Olapic helps companies manage visual content generated by users, professionals, and that in-between group known as influencers. They recently (well, a month ago) added a service that can embed shopping cart hotspots within images or videos. Because let’s face it: the most authentic thing about any brand is its desire is to sell you stuff.
Advertisers worried about losing access to customer data because of Facebook, Google, Amazon and other walled gardens have a new friend: ad tech company Sonobi, which just opened a public beta of an addressable marketplace reaching up to 225 million individuals across premium online publications. The marketplace uses a “People Based Identifier” that can track individuals across multiple environments, offering scale and precision to match the walled gardens. The marketplace is integrated with major programmatic buying platforms.
The CDP Institute is having a birthday (read the blog post) and, true to form, the present we most want is data: specifically, answers to a survey asking what you, Dear Members, would like to see us do next. There are just six questions; please take a minute or two to fill it out. Thanks!
With CDP vendors increasing their workforces by 3.4% in six months, compared with an average of 0.2% each six months over the prior two years, the sector seems to be growing again, according to our own semi-annual industry update. There is much talk of composable CDPs but they still employ no more than 5% of the sector workforce. What is a clear trend is the acquisition of independent CDPs by vendors interested in adding a CDP to a larger system (usually an activation system).