CDP users are highly gruntled, according to Tealium’s just-released “2022 State of the CDP Report”: 70% of respondents reported positive Return on Investment within six months and 96% within one year.  More surprising: regulatory compliance was the top reason to buy a CDP, ahead of real time data collection, supporting other tech investments, and individual-level targeting.  Download for more.

One trend in the CDP market is for operational systems to incorporate CDP capabilities.  Specialty retail tech vendor Retail Pro International has just announced something along those lines, in the form of a partnership with omnichannel marketing vendor OptCulture.  Retail Pro makes several mentions of combining data from all sources, although they don’t call their system a CDP.

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.)