CDP industry employment rose just 2% in the second half of 2023, the smallest rise on record, according to the CDP Institute’s semi-annual Industry Update. But averages can mislead: employment rose by 10% or more at 20% of the firms listed.  The ten vendors added to the report were mostly CDP-specialist start-ups; by contrast, many new firms in previous reports were larger, older companies that were adding CDP features to existing campaign and delivery capabilities.

CDP Meiro has closed a $3 million Pre-Series A round.  It’s their first external funding.  Meiro will use the money to accelerate product development and to enter new markets.

Microsoft has confirmed that Reddit has blocked its Bing search engine from crawling content; Reddit seems to have blocked DuckDuckGo too. Reddit content will still appear in Google search results, but then Google has paid Reddit $60 million to allow it to train its AI models on that content. Reddit says the block has nothing to do with the Google deal: okay.