Marketers are struggling to identify customers in the face of increasing privacy restrictions. Experian is offering a new solution that uses signals from multiple sources to connect Mobile Ad IDs (tracking codes associated with mobile devices) to other identifiers. It’s part of their MarketingConnect identity resolution product.

This study from investment firm ComCap puts these deal in perspective with an overview of the marketing software industry and deep(ish) dives into customer engagement platforms (personalization engines), digital experience platforms (delivery engines), and CDPs. They project a 27.5% annual growth for CDP from 2019 through 2025. Also includes detailed lists of marketing software funding, acquisitions, and public companies.

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.