Advertising audience compiler Eyeota has completed a $12.5 million in Series B funding. Eyeota manages 3.5 billion audience profiles from around the world. The company’s total funding is $20.5 million.
One question haunting the CDP industry is what happens when enterprise tech vendors start offering data unification. It hasn’t happened so far but last week did see new connectors between Salesforce CRM data and several Google products: Google Analytics 360, the BigQuery database, Google AdWords, and DoubleClick Bid Bid Manager. They’re first fruit of a partnership announced last year. If Google builds more connectors and adds core CDP functions such as identity resolution, this could get interesting.
The CDP Institute has published a draft list of features to use in categorizing CDP vendors. The classification is an attempt to reduce confusion about what makes a CDP and how CDP vendors differ. Comments are welcome.
Procrastinators of the world can throw a party whenever they get around to it: Google has once more pushed back complete third-party cookie deprecation. The new target is “early next year.” Reasons for the delay include concerns expressed by U.K. data regulator Information Commissioner’s Office, an ongoing inquiry by the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority, and widespread discontent in the advertising ecosystem.