Even as Google adds services that were once sold by independent vendors, this Merkle study finds that 67% of marketers would rather combine best-of-breed systems than use one vendor’s integrated suite. Then again, 79% would prefer to build their own software than buy it from anyone. Lots more here about martech satisfaction, real-time, and other important topics.
Dun & Bradstreet has launched a self-service data quality tool, D&B Connect. It cleans, matches, and enriches data within existing systems rather than pulling it into a separate CDP. They don’t call it “no-code master data management” but it must have been tempting.
The California Attorney General has proposed changes to CCPA regulations that explicitly ban practices intended to make opt-outs harder, including double-negative language, processes that take more clicks to opt-out than to opt-in, or burying the submit button within the text of a privacy policy. No prizes for guessing why they felt that was necessary.
The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that could potentially ban TikTok in the U.S. if its Chinese owner, ByteDance, does not sell its holdings within a year. The bill now goes to the President Biden, who has said he will sign it. Court challenges are likely to follow.