I’m still not convinced that minor news about major vendors is the best use of this newsletter. But you seem to like it, Dear Reader. So here’s more. We’ll start with B2C marketing automation vendor Selligent repositioning itself as a marketing cloud including a Customer Data Platform. Data management capabilities do seem to meet CDP standards, including a highly customizable data structure and connectors for a wide variety of source and execution systems. We’re gonna need a bigger bandwagon.

Coincidentally, we have a survey from data vendor Experian, which last year spun off its own marketing services business as Cheetah Digital.

The Trade Desk has announced a definitive agreement to acquire digital advertising data company Sincera. Sincera helps advertisers evaluate the quality of data provided by publishers and thus more accurately assess the value of ad impressions. With the integration, The Trade Desk will also be able to show publishers the data signals most valued by advertisers.