Gartner has finally released a Magic Quadrant for CDPs. Always skeptical about CDPs, Gartner positions them as a marketing tool and then questions whether CDPs can survive as customer data is used by other departments.
The last non-direct click method used by Google Analytics makes it hard to prove the impact of paid social. Similarly, pixel-based click metrics at top of funnel no longer provide an adequate view of impact. Fospha, a measurement platform for ecommerce, advocates combining multi-touch attribution with marketing mix modeling to understand effectiveness of ad spend.
AI means that predictive customer insights can be surfaced faster and are more nuanced than in the past according to Twilio’s fifth annual Customer Data Platform Report. Twilio Segment has added well over 400 predictive traits (so far) to its platform. The report also notes the increased popularity of data warehouses as a destination category.
If you still think that MCP stands for Male Chauvinist Pig, well, the 1970’s want their disco ball back. Today’s hep cats know that MCP stands for Model Context Protocol, a new-but-widely supported standard that lets large language models access structured data as context for their prompts. Early adopters include Salesforce and Adobe, and search platform Algolia is now using it to feed their data to customer-facing real-time AI agents.