One factor driving martech growth has been the ability for marketers to buy systems with little corporate IT support. This study from Entrust Datacard found that even IT professionals recognize that letting users pick their own tools can provide a competitive advantage. Their preferred solution is to make IT more responsive rather than giving up control entirely.
CDP Blueshift has added native in-app messages, letting users create highly personalized messages in multi-channel marketing campaigns. It has also enhanced its message creation studio. Blueshift calls itself a Customer Data Activation Platform to emphasize that its scope extends beyond data assembly to selecting customer messages.
Infutor isn’t a CDP but its consumer identity management solutions support a key CDP requirement. They’ve just launched a Digital Solutions Suite that links privacy-safe digital identities, such as hashed email addresses and mobile ad IDs, with offline attributes. This lets marketers use individual-level data for programmatic ad bidding, onboarding, segmentation, and personalized messaging without exposing personal identifiers.
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.