Every self-respecting SaaS application wants an app marketplace of its own. Payment platform Stripe just reached that milestone, launching a marketplace with integrations including Hubspot, Mailchimp, Intercom, Dropbox, and Docusign. Users can access data from those tools within their Stripe dashboard and update the tools’ own files with data from Stripe.
The move comes after academics and researchers expressed concern over risks of discriminatory targeting.
Retail media has quickly moved from quirky curiosity to major channel. If you’ve been avoiding the topic, this dunnhumby report offers a good way to catch up. The report says retail media could be worth $50 billion this year, putting it in the same ballpark as direct mail ($43 billion) and linear TV ($63 billion)
GrowthLoop will use TransUnion identity data to improve U.S. consumer match rates on client files sent to advertising media such as Facebook and Google Ads. The data should also help clients to find matches among records within their files, building more accurate customer profiles. GrowthLoop calls itself a “composable CDP”, meaning it works with data assembled in external data warehouses.