Second party data is shared by the company that collected it, while third party data is shared by aggregators who get it from the companies that collected it. Neustar’s new “Second Party Data Marketplace” blurs the distinction by offering consumer profiles from Neustar, ad exposures from iSpot.tv, mobile shopping data from Scanbuy, and geo-location data from Foursquare. It’s all connected with Neustar’s own identity graph.

That’s it for product news. We do have a study from data integrity vendor Precisely, which found that 66% of customer experience leaders believe building a 360-degree customer view will be essential in the post-COVID-19 world and 60% have become more interested in data integration technologies because of the pandemic. Less surprising: 86% have changed the CX strategy, 79% see more digital interactions, and 50% says customer now expect more seamless, integrated digital experiences.

CDP mParticle is being acquired by ecommerce platform Rokt for a price of $300 million.  It’s the third acquisition of a leading independent CDP in a little over one month, following Uniphore’s purchase of ActionIQ and Contentstack’s purchase of Lytics. All three buyers offer some type of customer-facing technology; apparently they’ve decided that adding real-time profiles from CDP will give them a competitive edge.  (See this blog post for more analysis.)