I was hoping for an all-Australia edition, or at least all-obscure-company-names. But IDG Communications blew it by buying LeadSift, which is Canadian and does what its name suggests: they scan the Web to identify relevant leads for their clients. It’s IDG’s third acquisition in eighteen months as they expand their ability to deliver B2B marketing and sales data.
Spotify just bought Whooshkaa, another Australian firm. They have a platform that converts audio content like radio broadcasts into on-demand podcasts, handling everything from hosting to promotion to monetization to measurement. It’s part of Spotify’s on-going push into the podcast industry.
Most CDP use cases require five or fewer data sources and use barely half the available CDP features, according to CDP Institute’s analysis of 70+ use cases entered into our Use Case Generator. But here’s the catch: different use cases use different features, so you still need them all for a full roll-out. Lots more here. Thanks to Brent Dreyer for creating this. Click here to build your own use case.
Digital advertising platform PubMatic’s new partnership with GroupM, WPP’s media investment group, will enable the delivery of AI-powered cohort modeling to advertisers. Using a distributed AI model developed by Resolve, the collaboration aims to generate privacy-compliant audience segments across multiple publishers simultaneously. Not only does the targeting not rely on third party cookies, it also eradicates the need for user data to be moved or shared during the ad buying process.