The CDP industry added 25% more employees and 35% more companies in 2020 and will reach over $1.5 billion in revenue in 2021, according to the CDP Institute’s just-released Industry Update report. Most growth comes from companies combining CDP capabilities with campaign and delivery features, although a core of data-only CDPs has also been successful. Lots of colorful graphs.
Contextual ads are an alternative to identity-based targeting that relies on cookies. But contextual ad network Infolinks has combined the two by enhancing ad bids with identity profiles from device graph builder Intent IQ. It’s possible because Intent IQ builds its profiles without using cookies or advertising device IDs (MAIDs).
Rudderstack is one of the CDPs that limits itself to data assembly. They just launched Warehouse Actions, which converts CDP data into event streams as well as scheduled batch extracts. Other new features make it easier to load cloud data into the system.
AI-edited content is less concerning than AI-generated content — that’s the takeaway from Meta’s adjustment to its AI labeling on Facebook and other platforms. The “AI info” label will continue to appear on AI-generated content. Where content has only been modified or edited using AI, the label will appear more demurely in the post’s menu.