Google may enter the outdoor ad industry, according to a German magazine. The article speculates that Google won’t target ads at individuals based on their Web browsing industry – although it could. Instead, it would find the most suitable ads for the combined audience of each display at each time. Others already do this but they’re not Google.
Let’s try some corporate news today. We’ll start with a $6.4 million Series A funding for Skupos, which gives convenience store operators a real-time inventory tracking system that supports automated purchasing and operational reporting. Interestingly, they position themselves as an analytics vendor not an inventory specialist.
Despite the confusion around GDPR, 60% of companies in this Demandbase survey said it has caused them to change their global approach to privacy. Yet just 32% were fully GDPR compliant while 22% were entirely unaware of it. Not quite half – 41% — were at least somewhat concerned that their martech vendors might expose them to GDPR compliance risks. The survey was taken several weeks after the GDPR effective date.
Treasure Data will provide its system to free for companies that are stuck in contracts with other CDPs. The trade-up program is available to companies with roughly firms with $1 billion or more revenue, that already have a competitive CDP in place. There will still be some costs for services to make the conversion but Treasure Data says these are fairly small since it has considerable experience with such projects.