Roughly half of ad buyers said they were using CDPs from Salesforce (62%), Oracle (45%), and Adobe (42%) before those products were released, according to research firm Advertiser Perceptions. I couldn’t find a copy of the study but Ad Exchanger says the author blamed the bizarre result on confusion about the definition of CDP. It’s a testimony to brand power and reminder to treat survey results with caution.
Current real time bidding processes for online ads grossly violate the European Union’s privacy rules, says a report from the UK’s Information Commissioner, who is in charge of such things. She cites both General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PERC). Enforcement actions haven’t followed but the message is clear.
Clear Channel Outdoor has more than 450,000 outdoor displays worldwide. At least some of those track nearby mobile devices, which lets the company profile ad audiences, measure campaign impact, and cross-target ads. The company is now letting advertisers upload their own customer data to its system to allow even richer analysis. Plenty of individual-level data here although it’s technically anonymous.
Another day, another CDP offering data warehouse integration. Today’s subject in mParticle, which has introduced Warehouse Sync to share data with cloud data warehouses like Snowflake. Like other CDP vendors with similar offerings, mParticle sets itself up to provide the data warehouse with unified profiles they lack and to feed profiles to downstream applications using its existing connectors.