Speaking of B2B marketing, this LinkedIn study finds that B2B tech buyers are like consumers: they rank price and features as most important when selecting a new vendor. Less expected: 63% of tech purchases are influenced by functions outside of IT. Call them “citizen tech buyers” if that makes you happy.
Google probably doesn’t consider B2B identity resolution vendor Versium as a competitor. But Versium is positioning its latest offering as a way to escape from Google and other “walled gardens”. The extension lets its REACH platform connect business professionals to their consumer identities, giving B2B marketers more ways to reach them and letting consumer marketers target them too.
Acquia, which owns the former AgilOne CDP, has launched a partner community to simplify integration of other systems with Acquia’s digital experience platform. Illustrating what’s possible, they also announced Acquia Digital Commerce, which combines Acquia components with commercetools’ ecommerce platform and Lucidworks’ product discovery solution.
GrowthLoop will use TransUnion identity data to improve U.S. consumer match rates on client files sent to advertising media such as Facebook and Google Ads. The data should also help clients to find matches among records within their files, building more accurate customer profiles. GrowthLoop calls itself a “composable CDP”, meaning it works with data assembled in external data warehouses.