B2B marketing analytics platform Dreamdata has raised a $55 million Series B. it provides a complete view of go-to-market data and lets users sync back to ad platforms for better targeting. The plan for the new funding is to expand AI-driven activation capabilities.
No, the CDP isn’t dead. The latest State of Martech report from Clevertouch Consulting and The University of Stirling finds 53% of respondents have deployed a CDP, up from 47% in last year’s survey, and 45% plan to implement a new CDP next year. Other hype-busters: just 8% are currently running hyper-personalized campaigns and, far from consolidating, 62% of respondents grew their martech stacks in the past year (vs 8% who reduced them).
Flint uses AI to autonomously generate complete websites based on a single, user-provided page. They call their product “autonomous websites” and say it’s faster than coordinating teams of humans. They just announced $5 million seed funding.
Meta has announced agreements with USA Today, People Inc., and other news publishers to pay for access to their content and link to their articles in its AI chatbot. It’s a sharp contrast to Perplexity, which the Chicago Tribune and New York Times are separately suing for allegedly scraping content and bypassing paywalls. Despite this deal, Meta apparently still opposes compensating publishers for news links in social media posts.