term results. They just added an A/B testing module that draws on the same data, which lets it do much more than standard A/B tests.
Databricks is highlighting its interest in marketers through out-of-the-box integrations with partners including Adobe, Braze, Salesforce, MessageGears, and Tealium. All will be able to run campaigns using information in the Databricks data intelligence platform without data syncing or copying.