Walker Sands and Chief Martech released a State of Marketing Technology 2017 survey whose respondents rated 48% of their companies and 60% of themselves personally as innovators or early adopters of marketing technology.

Dataiku has received a $14 million Series A investment to expand its integrated predictive application development platform. The system combines data ingestion, preparation, analysis, visualization, workflow, predictive analytics, collaboration, and deployment. It works on several big data platforms and runs primarily in-house. This is a generic system, not specifically for marketing. But it illustrates the continued maturation of the technologies that underlie CDPs.

A cookieless DMP?  Sounds crazy, no?  Yet here is our little village of…oh wait, sorry.  Too much musical theater.  What I meant to say is that ArcSpan calls itself a DMP but, unlike the traditional kind, builds and sells segments based on page contents and custom audience attention metrics.  This lets publishers charge more for impressions that are not tied to addressable individuals.  Radical!