Online market research firm GlobalWebIndex, whose studies you’ve read here more than once, has raised $40 million in its first funding. The company has 25,000 data points on a research panel of 22 million people in 44 countries, covering perceptions of 3,000 brands.
Legacy system integration, unexpected costs, and implementation delays head the list of challenges faced by marketing cloud users, according to a Forrester report. Just 45% agreed that a single vendor can provide all capabilities they need even though 61% felt most functionality should come from one vendor.
Account-based marketing system Terminus Software has little to do with enterprise data management but they were so quiet about their $11 million Series C that it’s worth mentioning because you might have missed it. The new round brings their total funding to $30.6 million per Crunchbase.
Unauthorized training data isn’t an existential threat to generative AI but it’s certainly a headache for users and developers alike. Most developers are trying to exclude materials that creators have explicitly labeled as unauthorized and citing “fair use” as justification for copying everything else. Getty Images has taken an opposite approach, building its gen AI tool only on materials that are explicitly licensed. It’s possible that tracing the provenance of training data will become a standard, similar to how organic food producers trace the origins of their ingredients.