CDP Lattice Engines announced updates to its Atlas platform, most notably including expanded predictive modeling for customer spend and lifetime value. They also improved integration with ad channels and Microsoft Dynamics.
Open source Web site vendor Acquia has purchased Mautic, an open source marketing automation platform. The company says the merger will create the first-ever “open marketing cloud”, something you might not have known you wanted. Mautic, launched in 2014, claims over 250,000 users.
Bonobo is a conversational AI start-up that extracts customer insights from email, chat, video, and other interactions. No one has claimed they’re a CDP. But they did just get bought by Salesforce in a deal that one source valued at $50 million for the 20 person company.
It’s tough to get brand safety right, but the industry keeps trying. IPG Mediabrands announced a new set of tools to find and block inappropriate ad placements, while IAS expanded its suitability measurements to include standards from the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM). Meanwhile, DoubleVerify admitted a mistake made brand safety on X/Twitter look worse than it really was in October 2023 and March 2024.