Tealium is launching a private cloud offering. This will let companies use the Tealium platform while keeping their data isolated and making it easier to comply with local privacy regulations. Private clouds are especially popular in industries with highly sensitive data such as financial services and health care.

Merkle starts with the gloriously obvious news that most marketers have budgets, tools, and organization to do personalization. But then they veer into the unexpected with news that location data is used more widely than customer profiles, and continue with even less obvious details about which data sources fuel personalization, which channels use which sources, and how usage varies by industry. But you can skip that stuff if you like.

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.