Customer Data Platforms rank among the four trends that will transform how marketers run their technology, according to Gartner’s latest Hype Cycle report. Gartner points to confusion about the purpose of CDPs and overlap with other technologies. Fair enough. CDPs are about to enter the dreaded Trough of Disillusionment, which is expected but still not fun.
Hi folks, it’s Jamie, CDP Institute’s Department of the Obvious intern. Make that Senior Intern, actually – the boss recognized my fine work with a new title. Still no salary but he’s thinking about it. In the meantime, a GetResponse study found subject lines, quick response, and frequency impact email open rates. Turns out that weekly newsletters are more likely to be read than daily ones. I’d tell the boss but then I’d have even fewer chances to write.
We don’t usually cover CDP marketing ploys but we’ve never seen anyone give away a CDP as conference swag. Stop by the BlueVenn booth at DMEXCO, MarTech East, or Technology for Marketing next month and you might not get a free t-shirt but you will be able to enter a drawing for a free BlueVenn implementation and one-year license. The CDP Institute will present at all three events but we promise not to enter the contest.
Salesforce has reversed course on its bid to acquire data management and integration platform Informatica a source has told Reuters. Informatica itself said that it is not in talks to be acquired. Salesforce stocks rose on this latest news while Informatica’s fell.