Zaius, which combines a unified customer database with email and Web site marketing execution, has raised a $30 million Series B funding, bringing its total to $50.8 million. Zaius calls itself a “B2C CRM”: it allows some CDP-style access to its data but its focus is on providing an integrated marketing system.
Restaurant CRM, marketing, and loyalty system vendor Bridg has acquired restaurant mobile app specialist Relevant Mobile. It’s yet another example of vertical market specialists building alternatives to general purpose CDPs and marketing products. Because you wanted more examples, right?
Even TV buying is more complicated than it used to be. Nielsen has launched an Enterprise Audience API that lets media companies import their own audiences and match them against Neilsen ratings data to estimate how well specific media plans will reach those audiences. This isn’t targeting individuals but does make it easier to target more precise audience segments.
GrowthLoop will use TransUnion identity data to improve U.S. consumer match rates on client files sent to advertising media such as Facebook and Google Ads. The data should also help clients to find matches among records within their files, building more accurate customer profiles. GrowthLoop calls itself a “composable CDP”, meaning it works with data assembled in external data warehouses.