Google announced a plan to phase out its legacy free analytics product, Universal Analytics, and replace it with Google Analytics 4 by June of 2023. It will also stop capturing visitor IP addresses, which European regulators are starting to treat as personal data.
Adobe Summit wrapped up yesterday with a couple more CDP-related announcements. One is an integration with The Trade Desk that enables ad targeting based on email addresses. Another is a tighter partnership with IBM-owned The Weather Company, which will support weather-related analytics and customer targeting.
Salesforce has launched a collection of services for the healthcare industry, including a “Patient Data Platform” based on the Salesforce CDP. Other components include patient health scoring, a commerce portal, and case coordination using Slack. Healthcare is an industry that came late to CDP adoption but is now a growth area.
CDP and marketing cloud vendor Zeta Global announced an agreement to purchase LiveIntent, which helps companies do email-based advertising. The deal will let Zeta expand its identity graph, enter the publisher monetization business, and accelerate its mobile and retail media products. Zeta will pay $77.5 million in cash and $172.5 million in common stock, with potential for additional payments based on performance.