It’s a slow news day but we can always rely on Facebook. Their latest news is a report that they “unintentionally” uploaded 1.5 million new members’ email contacts without permission, an accident that continued for nearly three years. Sounds like the woman in the musical Chicago whose husband died after accidentally running into her kitchen knife…ten times.
Lots of nice funding news today. CDP Blueshift announced a $15 million Series B, bringing its total financing to $30 million. Blueshift calls itself a Customer Data Activation Platform, hoping to clarify that it selects customer treatments in addition to building a unified CDP database.
This eConsultancy study for Adobe doesn’t talk much about location data but it does find that marketers list a holistic customer view (44%) and effectiveness tracking (41%) as their top two challenges. Both require a location-to-retail connection. Anyway, we love the eConsultancy/Adobe studies, so that’s a good enough excuse to share the latest with you.
CDP and data solutions provider Zeotap is adding the ID5 ID to its identity graph. The ID5 identifier supports individual-level programmatic ad targeting without relying on third-party cookies, extending the reach of Zeotap ad segments.