Simon Data, which builds a unified customer database and pushes segments to channel systems, has raised a $20 million Series B, bringing total funding to $32 million. Simon refers to its database as a CDP but it’s not clear it exposes its contents to other systems, as in the CDP Institute definition. It does support test splits and predictive models.
Marketers frustrated with social media can increasingly turn to video for targeted audiences. Here’s news that Adobe is integrating LiveRamp’s IdentityLink for Television within its Advertising Cloud and Audience Manager, enabling marketers to target the same audiences across addressable TV and Web display ads. One step closer to omnichannel Nirvana.
Canopy Labs assembles a unified customer database which it uses to map customer journeys, run campaigns, and attribute results. They’ve just added emails triggered by predictive models, as opposed to specific events. We don’t list them as a CDP because they don’t provide external systems with access to their data.
Email and mobile personalization platform Movable Ink has announced a new integration between its Da Vinci content personalization solution and Adobe Journey Optimizer. Joint customers will be able to develop content assets aimed at each individual email recipient and bring them into Adobe Journey Optimizer for deployment. This builds on an existing integration between Movable Ink Da Vinci and Adobe Campaign.