This survey by Aberdeen for Reltio is three-kitten irresistible since it measures the value of unified customer data. TLDR: companies with unified customer data are more successful than the rest in oh so many ways. Download for deets.
Account-based marketing platform 6sense makes no claim to galactic dominance, but its home page headline “Know everything so you can do anything” carries its own whiff of excess. Returning to reality, they just bought Fortella, which offers pipeline planning, forecasting and measurement tools. Readers with a long memory or Crunchbase account will recall that 6sense bought B2B CDP ZenIQ back in 2018.
It’s a potpourri today, Dear Reader. Here’s news that rockstar martech investors Vista Equity Partners have purchased a majority stake in conversational commerce vendor Drift, reportedly at a $1 billion-plus valuation. Details weren’t announced but I guess we can’t call Drift a chatbot vendor anymore.
Google will pay to carry stories from Canadian news outlets under an agreement announced yesterday. Details are sparse but the process for compliance with government’s C-18 law has been simplified to meet some Google objections. Meta, the only other firm required to make payments under the law, has not changed its decision to block reliable news.