Retail media is another favorite topic around here (we’re VERY popular at parties).  Instacart just launched Instacart Platform, which includes Carrot Ads, which run on retail websites that use Instacart technology; Carrot Warehouses fulfillment services, and Carrot Insights for analytics.  Kudos to Instacart for addressing the long-ignored shortage of vegetable-themed martech.

Data movement platform RudderStack has announced an integration to easily move data in and out of cross-channel marketing platform Iterable.  Rudderstack calls itself a “warehouse-first, CDP built for developers”, although it doesn’t meet the CDP Institute definition because it doesn’t maintain customer profiles.  It does provide one of the tools that companies can combine to mimic CDP functionality.

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.)