We have lots to discuss today, Dear Reader. First, digital experience platform Optimizely (bought last year by Episerver, which then took its name) has launched a new set of unified insights and data services to meld its collection of acquired products. The data foundation is the Zaius CDP, which Optimizely bought this past March.
Kenyan startup Teleeza has developed a mobile content aggregation and advertising platform that utilises a smartphone’s lockscreen. Launched earlier this year, Teleeza allows users to easily and conveniently access customised content on their lockscreen, and has already onboarded over 55 local, regional and international publishers.
Next, a particularly interesting survey from Acxiom about identity solutions. Just 19% of respondents said their companies have implemented a third-party cookie replacement plan and only 34% have a plan in place. Even fewer have mature plans for master identities across martech and adtech. First party data and CDPs are the most important components of their expected solutions. Lots more here.
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.