The CMO Survey from Duke Fuqua School of Business is an industry institution, now in its 28th edition since 2008.  The current report has lots of interesting data on privacy, trust, digital spend, and climate change, as well as the usual reports on marketing budgets.  Fun facts: 45% of marketers think privacy notices positively impact customers’ thoughts about their brands, even though 95% think consumers don’t read the disclosures very carefully.

Tealium’s latest update is aimed at strengthening its position as a data-focused CDP.  New features include no-code data integration workflows, lookup tables outside of customer profiles, data synchronization with other systems, and real-time transformations on incoming data streams.  The company also has new connectors for conversion APIs from Facebook, Google, Twitter, and others, and for messaging systems including Braze and Airship.

GrowthLoop will use TransUnion identity data to improve U.S. consumer match rates on client files sent to advertising media such as Facebook and Google Ads.  The data should also help clients to find matches among records within their files, building more accurate customer profiles.  GrowthLoop calls itself a “composable CDP”, meaning it works with data assembled in external data warehouses.