Enough GDPR. CDP Celebrus has announced a slew of non-GDPR enhancements including streaming data into Adobe Experience Cloud; audience segmentation using data stored within Celebrus; real-time profiling of Google, Facebook, and DMP audiences; and a data loader for Apache Hive.
Customer experience is a priority at 95% of companies and a top priority at 57% of companies surveyed by Winterberry Group for the Data & Marketing Association (DMA). The top reason was customer expectations for personalization, cited by 72%. What’s really interesting here is detail on marketer priorities: for example, 62% rate segmentation as the top priority within campaign management, compared with 54% for customer journey mapping and 39% for trigger-based communications.
A few adtech firms blaming GDPR for a decision to leave Europe altogether, according to this article in DigiDay. The author says some are using GDPR as an excuse to leave a market that wasn’t working for them anyway.
The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that could potentially ban TikTok in the U.S. if its Chinese owner, ByteDance, does not sell its holdings within a year. The bill now goes to the President Biden, who has said he will sign it. Court challenges are likely to follow.