You might prefer chocolate, but our Valentines gift to you is a matched set of CDP Institute reports on the CDP markets in Europe and Asia Pacific. The APAC report cites the pandemic and privacy regulations as causing explosive industry growth, with a 50% increase in employment in the past twelve months. The European market is more mature, with a still-impressive 22% year-on-year employment increase. Reports were written by AZK Media (APAC) and Adapt Clear Value (Europe) and sponsored by Treasure Data, which had no influence on the contents.

Finally, Validity reports that a rather shocking 33% of respondents say their staff “often” fabricates CRM data to tell the story they want management to hear and another 42% do it “sometimes”.   Meanwhile, 44% say poor data quality costs their company over 10% of its revenue every year.  But 76% still rate the quality of their CRM data as good or very good.  Go figure.

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.