CDP and real-time customer experience platform ActionIQ has announced a new suite of AI and genAI tools under the CXAI umbrella. The first two to be available are CXAI Content and CXAI Data. CXAI Content, through a partnership with Typeface, will introduce genAI content creation to the CDP workflow. CXAI Data will allow business users to create audiences using text prompts and also provide next-best-action recommendations.

Optable, which offers data collaboration services for the advertising eco-system, has opened an Early Access Program for its activation capabilities based on its integration with Google’s Privacy Sandbox. This will allow advertisers to build and target audiences and publishers to activate and measure audiences, all without compromising privacy. Optable calls it an “easy button” for privacy-led advertising.

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).