Salesforce is expanding its AppExchange to include a marketplace for apps that connect with its Datorama marketing analytics system. The list of “available and upcoming” apps includes connectors to Salesforce Marketing Cloud email, Sales cloud lead generation campaigns, AppNexus ad campaigns, and several types of reporting.
A day for odd acquisitions. LinkedIn announced it is buying cross-channel identity platform Drawbridge, which provides both linkages and customer data. Drawbridge will become part of LinkedIn’s marketing solutions platform. Look at it this way: targeting based on LinkedIn’s deep profiles will now reach people across more channels.
What about actual behaviors? Two-thirds of the Snow respondents said their companies had processed more than 100 data rights requests. TrustArc found 47% of UK consumers had exercised some GDPR privacy right and 10% had made a data deletion request. Airship reported that mobile app audiences have grown and notification opt-in rates remain steady around 67% but location data opt-in rates fell from 9.3% to 7.7%.
In the same way that Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in heels, B2B marketers do everything that B2C marketers do with more complex data and fewer information sources. Tech can help. Demandbase just announced Buying Group AI, which uses you-know-what to identify buying team members and their roles. It’s in beta for now.