B2B has been a growing market for CDP vendors, apparently for longer than we realized: this MeritB2B study finds that almost 40% of respondents have a CDP in place already and another 12% plan to buy one.  In fact, centralized customer data was vastly more common than predictive analytics, lead scoring, programmatic advertising, or intent data.  Who knew?

Advertisers hoping to avoid placements on misinformation news sites can now rely on exclusion lists prepared by the NewsGuard rating service,  The lists will be available through Comscore’s contextual targeting solution, which applies pre-bid inventory filters to programmatic ad purchases.  NewsGuard creates a trust score for news sites based on criteria such as publication of false content, corrections when errors occur, and source of funding.

CDP and marketing cloud vendor Zeta Global announced an agreement to purchase LiveIntent, which helps companies do email-based advertising.  The deal will let Zeta expand its identity graph, enter the publisher monetization business, and accelerate its mobile and retail media products.  Zeta will pay $77.5 million in cash and $172.5 million in common stock, with potential for additional payments based on performance.