Bangalore-based CDP vendor Vizury has changed its name to Lemnisk. The company works primarily with financial services clients in Asia but is expanding. “Lemnisk” is based on “lemniscate”, the name for the sideways “8” used to represent infinity.
The latest CDP vendor to address GDPR is BlueConic, which has just released a Consent Management solution. The new module captures consent and data requests from individuals and shares consent status with other systems.
Digging still deeper in IT psyches, tech review platform TrustRadius looked at their buying preferences. They didn’t ask about the importance of flashing lights. But they did find that buyers pay more attention to product demonstrations, personal recommendations and reviews than information directly from the vendors. A whopping 85% of vendors said they try to be honest about product limits but just 37% of buyers said they are. Interesting.
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.